The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-08
ATEpI MALI NE VS..
F.nr IN NEW YORK Two CHILDREN
ms puRNED TO DEATH.


BIyRNED TO DEATH.
,,,, = ERE broke out IN the closhsnl
| eanuey ssr Jacobs 10 Chatham street, n ferk
1eu m,sr psrt of the house was used oy tue occu
e uppe ,d.eIline. and the store WAS connecte
ne sselling apartments By 40 open stairway
u Tribune says:
-. ,;me OF the fee the oecu 2ants-three VIC
tne and several chiidreo-were 10 bed an'
~ ~, 10 the upper stories The a rmes sseps u'
s,.syv.y 10 the attic 10 almost an instsnt, aas
II; - the sieepers were aware of their danger OF
Il "A make movement to save themseissf, sAs
"a ssuu,fied by the smoke AZ usual the hsea.s ii
he e, tap OF the bell were 81 % ,ne c ~
Il vsrr brief space Hook aud Lsdder eonpans
rsised a ladder to the second s'ory "anh
,hyse al i,s members, Messrs n L; e, ~; y.
C.nrop ard j. W. Msnguon entsreu ~, -. "" 80
bv the window They heard ere al. x.hiis /,
b. ~ 49, g. yropfoe about for iittis ~nhe N
p gu. aHed d.,spess, and finding nothing they
smsA door. when the flames came leap
ss.op .hsm and compelled them TO close the
pr again. .rs ,.a,,,o--so
= an that the fremen had to run TO the WINDOW
ea sve,v few moments to avoid sutfoc atiou.-
m.nsnn, descended to the street, and third :
I.J5sr having been raised, he escended to the
sorv. followed by Henry Blake of the same
.,r The air was sitting in the extreme
h smoke and hear, aud the same sroans were
- ~i,h Greater dis:ioctness than before. Man.
=, nIied his axe with vigor, Ard after cutting
n,sh N rec or tour partitions, his partner Blake,
- bv this time got the pipe OF Engine com.
=. No. "a. both CROPPED their way through the
Asch 10 The back of the building. where they
X,coysraI In small room bed lying on the
n on fra with two women lying on !, grooming.
m babe lying between them and screaming at
q I of is voice.
#piate snst,hed up one of the women and dashed
tbrough III, widow and down the ladder 10
= street. wi b her, while Mansum took the other
u carried her down the burning sa'rs ne says
IL was 90 much burned that her skin peeled on In
hands Fa-nham and Cannon assembled from
xe second story to the third. While Farnham
ppt PLAYING on the fire, Cannon found BABE
kiap on one of the stairs burned to death, and
ok 1t down stairs; then returning he found an-
her at the top OF the stairs, also dead, aud ne
srhed that out also. One OF the insurance watch
ZEN rescued living child from the t.mes
81 man named Marcus Lesner, employed ss cuf.
sr By Mr. jacobs was asleep on the third door at
#vsre of the danger he Ieapod ffom the bed, sszs
70 Of the children, and attempted 10 escape by the
sn or from. stairway, but L!s Pesstss I2s stepped
N the f.nes and smoke. He then attempted al
eu by the back stairway. but here he was also
BIced 10 retire from the advancing faTeI Despair
kz Of escape he returned to bed AID wrapped him.
LIN and the children beneath the clothing The
pom was by this time fire. and poor Lesuer, as
II last resort, lssped through the window ION the
I'd foorl to the side walk. Hs was picked up. bad
y burned sbou. the head sid arms, but apparently
fnt jured by his frightful leap.
a ana Ludwig, servant In the empty of MI Ja-
pos the second floor, but succeeded in una
6ug her escape, with infant child, uaharnled-
n Jacobs and her husband are not acted to
{pvsr. Mrs. Est, widow, and daughter ale also
badly burned,
81 Isaac jacob no was Tot at hon when The ire as
3scovered, was subsequently arrested in Broadway
q Suspicion OF setting fire to his PREMISES ard
the loss Of the lis es of bis two sons and the n
jniy Of the rest OF his family. The peounisry loss
d ire 10 trhing
u THE COLLISION ON THE DELAWARE -FUU Par
kculars.-The Philadelphia Ledger of Monday
has full account of the fsa al collision which took
lace Saturday night. 1t appears that the pilot of
Be steamer Gen. Mcdonald attempted to steer be-
lween the schooner A. G. Pesse, of Portland, Con-
aectcus, and another vessel In doing this he came
b collision with this Pease, just above the Laza.
fette, Ia the Delaware river. The barber shop of
DE steamer, In which there were about twenty
persons, was swept of by the bowspri. of the
achooner.
The steamer. says the Ledger, was forced from
Der course, and made to csreen over nearly 10 her
guards by the force of the collision, but fortunately
Ior the living freight on board, her hall was unin-
jured.
Mr.; Covsrdale, OF Beverly, was Injured, i, is sup.
posed, internally, as he was splitting blood all the
way up to the city He thinks there mus. have
been at least twenty persons In the barber shop at
ihe time OF The accident, and that he and Mr.. Wal.
ters were the only ones saved.
Al the time OF tho collision the Mcdonald ca
feened tver, and the chain box broke loose from
lts fssteniaes and was launched Into the Delaware
DD the opposite eide OF the boat
Mr.. Hu1del returned yesterday afternoon from
The scene OF the disaster, and from him we lesrn
shs, Mr.. Mark Warre, broth erin law of Mr,
w alters, lie missing. and suppose 10 be drowned
lls1 mad abr ID
10 South street. Soon after the accident, a steam
tow boat passed, and Mr. Register, of New Castle.
aud two others whose names we could not ascer.
balm, got on board and proceeded to New Csstle -
PR Winslow, Mr.. Walters, aud his brothe r.in-law
! sd been In the barber shop but lew minutes be-.
tore they were hurried with great force into the
water Mr.. Walters had his lett arm inj ure1, and
pne CT his fingers cut off. the piece hanging only
by the skin; he replscsd the parts and bound 1t
pp
Late yesterday afternoon the body of man
1osied Into Chester upon piece of timber, or
father the timber kept him up In consequence of
The end oil 1t having been forced into him. The
Timber struck him on the poek at book, which was
forced into his abdomen Ii was tax IN out and
inside of 1t was found some money and an enve.
,'pe directed 10 George or John Eshlemere, ESQ,
Lancaster city, Lancaster CO., Pa, on the back in
pencil mark, was the words Monday, aud some
other memorandum. which was almost obliterated
0y blood. Mr.. Huddell says that three vessels
were anchored near the scene of disaster and that
lhe pilot, 10 attempting to get by two of them, ran
Into the A. G Pesse
:, The persons certainly known TO be drowned are
mr. Douglass, one of the agents of Canning's Cape
Nay Express, and Mr. Wirslow, of Chester,
freight agent of the Baltimore Railroad Company,
aua coiored boy, belonging to the boat Among
'ao.e swept overheard was Mr.. Walters, editor OF
ne Deiawaie County Republican, who waa fortu-
lse,y rescued BY Captain Spencer, of the schoon
u maria l.. Hill, OF Portland, though much bruis
LEE POWDER MILL ExrLosIoN-1iGditional Par
''"Sdr'-The editor of the Wilmn gton Republican
Visited Mr. Gsresehe's powder mill on Friday last.
'00n after the explosion, and thus describes the
'eene:
inc drying and packing house, in which there had
Ecu seVeIa! tons of powder first exploded and were
70 their very foundstions scarcely one stone
oeen lett on another; some eight or ten viii
~ ana apple trees which stood within a circuit OF
.I.Y yad'. were torn up BY the roots and with
olackened pieces of timber scattered in all
.teeloni over the field, and the fruit shaker from
lahV OF the trees. The conclusion was no great in