Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1907 — Battleship Has Narrow Escape. [ARTICLE]

Battleship Has Narrow Escape.

' Washington. Sept. 12.—Tli navy department has just made public the fact that through a tire in her coal hunkers on the morning of Sept. 5 the battleship Indiana, how undergoing repairs at the League Island navy yard, narrowly escaped destruction, the ammunition in the adjacent magazines being safely removed only through the exhibition of the greatest courage on she part of the officers and crew.