The New York herald., 1873-08-06

A little examination showed that the Hreman's
suspicious were correct and the ieless mass before
feet having been blown completely away. the
body, or what was left OF It, was soon conveyed "
ior the action OF the Coroner 1t was
said that some one recognized watch found
Captain Myers, but this needs confederation. Az
to the deck hand said to have been WITH Captain
Myers on board the boat, notning mas peen ncato
OF him. nor Ia it certain whether or not ne was ON
board the boat at all at che time OF the explosion
Captain Cody escaped unhurt. Fortunately al
those persons named above as having been on
board the barges were rescued, though serious
doubts had been lelt for several hours az 70 tncn
o hoard as ,ns was Ses,s we ,se
out. These people contrived to escape Dy tno
humane efforts OF some boatmen, who rowed them
known yesterday suffered, and that was Captain
Deedy's, the CAPTAIN getting badly bruised in tee
leg by being pitched against the side or the vesSes
and his wife losing some sixty. five dollars and a.
ner own, her husbands ana her chlldren's CLOTH
rowly escaped with their lives and must have
perlshed but for the manly services OF one OF the
Company's employees. whom Mrs. Deedy says his
ties there Is nothing serious to record.
THE BIG COLUMN or SMOKE.
from the hour the fire first appeared IL was well
known along the east side OF the city that some one
or other of the Oil redneres in Hunters Point was
burning The huge column of SMOKE which rose
from the neignborho0d assembled with continuous
iorcc during all the afternoon, veerng southeast
blowing. This gigantic signal Of the e' fire iend's
destructiveness grew thicker and blacker as the
flames grew deeper and pierced into the debris
OF al the wreck. The people CROSSING
the Brooklyn Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Hun
ter's Point ferries had their minds occupied 10y the
back. gigantic spectre that seemed 10 rise from
the river as beacon, swaying though not gaining-
in never changing direction toward doomed
place. Nearer the wrecks, the thick lurid name3
might be seen jumping up from the boats with ~
vigorous, maddened force as II yelling that they
would not be crushed out and starting out
from the sides OF the dock as seeking egress Tor
fury that had not been subdued-
The frcmen kept on working hard until.
late In the evening, when only sm0ul-
dering heaps OF timbers were left OF the fire.
THE LOSSES AND, INSURANCES.
1t Ia said that the total loss on the stock, In
GLIDING the barges, will be about one hundred
thousand dollars, and the loss on the sheds, &c.s
about twenty-five thousand dollars. This, Of
course, is only an estimate AS to the insurances.
an agent OF prominent company yesterday sup
piled the reporters with the following llst:Liver
pool, London ana Globe, $4,000; North British,
$4,000; Phoenix, $4,000; 1Etna, of Hartford.
$25oOo; Williamsburg city, $25,ooo Lamar, $4,000;
Hoffman, s25OO; Fairfield County, 81, 500; Rutgers.
$l,5oo; Equitable Providence, 81, 500; German OF
Erie. 81, ,250; st. Joseph Mo-, $2,500 State OF Mis-
souri,, 81, $50; Star, OF New York, $4,000; North
Missouri. $1,000; Arctic 81 500; Etna, 81 500; Ger
man American $4,000; Firemen's Fund, oil Cali
lOrnia, $500.
The sheds were insured in the Etna, OF Hart
ford for $4,000; in the Manhattan, OF New York;
$4,000 in others, in all, $4,000.