New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-16

of coal were among the thiuss destroyed, sho1t 80
iGns oi coal put D. fore the IRE, and lJ' tuis
before that, there a-o variety OF things which
do 20, occur to ne; there 4 large quantity ot
stoves and pipe, furniture oi al kinds belonging Ia
the institutions thing OF every kind belonging 20 the
hospital: al the time OF The firing nj the Womans
Hospital there were DO patients in il my knowcdee;
We had assurance from some o the leading men that
il would not BE- burned just before the firing there
must have been about 20 ur - PATIENTS some bad got
hen the fired The building. aud others werc
rcd OUT We had removed al the patients that night
the Noman's Hospital. which was the only one LETT.
could not Soy that tAe burning ol the oman hos-
ptal caused the death Of any o the patients rom eN
posure OF oth&sse they were taken out oI the hos
piial and laid near the wall ou the south IN" wall
runs East and west. \ diagram was shown - VII
ness. Tls diagram is very good repre>e nta'ion OF
the location Of the hospital aud buildings 30 not
know that II rained the second night kho"
x was starlight p"rt ot the higm'
II a comfortable night, but very warm
where were We had n To 23 Yellow fever patients
that night: died that night m the aman hosp-
tal-the engineer Of the Phladephia; he dled before
the hre broke out at the Wcmans Hospital; lcoudn not
say that the death any person was cand by expo
FIRE; il did not have the effect To produce
death; sent away many who were conN aieScehe-
so or iO-withn two days theirs were persons SICK "'
all diseases Chagres fever and other ievers eonsnnp-
tion, &C.: cannot say thad any persons heve died
Who were sick those nights; l. don keep tne o"Ss
ny assistant knows, II ls my OPINION that tne expo
for either sick or well; the excitement and want OF
sleep would be more than exposures Staid with the
patients day aud night and narsed them some Oh tleh
died from the effects of the fire. have seen the pa
tlents since; Frank Mathews. one of the s'eveioreS
were boasdng; h. shot; don't know by
whom | examined the wound after he was shot, ana
found it mortal; did not give il particular ex-
animation, but thought must kill him; Dr. W alser
attended him. but he removed early IN the morn
ing to the Hospital in NewYork, where he died the
State has the fee but il is held in trust by the Com
missioners of Emigration.
Witpesr cross-examined by Mr. Anthon- Among
the persons who said they had right to come IN a.
fremen were many who had tremen caps and II l
recoleot among them was the prisoner at the bar II
might have been ten minutes after heard the aari
that | reached the place where the hrehsn wets, m !
pnt on my clothes and left and had had perhaps up or
so rods to go; | think Mr.. Thompson had cap on'
and | think then or the second time Mr. thompson
had on red shirt, but did not look 80 niuch 70 dress
as TO acts: a portion OF the company there had reu
shirts on and others had ON caps only; after re-
treated from the Smallpox Hospital nave no recoi-
lection Of seeing Mr.. Thompson; on the night OF the
lst OF September there from ~ To l0O patients
know this by the books: there were three or tour
in the smallpox shanty; the yellow fever patients
were in two OF the shanties the largest numberthe
general patients-werc in -hany {; the remainder OF
the patients in the Female Hospital; these pa
tiens in the shantes moved down 10 the Female
Hospital by my assistants and nurses; | can
not say but some parties assisted VINO We're
within the walls; gave directions To nave
them removed l had assurance that
the Female Hospital would not be burned did not
see one of the parties within the walls assist IN re-
moving the patients; was in this encounter getting
away from these people when the patients were oelng
removed all Of the patients who could gel OUT oi the
first shanty burned were out before | got there;
don't think there were twenty-five patients who could
not have aroused sufficient energy to have got ont oi
the building under the circumstances and particularly
yellow fever patients, who frequently walk about nhu
two hours before death; of the twenty-five were
putin N IL q
were assisted by leading them, and some were carried
in beds think: the persons in the ST. Nicholas were
a ships and passengers, prnclpaly Spahlsh-
ladies and gentlemen who had come ashore that alter
noon. thew were healthy: our custom for two
years to keep none bnt healthy persons IN the II.
Nicholas; ii was kept as boarding ana io1ghg
house il has not been used AZ hospital since nave
had superinendence of the grounds tor weeks, some
times there would be none in it, and then in few days
we would have 500 900; We kept hrstelass passen
gers there the second-cass aud seerage passengers
were kept in the shanties the ST. Nicholas, shonid
think was about GO rods from the SMALLPOX Hospital
it NAV be 10 or 20 rods that both were within
the main wall; the st. Nicholas sill nearer the
Yellow-Fever Hospital, perhaps from 10 to ~ rods
from the nearest did not wash for the ST. Nicholas
passengers; their clothing IN the dock, under
guard; when did do any washing for them Il was
done at the Government wash-honse, where All me
washing done except the washing Tor the small
Pox Hospital which was done at the wasf-house OF that
hospital: the number of secOndclass passengers de-
tanned also varied; have had a. many as ,HO ln
the grounds at once; this last season we have had
bun few as the emigration hos been hght the yellow
fever shonos and the secondclass passenger hantles
are about 100 feet from one another there were
eight shantes in ALL and on each end was used Tor
yellow fever patients, and sometimes we used others
for convalescent yeOwfeyer patients the other san-
ties were USED for second-cla-s da-sengersi don I
recolect of our using any shantles for second-cass
passengers after taking yellow patients out until
they had been whitewashed thrOugh can see no OBJ
lection to doing with proper care the washing
l. ia rlsDH
AT the Government washhouse, there was nothing to
prevent the second-cas passengers from coming To
the yeow-fever shanties except the directions gave
to tie persons in charge had less fear OF yellow
fever than smallpox the SMALLPOX Hospital has had
no patients in since last Spring. but that ught the
first shanty fired had three four small pox patients
in it gave muskct to Mr.. Carro IT did not give
IL To him we exchanged muskets; gave pistol,
think to Simon Shell; think gave Que to James
ORourke and a musket To Edward Brady don re-
collect of any other now; dout know whether Brady
is aliye dead; have not seen HIM since; think the
arms were loaded, though | have no knowledge oi
their being loaded for two months; | know there
were caps on; | looked to that; can't say
who loaded the nuskets last when they were
first sent me; loaded them myself, and gave them 10
such persons wished to have charge of them; one
of nv men told me since that he had Withdrawn the
charges and had reloaded them; they were loaded
with an ordinary mu.kot bullet aud bnck-shot; l did
not remove any bullet or shot from the wound OF Ma
thews nor did | see il done; the wound was large
opening in the region of the spine large enough To pat
ones hand in where bal-wadding and shot might
have passed in; did not attend the pos-nortem ex-
animation of Mathews aud have not seen him since
that evening; the house Of Dr. Thompson was not ms
private property, but was one OF the State buildings
think forgot 10 mention IN my direct examination
that this house was burned think there were CO or
20 sieyedorss who ought to have been there that
night; we lodged and boarded them in shantles \ and
H. next to the st. Nicholas the employment OF the
stevedores, suppose, was to unload ships III }unran
tine: suppose the ships were iniected--Inany with
yellow fever. portion of this unloading wss done out
In The streain ard = nnrtnn AZ the Wash-HOnse dock