| Show engineer 0 destroyed steamer told ol 01 a forewarning 01 0 death river boats were racing when the explosion occurred captains paid no attention to drowning persons philadelphia pa aug 29 eleven known dead nine missing and thirty two injured Is the record made by the explosion of ho steamboat city of trenton on the delaware river yesterday afternoon all night city firemen policemen and officials and employed emp loyes of the wilmington Wll steamboat company which owned the ill fated vessel worked in and around the turned and blackened hull searching tor bodies of victims ot the disaster hundreds of men are dragging tho river bottom with grappling irons and will continue to do so until every person that was on the boat Is accounted tor of the eleven bodies recovered ten bave been identified as follows john P chew of Camden N J as distant engineer of the city of trenton fi miss elizabeth green of philadelphia crushed to death dunn of philadelphia a passenger arthur lansing 14 years old trenton N J james oconnell fireman philadelphia mou mable fireman philadelphia august mable deck hand philadelphia wm nelson 69 years old of hampton va william H keen passenger palla delphia delp hla james mccormack McCorm lck del passenger the unidentified body Is so badly burned that its sex cannot be determined among the missing are miss ethel stokes of trenton and miss helen briest daughter of former mayor john briehl of trenton of the thirty two injured persons taken to the hospital attached to the philadelphia house of correction all I 1 are reported doing well today and it Is not believed any of them will ale the widow of the assistant engineer john P chaw bays that leaving home for work on tuesday night her husband sald lizzie I 1 may never see you again I 1 have a presentiment that there will be an explosion on the boat they are running at too high a steam pressure and if an accident should occur I 1 and many others will be killed august reynhart an expert machinist employed by the neafie levy ship building company builder of the city of trenton recently overhauled the boats boilers he gave it as his opinion that the boat was being run too fast and this exhausted tiie water in the boilers the boat was fifteen minutes late when she left her wharf yesterday afternoon and it is eaid tuat much of this lost time had been mada up when the explosion occurred the captain and other officers of the boat and the officials of tho company deny emphatically the statement that tho city of trenton was racing with the steamer twilight of the opposition line when tho explosion occurred the twilight and the city of irenton were close together at the moment of the explosion the former being in the lead those on board the twilight did not hear the explosion or know of the mishap to the rival boat until too late to be of assistance never hag there been such keen rivalry between lines of river steamers as during thia season races have been of dally occurrence only a week ago the crew of the trenton sapa ampt Pocono ket was censured by coroner dugan for tailing to go to the assistance of some persons who were drowning at the time the Pocono ket was racing with the twilight chief of police quirk declared today that th at the matter would bo carefully investigated vesti gated by his it the charge of racing Is sustained the and crew of the wrecked steamer would be arrested in response to a request the department of public safety today received the following list of missing from persons who bad relatives and arlenda on the trenton louisa Till lson 25 years ireno 16 clara B belld 13 dora belld 9 mrs mathildo cross all 0 philadelphia marion ashmead 17 anna herr 16 armma eastburn 18 miss helen bal 40 all of in addition two or more trenton people are known to be missing it Is believed the body eo badly charred is that of mra john matthews 0 philadelphia captain worren of the city of trenton insisted today that hla boat was not racing |
