St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-02-21
Steamer Destroyed by Fire.
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.

steamer Destroyed by Fire.
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
GALVESTON, Texas, Feb Ii. Steamer
Charles ForteS brought to this city the
rescued persons from the burned steamer
Henry y. Jones. lie gives the follow
ing particulars:
W hen about th3cc miles above Red
Fish Bar, at five o'clock in the morning.
the Waterman OH the lower deck called
out Red Fish Light in sight" The
Waterman was i'll the act of casting the
lead when an explosion was heard
something like the escaping of steam,
but more resembling the report of "A
gun.
The first pilot, who WAS on the roof
ran down to the lower deck and i'm
medlately sung out to the assistant pilot
to make his escape, as the boat was ON
hle. Gordon Immediately left the
wheel and ran down stairs.
When he got below he found that the
fire had wrapped the whole boat and
cargo i'll Il sheet of flame. He had only
time to reach the barge in tow, which
caught fire and was cut loose from the
burning boat and fioated away
Murphy, the engineer on duty. did
not escape and all is conjecture regard
ing the cause of the disaster. The pro-
liabilities are that the fire wall gave
way and the report heard was caused
10y its fall
The whole cargo and vessel were in
flames within five minutes after the
first alarm. There were Il persons on
board and - were saved. The loss is
S3O.OOO to the Direct Navigation Com
pany.
There was IL $4,000 fire at East Cor
NTH, Me-, Monday night.
The last words of Louis Napoleon
were: ''WeIe you at Sedan?' That
disaster was chief of all his woes.
The value of property destroyed 10y
the flood on Monday ut Pittsburg. Pa.
is estimated AT S3OO, 900.
Two men and il boy belonging in
ROckland, Me. were drowned on Mon
day.
On the Vermont division of the Port
land and OgdcnshurglI Railroad. in the.
town Of Morri>town. seventy new
buildings have been erected within the
last two Years.
\ Vermont clergyman has resigned.
owing to a controversy among his flock
as to whether he had been guilty of i
sin or only an iudiscretion in playinr
"blind man'S buff
The Bill To abolish the Reading and
writing qualification for suffrage was
defeated in the Mass. IIuu>, Feb Is.
toy Il vote of d YEAS To 1870 mays.
I, !. ,t,i,;,il, ,rr,ur..L ,b.,, ,I,,
pavmcnt of the second fifty million in
ltiIImeut of the fuIIrtb milli.rd of th,.
Franro-Prussian war mdrmuit, wa,
romuIctcd on th, -th inst
Eight men. vhu with other. were
employed on the free bridge in course
of construction across the jaime, River.
hrtwecm Richmond and Manchester.
Charles Fl;ln,i i Adams has ucccprcd
the invitation of the New York Lrni>-
l,rur, to deliver an oddr.., an, tb,. nc
ra>inn of the memorial ,rryi,, IL, rb,.
St,ta IN L,u,,. ,f NVu n S..,,.,J 'TL
time is not Vet fixed.
The. ;u,ur;,is,.rS nfth, ,;I,,.I., ESTATE.
do moi max, out Inn SIoum pO uf n,,-
s,r,aI urorcrt, The, real ESTATE. mini
|, the Charnauua farm. cannot add
enough t" make the whole more than
SlJo.Wm III the outside. There ap-
pears I" he about one hundred thou
sand dollars of bad debts.
The Ro>tuu Time, i very mu,I, NM
lied to Lunv what either hons, uf cam
,r,.s. cam do ia sci thiuus rirht Inn
SUGGESTS "a series of moral r,tnrm
meetings in the REPRESENTATIVES, hall
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that Secretary Boutwell, ha. rendered
his designations
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