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SAIWANHO BOILER EXPLOSION.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928.

Witness: According to the showing of the steam-gauge, 100 lbs. could be maintained,

The pressure might have como

OWNER AND ENGINEER GIVE up to 150 lbs and blow up the boil- Ter, and yet you would not know

the exact maximum pressure?

EVIDENCE.

The Coroner's enquiry into the own ideas, largely derived from ex

Witness replied that he had his boiler, explosion on March 13 at perience of what the pressure Saiwanho, as a result of which should be to keep on the sido of two workmen of the Long Wan safety. He could always control Mow Pea-nut Oil Factory were the fires, and yet in this case. he killed and several others injured, had received no hard-and-fast in- was resumed before Mr. R. E.structions as to the "idiosyn- Lindsell at the Central Magistracycracies" of the plant. yesterday afternoon.

Sometimes, one of the fokle

It was revealed that immediately would tell him that a 100 lbs of before the explosion occurred a pressure could be reached before fire broke out in the factory which, the safety valve blew out. Then according to the Chinese engineer they would also tell him not to in charge, was due to sparks emit-open or test the valve until the ting from cracks in the boiler pressure, had been brought up to chimney setting fire to the wood-170 or.80, and sometimes as much work of a cockloft. The engineer as 100.

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as well as the owner of the factory Took It for Granted. were severely cross-examined as to the attention given to the condi- tion of the boilor, and the former admitted that he took for granted that everything was all right when he first took charge of the plant, three weeks before the disaster o

curred.

The Cockloft Fire.

tion of experience, why it had not Witness was asked, on the ques taught him in the first place to test the valve before the plant. He replied that it had took charge of already been tested before his time, and he took for granted that everything was in order, when he took charge.

So you did not consider it your duty being in charge of this boil-

Ling Hong Ching, the owner of the peanut-oil plant, in reply to the Court, stated that the safety-er, to see that the safety-valve waS valve of the boller had blown out working or not?-Since I was there

at

at a pressure of 70 to 80 lbs, and I never thought of it. also,, on one occasion, as high as 100 lbs.

He was warned against contra- dieling himself when giving figures.

The water-clocks were regularly cleaned, on the last occasion dur ing October, and the engineer in charge appeared to understand at what level the water in the boiler should be kept. The chimney ran through the floor of a cockloft be- fore it emerged through the roof. The chimney was always hot, but never red-hot possibly the fire which occurred before the exple sion was due to contact of this chimney with the woodwork of the

The pressure had gone up to 100 lbs as you admitted, and you also admitted that the valve did not blow out, and yet you never thought of it?-No.

a pressure of 110 lbs in a different Witness said he had experienced type of boiler on a ship, on a maximum of 150 lbs. The valve on that occasion blow out at a pressure of between 90 and 100 lbs.

the valve did not blow out, and And yet this one went up to 110, you did not think it unusual?— That might be due to the valve having been tampered with by one

of the fokis.

The proposed design of now four-day airplano-equipped lipers of the Transoceanic Corporation is pictured at the top.. In the centro are the children's dining room (left) and the gymnasium (right) of the palatial new ship "Ile de France," Below are Lawrence R. Wilder, head of the Transoceanic Corporation, and the Cunarder

Mouretanlo, which holds the trans-Atlantic speed record. 20

cockloft, which was used as a dry the same point that you never brews in the passenger-carrying for two things-spced and luxury planes by many first cluas liners, as

The "war of the North Atlantic", mand of trans-Atlantic passengers | Preparations for the use of air-

ing room,

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About 10 o'clock on the morning In question, he received a report from a foki, with the result that he immediately proceeded to the factory where a fire had broken

Which brings it again back to

bothered to ascertain whether the safety-valve was working or not? end of the shipping business...

Developments in it, present or proa- ja means of shortening the time that pective, includo:

passengers must “spend on the Witness admitted that it was so. .Immense sums promise to be Building of a new American fleet water.

A trans-Atlantic passenger traffic Disagrees With Expert.

poured into it, by five great mari- of six liners of a brand new typa

costing $125,000,000, these ships to that from November, 1926, to Coming to the morning of the

time nations-Great Britain, Unitedbe apable of crossing the Atlantic November, 1927, amounted to al out in the cockloft. It was extin-disaster, he said that the fires were States, Germany, Italy, France in four days..

most a million fares-all classes in-l guished before he got there. As lighted as usual at fivo, and pres-before a decision is reached.

Ilastening of construction of cluded-is the prize for which the he was about half-way down the sure was round about 40 or 50 Iba stairs, proceeding to Investigate

The war is on because of the degreat new ships for British, Ger rival steamship companies are com

peting.. Iman and Italian companies. the trouble, an explosion occurred. Smoke, steam and dust filled the factory, and on that clearing, he 63w the boiler disappearing through the roof, and two of his fokis lying on the floor, dead.

Cleaned Once A Week. Witness had no idea of how the explosion occurred. The two men killed had not been with him very long-they had nothing to do with the boiler, being employed only on oll-extracting..

All the remaining mine fokis were more or less seriously injur

9.45 at

a.m. The

maximum Pressure reached that morning was something like 50. *

..

...

Dr. S. G. Willimott, speaking at deprived of it were not reproduc- not follow," he added, "that this A few minutes before the explo- the Dalston Literary Institute, said tive, and it had been definitely vitamin will affect human beings, son, the cockloft caught fire. He that a new vitamin, known as eatbilshed that it was able to con- but there is the possibility. Fos accounted for this by the emission Vitamin E, had been discovered by trol: the reproductive capacity of sibly it may be found that there of sparks through cracks in the a Californian professor. It

con- female. It was found in cer-aro different vitaming for males old chimney of the boiler,

trolled fertility in animals. Dogs tain olla and' in lettuce. "It does and females."

The Coroner: Now, I warn you that the engineer of the Public Works Department who had examined the boiler, had informed. the foreman of the jury, who is an expert, that he is thoroughly satle- fled that the baller exploded be- cause there was no water in it.

Witness: But the water-gauge ed, and they had since been dis-showed two-third parts of the boil. charged. Some of them had since er filled. stayed away from the factory. His Worship said that the ex- In reply to further questions by pert evidence referred to, showed the Coroner, the witness said that that this was impossible. After the practice was to clean the admitting that the blow-out occur- boller once a week. Last year a red at the bottom of the boilor, test had been applied, the boiler witness was still unable to agree being subjected to a hydraulic with the expert view. He could pressure of 150 lbs,

offer no other explanation.

Dr. J. R. Craig, of the Govern- ment Civil Hospital gave evidence as to the injuries, sustained by one of the men who was killed.

:"

Smiles In Court.

At the moment of the explosion, he was sitting doing nothing, near Engineer's Evidence, the boller. He complained that he was hurt all over the body, and Loa Sui, the engineer in charge despite his serious injuries, he was of the boiler at the factory, was discharged after only one day's next called as a witness. He stat atay in Hospital. His explanation ed he was 22 years of age, and had for this was that the Hospital was an apprenticeship of six years in overcrowded, and there was no an engineering ahop in Canton beroom for him.

fore coming to Hongkong.

The explanation evoked smiles

He claimed to have had expert in Court, and His Worship Inform- ence with all kinds of machinery,ed witness that he was not to be from that of a, rice-mill to that of believed in that respect.

a water-works plant in this" engi Questioned by Mr. Macfarlane, neering shop before being given the foreman of the jury, witness his job at the peanut factory denied he was pumping water into through the kind offices of a rela- the. boller just before the explo- tive,

alon. The pressure was between His pay was fifty cents a day, 40 and 50 when he started pump- and sometimes less when he took a ing. The pump was then in work- holiday, which was very often. ing order and he had no difficulty However, during his absence, the with it. other fokis were quite capable of The Foreman: Tell him in my looking after the atoking of the experience, that when pressure furnace.

has dropped down to 35 lbs, you Rising every morning at 5 to can hardly get any water into the light the fires, he would remain in boller with a foot pump. You can constant attendance until 8 in the only get an injector to work with afternoon, When his working that pressure, not a hand-pomp, hours extended, as they often did, till six in the evening, it was be- cause he had to clean out the bolt- er and see that everything was ship-shape.

Steam Pressure,

A donkey-pump was used to or refill the boller once every hour,

Witness stuck to his previous opinion.

Questioned in regard to the mathod of cleaning out the boller, witness denied that one could get his head into the interior.with. a lamp for the job. There was not even room for a small boy, and the method adopted in his case was to

to a level shown to be two-thirds use a broom attached to the end

of the height of the water-gauge, jof a bamboo pole.

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The usual pressure of steam was The enquiry was adjourned."

60 lbs, although this had been in-

creased to as much as 110 lbs with-

out any signs of the safety-valve

Washington, Mar. 29.

working. "I don't know the exact The Senate has passed the pressure at which this valve would measure providing for the appro- work, declared witness,

:

The Coroner: And

charge of the boiler?¦

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