New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-30

GSsTyySrs: You doubtless before Tim have the
- dcts,I Of the burning of the tesmef Niagara
s.s,,,v of some four or i've miles from TIM place
/ Iii therefore send YOU moth NC more than Capt
MiIlcrs statement 10 me, with deScnp,on VI he
dead eft here last evening by the propeller limos ana
one csntlgman ali of whom will be Inferred here To-
day one lady about thirty or thrfy y-hve years o'l,
fair complexion FIVE feet four inches IN hight' ra'he'
feshy three or fou upper teeth gone
One hiryive or forty years od' iarge ahe, use a.,l
seven inches high rather coaTse features ana aarN
complexion with blsck hair little gray on 'he iore>
head
Another lady, some forty years old dSk brown har'
little gray. upper teeth gone
\ man about sixty old tull si1S ao"u' h'e eV'
ten inches in hight hair almost white.
Pert " rhtECsoH. sept. y 1884.
Tie foregoing persons Capt. Miller thinks came on
board al Colngweod.
The Captain does not know the number OF pas ,er-
ctrs on board al the time Of the burning thinks hal
there we're some sixty saved
CAPTAIN NULERs sr,rENENT.
STATE OF WIscoNsIN, Ozaukee County SS.-Came
before ne this 9th day Of September. 1876, Capt r
y Miller, of the steamboat Niagara and being sworn,
depcees snd says: That left Collingwood the ri
inst, AT o'clock ?. m The clerk informed me that
be had on board lO5 tms merchandise and passengers
baggage II horses and several wagons and about -
cabin passengers; on arriving at Nacklnac took
on six does not know the number OF steeraCe and
deck passengers, the weather fresh norherly
rived az Aacknac Tuesday q, t. o'clock noon: clt
20 minutes past O'Clock u. M. and arrived at Two
Rivers about l0 o'clock a. the oath inst. on ar
riving there stopped al Manitowoc about Il a. m. and
landed some passengers and things one or two came
aboard at this place; left Ma.towoc and arrived at
Shebovgsn and landed H. hoHes some wagons aud
quite number of passengers and some merchandise:
left Sheboygan at =, o'clock p. M; went 10 my state
room to lie down. not called mp but on getting
I'D discovered that the boat fire, and supposed
il was about the stove pipe aft; trst met the third
engineer and told him 10 get the hose to the pumps
then turned 60 forward and found the hall full of
smoke: | wen; to the pIothOu'C and gave signal Ia
the cook 10 pat up thc boat headed 10 the shore
the.engine then stopped about miles from shore.
aud to miles from Port Washington; le the pilot
house, the tirst mate then came forward ordered him
TO Get the axes and the small boats and get them
over: mate replied that the stern boat was over and
eapslzed We then went 10 work and broke the state
room doors of and threw them overheard; l then
went aft 10 the larbosri side and kicked the doors of
and threw them over together with washstands, chairs
a,d everything could get hold of; remained an "a
hong a. could then went below to the wheel. when
was taken off by the Travellers boat, and taken on
board. r. ;. MiLLER'
Subscribed and before this 18th day of septem'
Der, sl6. NJ VI. NHEDo>, Jusuc" OF the frace'
l. Archibald ellis, first mate on the above boat,
hearing the above statement OF Capt Miller read. be-
lievc the facts set forth by him TO be correct
A GIf.LIS