ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4299, 7 March 1901, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

the mishap on the yen- ’ TtJRA. j five MEN SCALDED TO • ? \ DEATH. ) ’ PEEBB ASSOCIATION. 1 AUCKLAND, March C. Five men met a horrible .death on the steamer Ventura during the voyage From Philadelphia, to. San Fr “ cl T s “hAy 3.15 o'clock on the evening January tq while the steamer was about iW miles north of Valparaiso, a ternfio roar startled everybody on board, and immediately afterwards, steam rssuedan dense volumes from the: As quickly as was possible, Chiet JAugi neer Haynes and others made their way below, where they found the bodies of five men, who had been killed by the bursting of the mainsteam-pipe of the port boilers.. The victims were George W. Robb (junior engineer), aged Jo, » resident : of Charleston; William_Far-, were heard immediately the explosion, and, judging from the appearance of thb fiVe/unfortunates, all of them were almost instantly killed by the heat and force'of the steam. The bodies presented a horrible sign,.. , With becoming ceremony, directed oy Captain Hayward, the five bbdies-were buried at seethe day after the accident. Four other men were Ecalded! at the time the steam-pipe hurst, hut have since recovered, and are now at work on the vbssel. They were-P. McConnell, A. Peterson. J, Gaughan and J. Kelly. Up to the time of the accident the Ventura was making good time towards San Francisco, and under ordinary circumstances would have - , passed the record of the Sonoma' a sister ship, on the tnp. from Philadelphia. However, the bursting of the steampipe rendered! useless the port hoilers and only the starboard boilorE were hereafter mod The Ventura .» rived only fourteen hours behind tin Sonoma's time. The trip was made u -i thirty-eight days twenty-three horn i t'and fifty minutes. Some rough wea sitber was experienced, particularly ai [. the beginning of the voyage. Whei - two days out from Philadelphia a gab I-'was met, and sens swept entirely ova: .'. the steamer, carrying away part of nr ; starboard railing, breaking a gangway ' and staving in one of the bdats. Cap tain Hayward reports the- Ventura t e be a fine sea vessel. The violent wea , c tlier afforded a very fair test of ne qualities. CHRISTCH (JRCH, March a-! A man named William Parupen die r - sin the hospital this morning, choked b piece of pork which he had failed t il swallow the previous [morning. D< >r ceased was about sixty years of age. A Sfl inquest will be held. I