Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-09

man of the building to compel the
people to leave, but he refused
except TO keep Off the boys. Mr. Potter
gave up in despair, and had just reached
the sidewalk when the crash occurred
He turned to hear the cries of the unfor.
| tunates, but was pOwerless to save any
of them. If the wall has not been
washed out to the rock when
the waters subside there is q
chance that the bodies of most
all of the dead will be recovered,
as it Is thought they are all in the base
ment OF the building, and the current
now sets toward the street. Advices
from Avoy show the river to be still ris-
ing there, and we shall have higher wa.
| ter here. What the result will be, few
hours will determine.
Reports begin to come in, giving the
names of those supposed to be lost, but
there is no certainty that they are cor
rect. A man who was standing on the
Central railroad bridge says he saw 8
boy with one arm over plank pass un-
der the bridge and go ovei
the falls. The number at this
hour who are known to have
/ got out alive is five. Word has just
been received at the police head
quarters that aid is needed to remove
/ people from houses in Exchange
/ street, near the Erie railroad de-
pot, the houses there being inundated.
| A son of L. A. Pratt, shoe dealer, aged
! sixteen years, was among the lost. A
A boy whom he was with escaped.
Progress Of the Strike in New York.
Evening-The men employed at the
Manhattan gas works have not quit
work nor manifested q disposition to
strike. No disturbance has occurred at
the works of the Metropolitan and Har-
lem company, and a strike is not ap-
pretended. The rumor that connections
are making with the mains of the
New York company for tbe purpose OF
supplying gas is denied by the officials
of the other corporations, who say it
would probably cause a general strike.
The vice-president of the New York
company predicts its ultimate success,
and says abundance of workmen can be
obtained, and that more than two hun
dred are now employed. Though in the
evening the supply was cut off, the gas
is burning about as usual tonight, and
little inconvenience is anywhere felt.
A committee of gas-makers goes to Al
bany to ask the appointment Of a COM
mission by the legislature to assess the
value of the property of the companies,
with a view to its purchase by the city
and the enforcement of the eight-hOur
law in the works. The strikers deny
having contemplated any disorderly
conduct, and say they expect help from
organizations of other cities, and they
appear determined to stick, expecting
the cooperation of other gas men. The
companies are equally determined, and
ply of gas in few day.
Look Out for n Flood.
ST. LOUIS, April S.-After an almost
constant and at times heavy rain since
Sunday evening, there is now a prospect
of clearing weather. The rain has been
general throughout the northwest, and
high water in all the rivers is anticipat-
ed. The Mississippi at this point has
risen nearly ten feet since last Satur-
day, and to-day it has swelled at the
rate of three inches per hour. The rise
was so rapid last night that a large guam
tity of freight on the levee, grain, flour,
sugar, pork, bulk meat and miscella-
neous merchandise submerged and, al
though large force of laborers have
been employed all day endeavOring to
save property, much of it will be lost.
Five empty barges belonging to Brown,
of Pittsburg, were swept away from
South st. Louis last night, and two
coal barges, which broke loose from
some point above, came down to-day
and lodged against one side of the piers.
Accounts from the interior of this and
other States say that all the tributaries
of the upper river are pouring out
great volumes of water, and general
freshet is feared. The Illinois river,
particularly, is expected to overflow its
banks, and people living in the bottoms
are driving live stock to the bluffs and
removing portable property to places of
greater security. At Hannibal the Mis-
sissippi rose eleven feet in twelve
hours, and at other points similar swells
have taken place. 1t is feared there
will be great destruction all along the
western and northern rivers.
The Atlantic DiSaster.
HALIFAX, April S.-Wiiliam Patter-
son, fourth engineer of the Atlantic,
had charge of the engine at the time of
the disaster, testified to-day that the low
est pressure during the night of the dis
aster was thirty-six pounds, which was
between twelve and two o'clock; be-
tween tive and three O'Clock the speed
increased, and there was fifty opOunds
pressure on the gauge at the time she
struck. The remainder of his testi-
mOny gives details of what he did after
the ship struck. He testified to seeing
the engines reversed, steam shut off
and the safety valve opened. Brady,
the third officer, was recalled, and testi-
fed to having read the masters certifi-
Gates, and been in command of
steamers sailing out of Liverpool. He
said the greatest speed of the Atlantic,
under steam and sail, was thirteen
knots an hour.
Captain Milligan, of the steamer Car
lotta, which runs between Portland and
Halifax, testified that he arrived at
Halifax the night before the disaster to
the Atlantic; in the early part of the
night there was thick weather, but sub
sequently il became clear, and he could
see the lights as he entered the harbOr;
he considers the Sambro light treach-
erous one as to distance; can see it
twelve miles on clear nights; always
remains in the pilothOuse, after sighting
the Sambro light, until he reaches Hal
flax.
Adjourned to'Thursday.
Only one body was recovered from the
Atlantic wreck tO-day-that of an un-
known cabin passenger. The divers saw
in the stateroom the bodies of two ladies,
which were believed to be those of
Misses BrOdie and Baker, of Chicago.
The steamer North American, which
arrived last night from Baltimore, re-
ports having passed a body floating
twenty miles south of Halifax.
Captain Isaac Smith, of the ceasting
steamer w. A. Starr, was interviewed
to-day in regard to the current spoken
of by Captain Williams. He says all
coasters are acquainted with strong cur
rents running north and south in shore,
and south and west further out, and at
this season especially the current is
strong, but at most it would not make
difference of more than knot or a knot
and a quarter; therefore he is satisfied
that at midnight the Atlantic must have
been less than fOrty-eight miles from
Sambro-light, or she could not have got
to Meagher's-head when she did.
NEW YORK, April S.-A newspaper
correspondent, who went down in the
wreck of the Atlantic yesterday, says
the hull of the vessel is broken in sew
eral places, and the cargo had broken
bulk, with the bodies of men and wo-
men jammed among the cases and
crates. Limbs are strewn around,
broken from the bodies by the continual
action of the water. At the companion
way of the steerage were hundred or
more bodies lying in confused mass.
Some were dressed, but many were half