Show DESTROYED ARE KILLED HILLED I I E Explosion I of Compressed Air AirI I Torpedo on French Battleship Battleship Battle Battle- I ship Spreads Havoc PRIDE OF NAVY LIES IN RUIN 1 Successive Concussions Hurls i I q Forms of Men Into Air I Naval Officers Die I I 4 I tt tt t 4 Some of or the the- mo most t tragic lc naval nl disasters l 4 I 44 1827 British h war warship Royal Horal 44 4 1 George ort off 44 4 t GOO COO died fled 4 4 1 IS British 70 S 70 British war of i Captain went vent down oft oIT Finisterre Finis Finis- i terre drowned j I 1 German and anil t fl 1 three thle American warships driven thiv 44 4 en ashore at Apia pIa Samoa Samon 44 4 I HC G d dead lent ad 4 44 4 British torpedo 10 cruls- cruls 4 4 er cr S Serpent sunk In colli collision lon 44 4 44 off ore coast of Spain J 73 dead 4 4 British battleship Vic Vic- 44 4 T 4 loria torla sunk stink In Mediterranean in 44 4 collision ion with th the Camper Camper- I 44 4 1 dome 59 dead Including A Adi Ad- Ad I i Tyron 1 iss 1898 L S S. S battleship Maine taine 4 sunk unk in Havana Ba GG 4 1 I lead dead 1906 Gunboat Bennington's Benning- Benning J L tons ton's boilers blew up oj 57 Ileac dead r Toulon foulon March ruch ru ch 12 n 1 fly By one of or the most mos terrible le strangest st l disasters In history his tory the tho groat If It battleship Jena th time pride of oC time the French na navy was blown U up tOlla today As a result Captain th time co commander of or the battleship chief of ot stair staff of the Mediterranean Ie I squadron and from Crom seven enl I j to toI toI I I flight are dead while Hoar Admiral hundreds of oC other men 01 ore suffering from horrible I injuries Naval 3 t I circles I here rc nr are nrc hast ns-hast nt at the new of oC t Limo lio fearful eArful and i ji j II lI h li C H I 1 o oo 7 H r l ifft f tho thoO O di n of or iho lh R 1 t V v 7 ont In which a men met meta d a i frightful dr liven t the ef un o of the Jena Jenn I explosion plo plo- sion ore ire In alt all probability mated as owing to the nu nu- Imi- Imi ture turc of time the c t no definite 1 to total total to- to tal tat of lh the fatalities c ean caim n be given Iven the primary cause of ot th the disaster ster is s not nol distinctly understood but It U seems to be this ItI nil nil- Torpedo ct 1 Implode A compressed d air tor torpedo exploded li lithe In the after part parl of or time the battleship Th Time The C tremendous concussion cause caused the ex ex- ec- ec of oC the time r powder magazine blew up the lilt whole rt rear aJ pait palt of oC U the tho o vessel Then flu came the explosion of tho JUl ma magazines and then with wRit I recurrent explosions nearly nc all the for for- magazines went up All IlI this timis occurred In a n few Cew awful mn- mn s ules and while these thundering con were wore going goin on It Il looked as though the Ow whole warship was shattered rCa while while with each upheaval Val there came the ejection ejection tion of or the mangled men fragments of the Ill fated war ls vessel 1 and blazing brands One battleship and many that lay lar nearby y were hadl badly damaged and nearly nEarl all the lIl buildings of the v wl vre re more or less lc damaged The Jena Jemma had hall just undergone a III Inspection of oC her hull and machinery th the latter having been heet completely teb overhauled preparatory to lO joining the tho squadron to to- morro morrow The Time crew crl was In Its full lull strength lh being composed of ot the rear admiral ad ad- mimi miral twenty four other officers am and To men C fl r Ir e Time The magazines s had hud been replenished re recently recently re- re al and I contained many tons Ions of oC both and black powder a as wen well a aa as af L number of charges s of oC torpedo Time IL a of ot the time Jena hall had f d their ml crew meal on only I a shot short lim- lim before fore the thc dav lolI and OnI had dispersed rsc- rsc to various or of the ssP lost of oC time the men n parts In work worl wIth th the engaged were of tI time warship had been tie tie- ut I n a large large- that was being I lecture clure tailed riled to attend a n forward gIven without warning came The violent und and ws The art aft rhe at and amid aft aCt It was wag el fore OCl the ve The the other follo d by 11 once of oC toy toy- con Uton r. r Into n a CT creW W were throWn They The j wildly about the deck Th The r and aUlI hither been th the had rm-n rm forward whO time bulwarks and ami d over lecture Into the DC them 0 some ome down jumpe jumped on the toile quay tun dock an who jumped sustained u of oC the men below leeks fell Inn fatal their comrades who and wll where rc they ll their WHY Ined c to regained nf in un effort smoke through u h blinding or of r them were wen overcome O escape Inn whIch 8 by time f the he explosion Blown lown to lo IN of oC time the To a add i to lo the or of time lon sion th time entire after aCter blown to pieces V 11 was rapid I b warshiP In shells and eVery ever death th III n I hurl burl horror of tho those c Oil L I. 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