Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-28
Murders and Murderers--TrialS
and Observation-Disclosures
and UnfOrtunates.
ShipwreckS---Steamers in Distress
Vessels Unsafe---Fall Of
a Building.
The Haps and Mishaps Of Twenty
four HOurS---The Additions
to Winters Horrors.


gage and passenger car were thrown
down an embankment, and the baggage
car burned. Little reliable information
in regard to the disaster. 1t is reported
that four or five passengers were killed.
A dispatch from a surgeon on the train
reports the amputatiOn Of the leg Of Pc
ter Fox. One passenger was crushed in
the accident The disaster occurred be-
tween Glasgow Junction and Cave City,
about eighty miles from Louisville.
SAN Francisco, December 27.-Dis-
patches from Yreka tonight say that
last Saturday party Of soldiers with
wagon, en- route, from Camp Bidwell to
CAPTAIN Berrands camp on Lost river,
were attacked by about fifty Modocs,
and two soldiers killed, four wounded,
and five mules killed. The soldiers
killed were scalped. No Indians known
to be killed. Governor Booth will be
asked to authorize the raising of one
hundred volunteers.
All preparations have been made for
the execution Of VIM. Donovan tO-mOr-
row, for the murder of Manche1 r.
Minchel.
Fred. R. Lane is on trial to-day for the
murder Of Harvey Swift, last March in
this city.
NEW YORK, December 21.-StOkes
gave his own testimony to-day.
About half-past six O'clock this morn
ing, a fire was discovered in the base
ment of building 100 Mercer street.
The firemen were promptly on the
ground, notwithstanding the snow, but
| the fire had gained considerable head
way, as it had doubtless been burning
some time inside the building before be-
ing discovered. Another alarm drew to
the fire an additional force, including
the chiefs Of the fire department. The
flames soon spread through the block to
buildings 6l9 and 62l Broadway. The
property belongs to the Stuyvesant es-
tate. The fire on Mercer street extend
ed to Nos. 15S, 100 and I62, and caused
damage exceeding fifteen thousOnd dol
lars. The property on Broadway was
occupied by MOillard as hotel and con-
fectiOnery store. The damage to the
building and property is over twenty
thousand dollars. Halls tailor store on
BrOadW ay, and one or two small stores
on Mercer street, were also damaged.
The engines are still at work on the fire,
though the flames are subdued, and
Broadway is temporarily blocked in con-
sequence at that point.
Among the buildings burned this
morning in Mercer street were two ten
ement houses. Several families were
rendered homeless. The total loss is
said to be not less than twenty-five
thousand dollars.
A German girl was dangerously
wounded at the Mercer street fire by
jumping from third story window.
In the Stokes ease to-day the prisoner
told his story of the shooting. He ad-
mitted that he shot Fisk, but said that
be did not intend to kill him, and,
moreover, that the shooting was in self
defence, Fisk having drawn a pistol to
shoot him. He had been, he said, in
constant fear of personal violence from
the emissaries of Fisk. Stokes con-
tradicted the evidence of Parker, given
yesterday, and says he never called
Fisk a blackmailer, nor threatened to
shoot him.
At three O'Clock this evening, soon
after the fire broke out, the windows of
the rooms on the upper floors of the
Broadway buildings were filed by per-
sons who occupied them as dodgers, some
of the women shrieking for help, under
the impression that all means of escape
were cut of. The majority escaped by
the stairs, but some, in their fright and
| beWilderuent, did not avail themselves
of this means of exit. Two men and
three women were rescued from the up
per floors by means of ladders. A man
and a woman, who were found on the
stairway near the third floor, were
nearly suffocated. Solomon J. Gordon,
a lawyer, who lodged on one of the
upper floors, was also rescued as late as
eleven O'Clock this morning, in a cOndi-
| ton approaching suffOcatiOn. The only
means of exit from the double tenement
house was one narrow zigzag stairway
/ covered with snow and ice. The fire
| escapes were in a dangerous condition.
/ By the efforts of the n ice all were ex-
/ tricated from the burning buildings.
Many Of the rescued were but half
clothed; their condition was truly pitia-
/ bic while shivering in the snow, and
almost as painful as their shrieks when
| in danger from the fire. The investiga.
1 ton into the fire has commenced, and
| the evidence taken thus far shows that
! the steampipes do not come in contact
with the woodwork, though running
within six inches of the tioorbeams.
! The Superintendent expressed his belief
that the fire may have been caused by
a lingering spark from the furnace used
/ for roasting cocoa.
The loss by the Franklin street FIRE
/ last night was fully covered by insur-
ance.
The debris of the great Center street
fire is still covered by snow and ice, and
untouched by shovel or pick. The
owner Of the building, Robert Craighead,
/ residing at Yonkers, has been tele-
/ graphed to several times, but made no
1 reply. The police have no authority to
touch a stone of the burnt premises with
out the sanction of the owner, and be-
sides are afraid to employ laborers for
/ the purpose lest Comptroller Green
should refuse to pay them. There is a
1 lull, meantime the police headquarters
and Sixth Precinct StationhOuse are
1 daily besieged by relatives of the unfor-
tunate dead, demanding that search be
/ commenced, and eagerly offering assis-
tance. Coroner Hermann this
evening officially requested Super
iDtendent Kelso to evacuate
the ruins, expressing the belief that the
Beard Of Police Commissioners or the
4 Department of Public Works have the
power to order work performed, and
saying no red tape ought to be allowed
to interfere with humane duty. This
appeal is expected to be successful. The
formal investigation into the causes OF
I the fire commence after the search
is made for bodies. Several young girls
employed in the burned building visited
the ruins, and cried bitterly over the
grave of their fellow-workers.
Commissioner Smith was to-day re-
elected President Of the Police Board,
Uice Manierre, resigned in his favor,
The Board Of AppOrtiOnment was to-
day authorized to issue five million dol
lars worth Of city bonds for public i'm.
provements, of which half a million is
for the purchase Of land for the River
side Park.
Judge Blatchford has decided that the
Adams Express Company is entitled tC
/ recover from the United States the value
of six thousand dollars in treasury notes
which one Of its messengers was robbed
Of in May, 1868, and which were after.
ward purchased in good faith by Yer.
millye & Co. The value of the note:
was paid into the court Of the United
States, subject to the decision which O
the claimants should have it.
4 CINCINNATI, December ga Cilr01l
icle special says that an accident occur
red this morning on the Nashville rail
road to thessOEthe5Ound passenger train
which left Louisville at II AS last night
The train was thrown from the track by