The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-27
NEW YORK.
A DISASTROUS HURRICANE.
Many Vessels Driven Ashore and several
.. .E.E Lives Lost.

New YORK, Sept 26.-Letters from Mar
Unique, state that during severe storm there
on the 9th instant, three ships, five droghers,
two English barks, three schooners, one sloop
and two steamers foundered, and with cargoes
are total loss. Two men and one woman
were drowned.
At. St kits on the 10th the brig Roseway of
New York (cargo of fiour), and the brig Sala-
mander were wrecked. The barks Jane Rich
ardson and Rosebud were both dismasted. A
schooner was carried to sea and lost. A sloop
driven on the beach, and an unknown bark
foundered to the windward of the island.
The hurricane at Barbados greatly injured
the crops and drove ashore the brigs J. Boyer
of New Brunswick, George and Grace Kelly OF
Halifax and two slOops. No lives lost.
The Loss of the BienviIIc- Inves-
tigation into the Disaster.
The investigation into the loss of the. steam
ship lBenville by steamer Inspectors Boole,
Mershon and Hill commenced to-day. =,
Assistant Engineer Best testified on the
day of the fire, the 18th of August, to being
ordered by Capt. Murray to turn on steam as
the ship was on fire and afterwards to stop the
engine and start the donkey pump. After the
latter was run five minutes it stopped, the con-
Meeting air and steam piston rods having
broken. The smoke was coming through the
bulkheads so dense as to smother them and the
damage could not be repaired, and the men
were then sent forward to man the other
pumps. The fires were shut down and 1t was
found there was no fire around the boilers, the
smoke still coming through the bulkheads and
very dense under the forward end of the en-
gines. / then assisted in launching the boats
under Capt. Murray's orders The pipes for
conducting the team on the Bienville were two
inch pipes and to quickly extinguish fires be.
tween decks ON ship the pipes should be of
four or six inch size. The hand pumps worked
well; was told by the quartermaster that the
fires came from the hatch under the steerage,
fifteen feet forward of the boiler; the hatch was
fastened down; had a false alarm of fire there
Tuesday previous to exercise the men and
dondey; the engine worked finally; the Bien-
vile had as much security against fire as any
vessel he ever saw and more space around her
boilers. Witness thought the fire originated in
forward between decks. -st
j. II. McCurdy testified to building the
boilers and putting them into the Bienville
early last August; made all the connections;
put sheet iron around the bulkheads; made
the floors In the fire room and projections
against fire. The boilers were better as to
safety against fire than any others he ever
saw, with larger spaces between them and the
bulkheads. a.-s ISL str
Adjourned till tomorrow morning, when the
chief engineer of the Bienville will be ex-
amned.
The Ring Notified of their Trials, AZ
Attorney General Barlow has to-day address
ed informal written notices to William M.
Tweed, Mayor Hall the brothers Sweeney,
Thomas G. Fields, Henry Nugsnt, Tngersoll,
luigi w ILL., SOOkc dIlu NdGudHlcl oaUuS,
informing them that their trials would begin in
October.
Coroners Verdict-New dse-Forrcsters
Case-Thc Oregon senatorship Appoint
mcnt-Fire i'm Brooklyn. r.ss1
The coroners jury in case of Joseph Burnett,
who was killed in a quarrel with his brother-in-
law, Timothy Landers rendered verdict to-
day against Timothy Landers and Garsett
Landers, and both are held, the latter as an
aCCASSarV.
Enoch L. Fancher was to-day sworn in as
Judge'of the Supreme Court in the place of
Barnard.
Forester, who sued out a writ of habeas
corpus which was to have been argued to-mor-
row has directed his counsel to withdraw the
writ in the belief that it would have been
dismissed Forester consents to return to
prison at Joliet Illinois.
A Washington special says that despatch
has been received from Oregon representa-
tlves, that Mitchell will probably be defeated by
the new combination and that some new man
will be elected to the United States Senate.
Gen. M. I. Mahon has been appointed by
comptroller Green as receiver of taxes.
An explosion occurred in the Wallabout oil
works, Brooklyn, this noon, caused, it is believ-
ed by leak in the pipe. The whole works
were speedily developed in flames, and at a late
hour in the afternoon were still burning,
Staden, the engineer, and O'Kelly, a laborer,
were seriously injured and narrowly escaped
being roasted alive. The loss is estimated at
1000, which is in part covered by insurance.
The missing cases of silks from the govern
ment warehouse are five in number and are
supposed to have been obtained by outside pnr- 4
ties through some subterfuge. They were not
very valuable, aggregating not over $1,000 in
currency No culpability is attached to the
governmentemployes
Machinist's and BIacksmith,s Conven-
ton.
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept 26-In the machinists
and blacksmith's convention to-day the consd-
Grafton OF the apprenticeship question was post
pOned till the next convention in order to OBJ
tain "A more thorough organization. 3'-
A resolution that the members of the organi-
cation be required to make a discontinuance of
the running of two machines by any one man
unless by express permission of the Union &nd
at the rate of not less than time and half
was:referred to the local unions for action.
A resolution providing that the union be APP
portioned into thirty districts, each district to
be represented by one delegate elected by a
convention of the several local unions in such
district and such appointment to be made
within six months previous to the meeting of
the international union to the President; that
the mileage of such delegates and a compenss-
ton of five dollars per day each shall be paid
them, and that the meetings of the information
al union shall be held biennially was adopted
unanimously.
Arrest of a Murderer,
Arthur Koop, sporting man of New York,
was arrested at Schutzen Park, Jersey city,
this morning, charged with having fatally shot
Hermann Stemnerson of New York, at
pigeon shooting match the 18th inst. ,'fo
Barge Fcundered-Livcs Lost.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 26-The old barge
Iron City, with a cargo of oil from Cleveland
for this city. foundered and sunk last night
near Sturgeon Bay. 1t is supposed that Capt
Richard c. Cunning of Buffalo, one woman
and four men were drowned The cargo and
vessel were valued at $50, 900. Insured.