DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.
BOILER ON GUNBOAT BURSTS. MANY LIVES LOST. BODIES AND WRECKAGE SHOT INTO AIR.
By, telegraDfl, Press A&s’n, Copyright Received 4.3 p.m., July 23. Sau Francisco, July 22. A boiler exploded on the American gunboat Bennington, in San Diego harbor.
There were over 200 on board. Forty-five bodies have already been recovered. Most of the remainder have been wounded. Hundreds of spectators on the pier and in ferry boats saw many hnman bodies and wreckage shot into the air and fall into the water. A section of the upper deek of the gunboat waß earried away from stum to etsrn. The Bennington was beached in a sinking condition.
39 PEOPLE KILLED.
By- tcleguafiJl,. FaGfws Gpafrigprt Received 12.52 a.m., July 24. . San Francisco, July 28. The Bennington’s boilers were regarded as weak, and were lately repaired. Thirty-nine were killed, 21 are missing, and SO were injured.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1514, 24 July 1905, Page 2
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