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Show News of the World St. Paul, Nov. 16.-A bulletin to the Pioneer Press St. Peter says: The number of lives lost by burning and freezing in the insane asylum are variously estimated at from 20 to 50. The loss on the building is $200,000. A special dated at ? says: The scenes at the burning of the south wing of the hospital were ?rending in the extreme. So appalling a sight has rarely been witnessed and I trust may never be again. The patients in the annexed wing were females. Many of them refused to leave the building at all. They ran up and down the halls screaming and crying and acting like wild animals. They could not be coaxed or forced out of the building, and became unhappy victims of the flames. Others were saved, some by stairs, some by jumping from windows. Some were nearly ? some shoeless and listless, and all were exposed to the exceeding cold of the night. Many of the poor demented and crazed females fled for their lives and cold not to be overtaken or confined. There sufferings in this frightful condition can better be imagined than described. The whole catastrophe is fearful to contemplate and impossible to describe. The poor dazed inmates of the asylum who had escaped the flames were at large, half clothed, and were to be seen in all directions dying in wild fright from those who intended to save them. The air was bitter cold, and the poor wretches with half naked bodies and bleeding feet were flying about hiding in alleys and dark corners. It was a sight when once seen never to be forgotten. For some time the capacity of the building has been tried to the utmost. There were about 600 patients, and every inch of space was utilized. What will be done with these poor creatures, turned out in the cold and their malady increased by the excitement of the occasion, is a serious question. There are two other buildings situated in town which are used, but they are already crowded to there full capacity. The asylum at Rochester is full and will doubtless be unable to provide accommodations for any of the inmates of St. Peter. All the terror and excitement. To get a complete list of those killed and hurt is not now among the possibilities. Dr. Bartlett, of the asylum, says there are not more than twelve lives lost, and probably many more hurt and suffering from the bitter cold of the night. More people are believed to be hurt and dying from exposure to the weather than from burns. Others say as many as twenty insane people either perished in the flames or died on the cold hills during the night. So many of the patients have disappeared it cannot be told who are dead and who have run away. The suffering has been terrible, and no one can describe or human mind realize. Hundreds of patients are as helpless as children. Governor Pillsbury heads a band of workers, who are doing everything possible for the comfort of the distressed. Mr. Carson of Minneapolis, has found the dead boy of his father-in-law, Mr. Abrams, and will have it removed to Minneapolis. The real damage to the hospital building will amount to $200,000. The centre building and south wing have been preserved. New York, Nov. 19-Professor J.S. Newberry read before the National Academy of Sciences, yesterday, a lengthy account of the enormously extensive mines of iron and coal veins in Utah. He said: This iron ore is without a rival, and the territory possesses not far from these farraginous beds 4,000 square miles of coal veins, that are equal to any in Illinois. Copper, sulpher, salt, nitrate, asphalts, mercury and antimony are plentiful. The antimony mines, ? miles south from Salt Lake City, on the line through which the railroad is about to pass, are the most remarkable of their kind in the world, and could surely be worked to great advantage. San Francisco, Nov. 18.-A dispatch from Candalaria, Nevada, says John C. Calhoun, nephew of the late South Carolina senator of the same name is insane and imagines himself to be Jesus Christ. A wound received in the war is the cause of his insanity. New York, Nov. 18-A meeting was held last night at the residence of C. P. Huntington in compliance with and understanding arrived at the dinner exactly given in this city by Romero, at which a committee was appointed to consider the best means of facilitating this ? and ? railway company ? with Mexico, General Palmer being detained in Colorado, the following members of the committee were present: chairman, General Grant: Romero, C.P. Huntington, General G. ? Dodge, Jay Gould, C.P W?, Edward Adamx, Thomas Nikkerson, Jefferson Coolidge, and J.H. Wor? Presided and a very full discussion was held, of the whole subject in which Nickerson, Huntington and Gould chiefly participated in forming a new and adequate scheme for establishing railway communication on an adequate scale, not only between this country and Mexico, but throughout the Mexican republic. After a full expression of views of those present, a motion was made that the ? of the meeting be taken as to the availability of a complete fusion of interests represented on some general and satisfactory ?. this was unanimously carried. Adams, of the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co., then moved that a subcommittee be appointed for the purpose of devising some plans by which they might be attained and justice done to all interest represented. The motion was called and the following gentlemen were named as members of the committee: General Grant, chairman: Nickerson, Wuer?offer, Adams, Crocket, Coolidge and General Dodge. This sub-committee is to meet to-day and will proceed to action at once. Philadelphia, Nov. 19.-The press, this morning: Though Jay Gould denies that an engagement has been entered into for the consolidation of the Union and Central Pacific Railroad Companies, there is no doubt that efforts are being made to that end, with every probability that they will prove successful. The Northern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe will be vigilant competitors of the colossal combination of Gould, Huntington & Co. (unreadable) Santa Fe will be felt at every point. It (unreadable) in California, and a branch to Guaymas, which company will obtain the grant and take the risk of constructing a branch road to the city of Mexico. It is still uncertain, though such a line is within the scheme of both, while public interest would undoubtedly be best served by having the Southern and Central Pacific roads rivals instead of allies. California will be ? against what would otherwise be a gigantic monopoly, so long as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe retains its present independence and enterprise. |