Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-15


muddy depths. An eagle was seen with
a skull in its talOns.
! Associated Press Dispateh.l
Distressing Accident.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, April 14-Saturday
night H. G. Gam, editor of the Sentinel,
Warren, Illinois, accidentally shot and
dangerously wounded his wife, while
carelessly handling gun thought to be
unloaded.
4 village Rsidled by Burglars.
PATERSON, n. j., April 14.-A gang
of burglars made a raid on Passaic VIII
lage last night, and after robbing a
number of stores and houses set fire to
q stable. The citizens turned out and
seculed one of the thieves, aged
eighteen.
Murder and Robbery.
CHARLESTON, s. c., April 14.-Mrs.
johnson, wife Of the keeper of Cape
Roman lighthouse, was found in bed
last night with her throat cut from ear
to ear, and razor and revolver by her
side. a large sum of money, which de-
ceased had recently drawn from the
bank, is missing.
Terrific Snowstorm.
OMAHA, April 14.-The most severe
snowstOrm of the season prevailing be-
tween Fremont, Nebraska, and Chey-
enne, commenced at Cheyenne yester-
day afternoon, and travelled eastward
slowly. 1t reached North Platte last
night and Grand Island early this morn
ing, and continues there yet with un-
abated fury. The snow has drifted four
and five feet in depth, and mans life
is not safe outside of shelter. Trains are
laid up waiting for the storm to abate
BidweII Eecaptured.
HAVANA, April l4.-Bidwell was re-
captured by the police to-day, on the
seashOre, twenty miles above this city.
He bruised his hands and legs severely
when he jumped from the balcony of the
prison. Maps of the city and island were
found on his person. He refuses to say
who aided him in his escape. Bidwell's
friendsundoubtedly neglected to instruct
him thoroughly as to the route heshould
take upon leaving the city.
Destructive Fire I'm 81. LOuis.
ST. LOUIS, April 14.-The Missouri
planning mill, an extensive building
occupying nearly all of the block bound
ed by Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
and Cass avenue and O'Fallon street,
was burned yesterday morning. Loss
estimated at sixty-five to eighty thou
sand dollars. Insured for forty-six thou
sand two hundred and fifty dollars. A
wash-bOard factory belonging to Kahn
meter d FTeishes, and several small
tenement houses on the surrounding
streets, were badly damaged or wholly
destroyed, involving a loss of perhaps
fifteen thousand dollars, mostly insured
in home offices. About fifty families
are turne ] out of their homes, and most
of their furniture destroyed.
The Atlantic Disaster Examination
Continued
HALIFAX, April 1.-THE investiga-
ton into the loss of the Atlantic was re-
sumed this morning.
Edward Owens, quartermaster, testi-
fed that he was on deck till midnight,
and heard the third officer, Brady, give
orders to keep q sharp lookout for the
Sambro light. At midnight the steamer
was steering northeast by north, half
north. AT half-past eleven o'clock she
was going at eleven knots an hour.
The remainder of the witness's testi-
mony was related to scenes after the
wreck, and to his efforts to save lives,
under the instructions of Captain Will
liams. Owens said, in the course of his
testimony, that he was only quarter
master, who kept the log of the ship
daily. He was handed q pencil and
paper and asked to divide one hundred
and seventy miles by fourteen hours,
the time elapsing from the time the Ves-
sells bore up for Halifax till she struck
and answered, / do not understand ei-
phering to-day; / understand naviga-
ton, and have worked navigation as
far as second mates work, but do not
understand ciphering.
William Osit, key-keeper of Sambro
Light for twenty-seven years, testified
to attending to the light at ten o'clock
on the night of the thirty-first of March,
and at two o'clock on the morning of
the first of April; at ten o'clock the
weather was haZy and raining, with a
heavy sea running; at two O'clock the
weather was haZy and sea very high,
wind not so high; could just distinguish
Chebucto light, four and a half miles
distant; fired two guns at three O'Clock:
the wind had shifted to west-southwest,
with some stars visible and weather
clearing, but sea still high; afterward
the wind blew heavy from the north.
Beyond the saving of a few packages
of goods, nothing was done at the At
lantic yesterday. Last night and this
morning there was high southeasterly
gale blowing, and vessels arriving to-
day report very heavy sea outside, and
it is feared the ship will break up.