Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-01
IN THE MORGUE

IN THE MORGUE
there are eleven victims of the ex-
plosion yet unrecognized. On a slab
are the bodies of a woman and two
children. On another slab are those
of q woman. There are five bodies
of men.
Most of the bodies present a fright
full appearance, for in addition to the
fact that they are swollen and the
features distorted by the water, they
have in most cases been terribly
scalded.
Since an early hour this morning a
regular file in and out of the morgue,
either from curiosity to witness the
awful spectacle Of the unrecogniZed
dead lying there or with the painful
interest of trying and yet fearful of
recognizing among the yet unknown
victims the features of a relative or
friend. There are about sixty injured
victims of the explosion in the wards
at Bellevue hospital, and the surgeons
state that at least half of them are
beyond recovery. About nine o'clock
this morning the body of Matilda
Nelson, age seven years, killed by the
explosion, was found in the water at
the slip of Staten Island ferry, and
removed to the station-hoUse.
Deputy sheriff MOdder, Of Brooklyn,
who was among those scalded by the
explosion yesterday, died this morn
ing. The members Of the
SYRACUSE DELEGATION,
who were injured yesterday by the
r.Ir Ta1n 81 %,
rybOat Westfield, are all doing well.
Crowds Of people have been cOngre-
gated during the morning around the
Center street hospital, where many
of those injured by the explosion on
the Westtield yesterday are lying.
Public interest in regard to the full
extent of the disaster is on the in
crease, and the explosion is the theme
of conversation among all classes Of
the public.
The number of deaths from the boat
explosion yesterday is thus far. fifty
seven. The following are the names
of the Victims identified in addition
to those previously reported: Andrew
COyle, 81 Monroe street; Isaac w.
Haywood, "a Canal street; Monroe
Freeland, 80 East Broadway; Samuel
Phillips, I30 East FOrty-filth street /;
Rachel Phillips, 224 East FOrtieth
street; Samuel Phillips, jr., l30 East
Forty fifth street; Pat Finley, 658
Second avenue: Matilda Nelson, I50
Sackett street; Eliza Reeder, 329 Madi-
son street; Michael Finn, 529 Canal
street; Laurence Mccormick, "a Water
street; Ellen Groom, Flatbush, L. [. /;
J. Randolph Uhlman, Mrs. Rudolph
Uhlman, II Douglass street, Brook
lyn; Author Chenviere, 246 Clinton
street, Brooklyn; William Scheffus,
Clifton, L. L; Mary Mccall, 351 West
Thirty-fith street; Pat T. Sanders, 17S
Tillary street, Brooklyn; Mary Tried
hoff, Emily TriedhOtf, 151 Thompson
street; John Beck, 80 Tenth avenue;
g. H. Horn, Mott street; j. j. Jinks,
504 West TWenty-seventh street; /;
Henry KOrn, M yrtle avenue, Brook
lyn; LOuisia ElassOr, "A First avenue /;
Louis HOff, 90 Middagh street, Brook
lyn; Geo. L. Statz, StapletOn; S. J..
Melia, 5 Lewis street; Mrs. Catharine
Chandler, Clinton street, Brooklyn; {;
Laurence Mccormick, 81 WalwOTth
ttreet, Brooklyn; John W. Risley,
Atlantic City, N. J. Seventeen Of
the killed and tWenty-fOur of the
wounded were residents of Brooklyn.
Thomas P. Powers, inspector of
boilers in Brooklyn and examining
engineer, inspected the boiler of the
Westtield to-day, and states that the
explosion 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. r. Lowe, the submarine diver
who recovered the body of Doc. Sim
monds and that of Strange, engineer,
at the New Hamburg disaster, is
looking for the bodies of the lost by
the explosion.
Bernard Smith, aged 80, of 7S Ham,
iltOn avenue, Brooklyn; wife, aged
2S, and two children, one a lite girl
and the other an infant, were on the
Westfield at the time of the explosion.
The husband is missing, wife and lit
tie girl dead and infant badly scalded.
Up to a late hour tonight no addi-
tiOnal deaths reported among the pa
tients of Bellevue hospital with the
exception of Andrew Nesbit, of 80
Van Dam street, who had his skull
fractured by piece of the boiler and
is in immediate danger of death. At
nine o'clock the MOrgue was closed
and policemen stationed at all the
approaches to keep back the crowd,
who, all day and up to a late hour
strOve to gain admission. There are
twenty bodies in the MOrgue await
ing interment. Two are UnrecOgnized.
Two experts, said to be acting under
orders fthe Secretary of the Treasury,
examined a fragment of the boiler at
police headquarters.
Counterfeit tWenties on the United
States National Bank, of Washington,