New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-28
NUMBER j N. 9s,

DE6INbIEINE TJHE--TkJkY 4UDNJuHn ltok- II y
lars Lost.-About two o'clock on Thursday i
morning fire broke out in the second story Of q
the wholesale grocery and liquor store Of Gray
{, Brown, ON Main street, near the corner Of =
Second, and soon after the entire building was
wrapt in flames. The firemen llastened to the I
scene with alacrity, but we're unable to prevent
The utter destruction Of the store, together with
the adjoining house Of Huston h Milton on the .
one side, and the partial burning Of the house /
Of Captain VIM. Gay, on the other. The heat
was intense, and the flames spread with une1- ]
ampled rapidity.
The loss Of Gray L Brown is between 40 900
and s13 600 which was fully insured as follows
Franklin 5000, Marine 5000, Sinton's Agency
$4,000. Their loss embraced $50 bids sugar,
so bags coffee, considerable quantity OF teas,
spices, and quantity Of nolasses and whisky.
Messrs. Huston s. Milton are commission and
merchants, and had large amount
of bagging and rope, bacon, hemp, ETC., and
manufactured articles Some 500
kegs Of nails, 150 bales Of hemp, 400 kegs lard,
600 coils Of rope, and considerable quantities of
glass and other articles were consumed. They
were insured at Muir's Agency for SIS 600, and
the Madison Office for $4,000, which will no
doubt cover all their losses.
Captain VIM. Gay. occupying the house ad-
joining Gray s. Brown, was in imminent peril
of being burnt out several times, but thanks to I
the indomitable energy Of the fiSemen. his store
was saved, together with its contents. His roof
was burnt OFF, and the entire building was
flooded with water, which greatly damaged his
stock Of groceries. bagging and rope, etc, Of
which the store was full. His loss will be some
5000 or $4,000, all covered by insurance
The buildings consumed wore the property
of John I, Gray, which were insured for six
thousand dollars.
The stores Of scally & Clarke and E j Mar
tin & Co., adjoining the buildings burned. were
somewhat damaged, both by fire and water.
Louisville Courier, 18th.
THE RECENT LOCOMOTIVE ExPLosIos.-A cor
respondent Of the New York Tribune gives the
following details Of the recent fatal accident re-
sulting from the explosion Of a locomotive on the
New York and Erie Railroad:
This (Thursdayl evening, between seven and
eight o'clock, engine No. 58--an old eight-Mheel
driver, used in helping the freight trains over
the hill-expioded in the rock-cut between the
Susquehanna depot and Lanesboro' about half
a mile from Conewacta bridge. Ilearn from
| those who saw her start few moments before
from the station at this place, to push up the
hill that her tender was literally covered with
passengers going to the summit. Five are
known to have been killed instantly, viz Two
women, Mrs Catherine stateoly and Mrs Cath
crime O'Day, and three men, Walter B. Arnold,
engineer, Michael Casey and Patrick Caron.
Arnold's head was blown on the rocks en- the
another direction. The countenance was still
as natural as life. His little son-a lad Of l3-
recognized it and exclaimed, s'Oh there's my
fathern' He ran to embrace it, The head
dropped from the rocks, and the brains fell in
his hands. The headless bodies Of the two
women lay blackened and mangled . few rods
} from the engine. Their husbands lived at the
g Summit The bodies Of the two other men
> lay torn and scaIded a short distance from the
: tender.
l Six are known to be wounded, viz Gilbert
e Hill, fireman, slightly. A son of Walter Ar
e mold, engineer, now deranged; injuries abou
r the head and neck; may recover. Miss Eliz;
$ stoddard, arm blown off and otherwise injured
S has just had the stump of the arm amputatet
n by Drs. Smith and Fisher of this place: recoT
e cry doubtful. Mrs. John Collins has leg in
7 jured SO that the bones are coming out, an
Q hand and arm torn badly. Her husband, VIII
i had left her, and of whom she was in search q
% the time, utterly refuses to have amputatiol
s. performed She will probably die tomorrow o
n next day a number Of others sligbtl
: wounded, and it is fearful number were Blow
: into the Susquehanna river, as it is but fey
rods from the scene Of the explosion. and run
t so rapidly us to carry them away in a fey
It minutes
: The cause of the accident cannot in all proba
l. bility be ascertained. Arnold, the engineer
d has the reputation of being careful and strict
= in the boiler at tie time she left the station
:. IS was an engine which had been in constan
: use three or four years. Yesterday was IN sho]
}, for repairs of smoke-pipe. A post mortem ex
: animation has been held by Justice Seymour
j. Verdict-Death by accidental explosion of boile
a of engine 5s. No blame attached to any perso
o driving the machine; nor could it be seen tha
e the boiler was in any way defective
Is SOMETHING TO THINK oF.-The n. Y Courier
IS under this significant head, refers to the enol
ss nous amount of crime committed in that cit,
TO 1t amounts in number to much all the citit
Of England put together, and in atrocity far 9,
t, ceeds it, The total number of commitments ft
vt all kinds of offences in England and Wales d,
er ring the last seven years 1874 ,424; the tot
I'd number of arrests in New York during the san
y period was over 100000! The New York poll,
I'd tables refer only to arrests, those Of Englar
only to commitments Many are arrested wi
to are not committed or bound over for trial, bl
& their number is by no means so great MS to d
ce stroy the remarkable significance Of the abo,
at figures. In New York, within the last yea
" seven executions for capital cases have occurre
tn In all England and Wales, for the same perio
there We're only nine; and yet the population
MS the latter is nearly thirty times great til
ng of New York. This disparity cannot be a
or cribed to any peculiar character of cur peopl
Tor for the greater part Of the criminality sprin
@ from the 1orelgn' element OF our populatlon.
the seven murderers above specified, six Of thu
l.t lE were foreigners; one being German, thl
y Irish, one English, and one Nova Scotian, a
eMs the seventh, though born in New York, was
~ = Irish parentage. The Courier says:
VI 1.-The same people that chiefly commit
l,s crime here are found in vast numbers in eve
,e- y English city. Why, then, the difference in
la- VI extent of that crime This question does
~ admit Of either q ready or brief answer. I
om causes which produce this result are various q
lg complex. some Of which we may consider hel
.nt after. The most important Of them are doul
onl less the comparative ineficiency of our police
M preventing crime, tho comparative uncertain
=. Of our courts in furnishing crime. the neglect
81 ~ our young yagrant population, and the "
l lhe number of disorderly groggeries, licensed a
e.s unlicensed, that have all the while, without
u, ons straint, been stimulating the passions and
IN propensites Of all the lower classes Of our rat
'he lation Il is time that these matters should
ese seriously and earnestly looked at and cared f
Our streams of crime are increasing into t
on on rents, and they threaten to oyerwLelm us.
llie facts we have given, startling as they are,
se ven not be denied. Official documents prove the
lhe Read and PONDER
m ooil The Courier also says there are now at
US US Tombs ten men awaiting trial for murder
vs. w. Of whom has already been convicted once, an(
ny now awaiting second trial. The whole nun
n 1. u ~