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Show .A DAY OP MOURNING. L'xplthioaoaa.SIf.merOa The Chicago Chi-cago I'lTrr: krarcMng fjr the Head. TWO WOMEN MURDERED IN VIRGINIA VIR-GINIA Judge (inmrir One of the breakers at the Educational Conuntiou. A JEAkOUS. AND Mi)R0CROU3 ALAbRA Jl?lriiT Extraonliaary htory Concerning the IlNposal of an Infant's Dead Body. Ilj Tclfirapb ej- SkSI AW I L tATlSTIlOPItra A Sfeamrr Lxplole on (bleacoil lllitr mill lenrful Renll. Cjicago, July II. A frfghtful exiloaIou occurred tmlsht vn tle steamer Tvyu, one of the largest vcseis on the Great Lakes. Thirty- eight people weru aboard the steamer steam-er at the time. When the work of rescuing the survivors, which com. minced almost instantly, was well under way, onlj two penous could be found who cceps unhurt. To make tho matter worse, a firubrose eat on the wrecked tmel, nud huge volumes of flame and smoke impeded impe-ded the crchers for drvi and ely- iLe bursting of the steamers boilers was the cauc of the catastrophe. cata-strophe. It was in the Chicago river, at the foot of Washington Street, Uiat the explosion occurred. This localitj is in Uio heart of Uie bsJnifBSTtloaorCIiicago, and Uie cijiloiloil Irouglit pecpf hicclrg in terror out of tall buildings blocks awaj. The most of the victims were Chlcagoaus stevedores who were unloading the csj-c!. Only three of the Tioga'i ere w w t re reported on tho li-L The lire provie! a stubborn one and made It Impossible at the time to et!fy tho rejit tha the boilers hail exploJcJ. The state ment Was current tlict theexplosion was due to anoUnr cane, the occidental occi-dental llrtitlug Jif nnibiMtiWcs in Hie narrow eoutires of the 7Sa' deep hold. Iu Uie hoi I, nt-ir Uie steamer's stern, was where tho fire heldsway. Through Uie bursts of lire could he seen a great jagged cleft lit the 7-ga' 7-ga' decks and caMn, and aloft un the tall smoke -tack? dangled a liuae fnmework of timlier, fjotastlcally swajlug Iiackward ami forrtard, telling tell-ing i-f the terrific force of the explosion ex-plosion riiiili unt It from thirti' feet below . wiiilb Tin. una was still in progress an Associated Cress rriioilerntet theeaptaiu of thu l'l-aled ttednfer on the forward deck. Th olllcer eonsentetl to stop long enough iu his tak of straight-tntngotit straight-tntngotit the confusion prevailing to give a stattment of w liat lie knew of the wreck. Said he' JIj name is Captain A. A. Phelps. I arrived heiu last evening even-ing f mm Buffalo in command of the "TimM," and we were unloading unload-ing .it this dock when the explosion took place this eveniug. I was in the freight hI on Uie dock, when I heam a terrific noise and, run ningouLsaw the north quarter of the ve-el enveloped iu steam. All of the crew of tweuti-five men woruclllicraboanl at Ulc time or were on the dock, or in the freight house I found after a careful search tint all but three weru accounted ac-counted fur cud safe. These three, all from Buffalo) were Um second engineer, Gtorgu Hani, tiiulouk-out, C.rf.EvalJej, ant a deck hand, William Gulllbert. Besides the three missing, who belonged to the crew, there must havu been from twelve to tlfh-l'i other men killed, and probably half a docn nddltiou-at nddltiou-at wounded. These were laboiers in the hold, who wire doing the un-loading. un-loading. Light colored men are iw-Uivcly stated to have lieen below, be-low, or six and seven others were at the hatches aiding their fellow-stevedores fellow-stevedores lower down. The explosion ex-plosion occurred iu the hold, not in tho machinery or boilers as near as I could ascertain, and it was pro-liabh pro-liabh In some conibusUblu freight storeu there." TilK IA1TAI.N was at Uiis moment called away to thu wrecked jrtrtiou of the vessel, which -seemed gradually sctUbag iu Uie river. Occasionally a. wounded linn was hauled out of the debris. As Uie flames jicrmUted, the police aud lire-men closed in toward to-ward the literal "black hole," In w hich the bodies of thu unfortunate stevedore still lay. Great crowds of people gathered on the neighboring br'ilges, docks and vessels tnd watched Uie tragic scenes being enacted en-acted on the Tioga, The immense iron hull, .aimed a forbidding black, stretched $300 feet or muru along the I Itr, aud a swarm of eo-pie, eo-pie, firemen and reporters weru clambering over her on all sides. Eio witnesses of the explosion were busy telling new coalers Uio gory particular". It appeared that thu explosion occurred just after a porter named Wllii-im l'almer had gone below w IUi lighted lamps. He had scarcely reached the decks again when the shock catre. It was said that SX) barrels of oil were among the cargo ami that thcuhad become Ignited. Others insisted that the explosiou must have been due to a lack of water In the boilers and the second engineer, w ho was know n to be mksslng,was the man whose duty it would lie to start the (any pumps In such an emergency. Thl,it was declared, would have produced Just euehau explosion, wrecking wnly onu-comnartmciitof the vessel. Up to 11. .11 p.m. nine dead bodies had been taken from the wreck and five or more wounded Were conveyed con-veyed to the hospitals. the '-nooA," then settled to thu bottom of the river, riv-er, but It is not so deep but Uie decks aru still above the surface. It is estimated es-timated that 515,a)J will cover thu damage to the vessel and cargo. This amount Is believed to be fully Insure I. Engineer Halght anil Slcanifitter Bjnies cannot live thro igh Uie night. A clearer idea of thecau-e of thu explosion was obtained about midnight, mid-night, when thu toilers and cargo coulJ be examined. The boilers stemeJ intact. The cargo was kerosene, kero-sene, gasoline and cotton. The inference in-ference is drawn that the leaking of kero-enu saturated the cotton and generated gases which ignited w hen a lantern was taken intn tho hold. |