Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-01

the boat have been shattered and torn from
their hinges, and benches and settees lay in
insxtricsble confusion. The com pany esti-
mate the damages to the vessel at $4,000,
the principal loss being the wreck of the
boiler
The total number of deaths frem the baot
teen of the dead and "a of the wounded
were residents of Brooklyn.
Thomas P. Powers inshector of boilers in
Broaklyn and examining engineer, inspect
ed the boiler of the Westfeld to-day, and
states that the expeosion occusred from over
pressure of steam, as there was no spperent
defect The water Was not low; on the con
trary there Is every sign that there was plen-
ty of water in the boiler.
E. R. Lowe, submarine diver, has recov-
cred tho bodies Of DR.. Simmons, that of q
stranger, Bernard Smith, aged 80, of 70
Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, L. MoGatt, ag-
ed rs, and two children, one little girl
and the other an infant.
Up to late hour tonight, no additional
deaths are reported OF the patients in Bel
levue hospital. Andrew Neshet, who had
his skull fractured by piece Of the boiler,
is in immediste danger of death.
At o'clock the Morgue closed and po-
iiceman were stationed az all approaches to
keep back the crowds who all day and up to
a late hour, to night, strove to gain admis-
sion. There are twenty bodies in the Nor
que waiting interment. Two are unrecog-
nized
Two experts, said to be acting under the
orders of the Secretary Of the Treasury,
have examined the fragment of the boiler
as the police headquarters,
WAsHINGToN, July 3l.-The Ku-Klux
Committee adjourned to-day, until the 2Oth
of September, leaving here rs a sus-com-
mittee, Senators Poole and Blair and Rep
resentative Buckley to examine the few
Witnesses now here, aud several others on
the way hisher. 1t is supposed the exam
ination will be concluded this week. At
the meeting in September reports will be
made on the reconstruction acts, and the
condition of finances in the late insurrec-
tIonarY States; the sub committees having
the subject in charge.
The President has made the following sp-
poinsments March Giddings, ofMichigan,
Governor of New Mexico; VIM. L. War
ring, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the
collection district of New Mexico.
The Secretary of the Treasurer has called
on the Board of Supervising Inspectors of
of Steamboats, for a thorough investigation
into the causes of the explosion of the ferry
boat West6eld, in New York on Sunday
afternoon, together with q detailed account
OF her last nspection made. The Board OF
Supervisors are instructed TO make rigid
inquiry into every fact connected with the
accident and report as soon as the investi-
CATION is concluded, whether her last inspec-
tion was such as is required of the Inspec-
tors under the law.
A letter from Agent Darlington, dated
Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Agency, July Is,
says: The Indians are quiet. know Of
no depredations com mmitted this season, yet
the kIowas have been earnestly endeavoring
to draw the Cheyennes into a general war.
| have some hope that q most tempting cri-
ses has passed but the present is no time, in
my opinion, to slack our diligence"
The internal revenue receipts to day are
$802.756 64; total recei pts for July were
$l4, 236, ,057 06.
LONDON, July 3I.-Rev, Henry Tongue
vile Msnsel, d. D., Dean of ST. Paul's
church, died to-day, in his 5lst year.
Thirty of the New Castle strikers have
gone to the United States.
PARIS, Aug. l. The resignation Of
Favre as Minister of Foreign Affairs is
con nfrmed
Theirs is consulting with General Cissey
with view to increaSing the army
Theirs, in replying TO delegation from
the occupied provinces has intius.ed that in
six weeks the occupation By the German
troops would be limited to Champagne and
Lorraine.