People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — Fire on the Battieship Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Fire on the Battieship Indiana.

New York, May 20.—Fire broke out Tuesday In the coal bunker of the United States battleship Indiana. Right next to the fire was the magazine for the eight-inch guns, stored with powder enough to blow the v great battleship out of the water and wreck half the navy yard beside. The magazine grew hot, while the men worked, and the walls nearest to the fire plainly showed the effects of the heat The ammunition'was removed before the danger point was really reached, but the incident caused no little excitement.