The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-04
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Within twenty minutes ambulances
from the Center street hospital were at
and tho scalded victims
were placed in them and driven to the
hospital at full speed. Private car
riages and express wagons were also
brought into requisition. Some died
on the way and others were delirious
with pain. One ambulance was filled
with children, whose eyes were closed
and whose faces were swollen beyond |
all recognition. Their little feet and |
legs were cooked and their tender |
muscles laid bare.
By four o'clock over ninety wounded
persons had been received at the Center |
street hospital, and five of them died
within an hour. The scenes there were
heartrending. Twenty-one persons
were killed nearly outright. Many of
those chung to the piles till they were
rescued, but others sank before aid
could reach them.
The wounded will reach one hundred,
many of them were placed In carriages
and driven home. The drug stores in
the neighborhood were filed with
them.
NEW YORK, July 3I.-CoroIers kee-'
nan and Young visited the scene of ex-
plosion Ia evening. Coroner he nan
will hold an investigation, but will not
begin for several days-perhaps not be-
fore next week. Il is intended that 1t
shall be searching and thorough. The
committee will be com posed of bust
les men or practical mechanics, able 10
render an intelligent verdict according
to the evidence, and place the blame
where it properly belongs. The jury
will view the bodies at the morgue, and
permits will be given for their removal
by relatives or Undertakers.
Mr.. Stevens. Secretary of the Staten
Island Company, SAYS there is a gov
eminent valve to it.
Mayor Carroll, of Syracuse, says: L
was standing on the main deck leaning
against a rail, reading q newspaper, and
Mr.. Eckel and Mr.. Sherlock were stand
ing beside me, Mr.. Phillips and ar.
Levi were standing forward IN the
cabin, when q terrific explosion of such
violence occurred that it hurled me into
the air and I fell into the hole among a
confused mass of dead and dying men,
women and children. ] was almost
covered with the debris ard almost
blinded by dust and dilt. Recovering
in moment grouped my w, Y through
the darkness and clanbereG out with
out any assistance. It seemed as though
every thing that took hold of was red
hot and my hands were dreadfully
burned. A jet of steam struck me on
the forehead, and some falling pieces OF
wood or iron burned my ankles l
was frightfRl, and the groans of the
wounded were appalling. With the
explosion the air seemed rent with
shrieks. I finally made my way through
the debris, and as a cloud of dust
cleared away, 1 gained the deck and
was assisted to the land. The explosion
took place with a heavy rumbling
sound, like the blasting of rock. L saw
people hurled hither and thither, and
then with me all was darkness for a
moment.
Thousands of people eongregated
around Bellevue Hospital this morning,
eager to hear something of friends sup
posed to be killed or wounded. OF
Hospital yesterday, twenty have been
removed by their friends for interment.
Nine bodies still at the hospital have
been recognized and will be moved to-
day into the mo.gue. Since an early
hour this morning q regular file passed
in and out of the morgue, either from
curiosity to witness the awful spectacle
of unrecognized dead lying there, or
with painful interest trying to go in
and yet fearful of recognizing
among the yet unknown victims the
features of 6 relative or friend. Deputy
Sheriff Madden, of Brooklyn, who was
among those scalded, died this morn
ing. If One-haaf of the reports are true,
the government inspector should be in
dicted by the grand jury. Had his ex-
animation been thorough the disaster
could not have happened. It seemed
the engineer apprehended an explos-
ion, for he says he looked at the valves
on the cylinder last Thursday. An ex-
animation of the cylinder thrown out
showed that The iron had been eaten out
around the rivets till it was as thin as
four sheets Of letter paper Graphing
for dead bodies was kept up all night
and is still going on. Shortly after
midnight Port Warden Brennan report
ed there were 240 bodies in the Bellvue
ribiy Sc led and bruised, many of
whom will doubtless die. He said
over 10000 persOns visited the hospi-
tai after dark, and that the whole force
of surgeons and assistants we're COM
pletely worn out.
The total number of deaths from the
steamboat explosion yesterday is thus
far fifty-seven.
Seventeen of the killed and twenty
four of the wounded we've residents of
Brooklyn.
Thomas Powers, inspector of boilers
in Brooklyn, and examining engineer,
inspected the boilers of the steamer
Westfeld to-day ana stated that the ex-
plosion occurred from over pressure of
steam, as there is no appearance of low |
water, on the contrary there is every
sign that there was plenty of water in |
the boiler.
E. p, Lowe, subma1 inc diver, who re- |
covered the body of DR.. Simons, and |
that Of strangers, at the New Hamburg
disaster, is looking for the bodies lost |
by the eXnlosioR.
Mace and Coburn met in the Wilkes
Spirit of the Times sfice to-day, to |
make deposit each on the fight. They |
then crossed over to Jersey City and
paid down the remainder of the stakes.
The late Belgium papers mention a
en- foot for the union of Bel
GUM and Holland under one republic
IAN form of government,
dressed to DIR. Dollinger, made s dec
aration which he believes will be the
center eff q reformatory movement to
he salvation of the Roman church, and
llso expressed his entire adherence to
Dr.. DolhRgsR,s views.
New York, August LIP to one
)'clock this morning the dead victims
If Sundays explosion numbered seven
y-two. A dozen of the wounded were
lot expected to live from one moment
o another. All the bodies have been
but two. A chubby baby
bout nine months old awaits claim
mt, it is not seriously injured. Over
Eighty wounded remain at Bellvue.
Probably fifty more are scattered about
n private houses in this city and Brook
yn.
Up to late hour las evening the
Battery g ounds and all the neishbor-
ng streets were ihTonged with men,
Tomen and cbil'len. Tbe arrival of
be Staten leland boat was watched
nth interest. She WIS loaded with
who eagerly crowded to the
ide of The boat 10 "a Oh a glimpse of .
be scene of the late catastrophe. Boats
rossing TO Hamilton ferry were also
and the sad faces of the pas
singers plainly evinced the anxiety of
u. Some of the friends of those who
ave not yet been found copgregate on
le wharf anxiously watching the dredg-t
" until late hour. AS darkness set
/ the crowd gradually diminished; the
ivers ceased 10 make their journeys,
ut the dredgers worked up to late
our. y
The World publishes the names of
'yenty-one killed by fhe explosion