The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-02

City Council OF Richmond, Sl ,OOO.
Public subscription in Baltimore through
Mr.. j. A. Cowardin, $1,000.
Glendenin, Davis, & Amory, 300.
George B. Field, Esq, Of New York,
through watkins & Cottrell, 800.
McKem 81 Co., bankers, Baltimore,
through Messrs. w. NJ. Sutton & Co.,
500.
Judge W. W. Crump, 300.
J. n. Oren, Son & Co., Of Baltimore,
through E. B. Spence & Son, Sl00.
William A. Button, auctioner, Chicago
formerly of Richmond), through Mr. j. A:
Cowardin, $50.
Albemarle Insurance Company, Char
lottesville, through Mr.. j. II. Montague,
The crew of the steamship Saratoga,
through Mr.. J. J. Smith, purser, $3.50.
II. Harris & Bro, No. 1851 Main street,
S25.
Thomas S. Flournoy, Esq, Halifax, va,
$40.
The following telegram was received
about noon Saturday
"BALr1MoRE, April 80, 1870.
"J. a. Couardifs, Editor Dispatch
fHaYe opened q subscription list for The
relief of your citizens at the american
Office. Nearly one thousand dollars were
subscribed this morning.
CHARLES Ss
"BaltimoTe Americana
WOUNDED.
We publish this morning an additional
number Of the unfortunateS who were
wounded in the horrible catastrophe Of the
9th instant: ~.
NV. Green, hurt in the left side, and
mouth cut very badly.
- Murphy, 100 Jackson street, wound
ed back, head, and face.
3. II. Hord, badly bruised in5thez left
breast and hip, also hurt about face aTld
neck-residenee on Yenable and Twenty
first streets. 80
e. s. Howe, of Boston, Mass, severely
severely confused.
Captain 4. Roberts, of Manchester, leg
broken. s...
W, B. Wheely, badly bruised. 81,
Edward Seems, bruised badly
Thomas Mosely, not seriously.
Thomas Irving, cut in back.
William r.. SiZer, bruised about head and
side. g:is,
John Irving, badly stunned.
N. j: Hinton, hurt in back and otherwise
bruised. 80
n. Green, cut about the head and shonl-
der.
William Cartwright. badly bruised in
breast and leg. go :. '
Martin V. Green, Union Hill, cut about
the head, face, and shoulder.
Daniel Bradford, Strecker's Hill, cut
about the shoulders, face, and head.
Benjamin Hord, slightly injured. -"s-.:
Thomas Cullingsworth, injured severely
internally. -
A. J. Hawkins, police, injured In head
and arm.
John Lewis (colored), Broad and Fifth
streets, badly bruised. -.
Daniel Howard (colored), also severely
wounded.
Tucker Bradford, head cut and hand
mashed.
Edward simms, badly bruised.
James Oliver, bruised on chest and leg
Joseph Morris, Franklin street, Church
Hill, bruised in head and back.
Walter Mickey, badly bruised about face
and head.
Robert A. Steele, Knoxville, Tennessee,
hurt internally and bruised about the head
and body,
John Finney, fireman, leg broken, mashed
in breast, and kne badly bruised.
INCIDENTS.
room DR.. W. M. Withers was standing on
the hearth near the northeast window OF
the room. He felt the floor giving way be;
meath him, and clung to the mantel until
relief was afforded him. He states that he
at once saw the condition OF affairs, and
knew that there was but one chance for es-
cape, and availed himself of it. His part
ner, Captain C. G. McPhail, the agent OF
the North American Life Insurance Com.
pany, was in company with him; and saved
himself by clinging to the mantelplece and
then climbing to the window. We have
already heard Of fseyeralremarkable cases OF
| this kind, and have been amazed at the
| hair-breadth escapes.
Major John W. Daniel, Of the House, says
| of his escape: .....-
"Happly for number Of us near the
| bench, narrow margin Of the room about
the breadth Of the bench, clung to the
walls-the bench itself being unoccupietl
and not so much strained, and throwing
ourselves forward we grasped the railings
that guarded it, and thus held on at the
very brink of the vortex. The ratings, too
protected good many from the timbers OF
the ceiling by breaking the force of their
fall. McCaull was the first one of those
clinging to the ratings to extricate himself
from the debris ofthe ceiling which covered
us-and in that spirit of gallant and unself
ish courage which makes hearts warm to-
ward him, he paused to help those of u:
| who were less fortunate, instead OF making
| good his own safety. The door of the con
ference-room, where the judges were in con
sultation, happily -opena.et that end Of the
hall, and soon thoseWho; were not pinned
to the floor climbed through the ruins, anC
through it reached the uninjnred portion o
the building and the open AiE, and assist
ance came TO those contneaHnd wounded
McCaull, Mahood, and .myseify with the eX
ception of slight bruises, were not hurt
and Greer and Hatcher were equally fortu
nate"
Captain Roberts, Of the steamship Albe
marie, was standing near the elevated
Ijudge's platform engaged in pleasant con
versation with Mr.. w. G. Durham, th
agent of the Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany, and Mr.. Julius A. Hobson. He dit
not dream Of danger on hearing the crack
ing of the rafters, attributing it to SOM
noise outside the room. The Captain in
forms us that he found himself buried Il
plaster and other debris, but managed +
breathe with difficulty until extricated
some thirty or forty minutes after the disas
ter. Near him lay gentleman who wa
continually urging his fellow-sutierers to b
/ OF good cheer, that help was at hand, an
they would soon be rescued; and the en-
couragement of this Ito him unknown her
| was music to his ears. Suddenly anQthe
crash, and, like an avalanche, down 1ttrn
| bled the entire ceiling over the courtroom
1 o;ioncfnp forever. he fears, the voice an