Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-31

room. While there he heard a Kissing noise,
proceeding from the rear of the boiler, and went
to see the cause. He had gone but about half
the length of the boiler when he found the
steam so dense that he could proceed no further,
and turned to come back, when he was struck
in the face by a flying splinter and knocked
down. He made his way to the deck us fast as
possible
This Kissing noise, which Crawson heard,
must have been the starting of the plate patch
ing the boiler, and the first premonition OF the
Impending disaster. A cursory examination of
the boiler as it rested in the bottom of the boat
revealed the fact that the explosion occurred at
the rear and that piece about four feet long
aud two wide, was torn out of the jacket and
thrown one hundred feet on the deck. Another
and larger portion Of the boiler was thrown di-
rectly forward into the bow of the boat. The
Westteld is very old boat, but has been re-
fitted OF late; but the passengers to Staten ISL
and say it has been unfit for passenger boat
for some time past. During the war, it was pur-
chased by the United States government and
used as q transport, and when the war closed,
came into the possession of the Staten Island
ferry company. The Westtield did not contain
as many passengers as on the previous trip, as
the explosion occurred at the time of day when
there are not very large number OF passengers.
The total number of killed foots up, at this
hour, thirty-one, of whom only nine have been
identified. OF the unknown dead now in the
hospitals and station houses awaiting identihca-
ton, twelve are men, six women, and six boys
aud girls, generally under twelve years. The
number severely wounded, whose names and
residences have been ascertained, is about sew
enty, and a number of those seriously injured
were removed and cared for by friends. None
of the officers or employees of the Westfeld are
thus far reported among the sufferers. The fol-
lowing is the full list of wounded now cared for
by the public authorities:
Nancy Tuck, nine years, n. j.; Charles Dude,
OiOa N t Inbf Groom and WIFI Flat
bush, L. l.; Louise Lesser, PAS First avenue;
Nette Higgins, 216 Fourth street, Brooklyn;
Annie Cahill delirious; Jane Oneill, "a Cherry
street; she had three children, aged four, seven
and ten years, missing; Annie Freedorf, fifteen,
Is Thompson; Everett Lancy, $50 Broadway: G..
W. Cohendref, 861 West 10Th street; Augusta
Greene, Broome, near Orchard street; Andrew
Cyle, 81 Monroe street; Fred Smith, 33 Cortlandt
street; Samuel Phillips, 1870 West 45th street;
Sarah Philips, 1870 Yves t45th street; Abbie Phil
lips, 224 East Fourth street.; Ruth Phillips, pa
East 40th street; Patrick Finnegan, Staten Is
land; John T. Roberts, 227 Henry street, Brook
Ign; Geo. L. Storts, colored, Staten Island; John
Wassen, Peekskill; Charles L. Lesser, 245 First
avenue; Mary McCOal and child 551 West
35th street; Eliza Reeder, 1929 Madison
street; Marion Tintorf, ISL Thompson
street; Maria Cheueviere, BAG Clinton street
Brooklyn; Arthur Cheneviere, GAG Clinton street,
Brooklyn; Rudolph Ulman, Douglass stree
BROOKLYN; JaneIUllman, Douglass street, Brook
lyn; Mary Buckee, 121 Washington street,
James Dayley, 1853 Water street; James d.
Clark, 161 West Twenty-sixth street; Ralph
Coles; Andrew NeSbitt, "a Vandam street,
Jacques Dreyfuss, II Elm street Il Jessie MeGoul
and child, 5S1 West Thirty-fifth street; Matilda
Higgins, PIC Fourth street, Brooklyn; John
Brown, ITO Spencer street, Brooklyn; Patrick
Manley, 81 Brown street, BROOKLYN; Michael
Reagan, 131 East Thirteenth street; John
O'COnnor, 10 Warren street, Brooklyn;
Henry Storms, 694 Fifth street; John
OMally, 81 Jay street, Brooklyn; Thomas
Moffatt, 454 Ninth avenue; his wife is among
the dead; Alex. Dalton, 10 Monroe street; NJ
Calkins; Mary Murphy, IS DesbroSses street;
Angela Grunert, Grand street, Jersey City;
Johanna Gershorn, Grand street, Jersey City;
May Phillips, IA Pearl street; Alex. Thornton,
Is Monroe street; Annie Freener, ISL Warren
street, Brooklyn; Daniel Mahoney, 351 Warren
street, Brooklyn; Frederick Freedhorf Isl
Thompson street; mother supposed to be lost
father saved
Mayor Carroll, Alderman Levi, Alderman
Phillipson, and Chief Engineer Eckle, all of
Syracuse, were on board the Westfeld, and were
all slightly injured The boats of the revenue
cutter Northener did great service in rescuing
persons from drowning. Antonio Meacci, part
ner OF Garabaldi, in his candle factory, at Cliff
ton, Staten Island, was shockingly bruised and
cannot move a muscle without the great
est agony. He was borne to his resi-
dence by his friends, when his physician
pronounced that his injuries would undoubt-
edly prove fatal. Meacci sacrificed all his
wealth in the Garibaldi movement and in sue
coring poor Italian emigrants who came to this
country. He was Garibaldis most intimate
friend and adviser. He was man of great in
genuity and has secured seventeen different pa
tents for improvements in candle making ma
chinery, and had elaborated a system of speak
ing tube telegraphy by which he proposed to
enable antipodal nations to converse together.
July 81 80 A. Mn the Bellevue hospital
at twelve O'Clock, there were twenty-four bodies
in collins and ten on slabs, all presenting the
appearance of having been frightfully scalded,
large patches of skin being torn off in MANY
places. Since nine O'Clock there have died in
the hospital: Fanny Randall of Sixth avenue;
Margaret Caroline, child of two years, frightful-
ly burned; Christopher Houch and wife, Ull-
man; Sarah Phillips; baby; three unknown
men and one unknown woman, and Matthew
Mahoney and John GerritY, both of Brooklyn.
Surgeons at different hospitals say the majoi-
ity of those in their charge will die. Immense
crowds, estimated at fifteen thousand, congre-
gated around the Bellevue hospital, and like
crowd around the Park hospital
2 A. M.-The most reliable returns of the dis
aster make the total killed, so, and of wounded,
120.