Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1906 — COLLISION WAS NO SCRATCH [ARTICLE]

COLLISION WAS NO SCRATCH

Illinois and Alabama Did Each Other Considerable Damage-beam** Minna Leg and Arm. Newport, K, L, Aug. a.— The board of Inquiry appointed to investigate the collision of the battleships Illinois and Alabama last Monday night off Brenton’s reef lightship, has discovered that the ships are worse damaged then supposed at flrst On the Illinois four of the six-inch guns on the starboard side forward were damaged, and a portion of the forward gun deck wu sprung. The starboard shaft was bent and the starboard propeller cracked. The Alabama sustained severe damage to two of ber six-inch guns, one of tuem being bent badly. A compartment around a casemate on the port side forward Is leaking. Both ships have to go to a navy yard for repairs. Ordinary Seaman Corbett, who was injured by a fall of a davit holding one of the boats on the Illinois, was more seriously hurt than was at flrst reported, One of his legs was amputated on the day following the collision, and it was found necessary to amputate an arm also.