The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-07-31
A FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT /!
Eighteen Persons Killed and Wounded |!
FoR EIGN NEW ..

FOR II ~ g N N EW .!
MUNICIPAL ELECTION In PARIS !
RE VENUE DECISION!
Terrible Steamboat Explosion FearfII Loss r
Lifs-The Loss Estimated nt One Hundred
and Fifty.
Neic York, July 30.-As the steamer
Westfield, with about three hundred of the
usual Sunday excursionists aboard, was
leaving the slip at the foot Of Whitehall
street, to-day, at 1:20 p. NJ, her boiler ex-
! ploded. The yawning abyss caused by the
explosion extended from abaft the engine
room to the stern. The boat seemed liter
ally to have opened. The dead and dying
were lying in every direction, among the
timbers, splinters and heavy machinery
The whole upper works of the steamer were
shiyered into a thousand pieces. Many of
those on board were blown into the water,
and were hauled out by boatmen with
hooks. ,.,l y. 4 ,...s'.
A large force is engaged in dragging the
river, and bodies are constantly being
brought up. The bodies OF the men, wo-
men and children recovered are terribly
scorched, bruised and mutilated. Colonel
Marche, n formerly the partner Of Garibaldi,
The entire number lost is supposed to be
about 150. - -. ~, -
llSECOND DISPATCH. lsAo
Neac York, July 3l.--Thousands of peo-
pie are congregated around the Bellevue
hospital this morning, eager to hear some
thing of friends supposed to be killed or
injured by yesterdays explosion. A large
force of police is engaged in preserving
order amid the general rush, confusion and
excitement incidental to the occasion.
~ Of the forty dead bodies broughtto Bel
leyue hospital yesterday, twenty have been
already removed by friends for interment.
Nine of the bodies still at the hospital have
been recognized, and will be removed to-
day. so E'ia s s.ats
In the morgue the eleven victims of the
explosion are as yet unrecognised. On one
slab are the bodies of woman and two
children; on another slab, those of o.
man and one child and on another, that of
q woman. There are also five bodies Of
men. Most of the bodies present a fright
full appearance, for in addition to the fact
that they are swollen and their features dis
torted by water, they have in most cases
been terribly scalded.
Since early this mornings regular stream
Of people have been passing IN solemn file
in and out of the morgue either from
curiosity to witness the awful spectacle of
the unrecognized dead lying there, or, with
painful interest trying, and yet fearful of
recognizing among the yet unknown VIC
Tins, the features of a relative or friend.
There are abuut sixty injured victims of
the explosion in the wards Of Bellevue hos
pital. The surgeons state that at least hal
of them are injured beyond recovery.
About 8 A. M. the body of Matilda Mel
son, child seven years of age, killed by
the explosion, was found in the water at the
slip of the Staten Island ferry.s
- THIRD DISPATCH.
Nep York, July 81 The latest from the
disaster state that fifty have been. Killed and
l20 injured. Of those injured many will
die. II. Wilson, a merchant of Louis
vile, KY, was severely scalded. Colonel
Murche will die from his injuries.
Fatal Railroad Accident i'm Texas--Eighteen
l8f Persons Killed and Wounded.
Narisok, 1eras, July ga construc-
ton train,i bound north this evening, had
nine cars and number of laborers pre-
cipitated into the Nayisok river. The der
rick of a car striking the lateral braces and
rods of the bridge caused the accident.
The superstructure of the first span was
carried away, and the second, third and
fourth spans went to. the bottom with the
cars and engine, which are a mass Of ruins.
Five of the laborers We're killed two fatally
injured, and twelve more or less injured.
One man was thrown twenty feet in the
air, and falling, was instantly killed.
Important Revenue Decision.
JKoshuagtoa, July 30.--- Commissioner
Pleasonton decides that borrowed capital
employed by bankers is no longer subject
to taxation. 1t is estimated that this dec-
sion reduces the revenue $40, 600, 900, and
will doubtless lead to innumerablc demands
for reclamation. Deposits heretofore thus
employed were taxed per cent.
From London. aais
HYDE PARK MEETING THE PURCHASE
OF ARMY COMMISSIONS.
London, July 3l.-A meeting yesterday
in Hyde Park to agitate against the allow
ance to Prince Arthur, was feeble affair.
Another meeting has been called which the
government has prohibited.
/ The chief theme Of conversation in all cir
cles to-day, as well as of the editorials in
the journals, is the expected introduction in
the House OF Commons tonight, of pro-
position to censure the government for abol-
| ishing the system Of the purchase of army
commissions by royal warrant.
From France.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN PARIS
THE sEvREs PORCELAIN FACTORIES.
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