Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-08
rELEGRAPHIC.
WASHINGTON.
THE MEETING OF CONGRESS
YESTERDAY.
Opening Of the Supreme Court.
Proceedings I'm the U. S. District
Court at Richmond.
Augusta, Ark, Seized by Clay
toms Militia.
Condition OF the New York Stock
Market.
Condition OF the New York Stock
Market.
Further Particulars Of the Ohio
River Disaster.


Special 10 the Union and American. by 1
Southern and Pacific and Atlantic Telegral
Companies.
National Board Of'Trsde.
CINCINNATI, Dec, The report of IL
committee OF the National Board of Trad
recommending the Incorporation of Ii
sending Of Geographic messages with III
postal service of the nation, was this da
defeated by vote Of thirty-fve to eighteer
The resolutions offered as an amendmen
to the committees report, favoring tn
scheme of Mr.. Hubbard, one Of the incor
porators named in the bill now before Con
gress, known as Ramsey's bill, to place tn,
sending OF telegraph messages under con
troll of the government, was lost by a vot'
of nearly three to one.
New York stock Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. THE stock market
continues entirely demoralizsd. Three
quarters Of ali the shares on the list are
seriously affected by the inscriptions con-
duct of spectators All prudent opera
tors are driven from the street. Though
Vanderbilt denies all charges made against
him by james Fisk, the latter declares that
he can prove their truth, and it is believed
If the recent transactions in the Erie and
Central come to trial, that the mott in
famous swindles ever heard of in Wall
street will be shown.
1t is reported to-day that Vanderbilt has
been selling out his Central stock and
using Its immense earnings for the benefit
Of his other roads. The Harlem aud Hui.
son River. Experienced fnanciers predict
thatOthe Central will be down 10 ninety
within tie next sixty days. Those who
claim to know, cay that Vanderbilt. is
alarmed at the prospect before him, and
that he will compromise with Gould and
Fisk, rather than have his record re-
vealed. Nothing can be worse than the
condition Of affairs in Wall street Just now
Various rumors are ahoat to-day about
Commodore Meade's case. II is reported
that the object Of making it appear that
he is insane is TO get $4,000 eco for his
Florida property, for which Meade some
time ago brought suit against the Govern
ment.
The Ohio River Disaster.
FROM OUR EXTRA OF SUNDAY.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 6, 10AN
One of the most terrible calamities
which ever occurred on Western waters,
happened about Twelve o'clock on Friday |
night near Warsaw, Kentucky, about sixty |
five miles from Cincinnati. The United /
States, of the Louisville Mail Lire struck |
the America upon her bow and in mo-
ment almost both vessels were the scene of
des b in Its most appalling shape.
The river where the catastrophe occurred,
is nearly or quite equal in breadth to the
distance between Cincinnati and Coying-
ton. Both boats were heavily laden, and
crowded 10y passengers Of both sexes and
all ages. A part Of the cargo of the
United States consisted of petroleum,
arranged in barrels upon the deck, and
Immediately after the collision. the Goals
from the furnace reached the oil and the
vessel was enveloped in flames The
night was dark. The women and the
children were pescefully sleeping. The
cool water quietly Tapped the sides Of the
steamers, bat ia an instant ell was changed.
Tongues Of fire leaped from deck TO deck,
aud 10 add 70 the horror, the river was
covered with a sea Of flame. Ii seems an
almost unnatural combination Of horrors,
bot when the gloom of the night was dis
PEELED the frightened passengers, hastily
and half clad, rushing from the cabins
saw all around them sea Of liquid light.
Horror upon horror the boats were sink
ing, wrapped in flames, and all around the |
very waves were transmitted into fiery
furnace. Death by drowning is frightful,
but death by fire is more terrible than any I
mortal agony.
Martyrs have passed through Ere 10 the
gates Of Paradise coniessing their faith and I
welcoming pain for the crown that pain
was 10 confer, but on Friday it was not 70. 8
Unprepared or not, more than forty souls {
were hurried 10 agony to meet their Judge. d
1t WAS difficult 10 gather details. 1t ia not 4
easy even TO write with calmness upon the I
dreadful calamity. In the midst Of life .
We are in death. There were two bridal /
parties upon one Of the lost vessels. T /
very morning the pledge binding toget
body and soul, for better and for wo {
ill death should part them, had been G
plighted. With their VOWS fresh upon their }
lips they we're imperilled, hut by the I
providence of God they escaped the Fl '
flood =
A mother when the vessel sunk threw I
her TWO children into the water and leaned 3
in TO swim with them 10 land or die with | |
them. :
A husband calmly fastened a lifs.belt !
around the waist Of his young wife and
then dragged her through fire and water 2
ashore. .
The America drifted or was driven In '
the bank, and lady spTsng from the nm I
per deck and chung to the branch of a tree Q
Her daughter followed and reached the /
same branch; their united weight break I
ing it they both fell back into the water q
but again climbed up The bank.
But FROM the United States to the onrc- I
site bank the scene was mere terrible The ,
escapes fewer. One passenger informs ms
that for two hundred yards the water was
on fire, and in that fiery deluge were {,
women and children, shrieking in The nor !
TOR Of the last agony. Thirty-ive women !,
are said 10 he lost thirty-fye women from :
a single vessol-the United States = have E
been called away. The red CLEAN from !,
the burning umhPr and the radiant wafer 4
flashed M, and ba1hed with an unnatDr.I
splendor Of light tie banks on eifLer LSnG @
In this CLEAN they dice ard WIN H.
laet despairine cry was .ushod, ali wasch. T.
scure again. The black night syaIIogs1 T,
them up and echoed bat he moars If g
the wounded :,
Another passenger tell "a lLat nr,r
being awakened by the rash, he baIr b
dressed and rushed upon he deck 4 %
mixed throrg Of men and women ssayed q
hither and thilher, all ccnfu.ct and few q
seeming capable OF deYising aay pIap for q
a struggle for life. Twice he Ell under
the pressure Of the heavirg Aass and p
twice he Tegaiued his footing, ard then, {
burned and bruised, he precipitsta him. /
self into the burning waters, but /, q mi
Tscle, being unable 10 swim, coniri,sd ia sI
reach the shore. The steamer c. Z D,l ,
mont was sent about ten o'clock ,esl,~dsv .
morning, 10 she scene Of ihe disaster. ana, i
returned about haifpast tw Give last nirbt :
She had scarcely touched he wharf VIII / \
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