The Portland daily press., 1871-02-09
--latest News BY Mail.

Much anxiety is felt for the safety of the
Tennessee, new three weeks on her voyage to
San Domingo with the commissioners. Nine or
ten days usually suffices for voyage.
A whole block in Jefferson, Texas was burn
ed Tuesday night. Loss 100000; insurance
100000.
Pennsylvania manufacturers are 10 hoio
convention to see if there is no way OF prevent
ing strikes in the coal regions from winch they
suffer severely.
The French relief flnd in Boston now
amounts to $4,000.
Henry Steinway, founder of the firm of
Steinway & Sons, piano makers died Tuesday.
Late Fort Smith papers state that family
OF eight persons were murdered by Indians
near Decatur, on the night of January 81
HoV Gerry has signed the bill of ncorpora-
ton for steamship line between Philadelphia
and Liverpool
Fifty railroad cars laden with provisions en-
"Londons gift to Paris"
Paris despatch states that nearly all the
| Paris candidates for the National Assembly
| have bean taken from slums OF Belleville and
| st. Antoine.
| A London despatch says assurances are CIV
| en- out that speacefnl solution of the entire
| Eastern Question has been attained in the
conference.
Government bought million of bonds YES
terday in New York at 1O8. IS to 1903 49,
THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE HUDSON
| RIVER RAILROAD AccIDENT-The newspap.
ers estimate the number of lives lost Dy this ac-
cieent at from twenty-five to fifty.
Eighteen bodies have been recovered and
seventeen of these have Leen identified. James
Stafford, summoned to Albany as witness in
the case of Filkins the express robber, was
killed. Benedict of tie Cleveland Herald was
identified by the the name on his shirt and
railroad pass. The body OF George r. Thomp-
son. a lawyer of Brooklyn, was found under a
huge beam of bridge timber and part of his
limbs and body was burnt away.
There were some very remarkable escapes
from The train. Congressman Farwell and
wife were in the second Car and sprapg out
| saving their lives but leaving valuable watch
and $500 in money behind them.
A gentleman who was on the train in the
| rear car Gays that the first that passengers
heard of the accident was one whistle to "down
brakes and then, Immediately after, the whis-
|
thinking the way clear, and in few seconds
| after they felt the shock of the collision. He
| thinks that bad the first order to down brakes
| been obeyed the accident might have been pre-
| vented.
This gentleman and many others who were
| saved complain bitterly of the brutality of the
railroad employees and of the people who were
employed in getting out the bodies. There did
not appear to be any one in authority and the
trunks Were broken open and pllaged by
| wholesale.
One of the unfeelfng brutes got book OF
written sermons, probably belonging to the
unfortunate Fowler, which he read aloud amid
the jeers and laughter of the unfeeling crowd
Articles of female apparel would be pulled out
| of the trunks and held up to view in sport and
the bodies themselves were rugby fished ont as
| If they were so much carri0n and then rope
was passed round them and they were dragged
over the rough ice to car which was some dis
tance off, the rough edges of the ice cutting in.
to their flesh and marking the track with blood
which will account in part for the mutilated
condition of the bodies.
From al! accounts the railroad people did
nothing except commence the work OF repair.
ing the bridge and the passengers were left tC
care for themselves as best they might.
A bridge has been con structed in New Ham
burg, and trains on the Hudson River Railroad
will run regularly again Thursday morning.
The Hudson River Railroad Company il
blamed for relieving from duty the attendan
upon the bridge.
Had a signal man been stationed at th
bridge to have shown red light in token o
danger to the approaching train, when tn
danger arising from the obstructing oil car wa
known, the terrible accident, which resulted il
the loss OF SO many lives would have beel
!, avoided.