Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-05-21
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The stn,e-lsoj,sS O,sSster
| RICHMOND, Va, April sT,-ln nd
dilion TO the particulars before sent,
tho following are given; About II
o'clock tho Supreme Court Of Ap,
/ peala of Virginia WAS crowded with
eminent citizens aud many local
/ politicians, aud a great many oftho
public at large, who Were drawn
| there by crrioaity to hear The result
of the lato hearing oil the question
of the Mayoralty of Richmond. The
( friends of Mcssrs. FllysGn aud "a.
huon, who comrri>c the prominent
Republicans and Conservatives of
the city, had assembled TO hear the
decision, which IL was expected
would be given today. Among the
many prominent persons present
were cX.Gov. Wells, cX-CongrcSs.
man Nelson. Judge J. \. Meredith,
/ Patrick \. lloylett, cX L. S. District
Attorney for this District ext. 8.
District Attorney J.. IL. Chandler,
and others. At o'clock the gallery
of the court room, which was crowd.
ed, fell. The floor followed, and
thereon dccendcd thirty feet to the
! floor below, which was the floor Of
the House Of Delegates Of Virginia,
on which some few OF the members
of caucus were waiting around.
There was u general crash OF all the
timbcrs and the falling ofthc inside
wall. The killed were Patrick IL.
Aylett, Capt. Charters, Chief Of the
Fire Brigade; Il. NJ. SchofcId, City
Assessor, and brother Of Major Gen.
Schofcld, late Secretary Of War; DR..
j. b. Brock editor Of the Richmond
Enquirer; Julius a. llobson, City
Collector; $, Dugger, member Of
the House Of Delegates; T. A, Beck
wiz, commission merchant, Of Alex
andria; Si''nl J+rton, Of Boston,
Mass, and iormct tkGa!hbal mnnn-
ger of the Boston Theatre; PoWlia-
tan Roberts Commissioner in Chan
Gerry and Of the Court Of Common
Pleas; j. a. Bla.hifc, Of Berlin,
| Frusa; S. II, Burnham, n. y; n. p,
Howard, lawyer; Ash Levy, mer.
chant; J. W, ID. Bland, colorcd Sen
ator foom Trince Edward; J. Wat,
son, merchant Of DanviIle; Thos. W.
Wilcox, eX-Conlcdcrato General;
Sutnucl II. JIairston q wealthy
landholdei' of Henry co.inty; Chas.
]. Grinnah, of Washington, d. G.;
Robert H. Maury, Jr., land agent;
Ed. Ward, of England; Wm. II.
Davis, coal meroha,ltj John Robert t.
son, colorod Baptist minister; COL
Pichegrew Woofolk;T. p. Foley,
Deputy U, S. Marshall; and n cap
tain, one sergeant and nine privatcs,
of the polite, who were un duty in
the building. Among the wounded
were cx.Gov. Wells, ribs broken
and otherwise iiiterhhlly injured;
Mayor II. X. E!Iyson, slightly;
Mayor Georgia Cochran, slightly;
i. II. Chandler; Judge George A.
Mcrdeth; Jas. Nelson; John Howard,
Rush Burgess, Collector Of tic Dis
trict; Wm. G. Duncan, agent of the
Virginia and New York Steamship
Line; Hon. Thos. S. Bocock, cx-
Speaker of the United States House
Of Representatives, leg amputatcd;
Gen. NJ. D. Corse, cx- Major General
Confederate Army; Col. Geo. Brent
of Alexandria; Capt. G. Allen, Fort.
warden; w. G. Ellen, news CORES
pondent and broker; Thomas S.
Baldwin, merchant, from Newark
n. J.; w. ID. Whestermar, Of Peters.
burg Index; W. IL. Soper, merchant
of Baltimore, and but one hundred
UtiiSrs.
Directly the disaster occurred
the fire alarm was used to give no
tice, and the hook and ladder com.
panics of the city repaired at ones
to thoesccnc. A Gordon ofpolice was
drawn around the building, and the
ladders were thrown up to the win
dows.
For three hours after that tho
scene was fill of horror. Minute al'
ter minute there appeared swung
ont by a rope tied around the mid
die, the body of some popular IA
vorite, who, after being swung or
the shoulder Of one Of the fire bri
gade, manglcd and dead, were
+ brought down the ladder into tho
public park, where it wa:
} instantly surrounded by two OF
three thousand orthose who gather
7 ed to recognize the claim.
The park was full Of weeping
b women and Gnxious men until
, o'clock, when the last victim wa
, drawn from the bnilding. After thil
The police closed the park, Refusing
, hdmittance TO any one, the bodici
, OF the dead having been sent out.
All the stores in the city wer
J closed and Ilscards put on th
/ doors. i'Clos6d in consequence Of In
: disaster at the Capitol" No NOR
r business was done during the day
Tonight meetings were held G