Show TELEGRAPHIC CASUALTIES Disaster and Destruction on Land and Sea Oswego N Y 30 Captain John Allen of the schooner Ida Walker when about two miles from here about 10 oclock last night was knocked over board by the boom His son Albert jumped into the lake to save him and both were drowned Buffalo SOOne thousand people via ited the wreck of the propeller Colorado today which bursted her boiler about six miles out last night The wrecked propeller belonged to the Commercial line and was one ot those about which has been so much litigation recently in the HoltEnsign suits It was built in 1860 carried two boilers with a compound com-pound engine The one on the starboard side was the one that bursted Tha vessel < was valued at between 50 000 and 60 000 acd insured for 50000 This toes not cover the loss by the explosioa The cargo was a mixed one and considered injured much The bodies of the two missing men are net found yet It is believed they were blown to atoms and thrown into the lake The boiler turned a complete somersault and landed 50 feet a stern The missing are David Elli porter Soffold and James Farrell deckhands Chicago The killed are Henry Allen greaser Buffalo The injured and scalded are Thoma Lovett first engineer Henry ckert dock hand probably fatal Trick Rouses deck hand Buffalo Frederick Hill deckhand deck-hand Williameport Paj Christian Rudolph deck hand Emporium Penn Jthn Morgan fireman Buffalo seriously se-riously scalded The mate W Caba was lightly it jured about the head All the injured are improving with the exception ex-ception cf Henry Ackert Burlington Vermont 30 Albert Taft leading manufacturer and prominent prom-inent citizen was suffocated in bed by gar New York SgTbis evening an oil tank of Kings Counfy Oil Works Brooklyn Brook-lyn exploded with a loud repor Its capacity was 35000 barrels bat there wvfl not that quantity of oil in it at the time of the explosion Fortunately no person was in the vicinity Utica N Y 1A spocicl to the Observer at 1 40 from Fort Plain says The train that left Utica about 11 oclock collided with o train from fort Plain three miles from here telescoping each and making a complete wreck Both engines en-gines now stand upright It is reported that six were killed and several wounded tom |