The Portland daily press., 1870-06-30


The most graphic accounts thus lar receiy-
ed of the oreat confederation at Corst.,tino.
Ito a.,
Pc i"'' W oon'S1 'n "oe4ue'e i'ea VI i.' HOE
TOTS anu Observation-Disclosures. Inc latest reports
chronicle the TACT that more than TOGO houses
were completely destroyed, and property to
the value OF $4UpOO,OOO Was sacrificed. Up
wards OF one thousand dead bodies have al
ready been recovered and there are still fif-
teen hundred missing persons unaccounted
for. Seven fire companies, engines ard men,
Peils 1iit IN lne nanes. me stan OF The
want Herald. including editors comnositors
and clerks, barely escaped with their Ii ,es.
Inc horrible incidents are too numerous to
Wv '"tneaa anu i!,1nus were 10
among the ashes for children brotbe,s and
sisters In one direction Law some twontv
dead bodies. close together burned info .
dark mass of charred matter. while near Inv
were MANY others who could SCARCELY he re-.
coopized as havinr evey been living mon ond
women. The wind was so violent ond Tho
flames spread with such rapiditv that tho nao-
ME knew NOT where 10 A, for safety. oil
around them nothing appeared hut Certain
death in it's most frieHtful form. and if is snr-
nrisirg that so lew bacame its yio,;ms
Strar@ast nj ali ia tho fact tba+ ,bo ero e.
disostTous r,oad hnt low hours o,I 80. 49,
will eurh roni1ity .har hnildnas &c san,',
away in an instant and viii IN nvnIoein, 10 P
tha, az conno, 'i'>N
~, -.
iAish 'e-''o"' ''e'ii " 'oo"iiu III y. ork
to an unlimited degree. One OF the most ter
lible cases OF outrage that has ever occurred
in tbis co,,n+rv b.s rocont,v 70 Ii,,,,+ M
-.
WcIili Is siiSht girl named Mary Matilda
VIII only 13 years Of age, the daughter of a
retn d merchant of Westcbester county On
the 18th n,t che mot a. Ivooa1.,,
Wv. ' "O "oo'i'"h " very
gehtiemaniy LOOKING man, named Reilly,
who engaged her in conversation, ard she,
child like. on the nromise of a cold watch ond
ohain aooor,ro,,;ad H., - 80 p''eA "na
Tb;rd ovonra ~, 4,,o Ivosto,,oa.o,,o
to procure, as he told her. some ice cream
at friends saloon. He accompanied her,
i in. 10 small shanty on The rocks
ed after her There were " a,so ''e uoot ioch.
twelve couples, male and female there beside.
about her age, many ofthe girls weeping. Upon
P,';,I 10 ituS.nS W aeeeue 10 me desires OF
CLAMPS from his coat nocyet and securino tbo y,
on her wrists and ankles meantime threafenino
ner life every moment, fastened her to the
i,o oo,' anu .nen Situated ms we passion upon
uars of which ale unfit for nnhicationp POI Sbo
was then taken to another shanty, similarly
ISOLATED, wnere she was kept nearly two weeks,
brought several oILer men al of n1o,n ona apo
after another, violated her person. The vii.
Ialns then' thinking that shame would prevent
dweIIioa-bonso ,1o s". ,;o heinose Gu nef 10
aood 10 osn,,a 49,, IL ,n, wmaon she nay man
fsthar in Mir, Vornor Wa ~ her uis.lactea
and rolatod tho ;nb,,,n,, tno"t, .ouuty,
,.uu ,oid'eu tie 'ilnulhah treatment she had
none,,,;,,od IN las oeei arrested ana luliy
1ara LII tnI Ius.ice Saying 'niiioh doi
Ioulu no' oall MIN steps VIII oe lmme-
;mso,n y 'a MI ~ aiieS' Tue REMAINDER OF The
'-io'n"' gang.
Something like the French plan of provid-