Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-31

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fireroom at the tinae Of the explosion.
BE says that fifteen minutes bafore
| the accident, he was on the head OF
| the cylinder Wiping it OF, and then
went into one OF the cabins Tor drink
Of water, and thence into the fire.
room. While there, he heard a his
sing noise proceeding from the rear
Of the boiler and went 90 SEQ the
Cause. He bad gone but about
half way the length Of The boiler,
when he found the steam 50 dense
| that he could proceed no further and
turned TO come back, when he was
struck in the face by flying splinters
and knocked down. He made his
way to the deck as fast as possible.
This Kissing noise must have been the
starting Of the plate patching of the
boiler, and the first premonitiOn Of
the impending disaster. A euTsory
examination Of the boiler, IS it rested
in the bottom of the boat, revealed
the fact that the explosion occurred st
the rear, and that piece about fOn
feet long and two feet wide was torn
out OF the socket and throWu a dis
tance OF ssbOut one hundred feet on to
the dock. At the barge office another
and large portion OF the boiler was
thrown directly forward into the bow
of the boat. Another victim Of the
catastrophe is
ANTONIO AIAoCT,
the partner OF GarihaIdi Ia hIs candle
faet5ry At Clifton, Staten Island. The
poor EsiIl0sg Is sh0ekingIy bruised, and
cant move z music Without suffering
the greatest agony. He was borne to
his residence by his friends, when his
physician at once pronounced his in
juries Of an undoubtedly fatal charac-
ter. Miacci had sacrificed all his
wealth in the Garibaldian movement,
and in succoring pOorItalian emigrants
who came to this country. He was
Garibaldi's most intimate friend and
advisor. He was man of great in
genuity, and has secured seventeen
different patents for improvements in
candle making machinery, and had
elaborated speaking tube telegraphy,
by which he proposed to enable ma
tiOns to converse together. SignOr
Miaeci leaves large circle of friends
to mourn his loss.
THE KILLED.
NEW YORK, July so, Midnight.
The total number of the killed at this
hour is thirty-one, of whom ONLY Prof.
Marsh Chenievre, of Brooklyn: John
]. Beck, 3O2 Tenth avenue; j. ]. John
son, sos Fulton street, Brooklyn; Ma
tilda MOffatt, 459 Ninth avenue;
Nellie GroOme, Flatbush Louise, L.
and George l. Lassas, II First avenue,
have been identified. The number
of unknown dead now in the hospital
and ststion-houses awaiting identifi.
cation is twelve men, six women, and
six bOys and girls, generally under
twelve years of age. The number
severely wounded whose names and
residences have not been aseertained
is about seventy. A number of those
less seriously injured were removed
and cared for by friends. None of the
officers or employees of the WestfeId
are thus far reported among the suf-
ferers. The following is
A FULL LIST OF THE WOUNDED
now cared for by the public authori-
ties: Nancy Tuck, nine years old, of
New Jersey; Charles Oudas, nine
years old, New Jersey; John Groom
and wife, Flatbush, Long Island;
Louisa Lesser, No. 245 First avenue;
Nettie Higgins, 2l6 Fourth street,
Brooklyn; Annie Cahill, (delirious);
Jane O'Neill, SO Cherry street ;she had
three children aged four, seven and
ten years all missing; Annie Free
dorf, l5l Thompson street; Everett
Laney. $50 Broadway; G. w. Cohen
dref, 36l West Sixteenth street; Au-
gustus Greene Browne near Orchard
street; Andrew Coyle, 81 Monroe
street; Fred Smith, 80 Courtlandt
street; Sam Phillips, 130 West Forty
fifth street; Sarah Phillips, I80 West
FOrty-fifth street; Abbie Phillips, 224
East Fortieth street; Ruth Phil !
lips, 224 East .Fortieth street: Pat
Finnegan, Staten Island; John T.
Roberts, 227 Henry street, Brooklyn; |
George L. StOrts (eOlored), Staten !
Island; John Wassen, Peekskill; !
Brillinger, deliriOus, Fourth street,
New York; Charles L. Lesser, 2l5
First avenue; Mary Mccall and child,
55l West Thirty-ffth street; Eliza |
Reeder, S29 Madison street; Marion
Fintorf, 15I Thompson street; Maria
Cheneviche, 246 Clinton street. Brook |
lyn; Arthur Cheneviche, 246 Clinton
street, Brooklyn; Rudolph Ulnlan,
Douglas street, Brooklyn; Jane VI
man, Douglas street, BROOKLYN; Mary |
Bucks, 121 Washington street; James
Daily, lj8 Water street; James d. |
Clark, l6i West Twenty sixth street: |
Ralph Coles and Andrew Nesbit, 81 |
Nandam street; jacques Dreyfuss, IL !
Elm street; Jessie McGOul and child, |
58l West Thirty-hfth street; Matilda |
Higgins, 2l4 Fourth street, Brooklyn;
John Brown, 40 Spencer street, |
Patrick Manly, q Brown |
street, Brooklyn; Michael Reagan.
131 East Thirteenth street; John /
O'COnner, IS Warren street, Brook |
lyn; Henry Storms, ga Fifth street: |
John O'Malley, 81 Jay street, Brook
lyn; Thomas Moffatt, 454 Ninth ave. /
nue.; his wife is among the dead;
Alexander Dalton, 10 Monroe street:
NJ. Colkin and Mary Murphy, Is Des.
broSses street; Angelo Green, Grand
street, Jersey City; Johanna Cor
shOrn, Grand street, Jersey city; Max
Phillips, IA Pearl street; Alexander
10 Monroe street; Alexan-
der Greenland, Water ST., near Scam
mel; Annie Froner, 151 Warren st..
Daniel Mahony, 351 War
rem street, Brooklyn; Frederick Fried
harf, 151 Thompson street, mother
to be lost. but father saved;
Mayor Carroll, Aldermen Levi and
and Chief Fire Engineer
Eckle, all Of Syracuse, were on board
the Westfield and all slightly injured,
nothing serious; Margaret Mccain,
twenty-five years Of age, 9 CHRISTOPHER
street, was badly scalded about the
armes and face; Hannah Browns
aged thirty-seven years, and Annie
Fox, aged twenty eight years, both
at "a Atlantic street, Brook
yn, were scalded On the hands and
ace; Henry Fisher, aged sixteen
years, 166 Wooster street, right leg
severely scalded; II. w. SWelsOn,
from Louisville, KY, was
severely scalded on both hands and
AIKEN to the st. Nicholas Hotel,
The boats of the revenue cutter
Northerner did great service in rescu-
ng persons from drowning.
In Bellevue hospital, at u O'Clock,
here were tWenty-fOur bodies In cof-
ins, and ten on slabs, all presenting
N appearance of having been fright.
uliv Soaldad loron nofohoS Of ei1;u |