The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

teries are literally mass of flowers, wreaths and
garlands. Addresses were delivered by Gen. E. G. Lee
and others All is under the auspices of the ladies
| Memorial Association.
RICHMOND, Va, April 26.-Jeter Phill- sentenced
to be hung next Friday for numbering his wife, has
been respited sixty days,
RICHMOND, April 27.--Later-A terrible calamity
occurred here this morning. The floor of the Court
Of Appeals in the State Capital gave way and precpta
ted the hundreds therein assembled to hear the de-
csion in the mayoralty case of Ellison and Cahoon
upon the conservative caucus then sitting in the hall
of the House of Delegates below It is impossible to
ascertain the extent Of injuries at this hour
Among the killed ?, H. Aylett, distinguished
| LAWYER; D. j. Brock reporter for the Enquirer and
Examiner; Samuel Eaton, clerk to Mayor Caboon;
Capt w. 4. Charles Chief of the Fire Department !;
! u ?. Howard, lawyer; Ashley, Richmond merchant;
Charles Watson of Danville Railroad; Hugh Hutch-
son, Lewis n Webb, of this city :; Sehofeld brother
of Gen Sehofeld r. II. Maury, .Tr.; Senator Bland
and Col. Powhattan Roberts. -s.
| 1t is supposed that twenty member of the State
| Legislature are killed and wounded. The Judges Of
| the Court of Appeals all escaped unhurt. III Gov.
Wells was badly injured. L. H. Chandler, counsel for
Cahoon the Mayoraty case, was injured. James
Mason and Judge Meredith counsel for Ellison, also
badly hurt. About 200 persons were hurt by the ac
cdent. The greatest excitement prevails, and hun
dreds of persons are the Capitol Square weeping
aud waling the dead and dying are brought out of
| the building. Gov. Walker escaped unhurt though
on the courtroom floor at the time.
| New YORK, April 27.-The Tribune's Cuba dis
patches state Vamazeda wants to be relieved of COM
mand in Cuba and refused to obey the orders of Rho
das to meet him at Puerto Principe. The commander
of the port of Havana refuses to obey orders from
Spain to deliver up the steamer Lloyd Aspnwall. He
has threatened to head the volunteers to prevent the
delivery of that vessel
! RICHMOND, April Pin addition to the particulars
before sent, the following given: About oclock
/ hn Suprcmp III nj crowded
with eminent citizens, many local politicians and a
great many of the public at large, who were drawn
there by curiosity hear the result of the late hear
ing of the question of the Mayoralty of Richmond
The friends of Messrs. Ellison and Cahoon, who COM
prise the prominent Republicans and Conservatives of
the city, had assembled hear the decision, which it
was expected would be given to-day. Among the
many prominent Governor Wells, eX-Con-
gresham Nelson, Judge J. A. Meredith, P. A. Aylett
United States District Attorney for this district L.
Il. Chandler and Others
AT o'clock the gallery of the courtroom, which
was crowded. fell, the floor followed and thereon de-
scended thirty feet to the floor below, which the
floor Of the House of Delegates of Virginia. which
some few of the members of a caucus awaiting around.
There general crash of all the timbers and the
falling of the inside WALL by which killed Patrick
II. Aylett, Capt Charles, Chief of the Fire Brigade
NJ. Schofeld City Assessor and brother of Gen. Scho
feld j. B. Brock, editor of the Richmond Enquirer
Julius A. Hobson, City Collector; s. Dugger, member
of the House of Delegates T. A. Beekwith, commits
sion merchant of Alexandria Samuel Eaton, of Bos-
ton, Mass, and former theatrical manager Of the B0s
ton Theatre; Powhattan Roberts, Commissioner in
Chancery for the Court of Common Pleas; J. A Bai
mere, of Berlin, Prussia S. E. Burnham, of Schuyl-
kill, N. Y; N. s. Howard, lawyer; Ash Levy mer-
chant J. w. D. Bland, colored Senator from Prince
Edward; J. Watson, merchant, ofDanvile; Thos. W.
Wilcox, ex Confederate General Samuel H Harston,
wealthy andholder of Henry county Chas. J. Grin
nan, of Washington, D. C.; Robert H. Maury, Jr,
land agent; Edward Ward of England; Wm. Fl. Da
Wis, coal merchant; John Robertson, coored Baptist
minister Col. Pichegraw, of Norfolk T. P. Foley
Deputy Z. S. Marshall; captain, one sergeant and
nine prvates of the police force who duty in
the building Amongst the wounded ex-GoV. Wells,
ribs broken and otherwise internally injured Mayor
P K. Ellison slightly; Mayor Geo. Cahoon, slightly;
L. Fl. Chandler, Judge G. A. Meredith, JAS Nelson
Jno Howard Rush Burgess, Collector of the District;
VIM c. Duncan, agent Virginia and New York Steam
ship Line; Hon. Thos s. Bocock, exSpeaker of the
United States House of Representatives, leg ampu
tated; Gen NJ D. Corse, ex- Major General Confeder
ate army; Col. Geo. Brent of Alexandria, Capt. Geo.
Allen, port warden; W. E. ELAN, newspaper CORE
Sponden and broker; Thos S. Baldwin, merchant, OF
Newark, n. J.; w. D. Chesterman, of Petersburg;
| Judge W Spaer merchant Of Baltimore, and about
one hundred others.
Directly after the disaster occurred the FIRE alarm
used to give notice, and the hook and ladder com
panies of the city repaired at once to the scene.
Gordon of police was drawn around the building and
the ladders thrown up to the windows. For three
hours after that the all of sorrow. Minute
after minute there appeared swung out By rope tied
around the middle of the body of popular favore,
who after being swung the top of the shoulders OF
one Of the fire brigade mangled and dead, and was
brought down the ladder into the green of the public
square, where it was instantly surrounded by two
three thousand of those who had gathered recognize
the slain The park filled with anxious and weep
ing women and anxious until O'Clock, when the
last victim drawn from the building. After this
the police closed the park, refusing admtance to any
one The bodies of the dead having been set out all
the stores in the city closed and pacards put up
on the DOORS Closed in consequence of the disaster
at the capitol" No more business was done during
the day. Tonight meetings were held by members
of the Press Association, members of the late Military
Association and members of the bar and of the citi
zens generally. Tomorrow will be observed as day
of general mourning.
RICHMOND Va, April 2S.-To.day all business
houses have been closed having Grape on the doors,
and the inscription: Closed in consequence of the
calamity at the Capital" The streets have been filed
with funeral coreges In the funeral corteges of dead
policemen both sets of policemen joined n The late
political feeling seems to have been forgotten. Bells
of the city have been toed all day and the streets
look like Sunday crowd of about seven thousand
people is assembled in the park hearing addresses
of coincidence from Gov. Walker, Judge ould, Judge
Crump, Gov. Wise and others.
IGOm u DafQWln, one Vi tIS lLJuIeu3 dled to-uay.
He was from Newark N. j. and owned a large cloth
ing honse here. This is the only death that has oc-
Cured yesterday.
Both Houses of the Legislature held an informal
meeting this morning, and agreed to unite with the
citizens in any general funeral procedure.
The body of the colored Senator, Bland, was sent
home this morning. the hearse being followed by white
and colored members of the Senate to the depot.
Ex-Gov. Wells is better to-day.
LATER-This afternoon has been one of funerals.
In some of the churches three or four bodies were be-
fore the altar al the time. Many OF the minis
tiers denounced the caessness of modern architecture
which placed in jeopardy the lives of citizens of nearly
every principal street in the city The Dispatch and
State Journal and other newspapers were bung in
mourning. The flags on Capital, and Custom-house,
and all public buildings and all the vessels in the har
Dor were at half The railroad trains coming into
the city were crowded with enblems of mourning,
and many of the trucks and passing through the
streets were also so covered At all the funerals the
old organizations which the deceased attached
turned out At one of them the State Grand Division
of the Sons of Temperance, in session here, fol-
lowed the eorpses to the cemetery.
Alta mass meeting of the citizens to-day, as men
toned at noon the following resolutions were adopted
Resolved, That we MOURN with profound sorrow,
the loss which our State and city has suffered of her
citizens that we Offer with sadened hearts and fearful
eyes, our profoundest sympathy to the bereaved and
to the suffering and feryenty pray that their days
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