New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-08
NEW YORK.

Slight Accident ON the Erie-Chamber Ol
Commerce and the Mayor and Con
troller-Parade Of German Turner's
Sham Fight and Social Reunion
Another Victim of the Westfield-
Ninety.Five Dead-Texas Troops ON M
Indian Hunt-A Fruit Dealer Pounded
and Stabbed-Embezzleme
ments Quiet-Southerns Dull.
NEW YORK, August 7.-The Eastern
bound express on the Erie road had mar
row escape from total destruction, yester
day, from displaced switch, at Shohala,
Pennsylvania. The engine, baggage cars
and two sleeping coaches diverged fomthe
track; but, owing to the watchfulness of the
speed. No person was injured, and the dam
age to the rolling stock slight.
Mr.. Opdyke, vice president of the Cham
Der of Commerce, will reply to the mayor
and controller tomorrow. He will, OF
course, strictly obey the bylaws of the
chamber, but, in consequence of the absence
of q majority of the members, he believes a
full expression of the views of the board
could not be obtained.
Five thousand German Turner's paraded
in Williamsburg to-day, and proceeded to
Myrtle Avenue Park, where a grand ban
quet was given. Solomon Spitzen delivered
an oration, in which he congratulated the
guests upon the victories achieved in Ger
many.
In the evening there was sham fight,
and at night general social reunion in
Turner's Hall.
At the investigation into the causes
which led to the Westfeid disaster, John
G. Batterstall, of the Pennsylvania iron
works, testified that he found a crack in the
external shell of the boiler. which must
have been caused IN rolling. He could not
say whether the inspectors could see it, but
thinks the inspectors would not be likely to
see it without a microscope.
John Finn, editor of the Iechnologist an
engineering magazine, did not discover any
crack in the boiler; thinks the steam ran up
rapidly, and the explosion took place at not
less than forty pounds pressure.
the steamship Huntsville, once inspector of
boilers, found no sign of crack or flaw,
and believes the explosion occurred at fifty
pounds pressure, the gauge probably hay
ing got out of order.
J. FL. Strong, lighthouse inspector, testi-
fed that three weeks ago he went down to
Staten Island on boat, he can not re-
member whether it was the Westfeld or
not. Five minutes before starting, seeing
no one in the engine room, he glanced up at
the steam gauge and noticed that the steam
one of the hands to look cut or they would
have a blow up. The inspectors hope to
conclude the Investigation at tomorrow g
session.
Charles Brumer, a respectable fruit dealer,
was pounded by Michael Coburn, a brother
of Joe Coburn, and afterward stabbed by
John Saunders.
George C. Tick, cashier of William Knabe
e. Co., is held in $4,000 bail for embezzle-
ment.
Evening-Money closed unchanged. Ster-
ling weak. Gold 1l2A 0Il2as. Govern
ments quiet and firm. Skies of 1881 ad-
vanced Ss. Tennessees, new, ,and South
Carolinas very active and strong. Others
dull. Tennessees 751s, new rs; Virginias
64A, new 70; Louisiana SKIES IS, new 81
levee skies So, eights 83; Alabama eights
99k, fves 67; Georgia skies 81, sevens 80;
North Carolinas As; new 25; South Carolinas
72, new 57h.
Skies of 1881 l161a; fve-twenties of
1862 1141; Gas I132; 65s 1l41s, new l12a4
67s 1l34; 68s 1874; ten-forties 113A,
Richard Moore, another of the Westfeld
victims, died to-day, making the number of
deaths ninety-ive.
A Texas letter says the army in Texas,
cavalry and infantry, to the extent OF
several thousand, take up their line of
march August Is, with view to concentra-
ton at the head of Wachita mountains,
from whence, under Colonel Mckenzie,
they proceed to the chastisement of the
Comanches and Washita Indians. The
troops, exasperated by the treatment Of
their last associates. go for determination.