Show I I U m UI Sa 5 SAilORS ui VICTIMS S IN INI I 2 EXPLOSIONS r I Five Killed and Three Injured on One I Vessel J I ANOTHER EXPLOSION I Nine Seamen Seriously Burned In Second Accident I NEWPORT It 1 I I T June 30 Irl e lues iCs were ere ere lost aboard the Hie tie tie- tieI I today through the flooding of the fire room room with I team and hot water 1 Three other members of the fire tire loom ere crew were vere ere seriously injured ani an I It h i JI reared that three of them cannot annot recover The Th dead y Do Dod er Ih an fire fire- fre llan nan third das class I 1 Ala harry n ClaU t nice man third das e C Clifford fireman third I class Lebanon OhIo Joseph Aleck ater I second class Far ar Rock Rock away i a ay IJ II N I JLouIs J I Louis R H R Blanchard lire fireman man t first class Springfield Mass Jass Tho The Injured Harry Anundson water tender i BOM Bo kerf fireman first class Tony Rock fireman first elMs class f The Williamson went out front from this port to test torpedoes on the thelong thelong thelong long range outside Narragansett ha ba Preparations w were were re being mad made to fire the tho first torpedo when then ben the accidental closing of or a co coer er turned back the heated air escaping from front the fire tiro room The rhe press pressure UN caused the tho Llo blower el to fly to pieces and the steam and hot ot water pipes wore were broken The eight men In the ho fIre tire room had no ch chance nce to escape At A great personal I ll is k Lieuten- Lieuten Lieutenant Tl n V Vant ant Commander H 11 E K Knauss lit In command of ot th the W uther ther officers and members of the tho crew Into the the flie room and took out the injured men and the bodies The destroyer was waa not ser ser- damaged damage and sp speeded eded back Q to Newport A board of or Inquiry was as appoint appointed ed after alter the destroyer bad returned and ami Immediately began begun an Investigation j he board Is head head- J iP ed I by bv h Commander F r H Sadler adler A l ILO 10 June 30 NIne 30 30 seamen were vere burned In Inan inan Inan an explosion today ou on tho 1110 scout cruiser Richmond at the Philadel Philadelphia phia navy yard All 11 Jt are In 10 the tho of the thee nl al hospital The cause e plo lon has not yet yel been deter deter- determIned determined mined 1 but some somo of the officers atI atthe at atthe I the yard believed it it was due ts t's t I hydrogen gen gas which Ic Into a wasn roon room here the seame were congregated became and blew UI up The wash ash room tS as beneath the radio room for forward ard nd It was believed the gas leaked from auxiliary EI All the seamen Jn in room were caught In the blast and all wore were seriously burned with alib Ith the c of one ono The men comprised part of or a de- de detail detail de detail tail from from the tho r ceh Ing ship chip at thoI theard tho the thoard ard who ho had hat been helping to load I litO stores res A lighter with v ammunition w wis moored near the ship but was I not Involved In In the th explosion Except In the tho room w where here the ex cx- cx ex I occurred d the ship was not I 1 The Tho Richmond was launched in 1321 1921 was as as accepted by bythe bythe bythe the gO government recently and was to hate o been placed In commission I next week The I he cruiser one of ot no fastest In the tho Y IS being being- prepared pre prepared pre pre-i pared for tor a long cruise In Luro waters vaterS 1 |