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TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN
TEN As.

TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN
TEXAS.
steamboat Ex flOsiOn in New York IRarbor
NEW YORK, July 31.-The Staten Island fer
~ boat Westfeld, crowded with passengers, ex-
ploded her boiler at l:20, to-day in slip at
White Hall street. The conclusion was terrific,
SCATTERING the forward part Of the boat and kill
ing a great number Of people. The hurricane
deck was cleared overload and large number
of persons fell into the water and was drowned.
The entire number lost is supposed to be one
one hundred and fifty.
New ORLEANS, July 31.-A construction train
bound north, this evening with nine cars and
eighteen aborers Rrccipitated into Navasota
river. The deck of the working car striking the
lateral braces and rods of the bridge caused the
accident. The superStructure Of the first span
carried away second, third and fourth spans
which went to the bottom with the cars and en-
CINE mass of ruins, FIVE were killed instantly
and two fatally injured, twelve, more or less in
iured. one man was thrown twenty feet in the
air and falling, was instantly killed,
MEMPHIS, July 3L-R. B. Niece. II promi-
inent citizen Of Trenton, Tenn, and prior to
the war President of tbs branch of the State
Bank at that place, was arrested here, charged
With passing counterfeit money. On searching
his baggage, twelve hundred dollars counter
felt United States notes were found. Owing to
thc high social position occupied by Niece, his
arrest has caused considerable sensation.
Capt David II. Todd, formerly of Lexington,
Ky, and brother of Mrs. Lincoln, died at
huntsville, of consumption.
Wv YORK, July 3l.-Deaths thus far 50
iniu red, ~ The base ball clubs Savannahs
and l3ckfords, postponed their game on account
of the condition Of the grounds.
NEm YORK, July 3l.-Charles Fechter pro-
poses to lease the Fourteenth street theatre.
Thousands of people are congregating around
Bellevue hospital this morning, eager to hear
something of their friends supposed to have
been killed or injured by yesterdays explosion
4 large force of police are engaged in preserv-
ing order amid the general rush and excitement
of the occasion.
OF the forty dead bodies brought to Bellevue
Hos pital yesterday twenty have already been
removed by friends for interment Nine of the
bodies at the hospital have been recognized and
will be removed to-day.
In the morgue are eleven victims of the e1Plo-
sion vet unrecognized. On one slab are the
b,,dies of a woman and two children; on an
other Slab, those of woman and one child;
and on another that Of woman There are
five bodies Of men
Most of the bodies present frightfui appear-
snce, for in addition to the fact that they are
swollen and their features distorted by water,
they have, in most cases, been terribly scalded
Since early this morning, a regular stream of
people have been passing in solemn file IN and
-otIt of the morgue either from curiosity to wit
mess the awful spectacle of unrecognized dead
lying there, or with painful interest trying and
vet fearful of recognizing among the yet I'M
known victims, the features Of ? relative and
friend
There are about sixty injured victims Of the
explosion in the wards at Bellevue Hospital.
The surgeons state that at least half Of them
are beyond recovery.
About nine o'clock this morning, the body Of
Matilda Wilson, aged seven, killed by the ex-
pIosion, was found in the water at the slip of
Staten Island ferry.
New YORK, July 5i.--The ferry boat West
deld attracts large crowds 70 where she lies
moored at the foot of East Fourteenth street. in
charge Of Coroner Young. All the huiaan re-
mains, bits Of clothing, &c, have been re
moved to the Morgue.
The force Of the explosion was upward blow
ing away the main deck, cabin deck and hurri-
cane deck in almost straight line across. A
little forward of the center of the boat, the bull
warks were swept away and the metal around
tbe funnel lies crumpled like paper, and the
iron pipe, an inch thick, joined to the steam
supply chest was torn away like cloth and
hurled against the side Of the boat. Two water
tanks We're forced backward towards tie stern
considerable distance. The after part Of t'2e
cabin was comparatively uninjured.