The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-04-22

The burning of the Seabird on Thurs
day last, has been published far and
wide. The press teens with the hor-
rors OF the awful, horrible disaster, the
deaths by FIRE and freezing water, are
vividly depicted the terrible scenes
of the Geographically photographed
by glowing pens, and yet, the lesson,oi
the disaster has been but poorly learn
ed. Leonard, Chamberlain and Hem
neburg, a agree on one point, that
not mi order was given by apy ono
having authority calculated either tc
save life or check the alarm. Panic
stricken people jumped overheard only
to die by stIangulation while the boats
were burning at the stern ard quarters
A government boat lay on the beach al
Waukegan,i its men idly gaping through
Eopera glasses at the burning steamer
aud yet no effort was made to put her
keil into the lake ) many thought the
water too rough for a life boat to life
in, yet ore moved or found himself
half frozen, able to stand up on a gang
plank for hours and hours, and another
managed to live out IL hours of it on
a portion of the whecIhouse! Look
truth in the face and you will find that
incompetency on the steamer and cow
ardice on the shore have much to ans
wer for while the city was still ringing
with the dreadful story; on Good Fri
day evening, occurred the
ST. MARY's CHURCH CATASTROPHE, I
by which several lives were lost, and a
score or more victims crippled for life
The service had just commenced in
the spacious church, some 1000 de-
vout Catholics r~everentially knelt while
the grand notes of the friidernn, swell
ed out from the choir, a slight crash
causing no alarm, was followed by a
shout of FIRE from some n near
the centre of the church. On these
words the recent devotees were a mass
of struggling enlightened people, each
pushing for life, aud treading down all
who fell. The dead and wounded are
all women, the worshipers were nearly
all of the same sex. The doors were
closed Immediately, and the pressure
only seemed to tighten them so that
force frem the outside was required to
open them. In five minutes there
were 5000 people about the church I;
in twenty minutes 10000, and through
this crowd, the bruised, fainting, af-
frightened women had to pass. The
ordeal was almost too much, and scores
in the streets. In this case
also, not one order was given, not a
yoic e cried hold, not q rea@oning word
was spoken, all was mad, blind panic.
mind REQUIRED tofhs seabird
,orrcr at the word FIRE. lie, the
essen be- remembered a vessel does
lot burnsor dnk in q moment. nor q
be destroyed SO suddenly that
lou cannot leave it, If cool and collect
ID. The cause Of the alarm was the
of the floor; had all kept their
no o Guild have been injured.
But enough of horrors fer one letter.
THE ERA OF ELEcThIcITY
) fairly upon us and the utility of it
as eve impressed me SO much as
ince a recent visit to the medical and
Electrical Institution, located at I!s9
Wabash avenue, D. Justin Hayes resi-
ent physician. In all the history of
be war between science and quackery,
here is no more startling chapter than
hat appertainiDg to the Introduction
f electricity info medical practice, but
he electro-thermal bath triumphed,
hough twas rourdly abused by quacks
the Russian war, and it daily dem
nstrates its efficiency of electrics as a
,medial; accent in the treatment and