The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-02
NEW YORK.
... "a .r
AT THE SCENE OF THE LATE
EXPLOSION.
SEVENTY.ONE KILLED.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
a.- SEVEN WOUNDED. ..'
CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION TO
,. BE INVESTIGATED. .
CHOLERA IN RUSSIA.

Ngw York, August l.-Up 20 one
o'clock to-day the number of deaths from
the explosion was seventy-two and dozen
woun 1ed are not expected TO live from one
moment 70 another. All the bodies have
been recognized; one baby about nine
months old awaits a claimant. II is no.
seriously injured. Over eighty wounded
remain at Bellevue, probably fifty more
| are scattered about in private houses
in this city and Brooklyn. Up to a late
hour last evening the streets were crowded
with men women and children. The ar
rival Of the Staten Island boat, Il sister
boat Of the Westfeld, was watched with
interest She was loaded with passengers,
who crowded TO the side of the boat eager
to catch q glimpse Of the late catastrophe.
The boats crossing TO Hamilton ferry were
also crowded with passengers, and their
sad faces plainly evinced the anxiety of
all. Some of the friends Of those who
have not yet been found congregated on
the hArfanxiously watching the dredging
until the gun from Bedloes Island had
just sounded across the water, where sew
ersl bostmen had congregated around one
erd of the pier, and all eyes were strained
anIiously watching the men and boats
pulling at roats which after all proved to
be caught in coils Of rope. As darkness
set in the crowd gradually diminished
and the divers ceased to make their
journeys, but the dredgers worked up TO
late hour. .
Coroner keenan, WILL in performing his
duty, adopt the following rule in order to
have no unnecessary trouble and waste of
time, separate inquests will not be held.
In each case as bodies are identified
burial permits will be granted to relatives
! and friends who identity the remains; and
| then in about weeks time the grand
| inquest will be held on all the victims
At this investigation Coroner Keenan,
will make q most searching inquiry
into the cause of the ex-
| Plosion. Expert mschinists will
be examined regarding the condition of
the boiler and possible cause of its explo-
sion.
The engineer of the Westfeld will be
examined at length, and no effort will be
spared TO place the responsibility Of the
disaster where it really belongs.
The World publishes the names of II
killed by the ex xplosion, and says there are
/ eight bodies unknown. The Herald gives
the number Of killed even greater, and
names Of l27 injured also publishes tho
names of . majority Of the killed and
wounded from this city, Brooklyn and
| Staten Island. It Is believed that many
| more bodies will be taken out the water,
| and, of course, others will never be found.
| The most painful after-feature Of the
tragedy is the appearance Of hundreds of
anxious and half crazed people at the hos
ldtsls and station houses inquiring after
missing friends and relatives. One poor
fellow, Michael Finley, who losth,s wife
and child by the explosion, has gone mad
and attempted to commit suicide by drown
ing himself in East river.
Inspectors Mathews and Boyle will CON-
mence. their examination to-day, at their
Office, No. % Pine street, by order of the
secretary of the treasury.
| Capt. Delknap, United States supervisor
and inspector general of steamboats,, re-
ceived a telegram from Secretary Bout
we'll directing him to make most search
| ing investigation as to the cause Of the ex-
piosion and report the result Of his inves-
| LEGATIONS to him.
A dispatch from Rome says there is
great excitement here over the vote in the
| French Assembly on the position of the
pope. The Gqsstfs says the government
| ought not 70 have gone to Rome, but hav-
| ing gone must stay, though dark clouds
should envelope the political horizon.
"A. London special says there is a grow
| ing upeasiness in the public mind over
I the report that the cholera has ragged for
two years in Russia. The terrible scourgc
has mot yet appeared on the frontier. A
close watch hss-been instituted to pre-
vent its progress. The government has
prescribed regulations to be enforced upon
all ships from Baltic ports. There have
been recently some cases at Hull, which Is
en- route, with -emigrants from Ger
many to America. ,ChlL, tI
Dragging for bodies at the scene of the
late explosion was resumed at daybreak,
but upto this time only three additional
| ones lhaye been found. The excitement
at the scene of disaster 10 intense. The
! crowd was as great rs yesterday Only
| two victims Of the late boiler explosion
| remain at the Centre street hospital. Pat
rick .Buckleyland a girl sovenlyears old,
| the latter, n who swas ; identified this
morning as the child of Jewish parents
named Leidenhof, residing at Isl Thorn
son street. The parents are among tho
wounded at Bellevue, her sisters Anna
and Lenore were :killed. Only slight
hopes are entertained for the recovery Of
Patrick Buckley.