The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-14


land 81. Allen is dead.
ID. Mckenzie & Co., tea dealers, have
failed.
C1No1NNAr1, ONO, September 13.-At
10 O'Clock this morning the new boiler
at the foundry of Robert Jones, on the
corner OF Pearl and Ludlow streets.
while being tested, exploded with great
force, blowing off the roof of the build.
ing, carrying pieces of the boiler several
squares. instantly killing three persons,
and injuring nine others. The killed
are Robert Jones, proprietor of foundry.
Evans H. Lloyd and Joseph Ubarshlae.
employees. Ubarshlag's body was fear.
fully mutiIated- hips smashed and
bowels protruding. Lloyd was blown
into stable adjoining; his body was
torn in pieces. He leaves q wife and
child. The injured are Henry Young,
who is badly hurt from tho falling tim.
Der, and also has temporal artery
severed. He may live. Thomas D.
Davis and Edward Roberts are slightly
hurt; Jerry Mulry is badly soalded. with
leg broken and cut in his head. He
will die. Frank Barringer is injured
about the forehead. Flanagan, aged
seventeen years, is fatally injured. VIM.
Wllmpleman has ON arm broken and q
cut over the eye. Dan MADAM has q leg
broken. David James is slightly in
lured. One piece of the roof assembled
IN the air, and coming down, crushed
through the brick wall OF q neighboring
house. A piece OF the boiler found q
stopping plaoe'in the second story OF q
frame structure, square distant. There
yuo q hut 1vkx H. af
the explosion occurred.
WASHINGTON, September 13-Evening.
Congress, at the late session, passed on
ACT providing for the settlement of all
accounts for services OF laborars, work
men and mechanics employed by or on
behalf OF the Government. between the
25th OF June, 1868. the date of the
Eight Hour Act, and the 10Th of May,
1869, the date Of the proclamation of the
President concerning their pay; the set
Element to be made without reduction
on account OF the reduction of hours of
labor, when it shall be made to appear
such was the sole cause of reduction OF
wages. To-day, in response to an in
quiry on behalf OF the laborers, work
men and mechanics in the Washington
Navy Yard. and the principle will apply
to other navy yards, Commodore Case,
acting Secretary OF the Navy, says ap-
plications for the amounts due them
should be made to the Fourth Auditor of
the Treasury. The settlement of ac-
counts of workmen under other branches
will be by the respective Tuditcrs having
them in charge.
Governor Lindsey, Of Alabama, is here.
Probabilities -Northerly to Westerly
winds and generally clear weather on
Saturday for the New England and Mid
die States; the winds probably veering
to North-easterly, with cloudy weather
from Eastern Virginia to Southern New
jersey; orth-easterly winds, cloudy
weather and probably areas OF rain for
the Eastern portion of North Carolina,
but for the remaining portion of the
South Atlantic States. Northerly to
Westerly winds, and generally clear
weather from Louisiana to the Western
portion of Florida and thence 10 Ken
tucky; generally clear weather snd
Northerly winds from the Ohio Valley
to Lake Erie Erie, Michigan and Wis.
consin; clear weather and winds gredu-
ally veering to Easterly and Southerly
Easterly to Southerly winds for the
Northwest, with diminishing pressure.