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HAI ELECTRIC

ON DISASTER.

ER ON THE TURBINE TESTS.

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The adjourned inquest on the boiling of the three foreign victims of the Riverside Power Station disaster-John Edmund Wilson. Thomas Moodic and Charles W. BANKING-SHIPPING-TRA VEL ANDY Donaldson was completed last week. Fighty Offices are established in the Princips Ciclor of the World to provide Commereis Organisations and Private Individuals with complate World Wide Banking, Shipping and Travel Bertion

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MTB-U Aldridge, Engineer in Chief nod Manager of the Electricity Department, stated that he was in the town office at the time of the explosion MARTELL & Co. and went down to Riverside directly upon receipt of a telephone message. The aecilent was caused by a 20,000 K. W. Parsa turbine. It had been ordered bythe Council bus not then taken over. being still in the charge of Mr. Dounid son, Meers. Parson's representative, who was submitting it to a balance test toż eliminate slight vibration. It was a very larga turbine, and was erected on two large canereta blocks about it, from the ground. There was concrete platform

uning round the turbine upon which the engineers looking after it would work. Witness explained that is turbine con- sists of a revolving, port at: called "The retor and fixed portie kown as the On both portion" there are cylinder. metal blades, many thousand, of them, and the action of the steamin' passing from the fixed blades to the moving ones caused the rotor to revolve. The rotor RUSSO-ASIATICI BANK. D34977 Tuen Kee Houg was coupled to the generator rotor which revolving a high speed, generated elec tricity. At the time the test was being maile the generator was not coupled to the turbine. There was no lofd on it at all. it was working absolutely free.

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At this point, the Coroner stated that he would not go into technical details, thir being a matter for experts and would simply confine the inquiry to the cause'

of death.

Continuing, witness.. said that upon arriving at the Power Station he found that the turbine was ja total wreck. Every

The thing was completely destroyed. cylinder had been broken to pieces and the rotor had been sheared in two places. Then, were pieces of the cylinder lying all over the building, and part of the rotor had been throwe towards the west into a switch board construction, while another portion was lying in the base ment. The burst had taken effect in three directions, east, west and north, but no thing santh Here there was another turbine which was not damaged. There] wer a large, pices of the turbine where: Donaldson was found lying. At the time of the accident witaces believed Mr. Donaldson was taking the speed of the machine, in which case he would have been standing immediately at the north end of the turbine.

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Mr. E. A. Mills, Executive-Engineer of Power Stations, stated that a log was kept at the Power Station, butzo entry Foreign Exeranze on the Principal Cition of had been made in this instant The the World bought and sold.

RA RODGERS. only thing witnes knew of ho test was that steam was asked for at 10 o'clock to supply the turbine, and that would take half an hour to get ready. Presumably, therefore, the turbine started at 10.30.) It topped at 10.52. The machine was started for the first time on October 31st and ran intermittently from that date nutil November 2nd. It was then started at 10 am and ran continuously for! Recla dinys.

it was shut down on. November 17th at 9.30 and did not run again until the morning of the 15th, some. small adjustments having to be made. It asualjy took 20 minutes to get up the speed of a turbino, a little langer in the case of a new machine, kontak

CHINESE MITTER'S EVIDENCE. Chow Fok Sin, a fiter at Riverside, i who was ou daty at the time of the accident, said there were four foreignerE present, the three deceased and another man. Witnes, was standing on the "pint form between the stop valva and the

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Wilson, Mr. Donaldeon, and the other foreigner were standing together close by, and there were also three Chines: on the platform. The "No."1 fitter. who was standing near term at the stop valve, was killed. The foreigners had heon' on the platform for about five minutes be form the accident happened, except. Mr. Donaldson who arrived at 8 o'clock and never left the machine. Messrs. Wilson and Moodie only appeared for the first time about five minutes before the ne cident. The turbine had been running for over 10 minutes wheit the accident occurred. Witness was just going to oil

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the stop valve, on Mr. Donaldson's in- A. TACK & Co, structions, when the explosion took place. He was knocked off his feet by, the cover of the cylinder which fell on top of him, and covered him up, so that he did not see what happened to the foreigners. When he got up, the place was filled with steam and smoke and he made his way to the boiler room to tell the engineer to shut off steam." Witness had been standing about ft. from the cylinder.

Messrs. J. J. Brooks, mechanical assist ant, E. W. D. Elmer, boiler house super- intendent, and P. B. Critchley gave eri- dence as to visiting the turbine room directly after the accident and finding the bodies of the deceased, and this con- cluded the evidence

EXPERTS COMING TO BHANGHAI The Coroner said he understood that technical inquiry would be held by the Municipal authorities as to the cause of the "accident. T

Mr. Aldridge We have held an in- formal inquiry, and Messrs Parsons are sending out two of their chief experts.

Mr. Wright: It is hoped that in due course: "Mr. Whitelock will be able to give evidence and tell us "exactly, what did happen

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