New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-06

Some fifty persons were killed day before yester
dsy IN this City under circumstances Of the most
shocking character, and many more suffered ser.
Gus personal injury We remember many painful
disasters Of similar character. bat none more
hesrtreDding than this
An event Of this kind, 50 sudden, 80 cruelty fatal
where such number Of human beings were n q
moment flung, nDtilated and bleeding. INTO vast
Pile q burning ruins those whom the cTusa had
spared perishing more slowly by FIRE or cold o'
the gradual settling Of the superintendent mas.
vhcre many family was beroaved Of father 81
son or brother. whose love was - life, aud whose
lab<r rs sole support cannot be dismissed aoh-
with the ordinary casualties # daily occurrence
III, vain % say that this was IN accident diner
inc from others only by is magnitude II Is vain !"
ssy that there Is colpsbIity connected WIN -,
exceut after an investigation OF such extreme
,borooshDes. and rgor that not tho least fac; con
Dected with the explosion is causes aud a,cesso
res, can remain in the smallest doubt No hyPota
esis, 10 speculation. no probability VIII be sassiac
tors or can lie permitted to stand. The pubic mus
have the most minute information as 10 the whole
matter arrived OF too by process far more severe
than the ordinary examination II Coroner
Jary.
We have lad IN tbs country too much 81 mere
formally. too many white washing veTdlcts on &C
easiors like tie present, The chief bos.ness
Coroners end their Juries seems 20 have been not
to find ont the guilty party in great dlsaster o1'
70 End that nobody was guilty at al nOt 10 sno"
forth the facts ss they were, but 10 throw Over
them the veil OF osicisl apology, and hide them 10
the obscurisy O fictitious indifference. The conse
oaenoe is tina, life is reckoned Of tritlmg worth.
and the existence Of hundreds is daily naked with
carelessness most culpabie. There IS no civuizeo
nation under heaven In which death by explosions
fire. and Railroad accidents is passed by with sucl
caIousness as by Americans The low vaIue We
set ON life hiss become provcrb al IN other counte,
An Inquest on the causes Of the Hague 81 expo
son commences thus morning. We trust that II
NAV be not new instance Of the noinvestigutiol
process. but a spe,imen of what 10 due in the cas-
OF every fatal calamity and especially IN ono S
dreadful and destructive az this. Let as take 50.
example the English, who In their care OF life az,
most laudably OppOsites. and who often hold ~
inquest OF N week with half hundred witness
10 determine the nature of the accident by whid
a single dead man met his fate. Here are int
dead dead by some cause. The Inevitsblc cor
clusion Of tie mind is that there is blame gull
somew here for csrelsssness is guilt in such cas-.
as this That conclusion it is the Coroners dut.
to confirm or remove His Office admits neithc
fear nor favor He must tell us whether the e.
ploded boiler was fit suspected to be unit for II
use whether the engineer was competent o.
known tn bo incompetent; whether the bnidmi
was erected with view 20 hold machinery. a.,
was or was not unsafe after 1t became 50 occupied
These questions must be answered with all that
impartial Justice which is required not only by ihc
greatness of this aicton, but by the public ssic,
for tho future
Meanwhile one practical deduction must SUI
gest itself 70 every mind. The law requiun.
steamboat boilers ~ he inspected must be exiende
to the boilers Of ali stationary engines. Had al
Inspectors certificate been necessary before III,
Hague ST engine could be put in motion, 1t Is prob
bic that this murdcous explosion would not have
hapDened