The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-10
TIE LATE DISASTER.
Further Details Of the Explosion
Of the st. John.
Heart-Sickening Scenes at the New
York Hospital.
Robbery Of the Dead and Dying
Victims.
Fr0m the Altar to the Grave.
From the New York World.

Fr0M the Altar to the GraVe.
From the New York World.
FUNERAL OF MR.. AND MRS. LYONS.
The brief transition from the bridal to the
Lyons and his wife, will make the catastrophe
On the st. John more than ordinary memora-
BILE. The same church, ST. Luke's, which was
the scene of their marriage, less than Q week
since, will echo to-mOrrOw-not the sounds of
their marital vows, but the solemn sentence
'Ashes to ashes" over their remains. Echoes
so antipodal never had such brief recess.
The rector who joined them in wedlock, Rev.
DR.. j. B. futile, is at present too i'll to ofici-
ate in their funeral rites but his assistant Rev.
Mr.. Atwell, will perform the sad ceremony.
Last evening the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Lyons
were removed from the hospital to the house
of the dead bodies father, Mr.. Green, on Fiji
tieth street, where they were reviewed by the
relatives and friends OF the family.
A SAD wEDDING-wAs 1T PREsKNT1MENT
1t cannot be an intrusion on private grief, or
the secrets of household, to narrate an Incl
dent which occurred at the wedding of the
first week of their honeymoon in death. On
Thursday last. at about 2 P. NJ, a select circle
occupied st. Lukes Church to witness their
marriage. The company was few and confin-
ed to the immediate relatives of the marital
pair. During the services every one present
was unaccountably solemn and grave and the
joy which is supposed to be inseparable from
the mutual ceremony was nOticeably absent.
At length, however, when the priest sealed the
contract with the ring on the finger of the
bride, there was general scene of weeping in
the church. The father and the brothers of
the bride burst into tears, and seemed as if un.
consciously sorry at the marriage. The lady
who witnessed this strange scene of sorrow be-
fore the hymenial altar exclaimed: What
sad wedding!"
OTHER INCIDENTS-A IRAETRENDING SCENE.
While Mr.. Searles was lying on the floor of
the saloon of the steamer on Sunday morning,
writhing with pain, and laboring under deliri-
um, he was visited by his wife. to whom the
sad intelligence of her husbands condition had
been conveyed by messenger sent by the cap
tain of the vessel. Efforts were made to pre-
vent her from seeing her husband at that time,
it being feared by the physician in attendance
that an interview with his wife would almost
instantly prove fatal. But the afflicted wife
had come near enough to hear the groans of
her husband, and, with her hands uplifted, she
made her way past the officers, and kneeling
by the side of the unfortunate man, threw her
arms around him, and kissed him many, many
times.
"Oh, why did God not take you at once p"
she exclaimed.
The presence of his wife restored the mind
of the sufferer, the delirium passed away, and,
looking up into the face of his sobbing wife,
he said, "Oh. am in such pain"
''Oh, my dear husband, said she, 'yOu do
not suffer such pain as do"
where's Carrie? where's Carrier" cried the
tortured man. Il want Carrie; bring her to
mel"
Never was the mind called upon to witness a
more painful scene, and the eyes of all were
filled with tears, while many persons present
covered their faces with their handkerchief,
and wept aloud.
REPORTERS EXPERIENCE.
Among those who were first to board the
vessel after her arrival at the dock was q well
known reporter of this city. He had in the
course of his experience as 'ehronicler of the
times" seen death in many of its most horrid
forms, but as he reached the cabin in which
were the dead, the dying and the injured, he
received 4 shock which for some five or ten
minutes entirely unnerved him and almost
threw him into convulsion. As soon as this
had passed he joined those present in attending
to the wants of the injured passengers and in
placing the bodies of the dead together in the
centre of the principal saloon. The picture
presented, he SAID, in describing the scene, was
one which no words could describe. The
groans of the suffering ones, and the appear
yond endurance. And yet, in the midst of this
terrible scene, the uninjured worked with all
the quickness and fidelity of hospital nurses to
alleviate the suffering of the wounded, and
smooth, with words of consolation and religion
the last moments OF the dying.
IsoBBKRY IN THE MIDST OF DEATH.
the solemn scene-villainy was rampant, al
though it would seem that an occasion like this
would be the very last which the robber would
select for the performance of his crime. The
awful presence of the dead, the groans of the
wounded, and the SCARED, and scalded, and
bleeding bodies of the dying should have been
enough to make even the vilest and most OBJ
durate heart forget everything but one desire,
and that to alleviate the sufferings OF the VIC
Tins of the dreadful calamity. But mans wick
edness was here exercised with the greatest
GOODNESS. A number of persons went among
the killed and wounded, and tore from their
pockets their watches and all other valuables
that could be found.
A few minutes after the explosion had &C.
CURED, Mr.. Searles was crawling on bis hands
and knees along the floor, through boiling wa
up and took from him his watch and pOrtmon-
maize. The villain who did the deed is unknown,
but whoever he is, or wherever he may go, the
groans of the man upon whom he practiced
this deed OF guilt should ring In his ears and
make his bed . bed of torture for all his life.
Mr.. NJ. Sperry Brooks, who was instantly
killed by the explosion, was young man of
most brilliant promise. At the time of the &C.
cident he wore gold watch, and had on his
person pocket book containing considerable
money. These were taken from his body by
q devil in mans shape, while his form was
stretched among the dead and dying.
The unfortuate young man left this city on
Friday afternoon last, and went to Rome. in
Oneida county, to accompany his affianced,
and several of her friends, to this city, where
thew were to remain sometime on visit.
Reaching Albany on Saturday afternoon, they
engaged passage on the st. John, and pro-
ceeled on their way to New York
Alter the accident, his friends discovered his
BODY among the killed, and their agony was of
the most poignant description. The young
iady-his intended bride-was conyulsed with
orief. and stimulants had to be given her to
Keen her heart from breaking. The body of
voune Brooks was on yesterday taken to Rome
for inferment The deceased, although emily
tWenty-tWo years of age, had achieved very
hirh and honorable position as merchant,
and his loss is deeply mourned by large circle
of relatives and friends
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