The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-11-17
THE MISSOURI MISHAp.
The Cause OF the Ffre-yVhot - Pantry
man Knows About the Lockers And
What WAS i'm Them.

The Cause OF the Ffre-Whot ~ Pantry
man Knows About the Lockers and
What Was i'm Them.
The investigation into the burning u the Atlantic
Mail lines steamer Missouri was continued yestcr-
day morning at the Office Of tie Inspectors Of
Steamers, No. % Pine street.
The first witness examined was Louis Domc, u
pantryman on the Missouri. His evidence was
substantially the same rs that of Patrick McGovern
who gave his testimony before the inspectors on
Friday, and which was puplished in yesterdays
HERALD. he repeated tho story OF
THE LAUNCHING OF THE LUCKY BOAT,
OF the swamping OF the boat with the nine men IN
1t and OF being picked up by the schooner spy,
In speaking OF the fire he said that it originated in
one of the lockers OF the pantry, which ran fore
and ait athwart ships; at the forward end OF the
pantry was a store room, and forward or the store
room the bulkhead; little abaft the pantry
there was tho engine room: the lockers extended
across the ait end OF the pantry, and in one of
thcse-tle port locker, In which we kept The Dishes
&c.--the fire was first discovered; there we've no
matches TO my knowledge stored IN The locker
noticed that
THE LOCKER WAS on FIRE FIRST:
and knew 1t was demonn OF aguadiente that
was burning; this demjohn must have been
broken by the rolling ~ the ship IN about fifteen
minutes after the fire was discoveries; the en-
gines were stopped and an order TO launch the
boats was given; all hands obeyed promptly Tor
the discipline on board was very perfect;
THE OFFICERS WE'RE VERY COOL,
and all endeayored TO do all they could TO get the
that was saved mere We're some passengers III her,
together with William Jones anu Samuel Cone,
The ship got n BY gong down ins the
the crew we're not stationed at fire quarters
during the voyage; think It was impossible to
embark so many women and children we had on
board, for there was no means Of saving them un-
less they jumped 0verbOard and they were afraid
to do that, and consequently pelished in the
flames;
with great rspidity for twenty-five minutes: after
the fire broke out in the locker the flames had
broken Trough the hurricane deck; we used the
liquid IN the dcmlohns Tor warming the dishes
lt was furnished a. par Q, inc SHIPS stores ana
gallons. which were not fastened in any way,
aud so when the ship lurched they fell around
and in my opinion, broke: one OF the walters dis
covered the fire on opening the locker TO get out
some dishes; there may have been matches in the
locker. but do not know oil any having been kept
there: all
THE OFFICERS or THE SHIP
were lost with her.
was next called He deposed as lollo.s:-we left
New York on the 18th or October; at twenty min.
utcs 10 nine on the morning Of the I'D was on the
down 10 the deck on the starboard side, ana when
got there the fire was coming through
THE GRATING OF THE FiRER0oM
on the main deck: there was one stream OF water
playing on the fire ard that was from hand
pump; heard the Captain give orders 10 get the
ono OF the boats over; next ] went To che star.
board side and got the starb0ard aft boat out, but
when she was gotten down there were
NO OARS
oranything else In her: got three oars out OF an
other boat and put them In her; this was the boat
that was saved: when we got away from the ship
we saw n boas with two men on her keel; we tried
to save them, but the sea was TOO high and we
lost sight OF them.
The rest Of Jones' story IL the same OF that given
by McG0ycrn.
Inspector Matthews says that witnesses will be
same deck as the pantry, and also that there are
many ships that are built In that way, and that
these ships leave New York.
The investigation win be continued AT ten O'Clock
ON MOndavs NO# FIJI