Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-30
rHERlcHMoND DISASTER.
Names Of Many of the Killed and Wounded.

RICHMOND, VA, April Z7.-In adj
ditiOn to the particulars before sent,
/ the following are given: About eleven
| O'Clock the Supreme Court of Appeals
! of Virginia was crowded with emf
nent citizens and many local pOliti-
| clans. and a great many Of the public
at large. who were drawn there by
curiosity to hear the result of the late
hearing of the question of the Mayor
atty of Richmond. The friends of
/ Nessrs. Fllyson and CahoOn, who
conprise the prominent Republicans
| and Conservatives of the city, had
| assembled to hear the decision, which
it was expected would be given to-
day. At one o'clock the gallery Of
| the courtroom, which was crowded,
! fell. The floor followed, and thereon
descended thirty feet to the floor be-
I low. which was the floor of the House
Of Delegates Of Virginia, on which
| some few of the members Of a caucus
were waiting around. There was a
general crash of all the timbers and
| The falling of the inside wall.
THE KILLED
were Pctrick H. Aylett, Captain
CHARTERS. Chief of the Fire Brigade;
+. NJ. SohoEeld, City Assessor, and
brother of Major General Schofield,
late Secretary Of War; ur. J II. BROCK,
editor of the Richmond Enquirer
Juliu \. HobsOn, City COiiect0ri D.
Dugger, a member Of the House OF
Delegates; 7. A. Beckwiz, commits
sion merchant, of Alexandria; Sam
uel Eaton, OF Boston, Mass, and
to1raer theatrical maBzgeF Of the BOs-
TON qbe6.Ari POWhatan Roberts,
Commissioner in Ghancery and
of the Court of Common Pleas;
j. A. BIamire, of Berlin, Prus-
sia; S. E. Burnham, y. y; n. +.
Howard, lawyer; Ash Levy, mer-
chant; J. w. ID. Bland, cOlored Ssn2-
tor from Prince Edward; J. Watson,
merchant of Danville; ThOs. W. VIII
cox, eX-COnfederate Generals Samuel
II. HairstOn, wealthy landhOldeF OF
Henry county; Chas. J. Grinnan, OF
Washington, ID. c.; RObt. H. MauFy,
Jr., land agent; Ed. Ward, of Eng
land; Wm. II. Davis, coal merchant;
John Robertson, cOlored Baptist min
ister; Colonel Pichegrew Voolfolk;
T. P. Foley, Deputy United States
sldAElAuls dIA a "a lsAaAAAAg LAAt oNA ~~N--N
and nine privates, of the police, WhO
were on duty in the building. Among
the
WOUNDED
Were Ex-Governor Wells, rib
broken and otherwise internal
" injured; Mayor II. X. Ely
son, slightly; Mayor Geo. Cochran,
slightly; l.. H. Chandler; Judge Geo.
A. Merideth; Jas. Nelson; John How
ard; Rush Burgess, Collector of the
District; VIM. {. Duncan, agent Of
the Virginia and New York Steam
ship Line; Hon. Thomas S. BOcOck,
ex-Speaker of the United States House
Of Representatives, leg amputated;
General NJ. d. COrse, e6-MajOr Cen
eral Confederate Army; Colonel Geo.
Brent, of Alexandria, Captain q. Al
len, POrtWarden; w. G. ELAN, news
correspondent and broker; Thomas S.
Baldwin, merchant, from Newark, n.
j.: W. d. Ch6steTman, of Petersburg
y1der: w. II. SOper, merchant, of
Baltimore, and about one hundred
others.
A Richmond dispatch of the 28th
says:
The terrible calamity which has be-
fallen the city of Richmond eXcites
popular sympathies everywhere.
All business houses in Richmond
were closed yesterday. Grape S%Tjfas
on the doors, and inscriptions reA[--
ring to the calamity at the CapltAt.
The streets were filed with funeral
cOrteges of the dead. All late pOliti-
cal feeling seems to have been forgot
ten. The bells of the city tOlled all
day. A crowd of about 1000 people
assembled in the park to hear adj
dresses of coincidence from Governor
Walker, Judge Orr, Judge Crump,
Governor Wise and others, delivered
from the southern pOrtico OF the Capt.
tOl. ThOS. s. Baldwin, one of the in
jured, died to-day. He was from
Newark, n. j., and owned large
clothing house. Both hOus& 5of the
Legislature held informal tt8eetings
this morning and agreed to unite
with the citizens in any general
funeral proceedings.
RICHMOND, April 29.-There were
five funerals this morning, including
that of DIR. Brock, of the Examiner,
which was attended by a large num-
ber of persons. A delegation OF the
Washington Press. including Arti-Ls-s,
Shepherd, of the Republican, NsssSri iJie
of the Chronicle, and GOODWIN Of the
Star, were also present at Or Brooks
funeral.
Both Houses Of the Legislature met
in the Circuit Court building to-day
the Senate in the chamber, and the
House on the southern pOrtico Of the
building. They adopted a resolution
70 meet at the Exchange Hotel tenn
pOrariiy.
The death Of Senator Bland was
annOudced and an appropriate eulOgy
pronounced by Conservative mem
beFs.
Mayor Calvert and eX-State Treas
urer McDurham, Of New York, are
dying. They are both victims of the
disaster.
Business houses are still closed.