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THE,BUR.ATING OF THE AUSTRIA.

STEAMER.

(From the -Yew york, Times of Sept. 30.)

The following detailed statement of Mr. Alfred
Vezin, of Philadelphia, one of the first cabin pas-
sengers, who lost his mother and two sisters by
the disaster, gives full patticulars of the catas-
trophe :

" Mr. Vezin's first intimation of danger was about
2 p.m., when several of the second-class passengers
rushed towards the stern of the boat, crying Fire!
fire ! He was engaged at the time in a game of
shuttlecock with some of his associates, who, with
himself, were at first inclined to believe that the
alarm was false. On looking round, however, they
saw a dense volume of smoke issuing from.the main
hatchway, which did not materially change their
opinion, as they concluded that the smoke was
occasioned by a back draught in the smoke-stack.
Mr. Vezin, with a few others, immediately
attempted to allay the fears of the excited women
and children, but without success, for scarcely 15
minutes elapsed from the time of the alarm before
the flames darted out from the amidships, in the
vicinity of the wheelhouse. Scarcely 20 minutes
after the fire broke out all communication from the
after part of the ship, where Mr. Vezin was, to the
fore • part was prevented by fire. Thereafter all
discipline was ended, the captain and fourth officer
being among the foremost to follow the instinct of
self-preservation, by endeavouring to enter the boat
which some of the frenzied passengers had attempted
to lower. Owing to the inexperience of the ma-
jority of those engaged in this attempt the boat,
crowded as she was, did net reach the water suc-
eessfully. The stern-tackle was let go by the
run,' and many of the -wretched people were jerked
out of her and never seen again. Captain Heydt-
mann, who had apparently lost all presence of mind
after the announcement of the 'accident, was cl'ng-
in g, to the tackle of this boat when the stern touched
the water, and got on board of her safely. Presently
the bow was lowered, 'but as the steamer was'pass-
ing rapidly ahead—the engines were working at
this tine----.the small boat was struck by the screw,
stove, and all' thew on board, it is believed were
drowned. •

"Ori the deck of the burning-Ship at this time the
utmost -confusion prevailed. Some men and women
palsied with fear, and aghast at the sudden calamity,
made no effort to preserve themselves or their fel-
loWs, and silly moved when the limes scorched
them. , Others or the passengers dart'etlqiere and
there---7inothers seeking their little_oneS', husbands
their wives, crying and imploring aid:An effort -4as
made, however, on the part of the more Self-posseSsed
to extinguish the flames and alleviate the suffer
ings of those in the cabin. Every attempt 'to gain
access below failing, ropes attached to tin pails filled
with. water were procured and lowered through
the hatchway- to the second cabin ; little good Was
accomplished in this way. The pails were emptied
before - they reached the second deck, and every
effort to secure the safety of the vessel was aban-
doned. The man at the wheel, shortly ater-the
fire was discovered, deserted his post;. -and; the
vessel sped threngh the waves head to wind, while
showers--of. sparks and volumes- of Smoke were
wafted by the breeze directly upon the-large num-
ber of men, women,_antchildren who had collected
at the extreme aft-tr part of the ship._
". Two sails'at -this time were observed at a dis-
tancel--mere sp.ecks. in the horizon, and', Ship ahoy!'
was continually: screamed by many of the sufferers,
as though those on board could'immediately answer
their cries. One" of .these ships proied
.to be the
French barque Maurice. She reached the wreck of
the' Austria in about four hours. from the time she
was first observed. Mr. Vezin.worked as long as
he could at 'hauling up the passengers from the
cabin through the skylight, and escued six in this
way,. These reportedthat manyiaj below smothered
by the smoke. His mother and-tivo sisters, one 9
and the-other it years of ageOvere,staliding near
the stern of the ship-when the flames first appeared,
only a few feet from .himself. loft- to-proeure,
if possible, life preserverS for them.' After a7few
minutes he returned with a tinEpreierver, bik on
account of the press of women *and: children, he
could not get nearer than 10. feet to his family
again. He called his mother, and desired-to throNt
the preserver towards her. She refused to take it,'
however, saying it would be of no use, and 'she must
perish. The heat shortly became scrintmsb that
. Mr.:Kukawl, . climb-over the side of the ship,
and he never saw his mother and sisters again. He
clung to a rope which fortunately, hung over the
starboard side, where the first boat had been cut
loose, andheld on there, with his back to the flames
until his clothes were burned. At this juncture
he saw a big black bag floating by, when he
jumped into the water, and after swimming some
'five minutes he reached it. It was filled with cork
doubtless by some one of those on board, who in
some mischance had lost it. with this he floated
for about four hours, when he was picked up by a
boat and taken-on board the Maurice.

"Mr. Velin states thWilie capacity of the Aus-
tria's lifeboats was entirely inadequate for the
number of passengers. There were four metallic
lifeboats and four wooden boats aft, but one of the
latter was burned before the tackling could be cut.
The boats.wire chocked,' and those who cut the
tackling loose did not understand how to lower
them-. They fell down with a crash, and precipi-
tating those on board into the water, and smashing
themselves by coming in contact, with the pro-
peller. One boat contained 15 or 20 women, who
were all drowned. .
" Mr. Hoxie, of New York, formerly a jobbing
merchant, who has been absent about five years,
and whose wife died in Italy a short time ago, got
into one of the wooden boats, at the after part of
the vessel.. This boat was so . far left behind that
the• French barque lost sight of it, although she
sailed about in the vicinity. of the catastrophe all
night.
" Mr. Vezin thinks that the Austria's engines
worked fully an hour after the fire broke out, an d
believes the engineers died in their engine room.
He heard an explosion while-he was in the water,
which he assumed to have been a keg of powder.
It was not very loud. He was one of the last to
leave the after part of the ship. He saw at one
time four or five gentlemen .hanging to a rope over
the propeller. Through fatigue they slipped off
one by one, were drawn under the screw, and
perished. After Mr. Vezin had been picked up by
the small boat he saw Mr. Theodore Eisfeld in the
Water.. Mr. Eisfeld was nearly drowned, just gasp-
ing for breath; when he was taken on board, trans-
ferred to the Maurice, and proceeded in her to
Fayal. The Austria -was poorly supplied with life
preservers ; only six, according to Mr. Vezin, had
been placed in the aft part of the ship, and the pas-
sengers, before they leapt into the sea, provided
themselves with whatever buoyant articlesthey could
procure. Many of the ladies waited until their
cloths took fire before they jumped overboard, while
some,: in parties of two or three, and sometimes
more, clasping. each other's hands, threw themselves
into the water, when they would rise, but quickly
disappear again in the vessel's wake. Other women
stood hesitatingly, until scarcely a particle of
clothing was left on them, before they dared to
leap the 20 feet which separated them from the
waves. Mr. Vezin says the foremast fell about 15
minutes from the time the fire occurred, but the
mizenmast stood until late in the evening. Soon
after he reached the Maurice a boat containing the
first and second: officers, some passengers, and sea-
men—in all libout 20—came alongside. Some of
these stated that from 50 to 60 people were hang-
ing to the chains at the bottom of the ship. It was
nearly dark then, and when the Maurice visited
the wreck next morning not a living soul was to
be seen. Two corpses were hanging in the martini
gale chains.---One" that of a man, the other of a
woman's—with ropes about their necks, which had
probably slipped in that position from their waists,
to Which fastenings had been attached: On board
the Maurice every attention which humanity could
dictate was given to the passengers ; those who
had no clothing were freely supplied with the best
that the scanty wardrobes of the captain and crew
could furnish. The morning succeeding the dis-
aster, 12 of the passengers, including Mr. Vezin,
were transferred to the barque Lotus, and taken
into Yarmouth (N.S.) A. vessel arrived at
Halifax during• his stay there, which reported
that the smouldering hull of the Austria had been
seen by her on the 15th—two days after the
disaster.

" Among the passengers whom Mr. Vezin knew
on board were:—

" 1. Dr. Seldener, of Philadelphia,
" 2. Mr. Brandt, of Chicago.
" 3. Mr. Bogle, of Baton Rouge (La.). Mr.
Vezin states that this gentleman was in the water
close by him, and said to him, Can you swim ? I
can't swim a stoke !' He received an affirmative
answer, when he remarked, ' Should you survive
communicate with my wife, and-inform her how I
died, and say I thought of her to the end.' He
shortly afterwards disappeared in the water.
4. Mr. Mayurie, of Salem, who for some years
had been a merchant on the Coast of Zanzibar.
Vezin hot saw him in thesmoking-room.

Doubtless he was smothered, as none who were in
that room ever appeared on deck after the fire was
discovered.

The following list of those known or supposed to
have been lost is as complete as it is possible at
present to make it :--

64 Mr. Joseph Hope, New York ; Mr. Edward
Bogel, New York.; Mr. Julius Busch, New York ;
Mr. Hermann Sondhesm, New York ; Mrs. Her-
mann Sondheim, New York ; five chilelren of Her-
mann Son dheimNevi YOrki Miss Bridget Laughlin,
New York ; Mr. Carl Nettman, New York ; Mrs.
Julia Ebbinghaus, New York; Miss Ebbinghaus,
New York ; Mr. H. Weissenborn, New York ; Mr.
A. E. Wiedman, New York ; Mr. E. Weisker, New
York ; Mrs. Sophialegel, New York ; child of Mrs.
S. Jegel, New York ;. Mrs. A. M. Starmunt, New
York ; Mr. W. Rosenthal, NeW... York ; Mrs. W.
Rosenthal,. New York; five children of W. Rosen-
thal, -New York ; Miss Lena Mayer, New York ;
Miss Minna Smith, New York ;1 Edward
dorfer, New York ; Mrs. Francesca_ Holz, New
York; Mrs. J. Israel, Piermont, New York ; Clara
Israel, Piermont, New York ; Mr. A. Hespe, New
York; Mrs. Steenkrams, New York ; Mrs. Emily
Vezin, Philadelphia ; Miss Mary Vezin, aged 18,
Philadelphia ; Miss Clara Vezin, aged 8. Phila-
delphia ; Mr. Herinahn Thorbeck, Philadelphia ;
Mr. Gustav Kunz, _Philadelphia , Mr. S. Kitilq.fr,
Minden ; Mr. J. Bogel, New- . Orleans ; Mrs. .sj.
Bogel, New Orleans ; .Miss Albine -Cohn, Broslaw ;
Mrs. Sachs; Potsdam ; Mis 4 Lowenthal and sister-
in-law; , Instrozia ; :two-Misses -Kuttner, St. Louis ;
Mr, Jacob Friendly, Wittelsdorf ; Mr. J. Friendly
Wittelsdorf ; Mr. Wm. Stachel, Cincinnati ; Miss
Hedwig. Dornitzer, Hamburg ; Mr. F. Gorrisson,
Hamburg ; Mrs. F. Gorrison, Hamburg ; Miss
Caroline Howitz, Copenhagen ; Miss Helene Wulf;
Mr. F. Bartels; San Francisco ; Mr. C. :D. Trott,
Zanzibar; Mr. J. B. Massury, Zanzibir3, Mr. Ad.
Hermann, Igelo ; Mrs. Ad. Hermann, Igele ; seven
children- of -Ad: Hermann,, Igelo ; .Miss Therese
Van'
,Mengershausen, Arnsberg ;. Mrs. Anna Pay-
persySt. Louis ; three children of Mrs. Ann Pay-
pers' St.- LOuis ; Miss Maria Iterken, -St. Louis 3
Mr. T. Gerek, Baltimore; the Rev. J. WieliMann,
Baltimore; Mrs. D. Wachmann, .Baltimore MiLs
Wathinann, aged 12, Baltimore ; Myer Wach-
inann,_ Baltimore ; Mr. Meinberg,. Alexandria, _Va ;
Mrs. Reichart and three children, Alexandria; Va ;
Mr. Oppenheim and four children, Posen ; two
Misses Cairo, San Francisco ; Mr. Kayser, San Fran-
cisCo ; Mr. Newman, San Francisco ; Mr. Howitzer,
San Francisco ; Mr. NeNOrick, San Francisco ;
Mr. Victor Milling, Richmond ;- Miss Spott, -Rich-
mond; Va, ; Mr. Louis Wagner,' Baltimore.; Capt.
Heydtmnim, Hainhurg ; Mr. Lengerke, fourth .
officer, germany ; Wohlers, purser, Germafiy ;
and Mr.- Von Morgenstern,- first engineer, Ger-
Many: _ .

" fhe;list of the lost comprises only 103 persons,
making, with the 6,8 saved,-171 persons accounted
for. There are supposed to ,have been 560 persons
on board, and they may be classed as follows :--
" Know to be saved • 68
Lost, whdse names are known.. .103
Lost, whose names are unknown 389

Total
Total number lost

560
492"

THE FIRE IN THE PAGE BANK -P1.7:

WILLINGTON, NEAR DURHAM,
• WEDNESDAY. •

•
Mr. W. D. Trotter, .one of the South Durham
coroners, having :the day after the occurrence
formally opened the inquest on the bodies of the
10 pitmen killed in the Page' Bank Pit on the Ist
inst.", by the fire that broke out there, and. thedad-
journed it, resumed the inquiry in this village this
morning. The room was crowded by parties inte-
rested in :thine-s,. among whom were Mr. M. Dunn
and Mr. Atkinson, Government inspectors ; Mr.
Tiplady, the . agent to the colliery company ; Mr.
Foster, viewer, and several miners.• • -

Mr. Tipliidy, solicitor, of Durham, appeared
.te
watch the case on behalf of the colliery company.
The first witness examined was,

Mr. Johnson, viewer of the colliery, who pro-
duced a Oen Sectidn'Of the pit: The pit shaft,
he said, Was 12 feet .6 in diameter, divided. iuto
three equal parts, one being the,downea,st, the other
two upcasts ; - one of the upcists was the engine
Shaft, the second an upcast' from- the bottom from
L2O fathoms; then through a drift'to the staple,'nf
seven feet-diameter, up to the staple near the sur-
face, and along a drift up a . chimney 45 feet high,
where it escapes. The air goes down a downcast or
coal drawing shaft. The pit is secured •by plank
tubbing of 30 fathoms, and then three fathoms of
metal tubbing from there to the bottom of the strata
being good stands without support. ' The main
brattice running from side to side of the pit, sepa-
rates one of the upcasts from the downcasts from
top to bottom. The -quarter brattice corn the cen-
tre to the Main at right angles commences at 23
fathoms from the surface and goes to the bottom.
At the-top of. the .quarter brattice -there is a "cap
head" conveying the air through, the drifts. At the
bottom of the quarter brattice there is a scaffold
similar to the cap head, between the furnace head
and the bottom of the shaft.. It is to prevent the
downcast air getting into the upcast shaft. In
sinking the pit a blower of gas was met at 12
fathoms, extending round the whole of the shaft.
An accident was occasioned at that time by its
firing, by which the master sinker was
killed. The plank tubbing from the surface
was put in for collecting and securing
this gas, and metal pipes and gas boxes were
put through the tubbing and brought up the shaft,
30 feet above the surface. It was quite successful, so
far as he had seen. At the depth of 28 fathoms
there was a slight discharge of gas, occasionally
seen at the time of sinking, that was also secured
by plank tubbing and a pipe into the upcast drift.
In the well, in which there must always be water,
a pipe was inserted,- which went down the shaft to
the cap head, and into a box at the under side of
the cap head, and then into a horizontal box the
whole length of the water brattice, in which were
holes for distributing the water over the whole of
that brattice. The engine feed was supplied from
a point at a great elevation. The pond was always
full of water. At the time of the accident there was
from four to five feet depth of water in the pond.
The water was seven feet deep in the feed. The

pipe cannot be stopped up, as there arc seven feet
water, -and it is closed over the top. If it was
stopped up at all it would show itself immediately.
There was another supply of water from the sur-
face: It went loose down the wall sides of the pit
on to the tap head. By a ledge at the cap head it
distributed itself over the other side of the quarter
brattice. In one of the upcasts they had waste
water from the pumps, which kept the shaft con-
stantly wet. The water from rings in the sha:l,
being waste from the shaft, got to this pai t, of the
brattice, and ran through it at the ends and kept
it wet. The furnace drift is three fathoms from the
bottom of the pit. The furnace drift was eight feet
wide in the centre. A bye-drift at the south-east
side of it was a .separate ventilating drift; they
both entered the shaft together. Part of the heated
air went over the surface, and the cool air by the
bye-drift. About one-half of the heated air would
pass over the furnace and the other under ; about
equal quantities. On the north-west side of the
furnace drift was a travelling way, which had two
doors, separating the downcast from the upcast air.
The furnace was 30 yards distant from the shaft.
It was only a five-feet furnace—five feet wide, the
bars six feet long. It was eight feet six inches deep.

Mr. Atkinson—Was at the pit with the inspec-
tor in July last, when they discussed the general
arrangements of the mine. He (witness) sug-
gested the propriety of driving a new drift 100
yards from the bottom of staple to the seam of
coals, to form a separate outlet to the surface. Mr.
Atkinson agreed to it, and it Was immediately com-
menced, •and carried on to the time of the accident.
The staple was tubbed with plank tubbing from
top to bottom. The workings extended :over
80 acres. The volume of air passing through them
was 23,500 feet per minute. The whole of the
workings are in the township of Stocklev.
John Mould, overman at the pit, went down it on
the morning' of the 30th of September, at 2 o'clock,
with David- Bollam, John Waller, and George Rob-
son, deputies. A stone workman, named Jas.Stod-
dart, came down after them. His and the deputies'
duties were. to see that the pit was all right. It was
all right on that morning. He and the deputies went
through all of the workings. After they had. gone
through they met near the furnace. The three depu-
ties reported " All right." The Page Bank people
came down about half-past 2 ; they were followed by
the Spennymoor men at three ; the boys came at
six.• He went up the shaft before the . boys came
down. Stones were drawn up between two and six.
Coal was not drawn until the boys came down.
Remained at the bank a quarter of an hour, and
then descended. Remained there until one of the
heS towdednatrtn a: Ob-
served ilh
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deceased men (Kellett) came down to him. The
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name of the ossetter was George Sherata
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shaftsix.. andHe relievedbratt
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