The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-01


excursion left here on Sunday morning
with about two hundred persons on
board for an excursion TO fish in the
river about twenty miles from the city.
On the return trip the boat landed at
Point Clear, and just az she was leaving
the place the boiler exploded with great
force and fragments Of the timbers of
the boat and metal of the boiler were
blown in every direction. The forward
part of the cabin was carried away and
the chimney fell down upon the after
cabin and crushed it. The boat almost
Immediately sunk. About sixty or
seventy persons were killed or injured.
So far the bodies of nineteen dead,
eight of whom are ladies, have been re-
covered. Twenty-eight wounded per-
sons were brought to the city, and one
of them, a girl, has since died. The
scene was appalling and heart rending.
Many of the passengers were little chill
dren. Capt. VIM. Eaton swan for some
time with both legs broken. A boat
reached him just too late and he went
down. Two pilots were killed; the
firemen were all killed and the engineer
and his wife injured severely. tits i'm
possible to correctly estimate the loss
of lives. BY some it is supposed that
at least thirty or forty persons are still
buried in the debris of this wreck, or at
the bottom of the bay. A diver has
gone down to the scene of the disaster.
The accident has cast gloom over the
whole city, and universal sadness pre-
walls. The streets are crowded with
| people and the excitement and feeling
is intense. The Ocean Wave has been
for some time considered an unsafe
boat, and has always been unlucky.
The appearance of the boiler indicates
that yielded through rottenness.
"A dispatch from Berlin says there
were three hundred and twenty-nine
deaths from cholera in Koenigsburg
during the week ending the 25th ult.
including one hundred and twenty-sev-
en- children. No deaths occurred from
cholera at DANTE during the last two
days.
Additional foreign intelligence is
received concerning the DollingeT
movement in Germany. It reports
that at the meeting of liberal Catholics
at Heidelberg, August and 6, which
was attended by some forty delegates
representing Bavaria, Prussia, Austria
and Switzerland, it was resolved that
the coming congress of anti-infallibility
delegates at Munich, on September %
should have public discussions of the
church question of a new declaration
to be issued, and that Catholics of eve.
ry nation should be asked to attach
themselves to the movement. The Dol.
linger Catholics, though placing little
reliance in the action of governments
feel saDguine of the support of Prussia
There is nothing to expect from Bava
ria. There is great anxiety manifested
by the liberals as to whether papal an
sthemas will be visited upon the uni
versity at Munich, over which Dollingel
has now full charge. The Catholic Ca
sino at Munich has expelled number
of its members, who have voted fo
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of interference by priests. The clerics
organs are represented to be so desti
tute of funds that some of them viii
shortly be compelled to discontinue,
publication.
- Fearful misery prevails in south
ern Hungary. At Banot one-third o
the country is under water. In conse
quence of bad administration, the dam
were suffered to fall INTO ruin, and thu
flooded extensive tracts of land re
claimed during the reign of Maria The
resa. Added to this there are unusua
storms this season, and an excessive sc
verify of the Government in collectin,
the arrears of taxes. The Governmen
is searching for the cattle of peasant
and selling them for taxes. In SOM
villages the amount of arrears is great
er than the value of their whole prop
erty. Agriculture, trade and industr!
in general are ruined, aud famine is i'm
pending.
| The following is the population o
the States and Territories named as ia
ken from advance sheets of the census
officially and finally revised: Colorado
1864 Iowa, !, 191, 1872; Kansas, 1854, 800
Missouri, LII, 295; Nebraska, lbs, 500
New Mexico, 91,S74. The total popu
lation of the States and Territories
not including the Indian Territory
3S, 555, 1903.