The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-25
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YoRK, July A-Commissionel
Of Charities, Henry Carr, oil Brooklyn
was dangerously stabbed Monday evening
by Assemblymln Roaer.
The yacht Gull beat the yacht Zella,
yesterday, In q race Of twenty milesL 70
RindWafd, from Sandy Hook and return
|se 0neioiR gang Of three thieves was
shot dead this morning In attempting 10
board q canal boat In East river. ~,
The Eric directors have chosen Gen
A. s. Deven general manager of the Erie
Railroad, new Office He has not vet
accepted Il Of the Vice Presidency.
Wdts OF hdbAGS corpus, Teturnable TO-
morrow, were issued In favor Of Thomas
Hart, Patrick Hart and John T. Red
mond, the hall boys, detained aswitnesses
in the Stokes case. Application will then
be made for their release on bail.
The race for the Bennett challenge cup
occnfs tomorrow from the Sandy Hook
light shlp 70 Brentonfs light ship and
return about $50 miles. Madeline and
Rambler are the only competitors. &,
The policeAre agitated over the attempt
70 assassinate music teacher named
Muller last night, after he had been in.
weighed from his home by decoy letter
signed Fisher, the supposed assailant,
who, missing Muller, assaulted him In
the face with the pistol after the bull.
let missed Its mark. He Is not seriously
injured. 1t Is believed the cause of the
assault was TO take revenge for real or
imaginary wrongs 10 q lady.
BURNING OF RRIE RAILWAY SHOPS AT
JERSEY oTTY.
New YORK, July 24-About eight
O'clock tonight q fire broke out in the
carpenter ahops Of the Erie Railway
Company, near the shore end oil the long
dock, Jersey City, which shop formed the
eastern end Of parallelogram Of shops
covering an area Of 800 by $50 feet 70
the western end fronting on Provost
street Within space thus inclosed
were the repair shops, machine shops,
blacksmith, carpenter and paint shops
and general store rooms Of the company.
Before the fremen could get to work the
flames extended along the ma
chine shops and bursting out
OF every window for 300
feet. In less than an hour the whole
block Of shops was in ruins. Within the
repair shops were thirty.three locomo.
lives, about half dozen almost new.
Most Of them were freight engines, but
there were several fine express locomo-
tiyes in the repair shops. The machine
and blacksmith shops were iull of costly
machinery, boilers, trip hammers, fur
naces, &c. One Of the trip hammers alone
coat $50, 900 within month. The build
ings also contained copper, tin and wood.
en- patterns, and fun supply Of tools
for railway purposes. The shops were
Of brick, two stories high with slated
roofs, were only completed eight months
ago at cost Of about $4,000. Some
workmen state thst the fire was occasion
ed by fire left unbanked in the black
smith shop when the men left at six
o'clock. Another account says Q barrel
Of oil exploded. Still another locates the
origin to the carpentershop where the
evidences were first discovered. Over 500
workmen are thrown out Of employment.
The store-rooms Of the company, three
stories high, were the last TO yield
TO the flames. They contained
a full assortment Of miscellaneous stores,
head lights, &c. The total loss is esti.
mated at $500, 900, as follows: Machinery,
$l75, 900; locomotives, $345, 900; build.
ings, $50 900. Insurance about 100000,
in what companies 1t has not yet been
ascertained. The conhagration was wit.
messed BY probably 10000 people. Two
firemen were struck by the falling walls.
One man named james McCarty was
killed and another badly injured. All Of
the books and papers in the shops were
destroyed. McCarty, who was killed,
was engineer Of one Of the steamers, and
was crushed by the falling walls while at
his post.