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UDENTTOmiENmTrial Trip Prtvtnted by Breaking of Piston Rod.IDID CONSIDERABLE DAMAGEi«IITtitf* St#mt to B« « Hoodoo AtUchod to the Torptdo Boat 'Brian «• SK« Has Had Savtral Aasidftnt* m At-Umptmg to M«K« « Trial Trip.I1II1IiiNew York. March 30 —The cause of * the breaking of a high pri'smitt piston rod on her preliminary tri iI trip off Fire Island the torpedo boat tVBrb-tvWtllch wm (0 haw hAd mi official I r 111 I I today at NVwimrt, has born returned tothe dry iKh k U the *\w York navyyard The rod snapped with a crash t that shook the iitth* vpHin‘1 frotn mem 9 ro stem Th*» -hsft w5 $c\xn f. t I Ionic and fourteen Inches thick and 1 after It broke \\a* swIvigJttjt through1 lit. ntr, pound 11 tn and beating the ma- 1chlitcry The oilers and others who twere working about the machinery 4 hurried away, t tOil I * f M uUlnisi Van Si kle ran llito ,the engine mm and succe.ded in shot*ting off the Htt'.un. A great bar ofsteel f- !l Iw-tivi’t-n Van SUklc's fwtwhile he w i« at work Oft the hi cam valve.The u Briefi was taken over fromthe Nixon Shipbuilding Company wlimit was absorbed (he Fulled Shipbuilding Company. 8h hit sustained in- 1jury after injury on all her trial trips During the Iasi run she was rink- M Inc 1: knots and the official* vv re t rnuih dab* 1 when the collapse occur- ired#
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Astoria Morning Astorian
Astoria, Oregon, US
Fri, Mar 31, 1905
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