Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-24
EXPLOSION.
The Fate of the Steamer Ysdds---l20 Per-
sons Killed.
Full Particulars Criminal ignorance of
Japanese Doctors.
lgaoraRoe and caFeIessaess Of the Eagi-
Beer the Cause Of the
Terrible Disaster.

CHICAGO, September 23.-The following
are additional details to those already
sent of the explosion of the Yeddo in the
harbor OF Yeddo, Japan:
The death of many was fastened, if not
brought on by the Japanese doctors.
These men have bitter hatred toward
foreign physicians, and do not wish to see
their people treated by them. These ma
tive doctors took of the bandages that
had been put on by foreign doctors. and
commenced their own treatment upon
them. Nearly all who were thus dealt
with died. 1t is reported that almost all
the wounded Japanese have died, but as
they were scattered it is doubtful whether
the number of deaths is actually known.
Several Japanese have told me that in
Guiding those killed outright and those
who have since died the number is over
one hundred and twenty. If such is the
case large number of deaths must have
been caused by bad treatment from the
Japanese doctors for the wounded foreign
ers and several Japanese who are entirely
under the treatment of foreign doctors
do well, and doubtless VIII recover, al
though some were severely scalded. The
most pitiable object of all was the child
of Mr.. Carnes. 1t is only three months
old, and, OF the whole family, it was
saved. Its preservation was miracu-
lous. All around it were killed. Imme-
diately after the explosion Mr.. Skinner,
one of the wounded foreigners, heard
it crying and went and took IL
in his arms-thus saving it from
drowning by the water which was
fast rushing into the wreck. The poor little
thing was uninjured, except a slight
scsld on each arm. 1t is now well cared
for in the hospital and by the family Of
DR.. Hepburn.
Mr.. Carnes was a missionary of the
American Presbyterian Church. During
the late American war he served in a
Pennsylvania cavalry regiment. In 1866
he graduated al Washington, taking the
highest honOrs of his class. During the
tall of the same year he entered the Pres
byterian Theological Seminary at Chicago,
where he finished the prescribed three
years study, and won the respect ofbotb
his professors and felloW-students Dur
ing his second year in the seminary he
offered himself to the Presbyterian Board
on Foreign Missions, requesting to be
sent to Japan. He was accepted, and,
with his worthy companion was sent to
that country Immediately after finishing
his course at the seminary. At the time
of his death hewas occupying the posi-
ton of Professor in the Japanese Uni
versity in Yeddo. He was a man of more
than ordinary ability, and never failed to
gain the respect of those who knew him.
In beautiful spot of the cemetery st
Yokohama they all, father and mother
and lovely child, sleep side by side in one
grave. A monument will be erected by
the citizens of Yokohama. On the next
morning after the accident the American
Consul at Yeddo held an inquest over the
bodies of Mr.. Carnes, his wife and child,
and the verdict was that they came to
their death by the explosion of boiler on
the steamer City of Yeddo, which resulted
on account of the ignorance and CARELESS
ness of the engineer. erra a.ras