The Sully County watchman., August 04, 1883, Image 2

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THE SILLY COUNTY WATCHMAN TELEGRAPHIC.
CLIFTON, DAKOTA.
Nkw ):i.k\\n i in a hi pcr-pira
tion
over the approach of the yellow
fever.
THE cholera is nuuvhiug on. I|
has broken »ut among t!ie British
troops quartered at Sue/.
THE first frost of the season is re
ported from the White Mountains of
New Hamiwlii!e.
THE Emperors of (leimany AND*
Austria are to have a personal con
ference at Ischel. Upper Austria,
ugufit 7.
TTTK f^ecretary of the Treasury to
day issued his notice calling all out
standing jiereent. tinted .State#
bonds not title red fur exchange.
Two important measures are now'
before the Georgia Legislature—one
forbidding Sunday excursions and the
other jiroviding for local option as to
the sale of liquor. The Georgia Leg
islature is largely Democratic, but it
is said liotli these measures are likely
to become laws.
OVER a hundred jiersons in attend
ance at a lawn party in Joliet. Wed
nesday. were made seriously ill by
eating ice-cream, the flavoring in
which is believed to have been pois
onous. As far as heard from, none of
the victims have died, though several
are in a critical condition.
Ax appalling.-aiaiuity occurred at a
watering-place resort on the Patapsco
river, ten miles from the city of Balti
more, Md., last Wednesday night, by
the giving way of a pier crowded with
several hundred people—excursionists
from the city—nearly all of whom
were precipitated into the water, ajid
between sixty and seventy of whom
were drowned, most of them lieing
women anil children.
IK it. is true, as hat* been often as
serted, that the Western Union Tele
graph Company has lost fcJOo.OOO jier
day in consequence of the operators'
strike, the company would not have
been much out of jiocket if it had ac
ceded to the demands of its employes,
and advanced their wages on the start.
The amount of daily loss named would
go a long way, if properly distributed,
in the shape of a compromise but
the strikers make other demands that
the conijiany may find more difficult
to comply with than the question of
dollars and eents.
THE guerrillas of Peru are still able
to keep up their irregular warfare
against Chili and thus to delay the
settlement of the questions growing
out of the war of 1 STi. These bands
have just joined battle with the Chil-
ian forces still quartered in the coun
try, where, according to report, they
were defeated with great slaughter.
This will probably have the effect of
putting down these remnants of a con
siderable army and hasten the time
when Peru slxall again have control
of its own afF wrs to repair in some
-degree the ravages of a war so fatal
to its notional integrity and indepeu
deuce.
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THE friends of General Sheridan,
following the precedents set in the
cases of Generals Grant and Sherman
have presented him a house in ash
ington. This is a custom which
wotld be better honored in its breach
than in its o bservanee, and some of
these days a General of our armies
will come along who will refuse to
make himself a fashionable high
toned beggar.
GENERAL NOTES.
ROVA MASSKY. the actress. died in
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public positions, and like these, the
recipients of high salaries, it seems a that the congregation was about
wide stretching of the properties that evenly divided. One priest was
they should permit themselves to ac
cept houses, horses, lands or what
ever else, over-zealous friends who
want possible privileges may club to
gether to
bestow upon them.
CALAMITIES rajiidly followed ujHin
the
heels of each other this year. The
dispatches contain the details of a
terrible accident at North Point Tivoli.
on the Patapsco River, near Balti
more, by which between sixty and
seventy persoua. mostly women and
children, were drowned in the dark
ness. after a day's jileasure. The loss
of
lives by disaster in this country,
as rejMirted by telegraph, since the 1st
of
anuasy last already reaches 1,400,
and this includes only prominent dis
asters, such as the burning of the
Newhall House, the powder explosion
at Point Clement, Cal.. the Braid
wood mine flood, the jianic in the
New York school, the fall of the hotel
at Greenville, Tex., the Brooklyn
bridge disaster, and the ravages of
tornadoes and floods. These latter
manifestations of Nature's wrath have
swept off no less than 58ti victims, or
nearly twice as many as jierished by
the
same causes in tho
year.
whole
of iaat
New
York last Monday.
THE deaths from Cholera, at (3A!RO,
Kgyjit. Saturday, were 3X1.
SEVKltAI. ease.* of Texas fever are re
jxirted to have developed tit Boston
among e ittle brought from Worcester,
and the state IxKird of cattle commis
sioners will forbid the bringing in of
any more slock from the Ixine Star state.
A FARM house in Prince George's
county. Ya.. was struck bv lightning.
Thursdnv. nnd William Wilfett and Mrs.
Lizzie Washington were instantly killed.
William Washington was so badly stun
ned tiiat his death is imminent.
AT a meeting of Oiliau patriots in
Fot'R hundred and fifty employes of
the Birmingham (Ala.) rolling mills
struck on Saturday against a reduction
of their wages, and also induced the
puddlers at the Brierfieln Iron Works to
strike.
S. J. Howard, a colored man. who
died Saturday in Brooklyn at the age of
S4 years, left a fortune of nearly $"00.
000*. which he made bv lucky investments
ill real estate.
John II. IVttingill a -ulistaneiaj busi
ness man of I/cwiston. Me., went to a
circus with Ins grandson ami MitTered
himself to be defrauded out of #1.000 by
inonte men.
OFFICERS of the Chicago. Milwaukee
& St. Paul road report the grain crop on
it* lines west of the Mississippi in excel
lent condition, with the exception of
some narrow lielts in Dakota, where hail
lieat down the stalks.
CAITAIS KICHAKH P. KAOAN. a custom
heusc insjH'ctor. committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head last
Monday night in his room at 42 Clinton
place. New York. Domestic difficulties
were the cause of the tragedy.
CRIME.
I AT Allen town. l'a.. »eorge Kiiniuer, a
German baker, rohtied his room-mate
and while making his cseajie from the
city, was run over by a train and horri
bly mangled.
CAI.VIN WILLIAMS, of Parkersburg.
W. Va.. was murdered on Saturday
night by John It. ami Walter Coe. who
accused the deceased of slandering Jen
nie Coe. daughter of the eldest of the
murderers.
M. E. WHKTMOKE. in jail at Duluth
for tiring the Knife Falls cnmjwiny's
store at Knife Fa IN. and who was one
of tile escajx-d prisoners. w is recaptured
at Oueota late Thursday evening, lie
seemed to have made little attempt to
g«U out of the country.
Drs. CARTKU & SON of Maukato have
gone from town leaving debts to the
amount of several hundred dollars.
They were eye and ear doctors and had
onlv lieen at Mankatoa few months.
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WILLIAM ANSI KKR. a sixteen-year old
boy, etnploved in Sniax' drug store.
Cedar Itapids, died this morning from
an overdose of morphine, supposed to
have leen taken with sucidal intent,
caused by a quarrel with his sweet
heart.
C. OSTKAXUKK. hailing from Mankato.
Minn., who has been in the employ of
C. A. Trowbridge, a mu»ic dealer of
Fond du I*ac. Wi*.. has skipped, having
in his ]Hisse»sioti a Unit #4IHI in money i
collected from the sale of instruments.1
Of this amount the Ithaca Organ com
pany is out $^on. Ostrander is live feet
live inches in height, has a light mous
tache. one shoulder i jierceptibly lower
than the other and he has a swinging
gait Officers are on his track.
A farmer living near Frederick. Dak.,
was knocked down, rohlied and mal
treated at that place, and thrown into
the river for dead. He recovered, how
ever. sufficiently to crawl to the nearest
house and give the alarm, and a party
was soon made up to hunt down the
would-lie-murderer. He was found in
a shanty a few miles from town. ca|
tured and taken to Aberdeen, and placed
in charge of the sheriff. The villain nar
rowly escaiied rough I land ling from the
jieople of tiiat |lace.
THEKK was a riotous affair at St. Sea
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I islaus Polish Catholic church. Buffalo.
N. Y., on Sunday. AI*out five months
ago the Rev. Frank Charvanix was aj»
I jiointcd assistant to the Rev. John Pitass.
The former immediately liegun a vigor
against lM*«»r-drinking
ous crusade against lieer-drinking an
To one oecunvinir high music in saloons adjacent to the church
during services. The ltev. Pitas* did not
agree with the movement, and the result
livided. One priest was hissed
"Pyli entering the church for service at
9 o'clock. The edifice was soon cleared,
and fully 1.000 Poles soon assembled out
side, and when the jx.licc arrived they
were met with a volley of stones and
at last disjiersed after threatening to
buru certain houses. Ten persons were
arrested, and other arrests will follow.
CABLEGRAMS.
THK Lord Mayor of London Tuesday
entertained the American Rifle Team at
luncheon.
THK Irish Times, of Dublin, says James
C-arey, the informer, has arrived at one
of the British colonies.
THK Swedish monitor Thorndon foun
dered recently near Norrkoping. The
crew were saved.
SIR SPENOKR ST. JOHX, special envoy
from Kngland to Mexico, was received
by the jre*ident of the republic. Friday.
SKVKS women and children were
drowned on Tuesday bv the iqisettiiig of
a jileasure I tout on Lake Lugano, Swit
zerland.
TlIKRi: were 7W deaths front cholera
reported in Kgypt for the twenty-four
hours ending at ii o'clock Tuesday morn
ing.
TUB Shamrock club, of Montreal
defeated the Torontos in three games
of lacrosse, thus retaining the champion
belt.
tatethat cholera has appeared in San
Loni.-.co del Mar. Oaxaca.
COMMODORE LEITCH. of the Cunard
flwt. is dead. He was for fifty vears in
the service of the company. lie died
on Imard ship in the Mediterranean.
New York on Sunday. (Jeneral Honachea mill explosion at St. Petersburg rridav.
itid others urged that every means be
taken to assist in freeing Culm from the
Spanish yoke.
DKXNIS. a little town in Apjianoose 304^000 for the corresjiouding j»eriod last
county. Iowa, has been the scene of: vear
frequent burglaries lately. One lad
citizen was susj»ected and arrested. He
gave away the names of eight associate
thieves, all residents of the village.
THE British corvette Briton has arrived
at Aden from Zanziliar with an official
dipatch from Madagascar of great im-,
jMirtance.
THK steamer City of Washington, en
route from Vera Cruz to New York, ar
rived at Havana. Cuba, on Thursday,
with Iwenty-seven cases of yellow fever
on loard. The ship's doctor, baker and
a machinist had died of the disease.
The sick have lieen removed to a hospi
tal. and the vessel has been fumigated
ami will sail to-day for New York.
ACCIDENTS.
NINE jiers«ns were killed by a powder
Two hundred and sixty-eight deaths
from cholera were rejiorted in Kgypt,
Thursday.
Two lmys named Henderson and Snell
were suffocated in a wheat bin at Chero
kee. Iowa, on Saturday evening
A Grand Trunk freight shed at Sea
forth. Ont.. was destroyed by lightning
on Saturdav. involving a loss of at tout
$:tn.ooo.
THE wind last Saturday night was
strong enough lietween Spencer and AT
gona, Iowa, to blow down several dwel
lings.
lto'iert Reed. Samuel llarland and
William Dunn were shockingly burned
Saturday by an explosion of a cinder
blast, at Crane Iron works. Catasqua.
Pa.
Dt nrca the storm of last Friday even
ing. the house of a Mr. Gites. near
Georgetown. Dak., was struck by light
ning and burned. It was the finest resi
dence in that vicinitv.
urday morning in Faribault, Minn., and
the immediate vicinity was very slight.
No rejxnts of serious accidents have
come in from the country.
A MAGAZINE on Avery's Island, near
New Orleans, containing 1.000 |»ounds
of dynamite, was exploded l»y lightning
on Saturday. Buildings in the vicinity
were budly shaken up. but no lives were
lost.
THE English newspapers assert that
the misunderstanding with France,
arising out of the Tamative affair, will
le amicably settled.
ORDKRs have lieen received at Alder
shot to prepare four butteries of field
artillery for active service. Their des
tination is not known.
THURSDAY n ght a very severe storm
passed over the town of St. Oloff. Otter
Tail county, and did some damage in
places. Large oak trees were snapped
off like pipe stems, the store building oil
the old Cowing stand was moved and
somewhat injured, and hail fell in some
localities. The store building in Stony
brook. built by J. S. Stockwell and now
owned by A. Clarke was also nearly
demolished.
FROM THE CAPITAL.
THE issue of standard silver from the
mint for the week ending July 21, was
IT is rumored that Commissioner
Kvans is alxtut to be sujierseded by Gen.
Yeatch, who was crowded out of the
collectorship of internal revenue at
Evanston. Ind. Evans says there is no
truth in the rejKjrt.
Cincinnati custom house, as follows:
Samuel J. Pope & Co.. Chicago. *l.'*.
*75»: J. T. Marshbank Sons. Harris
burg. $I44.S:5-J: Hurt let t. Hay ward & Co..
Haltimore. *1 W.-PV* John Lyon, Wash
ington. Wm. Kirkoji & Son,
Cincinnati. ifcl'il.lTfl.
THK secretary of the treasury lias de
cided that the commissioner of internal
revenue may return to the owners there
of dies, dates and rolls used for print
ing private die stamjis. and such
dies, rolls and jilates will lx- surrendered
to-morrow UJMUI apjilicalion to the coin-
other missiles. Two officers were struck, i jiossession of jro|erty worth two or
but not very seriously hurt. The crowd
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THE TWO Republics, an influential
journal jniblished in the City of Mexico. for oi)0.
WATERY liRAYKS.
Bins were o|M»ned at the treasury de- several women and children,
jiartuient for a heating apj»aratus at the
Hrgenrratlon for ISnlVeblHl hour
frmii ..ml of !!u\ unit its
'usual ami iifiM.iiMi.-K-,
i* s^lil.iin ,l.Tjval«i- fr,.iii the iwh of u ii.iiiriximij
•tirt un.l stimuli of iu*. A iti'-li-'ine
that will .-IT'-el u riMiu.vnl ..f tin*
l'i health iiml vi^«.r, tluit in u ^ei.miie
ertlTvctlvc. i tli- svul m-eil. ll is the |xs»-s.«in
this ^i-uii'1 i.-.|iiiifin.-iit wiii- nuiKe* H,.sl"tter'x
Stoning. Hitter-. »*. effective a* sm iiivi«..rant. It
tine* ii ,t merely iiupurt :i fillip tw u||n-!.t-. I.lit hy
inviiMi-Htiiitf euuliln. the t..iiiiii"h xiUsfy its
wants w ithiMit l».lily iliMinirfiuee. ami will. :hot
KUifhiieiis. Iii nil .IK users' i-i.iii|i.iii!' ,| l.y u
wunt of toiii- in the di)j,"4r. organ*. l«irui'iii'ii
of the tx«ve|ft anil M!i«»U»l|ewi. It exert' lelie|1
rtal inllneiice. ami one wpeeilily felt. It i-«.in|iiei-s
'ami Id-eiflltH the reetirren.-e of fever ttli.l Ht'lie.
:IH1 rix'illl.utiolll, eheel Ull lIRTi'MJ.IIIji ilTeiflilal'
ilv of Hie kiilneVH un.l l.**».l*l--r. HIMI nlVoiilj, I-WII
%'alewelitH Mild |M*rvIII* .l.'lieute phvsii|IK*, ItM
lerial aiil in recovering le altli .-tml vigor.
A Berlin (Germany) jiajier says:
"'Miss Frederike Bognar. formerly a
member of the Yienea liofburg thea
ter, but who has of late years been
starring the jirovidences. is engaged
Maka.v, Devonslm-v.
Frightful Fate of a Pleasure "eniwef
Party at North Point Tiv
oli, near Baltimore.
Between One and Tuo Hundred People
Compelled to Struggle Des­
perately for Life.
Eighty-two Corpses Already Taken
Out
of
the Water
and
Idontifled.
Ksltimore, Md., Telegram.
ne end of an old and rotten pier
at North Point Tivoli. an excursion
resort «»ii the 1'atapsco river, about
fourteen miles from this city, gave
an(, oU)(M. swmmivrs
niissioner ami U|H»II IKTYINENT by them of had gone down, and the only light
all ex jienses for alteration or oblitera- was that shed by to coal-oil lamjis.
tions required by law to IM- made. Some of the rescuers took the barge
IN view of the fact that there was no lunterns and set them on the warf.
specific appropriation made by congress Two exjiloded and'added fresh terror
at its late session to meet the exjienses of t« the scene. Those on the deck of the
lmrge threw life-jireservers. stools, and
lienehes into the water. These struck
a great many on th« head and knock
ed them insensible. Hhers let down
planks and ropes. Indescribable hone
i lessucHS and terror reinged. Shrieks.
the cancellation and return, after re
demption of stamjis imprinted u|M»n
checKs. drafts, etc.. Coniinissoner Evans
inform* the public in a circular that such
drafts, checks, and stamps will not lie
received for cancellation and return
and redemption after the :}lst dav of, •,
Jul v. All stamps imprinted UJH.n drafts, curses, ami groans mingled with cries
checks, ect., received for redemption f°r God to save them and heartrend
after that date, will lie destroyed ing prayers for help. The darkness
gether with the drafts orcliecks. impeded the efforts of those who
Sankoku Koss. contractors for the jimmied into the water. Many of the
dredging of the Potomac flats, will lose men disowned |erished in trying to
$100,000 on their contract. They claim save the women and children. As one
they are being hanqtered by idiotic or-j
more of hot weather will convert it into
a mass of corruption that will poison
the air or the whole city. It is estima
ted that it will cost $s,nM,noo to con
vert the rlats into a "MH acre park, as is
now contemplated, but when the work
is done the government will come into
three times that amount.
lu tinhli-mal., Karl Young. ,,f br,M1Kht iu. «.ul .01
way last night while 200 returning ex- about Light street wharf and Hcnder
cursinuists were alwut to Imard the wharf towards midnight making
boat Cockade City. One hundred per
sons were precipitated into the river,
and about seventy drowned.
The disaster is the most terrible in
its results in this vicinity since the ex
plosion of the steamer ^ledora in the
harbor some forty years ago. Most of
the dead are women and children.and
their faces are mutilated by the splin
tered timber of the old wharf. The
excursion was conijxiscd of the niem
liers of the Catholic church of Corpus
Christi. They were taken down to
Tivoli on the barge Cockade City,
towed by a tug which had made three
trips during thedav. and as this arriv
ed a rush was made to get aloard as
soon as tin4 barge was fastened to the
THK damage done by the storm of Sat-1 PJPR Father W. K. Starr, the pastor
of the church. aided by the two gate
keepers. Jacob Bennett and John Coil
nor. vainly tried to keep the pcojile
back, but as usual in such cases their
cautions weir not regarded, and, mer
rily and with no forebodings that death
lay so near, the throng pressed forward
to their fate.
THK CHABH.
Some noisy youths tried to climb
over the gjite on 1he jiier. and a man
and a bov seated themselves 011 a rail
with their legs hanging over. A too
sudden movement caused the rail to
break, and the two were thrown into
the water. A sudden commotion fol
lowed this result, but liefore it had
even taken shajie to save the unfortu
nates, there was a sudden crash and a
chorused shriek, splinters flew in ev
ery direction, and about 'ioo people
were struggling among the broken
timbers in eight feet of water. The
noise and the cries were so loud Unit
watermen heard them two miles away.
Those who witnessed thp scene state
that it was sickening. Most of those
on the broken jiier were vounglH'ojde.
A numlier were rendered unconscious
bv injuries from the timbers of the
jner. and others from fright, but there
was a large portion of those thus
thrown into the water who struggled
desjierately for their lives. Many sank
from exhaustion, others were pulled
down by those who were drowning,
while, by the efforts af their friends,
numbers were rescue
safely to laud.
ters. an expert young swimmer
IVI^i CUi 1." A MV
*V *'1111 J**? inline
lal)nivii Jm„l \u
saving the living and bringing the
bodies to the grove.
KKAXTIC ORIKF.
As the dead were brought to the
shore there was a terrible scene. {Strong
men were filled with grief as a wife
or child was lai.l at their feet, and be
reaved mothers wejit. Women fainted
here and then-, and were ministered
to by kindly hands. There were also
children crying bitterly for their
parents who had perished. The moon
another
ders froi* the engineer's department of brought to the surface and landed the witne
the district. The flats tilhfi^ up jr-j-jef frientls wa«|ainful to witnoss.
with rank vegetation, and a feu weeks jjU8|mmjs saw their wives and little them
of the bodies were
ones cold and lifeless, and brothers
discovered their sisters among the
mass of IKHHCS. while some who had
thought their dear ones lost fairly
danced with joy when lliey discovered
them among the saved. Others looked
WAITING KuR NtTft s.
in vain for friends or relatives among consider the wharf secure with such a
the throng. Alxiut thirty-live bodies crowd. There were about 700 persons
i were taken out of the water the first, on the wharf when it fell, full .loo
Siour after the accident, twenf v nine
of whicli wer^ iilacetl on the deck of
the barge, side nv sitle. and tho luiat
started back tw Baltimore after mid
night. The barge always stojis at lien
derson s warf goiugatid returningfi'oin
Tivoli. It arrived there this morning
alxiut 'i o'clock, when the first news
of the disaster liecanie known in the
city. UJIOII the cabin floor of the
m«liau-l.y
^S«.t a ilrink. mrf s,,l,l in l^r-rooiii*.I»ut» n-IUhle KN".-»t 'HK.
non-ttlctilioiic tonic in,-,iti ine. useful at uil tiliiew. i
and in all wwmn*. i- luWs lr..n nut..^ Every one censures the gatekeejiei-s,
It is re|iorted from Berlin that i Connors and Barnett. for not ojiening
James Banker, of lrvingaoii. N. V the gates liefore the crowd surged
i has bought Hans Makart's painting down upon the bridge rank Pe
of "Diana and her Hunting ti*ain i bilius, the manager of tuc JiorLU
Large nuniliers of friends and rela-
Many
boat were the bodies of the victims— islanding when the wharf broke,
voting girls, old ladies, and men and The Rev. W. E. Starr was on the
boys "all huddled together. In a |iier--head liefore the accident, and sent
cafiin adjoining wen* parent*, sisters a messenger to have the gates closed,
and bint hers, some waiting for ii-! The lamps or. the pier--head gave ani
dings of the absent ones, others weeji- pie light, but the pier was badly light
ing and frantic, knowing that those ed. The moon also gave a good light,
dear to them had lieen lost. The j»o- He did not think more than LTiO pei
licenien did all they could to quiet sons could stand on the si»ac
and pacify the jieople, and gave as the break occurred. He had
encouraging answera to quest ions as
possible. Kverv fifteen minutes more
im-
I f. identify them.
Tivoli, stated tliat the accident is
•cs not exceed eigm or nine
feet, and this depth is gradually
reached from the short1, the slope be
ing very slight. On the north side of
the passenger jiier is a smaller one
supjiorting a railroad track, on which
a hand-ear is run from the shore to
the steamer, used in transporting sup
plies. It is a very dilapidated looking
structure. The pier jirojier is amply
broad to accommodate the foot jiassen
gers. At the extreme end where the
foats unload their human freight a
wharf had lieen built upon piles about
IU0 feet long and 50 feet broad. It
was this structure that gave way, and
its distance from the shore is nine
i
hundred
feet.
TtiE'IN^UKOT.
At o'clock this evening Coroner
Morfit liegaii an inquest, at which
Father Starr, the pastor of the Church
tof Corpus Christi. was present.
Jacob lionnett testified that he was
sjieci-il officer at Tivoli, anil locked the
i gates on the wharf about s in the
evening by order of the jiroprietor of
the place to keej) the people from get
ting on the wharf. lie refused to let
some young ladies who wished to re
turn to the grounds go through the
first gate, liecause he feared others
i would get through. The boat reached
the wharf lietween 10 and 11. The
ss then opened the gates and the
people rushed through. He begged
the brought to light.
gates, and we could not prevent i THE VERDICT.
them." I Following is the verdict: We find
"But wasn't the wharf very weak tliat Louisa Swearer and others came
or rotten
asked the reporter. to their death by drowning, by the
"No. I hardly think so. Great breaking «*f a bridge at livoli. on the
crowds of people have {fathered on it» nijrht of .July ill, and that tho author
often lefore. and no accidents have ities of the place did not use proper
occurred."
Mr. Iebilius declined to talk much
about the manner in which the acci
dent occurml. preferring, as he said,
to wait until he made an oflicial
statement. He was very much dis
tressed over the affair, and did every
thing he could to save the drowning
people and care for those who were
taken out of the
water in an almost
dying condition.
care and precaution to prevent the oc
currence.
The Luckless Capt. Webb.
NIAGARA FAI.T.S, July Up to
10 o'clock to--night nothing more had
leeli learned as to the fate of Capt.
Webb. In reply to inquiries before
setting out on liis fatal swim, he said
!he first thought of swimming the
rapids last year, when Capt. Paul
carlv in the evening, but being assur- merry laugh and said the man who
ed that no accident could have hap
pened. as there had lieen no storm to
do any damage, they went home
again. The barge did not make Light
street wharf this morning, but when
it came silently up to Henderson's
wharf those on the shore realized that
something terrible had happened.
Manager Debilius and several of the
committee in charge of the excursion
stepped off the boat and informed the
officers of what had hapjiened, and
those in waiting wen* kept back and
the news broken to tlieui by the JK
liceii'Cii. Those who had relatives 011
board rushed frantically 011 the vessel
and hastily scanned the faces of the
rows of dead lying 011 the deck. Few
of them, however, discovered their
friends among the lifeless group. The
majority of the relatives of those who
were drowned were either waiting at
Light street wharf or did not know of
the dreadful fate that had liefallen
their loved ones until daylight.
AT THK MOROTK.
Throughout the day about fifty
bodies of men, women and children
lay side by side 011 the floor of the
large cotton warehouse which was
hastily improvised into a morgue.
Nearly all the young women who
were drowned were dressed in white
muslin, which now hangs wet and
shrouId-like about their forms as thev
lie on the rough floor of the dead
house.
A young mother with her dead
child tightly ehtsjied in in her arms
was dragged up from the water. The
mother died a few minutes after she
was brought on shore, and she and
her infant were hudsideby side in the
morgue.
The city is wild with excitement,
and the various newspajier offices
have lieen thronged with jieople from
all sections of the city seeking in for
mation.
THK KATAL PIER.
•SI-U.-.1 and bKM.elaiwi.tlip.iwit In. ril.™ lwn.iwediw
I. Herman \V«1- lun.ln.K f..r .-xeuM.... IhwK ll.o ,if
depth of the water in the neigh I tor
hood does not exceed eight
Boynton was talking of doing it. how
ever it was onlv lately In resolved
It.
tire* of tKe StN) or more people who upon attempting it. He came to the
went oil the excursion congregated falls'oil the first of July, examined
the course, and then mad*?
up his mind. When the rumor
anxious inquiries of the jmliee otfeers which had been circulated that
and watchman as to the delay of the he would go over the falls in a rub
barge.
had gone to the wharves her hall, was referred to. He gave a
made that statement should lie jiut
into a rubber ball himself and sent
over the falls. He said, in going
down, lie would be carried under
water by the current, and if he could
hold his breath until he came to the
surface again, he would be all right.
He could easily, he said, hold his
breath under water for a minute and
a half. He would have to light to
keej) atop, if he could not do so
lie said it would 1M? all up with him.
When asked if he had well consider
ed the matter he said it was a curious
thing, and he did not bother much
about it. He was going1 to chance it.
It wiis all luck, he said. He made
projiositions to the rail mail compa
nies to have excursions, but they
would not come to terms. .They
thought lie was going to commit sui
cide and they would not encourage it.
When asked if tlieiv was anvthing
particular he wished to have saiu in his
liehalf he rejdied that the only
thing was that he was not go
ing to make anything out of
it, but he wanted to show
jieojile he could do it. Speaking1 of
his weight, he said he weighed one
hundred and ninety pounds, and
was too fat: his projer weight was
one hundred and seventy-five pounds,
but extra weight didn't hamper him
as liis work was not like racing extra
flesh heljM'd him because it enabled
him to resist the cold.
NIAGARA FALLS. July 20.—There
are some who believe that Caj»t.
Webb succeeded in his foolish utider
toking. and that he is concealing him
self to fan a flame of excitement,
when he will make his ajipearance
on a fresh trip. A great many wagers
have been made on the American
side that he will lie seen alive inside
of five days, and bets have lieen made
two to one that such will be the case,
but the general belief among the older
residents is that Capt. Webb is 110 more,
mi ii- i i.- .1 It is also the general belief that life
"W l"V .w,,s
1""lt
M**- ?nd was rxtiiM*! lH-foiv he Clroml tl.- mp-
wh it
i„.d
UJI by the immense eddv. and that it
is altogether likely it will never lie re
covered. Frederick Kyle, the busi
ness manager of the captain, and oth
ers, were on the banks of the whirl
jiool lielow the cliffs when Webb
made the fatal jdunge. After despair
ing of finding any trace at this point,
a search was instituted further down
the river from the outlet of the whirl
pool tot^ueenstown on the Canada side.
Mr. Kyle returned and announced that
thecaptain was certainly lost. Yester
day morning Mr. Kyle returned from
Buffalo, where he spent the night,
and continued the search. He scoured
the hank*, telescojies were brought in
to requisition, and every available
effort made to show some clew as to
the linding of the body. The whirl
pool was diligently watched. Every
spccl^and piece of timber in the great
nuelstroui caused a shudder to pass
over the seekers, but no clew was
found.
were in the water. He liad seen larger
crowds on the wharf. The flooring
had been repaired this season. Tht»
break occurred lietween the gates,
and not where the boats land. He
examined the jilace where the break !each other's faces!
occurred and found the timlicrs pretty They call each other by all sorts ©f
rotten. There were six to eight lights opprobrious ejiithets.
I on the wharf and thev burned bright- will thev kill one another
ly. He remembered only one pile
where
a fyll
view of the :u'cident ami saw the lieo
jile struggling in the water. Had
there lieen a rush of jwojile many
more would have lieen thrown into
the water. He thought it a fair esti
mate to say that there were 1,:I00 jieo
ple on the excursion. The jiier is
a
mass of patching from one end to
other. After the crash he found the
outer gate open, though it was closed
live minutes before.
Kyle has taken the effects of Cap
tain Webb, including the watch, and
started for New York, intending to
go from there to Boston. In all
probability the hotly will come to
the surface in eight or nine days,
though many persons have lieen
drowned iu the same waters and their
bodies have never been seen. There
1
is no doubt but that should the IKXIV
to keep back, as the wharf was I be no one here to take the matter in
not safe. Soon after he heard a crash 'charge. Kyle claims that lie did not
ran back, anil saw a nuinberof jieople induce the cajitain to venture on this
in the water. He jiulled otf his clothes
and went into the water and rescued
ten or twelve jiersons, and also recov
ered three dead bodies. He did not
of the captain be found it will be pitij)
erly cared for, though there seems to
swim, but that the cu]tain was bound
to go to vindicate his honor, as it had
been freelv published that he would
go through the rapids. He was un
swerving in his determination.
1
Legal Lnniiiiaric*
the Boston TrjULsiTipt.
Mercy! how angry these men are!
How thev do shake their fista iu
Hardly.
But one of them will surely strike:
and the other, see! he will strike
back.
Not a bit of it.
Why. aren't they deadly enemies,
and aren't they terrible angry with
each other
Oh. dear, no! If you follow them
when they go out you will probably
lind tlieui driuJkiinr out of the sonic
bottle.
Then, who and what are they,
pray,'
Only a COM pie of lawyers. That's
ull.
I Oh!
How
TO
fhe investigation was proceeding at Tak"n,
n
Grr Sit^.-Expniw riumtf day aad
iii^ht. cstt t.Ki much without ex..rein*, work t-»
har.l without rest. «|oc|..r all n,.. tint t»k-- all th
vile nostrums a.lrerti-te.I. aixt then y.ni will
to know
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