Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-14
NEW YORK.
The Fifth Avenue Horror.
Sacrificing Lives for Reputation
Farther Testimony of Guests an

Farther Testimony OF Guests and
Servants.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-The Fire Marsh.
al's investigation Of ths Fifth Avenue Hote
was continued yesterday. Mary Graves
testified that on the night of the fire she
went to bed at half past nine. About II
she was awakened by fire in her room. She
then ran out and gave the alarm on the
floors below, where the girls lay asleep
Her testimony went to show that the girls
could have been saved if steps had beer
taken to arouse them on the approach Of
danger. Mr.. Samuel Tenneck, of Salt Lake
City, testified that he was a guest, that nc
alarm was given when the fire was d:scov-
cred. The Superintendent Of Buildings
MacGregor, in the interview yesterday, said
he was sure the girls could have been saved
had they been reused. The testimony q
one or two others, among whom was the
watchmaD, contained nothing new.
Eight bodies still remain at the Morgue,
of which four are not as yet identified. In
the event of the remaining corpses not be-
ing removed before Sunday they are to be
inferred by some temperance and religious
societies in Calvary cemetery.
The intimatiOn that q number of people
had been killed and wounded was first sent
to the hospital by DR.. Ruppaner, house sur
geon of the hotel, who was unremitting in
his exertioDs 10 alleviate the sufferings of
the wounded. His conduct is highly prais-
ed by the hospital officers.
The funeral of Que Of the victims, Mary
McCabe, took place yesterday, the burial
being at the expense of her only relative, a
sister.
The Contest over Greeley's Will.
The Herald publishes a card from Saml.
Sinclair, of the Tribune, in which he says
there is no truth in the report that wish
to obtain Greeley's share of Tribune stock
is at the bottom of bis desire to see the pro
visions of the will of 1871 carried out, and
that as far as he knows all friends are
working in harmony in the matter.
The Greeley viii case came up again to-
day in the Westchester Surrogate Court
After long debate concerning settlement
of the suit the examination of Miss Samp-
son was resumed, at the conclusion of
which the Surrogate decided that the exc
cutors of the will of 1871 had the
right TO appear in court. The
Surrogate ordered that John +. Cleve-
land be appointed administrator ad Item.
While the case was in progress the fact
was developed that Ida Greeley had deed
ed half the property left by her father )
last will to her sister Gabrielle, merely re-
serving the right to superintsnd her educa
ton and affairs during her minority.
The case was adjourned till December
Is. On that day, unless some settlement
is made, Reginald Hart, another subscrib-
ing witness, viii be examined. Two other
wills of Mr.. Greeley have been discovered
to-day, one bearing date Of 1851, and the
other 1861.
A Lost Steamer.
The Host steamship st. Louis was valued
at $4,000, and was fully insured by her
owners, Cromwell & Co. Her cargo COZ
sisted Of 1,241 bales of cotton, 1,641 barrels
molasses, 200 barrels oil, so barrels rice,
some tallow, hides, etc. There was also
1920 in specie on board. The St. Louis
was IS years old, and was built in Scot
land.
Aged Witnesses.
In the Jumel estate case to-day the 6epC-
sitions of Mary Ormsley and Lemuel Ain
gul, both over 80 years of age, were read in
cofroborStlOn OF testimony TO the ldentln-
cation OF Betsy Bowen with Madam Jumel;
and Daniel Hull, aged 81, identified the
plaintiff, whom he had known from infancy
as Betsy Bowen.
The Funeral of Forrest.
The funeral of Edwin Forrest will take
place in Philadelphia Monday next.
Prof. Stowe, husband of Mrs. Harriet,
Beecher Stowe, is seriously Ill.
The German Consul General here appeals
for aid for the people, in the Baltic prov
inces suffering and destitute from the in
undation.
Haulbertrin was arrested to-day on board
the steamer Calabria, upon telegraph from
ROuen, charging him with killing woman
and boy at that place on the 26th of Nc
Vember, and held to answer by the U. s.
Commissioner.
The Coroner's jury in the case Of Maude
Murrell, shot and killed by her uncle, Ro-
bert Blsakley, returned a verdit against
the prisoner, who was c ymmitted to the
TOOmbs.
TIE project Of introducing salt water into
the city OF New York for extinguishing
fires, was under consideration in Alderman
IL Committee TODAY.