Show WILLIAM A MINOR LOCKED UP FOR BEING DRUNK it is not often that a man actually breaks into jail but that was the lot of william bosmond Hos mond who accomplished the trick about 1030 last evening captain brown was at the desk when II osmond came into the station house bosmond had a world of grief and ft anted to get out a warrant for another individuals arrest ife was informed as to the course to pursue in order to satisfy his desire this did not seem to please the young man much and he began abusing not only the captain but all the force as well A glance at the fellow showed that he was under the influence of liquor and it was not long before his pedigree was taken and placed on the police blotter and bosmond was placed behind the bars on a charge drunkenness bosmond gave his age as 20 and also informed the police where he obtained his liquor his case will be investigated and it it Is found that he gave his ight age it is probable that c warrant will be sworn out charging tho saloon keeper with selling liquor to minors ENSIGN WADE OF bennington TO BE finding of enquirers into explosion Is that burst boiler was disconnected with its steam gauge washington aug 21 secretary bonaparte today received and as soon as he himself read made public the findings of the court inquiry which investigated the explosion of the gunboat bennington at san diego cal on july 21 the findings were A complete surprise for they at once set at rest the stories that had been circulated to the effect that the tons boiler and perhaps those of other naval vessels of the same age were detective As a matter of fact the court found that the explosion had resulted from the closing of a valve which connected the exploded boiler with its steam guage so that tha pressure on the boiler may have beben several hundred pounds to the squire inch when the accident occurred while praise was accorded to the officers and ships company for their conduct during the harrowing scenes following the accident the officers and men who were responsible in the opinion of the court are pointed out and court martial proceedings suggested in the case of only of them surviving ensign charles T wade he court consisted of commodare stevenson retired and captain E J moore and captain thomas S phelps the findings recites the arrival of the bennington at san diego and says the ship was in an excellent state of discipline and in a good and erne lent condition with the exception of her boilers which were in fair condition and efficient considering their age about fourteen years and the use to which they had been subjected continuing tho court says about on july 21 after both boilers had been filled and the furnaces started it was observed that the steam guage on boiler B snowed about five pounds of steam pressure and at this time frank de court and acting as water tender directed N holland fireman second class 0 o close the air cock on boiler B that the said holland climbed up and closed a valve and almost immediate I 1 ly the steam gauge on the boiler B failed to register any pressure that this was apparently not noticed by either the water tender or the fire man and no attention appears to have been paid to the tact that the steam gauge tailed to register but they kept on working on the fires and firing heavily that when the steam gauge on boiler A showed one hundred and thirty five pounds there was i no pressure showing on the steam gauge on boiler B the court said no one seems to have noticed any escape of the steam from the safety valves of any of the boilers and no one can state that any of tho safety valves blew off at any time 0 that morning that we can find no record of the safely valve of boiler B having been overhauled since july 1904 nor any positive evidence of it having been done though badera had been given for this to be done in march 1905 that there is no record of the sentinel valves having been overhauled since july 1904 that the safety valves were set at one hundred and forty five pounds but en route from honolulu to this port orders were given to carry the steam pressure at from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and thirty five pounds not to exceed that latter figure but the safety valves were not changed that this order had been clearly understood der stood that tile hand gear tor lifting the safety valves was not in working order and there la no record nor direct evidence that the safety valve had been tested in accordance with me navy regulation the finding goes on to state that about 1030 a small leak was found in boiler B A request had been sent to the boiler maker to come and attend to the leak when the ex occurred all that happened after the explosion Is described at con length that the discipline seems to have been excellent and ev that could be done by the surviving officers and crew was done in a cool and courageous manner no one thinking of himself but of what he could do tor his injured shipmates and the safety of the ship that volunteer aid of every kind came from shore and the injured were promptly removed to rooms and improvised hospitals while the dead were taken to tha various undertaking establishments after where they were prepared tor burial that after an examination of the collapsed furnace flue and from physical tests that we have had made the material of this furnace flue was of good quality that the ship was found to be filling and settling when a tug was obtained and warship towed into shoal water until she grounded but subsequently the aea valves were closed the ship pumped out and returned to her anchorage that the ehla Is practically uninjured except in and about the engina and boiler rooms the opinion of the court follows the court is of the opinion that the explosion was caused by excessive pressure in boiler which came about first by shutting the valve connecting the boiler with the steam gauge instead of the valve on the air cock alone as was intended so that the steam gauge failed to show third by the failure of the sentinel and safety valves to lift at the pressure for which they were beet and the pressure increased until it was beyond the strength of the boiler which gave way in its weakest part afterwards found to ie the corrugated flue of no 2 tho lowest or middle furnace which collapsed the court 13 also of the opinion that L holland fireman second class U S N ahoi was the fireman on duty firing boiler B at and before the time of the explosion did by mistake shut off the steam valve connecting boiler B with its steam guage instead ot the air cock as directed thus preventing the gauge from recording the steam pressure on its boiler that frank de courtany acting water tender U S N on watch in charge of this boiler from about until the time of the ex did fall to observe that this steam gauge was not recording and did continue pushing the fires on this boiler and further when leaks developed from excessive pressure did fall to relieve this pressure which should have been done at owe that E B ferguson chief machinist mate U S N are all now dead and therefore no further proceedings can be taken against them the court Is of further opinion that further proceedings should be had in the case of ensign charles T wade U S N who was in charge 0 the engineering gi department of the U S ship bennington at the time of the explosion and since october 22 1904 in this that the said ensign charles T wade U S N did fall in his own person to see that the safety valve on boiler B was overhauled at the proper time and kept in good working order but did accept the verbal statement of bis subordinate or subordinates that it had been overhauled in march 1904 and further that he the said ensign charles T wade U S N failed to cause the safety and sentinel valves on all the boilers to be tested in accordance with article paragraph 12 U S N regulations 1905 in all of which he the said ensign charles T wade U S N in charge of the engineering department ot the U S ship bennington was negligent in the performance of his duty and the court recommends that he the said ensign charles T wade U S N be brought to trial before a court martial tribute to bennington victims san diego cal aug 21 tribute to the memory of the victims 0 the bennington was given today by the officers and men of the italian cruiser umbria eight officers including the captain all the petty officers and half a hundred sailors went to fort robinson where they were joined by col mcclellan and captain scott and proceeded to the little military cemetery on point loma there they placed upon the mound under which lay nearly fifty bodies of the bennung ton sailors the largest and handsomest floral wreath ever seen in southern california six sailors bore it to the common grave it was five feet long by three and a halt wide and consisted of white roses maiden hair fern and white carnations tied with ribbon of heaviest brocaded silk fire yards and eight inches wide on which in letters of gold were the words royal italian navy S S umbria to the victims of the U S S bennung ton the sailors grouped about the grave ahila the captain of the umbria briefly expressed the sympathy of the italian navy and spoke of the heroism of the dead and wounded |