Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — HOW 32 MEN WERE KILLED ON UNITED STATES WARSHIP. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW 32 MEN WERE KILLED ON UNITED STATES WARSHIP.

The above diagram shows how the Missouri explosion happened. No. 1, the turret; 2, interior of turret; 3, the breech of the twelve-inch turret gun, showing how the back draft blew the flash back to the powder piled up for the next charge; 4, the hoist down which the flame swept that ignited the 1,600 pounds of powder in the handling room (5); 6 is the hoist communicating with the magazine, and the cross shows the point the flames reached before they met the water by which the magazine was flooded and by which the ship was saved from being completely destroyed; 7, torpedo tube; 8, the magazine.