New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-11
A Series of Calamities in New York.

A series of calamities occurred in New York
on Friday, the lst inst, involving the loss of
fourteen lives, the manning of as many more,
and the destruction Of large amount of prop
erty
The first was the explosion of one of the boiler
tiues of the steamer New World. as she was about
to leave for Albany, at o'clock in the morning.
By this accident Eli Buel, John Reid, John Dom
| nelly, Joseph Fosdick, James Porter, John J.
Monks, fremen, were SO badly scnlded as to
cause their deaths; and John Foster, waiter, in
his fright, jumped overheard and was drowned.
Washington Hawes, the chef engineer, and Ed
ward Martin, deck hand, were badly scalded,
| and several others slightly
The fire in the morning, which resulted in
John Gushing being burnt to death, and Sophia
= ,aly bling killed by jumping from fourth
story window, was at the bakery Of James Don
negan, which was entirely destroyed. Two en-
ire families came near perishing in the flames.
| They We're compelled to leap from fourth story
| windcw.
On the same morning little child of John
oberhuber fell into pot Of coffee, by which it
i was sealded to death,
q But the most serious calamity of the day en-
\ sued trcn a violent hai-storm. accompanied by
! lightning and high wind which passed over
/ the upper section of the city between five and
I sS O'Clock i'll the afternoon, and lasting about
Z half an hour, The hail-stones pieces of ice,
i rs they are represented, were of extraordinary
4 see, and clattered down upon the roofs of the
houses like shower of hrickbats. 1t is said
4 the shipyard of Mr. Thomas Collyer, at the Dry
Dock, was covered with irregulariy shaped pieces
\ Of ice, large clusters Of hailstones. Several
of them were measured, one of which was 81
inches in circumference, another ! inches. and
n Il third measured inches long and inches
j thick The Inhabitants Of house in Wayerley
q Place were startled by a solid body falling in
- ,, front yard and on proceeding there found
\ lumber of pieces Of ice, which appeared to
size been originally one piece broken by the
" When together they would weigh about
Bb pounds The garden st the back Of the
=, rinse had also A large number OF pieces Of ice
y Uttered over it, and a skylght at the top Of
Ilse was smlshed by the hailstoues. piece
lice fell on the pavement before gentleml IN
ludlow Of the s-ze uf mans fist, followed by
ne much larger, which, however, broke into
fragments when it struck the ground. The
-trre of the hailstones broke several skylghts,
ssaud after the ice balls had Ian some time, and
were considerably dissolved, a hat full could be
i tHken up averaging the size If hens eggs. The
Commercial says;
seen and heard in thhe place, we witnessed at
the CRYSTAL Palace. Aaout ten minutes after
the storm burst the most terrific hailstones we
ever saw began to rattle IKE discharges ot mus
4etryupou the tin roofand glass sites Some ofthe
; masses of &c were as lar se as hens eggs There
were probably thousand excited workmen il
the building, and 9, oil many exhibitors nnt
visitors, aunong whom were solue twenty ladies
; , portion If the frame work fthe addition mex
to Forty Second street went down with terri
5 ble crash, and part of the brick wall of tn
engine house on the opposite side of the street
I was blown over, crushing TWO or three shanties
II fortunately without any other injury than dri
l. wing the occupants out into the storm.
Une of the editors of the Tribune, who hap
2 pened to be in the vicinity, and took refuge i
,s the building during the storm, says;
D. We had scarcely passed the northern entrane
c. and reached the gallery by the nearest flight {
or steps. when the torrent-,t was not rain, hut q
avalanche of water-struck the building II
ne cutters were filled on the wndward side in