The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-12

The Maine Steamship Company will immedi-
ately contract for new steamer, to take tne
place of the Dirigo.
The Portland Steam Packet Company held
an informal meeting yesterday morning, and
determined to erect at once, upon Franklin
wharf freight shed $50 feet long and so wide.
The lumber has been purchased and the shed
will be up by Saturday night The officers Of
the company will be temporarily located in this
shed. The recent less will occasion no deten-
ton to business. The John Brooks and the
Forest City will run as a daily line, leaving
Franklin wharf for Boston at 8 o'clock, p. m.
The Carlotta was brought up to the Allan
steamship wharf yesterday. She is mere iron
shell, containing but her machinery and a heap
CLASHES. The machinery doesn't appear 10 be
materially damaged, the engine and boiler APP
parently being in good condition.
The Montreal, still on Cushing's Island, is
totally ruined. A party of experienced boiler
manufacturers went down to inspect her yester-
day.
Robert Pearce, ID mate of the Dirigo, and J.
L. Smith, j. A. Dewie, Charles Grouve, and
Salem Rands, in the same boat, wish to tender
thanks to Mr.. Page, the druggist at the corner
of Fore and India streets, for his kind services
in attending to their wounds, and in providing
them with clothing. Mr.. Pearce was severely
burned while attempting to get the cat-head
over for the stewardess to cling to. These men
say that two boiler Makers one of them one
armed man, were ON board at the time of the
fire and haven't been seen since.
Bailey and Noyes, with great difficulty, saved
valuable piano from the Boston shed just as
the flames struck the roof.
Henderson Il Plummer lost about $500 worth
of tobacco.
There was no insurance on any of the burned
boats in the agency of J. W. Munger & Son,
though they had $4,000 on the Forest City.
Isaac Berry lost 80, and E. r. Deland 30 bbls.
of potatoes.
The team of VIM Allen, fruit dealer, was in
the New York shed, just loading with fruit,
when the flames broke out. Before an escape
could be made the horse was burned about the
head.
Capt. e. D. Mulligan of the Carlotta says
that the round windows in the stern of the YES
sci were open, and that the flames rushed
through them. When he attempted to go be-
cut in the deck, and an attempt was made to
get at the fire, but it was useless.
The bodies of John Mattison, stevedore, and
Percival O'Nell, firemen of the Dirigo, were
rescued yesterday. The body of O'Neil was
taken to Morse & Buuce's coffin shop, where it
was tenderly cared for. Coroner Gould informs
us that O'Neil had $500 in his trunk. which
was thrown overheard and picked up by a
Hampton boat. O'Neil was q years old, and
belonged in Brooklyn where he has sisters living.
Mattison belongs in this city. He was 81 years
old and leaves wife and two children. The
body of Mrs Miller was sent to New York yes
terday under charge of Mr.. Bunce, the Maine
Steamship company paying the expenses
A man named Breenough fractured his hip
by jumping from the Montreal.
1t is reported that watchman on board the
Dirigo was sleeping below at the time the fire
occurred.
On the New York line the Franconia leaves
Thursday, and the Chesapeake, Monday
A. Little & Co. lost $4,000 worth of silks