| Show TO twe THE TH DESERET NEWS y rh rolt moli T BUTTER creem CREEK 27 the fire in the badger shaft of the amador mine was completely extinguished by two wo this evening the damage ia is very trifling mg and limited to the spot where it broke e out sixty feet from the surface the necessary repairs are now being made the shaft has not been used lately for any other purpose than of hoisting water the cause of the fire a appeared tp p eared unaccountable steinberge i the superintendent believes it to be the result of accident As the top man has been in the habit of throwing asheh into the water buckets for the purpose of stopping leaks it is supposed that in taking the ashes from under the boiler and throwing them anto the buckets some of them may have fallen into the shaft and alighted between the timbers the suspicions of its having been the work of an incendiary are altogether dispelled matters in general are quiet and peaceable and there are no indications at present of its being otherwise fears and anticipations of evil are merely the natural products of the present diseased condition of the public mind charitable views of the expressions by both sides will do more toward restoring t confidence than any other agency the main difficulty now rests between the league and the keystone minin mining company which undoubtedly failed to ta comply with the terms of the agreement which terminated the last strike the body of hugh will i be buried at 3 in the roman koman catholic cemetery his remains will be toe escorted to the grave by the miners mineral labor league the body of E W hatch 1 late clerk of the amador mine will be buried tomorrow to morrow in sutter butler creek county escorted by odd fellows james bennett foreman of the amador mine who shot hugh one of the rioters is in san francisco his statement of the tragedy and attending events is published in full fall it goes to show that he acted wholly in self defence and that he left the country only to save his life which was threatened by armed leaguers who searched everywhere for him declaring their intention to kill him on sight while he be was satisfied that no adequate protection could be expected from lne lae the local authorities tucson 22 intelligence has been received of an attack by indians on the beef herd at camp bowie on the dinst the indians were very bold and came right in the military reservation within gun shot of the parade ground while the herd was drinking at the spring springs the butcher D mcdongal mcdougal was killed also a mexican nearly all the troops in the mountains and general crook and command had gone northward a few days previous of which the indians must have been advised drew and a newmen few men at the fort with a few laborers made a gallant fight and killed and wounded several indians but the latest accounts state that they lad had had recovered none of the stock A sergeant wounded and a couple of horses killed constitutes the loss on our side W A tuttle known about oakland and san francisco francisco en ia la the fight and was slightly wounded NEW yorm YORK 29 canada is in a ferment over the proposed ratification of the treaty of washington by the domin ion lon parliament parl wani lament the anti ministerial press opposes the treaty vehemently and sir john macdonald is roundly abused and yet according to evidently well informed correspondents indications are favorable for prompt ratification somme borne of the nova scotia and new brunswick papers talk strongly in favor of annexation to the united states the st john jjohn globe is of opinion that two representatives from new brunswick in the senate at washington would be of far more importance to them than the two members they have in the body at ottawa A A special washington dispatch says it now transpires that the california trip which the newspapers have so long advertised the president was raj rag about to make is not to be made at all whatever ev ef intention with regard thereto he mayi mayl have had is now abandoned for this year yean ar at least it is possible that Mrs Grant and a portion of the tho famil family V iol lol may mas y make the trip when they leave cleave long iong branch special cable dispatches add little to the information of the dreadful famine in integrals InTe persia rain rals the drouth last year in the centi central rii ril and southern province sand quent partial failure of crop crops s caused great destitution and misery mlee kinli all nil i t 1 n i y I 1 ts the winter at the same time the taxes were increased on the people which brought anthe on the famine causing many to leave their homes and a consequent decline in the taxes to the government the new governor promised to raise not only the usual bum sum but still more and this oppression drove the rest of the country people from their homes and thronged thron ged cities with people who pay no taxes the failure of the crops in lariston was rendered more disastrous be cause the other provinces which h mostly y raise opium cotton and silk depended on it for the results in Is kirman and shiraz were terrible wheat at kirman rose to nine times tho usual price and then starvation began raises opium the people could buy no grain and they ate grass and roots in khorasan the people sold their children to Tur comans to save their lives and in other provinces people ate their children having eaten all their domestic animals and even vermin in isfahan men were caught digging up corpses to feed their starving families and pestilence in consequence committed fearful ravages one half of persia is said to be de populated LONG BRANCH president grant and family will remain here at his cot tage tago the remainder of the season and will on leaving here proceed to washington the president haq abandoned his trip to the west and california he has been advised by general sheridan and sherman and many others that it ls ld is 14 now too late in the season for a satisfactory facto ry visit through the west as the crops have been gathered and the country aryis is in iq a bare condition con eluded to postpone his trip until the latter part of spring A charge is made by the tammany democrats that the republican mem bers berg of the legislature have been in the habit of receiving money annually for the support given by the legislative measures of democrats and that in this way the city government has baa been enabled to s secure the passage of money appropriations which became necessary to unjust expenditures caused by the he speculations of the city authorities there thele is reliable authority for stating that bat a permanent and inauen influential be re publican was recently shown the private accounts of the comptrollers of lee fice containing disbursements made to republican legislators and others in this his manner he was informed ii 16 was contemplated publishing a list of names with amounts paid of cans who had been subsidized as there bait could be seen how some monies improperly paid out were disposed of in n consequence it is alleged ghere here is some excitement among that elass class of republicans whom these developments implicate mp licate I 1 A prominent city tzemal iclal ff who saw the government employee emp loyes toyes yes yea at work yesterday at the times office addressing wrappers for thab that journal assert that some bome of the men are now and have lave been for some time past in the pay ay roll of the city government NEW YORK YOEK 80 30 the staten island ferry erry boat westfield when crowded with passengers exploded exploded her boiler at 20 20 today to day in the the slip at white hall the che concussion was terrific shattering the he forward part of the boat and killing and scalding a great number of people eople the hurricane deck was carries carried over board ward and a large number of persons fell into the water wafer and were drowned the entire number lost is supposed to be one hundred and fifty men were struck dumb at their loss of wives and ittle little ones women were distracted at having lost their husbands and children while little children were crying for fon or their parents who were lost the front of the boiler was suddenly blown out lodging in the bow thirty feet distant the forward part of the boat and upper cabin were instantly shattered an and nd split into a thousand pieces As an eye witness expressed it the forward part of the boat was lifted fifty feet in 14 the air the smoke stack fell and then everything was buried burled in the hold pas chairs stools horses benches and life preservers were dropped into the hold fronting the huge boiler which poured out a volume of steam many persons were blown overt overboard oard A father and mother had their children blown from their arms the water in an instant was alive with men women and children struggling for life the after part of the boat which has escaped the force of the explosion would have been safe for the uninjured but th the 9 panic stricken people leaped overboard without regard to consequences captain willman of the new street police hearing of the explosion was promptly on hand and the fire alarm was sounded dr br strew was at the scene within ten minutes well provided with medicines and bandages cool and collected I 1 V elo eco LO I 1 i t 1 f k and saved several lives by hia hla prudence within twenty minutes additional about the boat disaster inspector jannes was present I 1 dirge directing ting the police and keeping back the multitude I 1 many mally persons were drowned the harbor police boat came to the res cue and a gentleman who was in one of the rowboats row boats near the battery saved several lives A fireman also went to the rescue and right bravely did he work the debris in the fore part of the hold was removed the cries of the poor half boiled victims were hearthen heart rendering aa as stimulants were given them gained their breath and oil was poured upon their bums burns aa fast as the wounded recovered they were borne to the lick liick another ferry boat and moved along side where they were tenderly cared for by doctor within twenty minutes ambulances from the centre street hospital were at white hall and the scalded victims placed in them and driven to the hospital at full speed private carriages and express wagons were brought into requisition the insurance patrol wagon bore several loads of moaning meaning human beings to the hospital some died on the way and many others were delirious with pain one ambulance was filled with children whose cries were most touching and whose whole faces were swelled beyond recognition and their little feet and legs crooked and their muscles laid bare by four seventy wounded persons had bad been received in the central street hospital and five died within an hour the scenes were heartrending heart rending so far as known twenty one persons er ons were killed hilled nearly outright arons many any auy of those who were in the water clung to the piles until rescued but others sank before aid could reach them thern thirty five nive persons must have been killed and drowned this is based on the lowest estimate the wounded will reach many were placed in carriages and driven to houses the drug stores in the neighborhood we refIlled were filled among the injured was sheriff malden maiden of brooklyn one thousand five hundred persons gathered at the battery within an hour after the explosion john magell pilot was thrown forward from the pilot house twenty feet into the tho air falling on the boat and escaping without a scratch john freeland captain and harry robinson engineer the latter js a colored man and the indignation of the passengers against him is tremendous though his friends claim he was not t to blame the boiler was waa inspected by the united states boiler inspector on the of june and pronounced safe safo robinson the engineer makell makes the following statement 1 I live in stapleton staten island and am abut forty yearb years old I 1 have been engi engl engineer for twenty years yeara and have been employed by the company for sixteen years I 1 lave a certificate and passed examina examination ton I 1 did not bring the certificate to the company as they did not require one on the ferry I 1 had entire charge of the westfield esfield boat there chete is a half house between the regular trips on sundays I 1 was on the boat when the explosion took place and bad just jusk come off the deck it was then twenty five minutes past one I 1 went down into the fire room one of the engineers patrick vinne inne gan was in the room I 1 said patrick how is the water he replied all right at this time I 1 approached the boiler and tried the third cock and found the water touched it the boiler boller has only three cocks I 1 then went up to the engine room and I 1 found that the th boiler carried twenty nine pounds of steam I 1 then went on decu deck and ind two minu minn minutes tesi after went again on the boat and into the pilot house the captain was wab wai wak in id there it tt the time just as I 1 was goin down stairs into the engine room rodra the explosion took place tho the boiler has been in lit use nine years yeara and was considered good I 1 cannot say what caused the explosion the boiler had bad a patch in the cylinder when the explosion occurred the boiler was overhauled last winter in fact the boilers of both the westfield field fieldie were wore examined the patch last thursday seemed to be in very good condition I 1 went on duty at twelve noon and relieved robert brown 11 robinson appeared perfectly sober he gave his statement of affairs in a cool and collected manner additional abo about the explosion new york midnight the total number of killed to this hour is thirty one of whom only professor march match cheveres Cl everes of brooklyn john J beck N Y J J johnson brooklyn matilda morl MORI I 1 N Y nellie groom glat giat fiat flat bush louise L lassas have been of the unknown dead now in the hospital and station houses sw awaiting alting tion are twelve men six women and six boys and girls generally under twe twelve I 1 ve yearb years the number severely wounded whose names and residences have been ascertained is about he venty ai A large number of those less lees seriously injured have been removed and are cared for by friends none of the officers or employed emp loyes of the thua thus far reported are among the su sunner afa r y oss ess fm later am in the beiley belley hospital at 12 A four bodies in com coffi flins ins and ten on 0 O alibi V presenting the appearance of hi having been frightfully scalded large patches of skin were torn off in many places since nine there died iier in tui tum tue the e f t hospital fanny randall bandall of the ath avenue margaret caroline blank a child of two years who was frightfully w burned christopher hauch and wife blank ullman sarah phillips a baby three unknown men and one unknown mm woman and mathew mahoney and john gerrity both of brooklyn the surgeons at the different hospi hospitals fiLls say rhy that the majority of those in their charge will die an immense crowd estimated at is congregated around the bellvue hospital and a like crown around the park hospital ig i the excitement in lower brooklyn 4 and staten island is intense 1 the lit ili streets are thronged thron ged with an anxious crowd extras were issued at 8 pm from the asun sun and times offices with full particulars tio tic ulars of the affair one of the two firemen on ithe he west field robert nobert crauson was in the fire room at the time of the explosion he says that fifteen minutes before the accident he was ras vas on the head 0 of f the cylinder wiping omi oti offhand arid azid then wont went anto one of the gabins cabins for water thence into the fire room and while shile J 5 there he heard a hissing noise proceed ing from the rear of the boiler and went to see the cause he had gone but half the tho length ortho he be found the steam so dense |
