The injured are the following: George
Erickson, arm broken; Mrs. Albert Erick
son. injured internally; Mrs. .John Erick
son. iniured on the head; Mrs. 11. Ander
son. injured internally; Mr. and Mrs N.
Yarger, slightly injured; O. M. Hemp
stead. hurt about the head; E. Dickin
son. leg broken: A Erickson, hurt inter
nally; Hiildah Carlson, leg broken;
Neilie Moline, hurt internally.
A wiiil Disaster
San Francisco, June 14 —The four
teen sailors of the United States cruiser
Boston who wi re killed by the explosion
at Mare Island navyyard yesterday were
buried in the naval cemetery’ this after
noon. John B. Biscoe is the only one in
the. party of fifteen engaged in filling
shells who was not killed. He is still
living, but his recovery is doubtful. When
the relief party picked him up he be
sought them to kill him and end his
agony. When they lifted him up he
beat them with his fists and tried to
escai e to reach water and drown himself
Gunner Johnson, in charge of the maga
zine. furnishes the theory that the explo
sion was caused by one of the men becom
ing impatient and jamming a copper rod
which was used to make the powder flow
freely through the funnel into the shells.
An extraordinary feature of the disaster
is the fact, that several eases of brown
prismatic powder were found with the
outside all charred ami burned, yet the
intense heat was not sufTuient to cause
the powder to explode.
