Show PATRIE'S SAVED T tOSS LOSS I Shot From Battleship Battered Down Gates and Prevented Explosion CAUSE I IS S NOT ASSIGNED ASSIGN ED 4 t r Spontaneous Combustion Assigned As- As tZi ji signed as Reason for Jena Jella t Disaster r J Toulon March larch 13 n An An official account of r tiLe the casualties duo due to lo the tine explosion i s 7 1 0 un on hoard tho the battleship Jona Jenn places s tho number of or doa dead or 01 missing at Ill two Eighty bodies were Identified today to to- r f I. I r ala day and m there arc our four of or theo the tho JV o e crew crow In tile the hospitals more or less ser ser- i i Injured The battleship her her- fc- fc x self eif clr Is 8 almost a total loss The Tho fore part J. J iw I js s 's not greatly rall damaged ed but there Is a i. i J Y great breach where the thc till full orce of oC t the x explosion was felt and andon I tl on oil tine the port side sido U there cre Is a n hole hoo olgh- olgh i I teen feet feel wide an and twelve t feet hl high I. I I These Thes partitions are arc fallen In Iii and j T frames and plates are arc bent and twisted The Thc military tary masts and anal lighting tops bent over at an angle anglo of ot almost I 7 J t degrees rlee i It was sas learned to today n that It was due duc to to o the gunners of or the ilic battleship Pa Pa- i. i j 7 trIo trie that the Ore lire was not communicated lo 0 o tIme the main magazine mos of the thc Jena Jeun the 0 explosion 11 08 rOil b by which would undoubtedly j J c edly l have hare wrecked the arsenal and anal most t it f of tho the buildings 5 III In the yards s 1 Tho commandant had directed the time t. Hooding of oC tho the dock in which the Jenak Jena t. t k wo was lying but the time force foree of ot time the e explosion pIol pIo- pIo l sion Ion deranged ell the machinery and ami time the c pales gates Jammed At thIs juncture the i commandant of oC I time the Patrie was asked to lo lob b tr try to 10 break the rates gates ts t's with a n shot from I Iv t v one ono of oC the battleships battleship's guns This or- or fiffi der Was corned carried J out and a wc well directed f fi shot from the Patrie smashed tho tim ll f 5 I gates flooding the tie dock and r to tally the time interior of or the Jena Iena just in i time to prevent Juc t the explosion of oC the thc v J. J central and forward magazines in L. L which were r stored storell powerful torpedoes I s Ih IDt Interior inferior I Fire l' l hOses played nil all nl night ht on time the timeY t Y 7 j n portions o of the remains X fr r. r of or the battleship whose Interior had hall hadt t S. L I. not nut been ben flooded to prevent pre the time i I ability of or further explosions It Is Impossible Im- Im Jo possible to learn Tn from Crom rom the survivors ors f how the time explosion was caused Sonic Some p. p 4 say 58 that the tho torpedo men mn were manip- manip j. j j a n. torpedo which under tinder sonic some f. f shock exploded The violence of or the time explosion c was so great that two j- j b millimetre shells In iii the explosive mn magazine mag ning- azine collided and n exploded starting starling il j tlc time lire mc The gases so produced being y J compressed In the ma magazines caused I j tf- tf time the other explosions VC r. r li escaped said that wh when n 7 J the time first explosion occurred it was wasI I j u thought ht by bJ some that the time Jena Ienn had Imad slipped ofT off the blocks and alien fallen a against t the time dock wall but time the men on leek deck jl t I. I raised the er cry for Cor everybody e to lo save saver a ve r ti themselves t es At the same moment time the V j f second explosion came there arose a l I. I ci cry CIr y of or anguish and men threw them them- k 1 selves chef in Iii direction f every and some V 1 jumped overboard o and amid dashed them them- PT 1 solves IS to lo pieces on the bottom hollom of oC tho the ii a- a dock Some Sonic were wre hurled against the dr i walls wails of buildings s. TV i Tiny Tho theOl theory of ot spontaneous combus- combus i- i f M ty lion Is generally held as the time black f f r powder with which the shells were v t charged cl II IK Is subject to lo alterations The Tha shells were often examined for this t 4 if reason One 0 of the tIme engineers n of the ft Sl battleship who e escaped from froni the time velt yes ves- J v t f Jit c el 1 at the thc time line of or the explosion said Y t toda today that he had jU lust Just t left the engine r r om when the explosion came It wits was I followed followell II t-sV t by ly an Indescribable panic 7 i J among lInon the time sailors an and stol stokers who r. r i rU rushed about the time tf docks deCkS ck falling over o everything o In their 4 r wa way was L- L Tk v Some ome of them slid down ropes or orr orthe the UK timber supports of or the vessel and r t th thus s reached tN the dock bottom while ii v rS jumped from rein time the leeks decks and amid were J J. J killed The Time hollIes bodies of or the 34 VV nien who imo remained In Iii the cn engine room J f have not nol yet ct been recovered reco Ii rf v Toulon has become a city of or mourn mourn- 1 K lug Ing The Tho shops are aro closed and amid last rast j o night ht the time theatres gave no perform perform- i r i The Time mayor has Proclaimed at a a. t v-f v period of or general mourning This even even- evening III lug ing In- In visited I the parents of oC n. n baby that was vas killed The rime infant was V Si metres from flom time the Jena Jemma when it Jt was lilt hit f About bo l fifty were seriously Injured Tho Tue K v J i latest number unaccounted for Is 1 S 1 A t ty LY Fifty of f the time crew were saved beS' beS be- be S' S It f enlist cause they were attending a lecture v j I by y a Sl midshipman In a a. part of the time ship 7 lJ r J not hot affected by 10 time the explosion About j J. J thirty of or th crew were ashore an and are arc f among iho survivors hors i- i nc Roar near iy y though 14 had hall to 10 b he be forced from returning rc- rc t. t JT turning aboard his flagship m |