Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-08-06
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EASTERN DISPATCHES
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The Burnsd Steamer Pas RsEsr-
Hsrsssing Incidents % the O.
lAnity.
CINCINNATI, August 6th.-Ths follow.
ing persons were lost on the steamer
Pat Ryan in addition 10 those reported
yesterday
Anna Cook and two children Of Simon
Gestner. Cincinnati; wife and child Of
DR.. T. Gibbons, Madison. Ind; A. N.
Bolts. North Carolina; James Smith.
deck hand. and John @. Hughes.
The mate and r. N. Stone wcrc badly
burned.
Many who escaped to the shore were
disfgured for life by the flames. which
blew strongly in that direction from tho
boat.
Miss Rowden. Of Louisville, jumped
from the boat toward the Indiana shore,
and hungry tongues Of flame licking
along the surface Of the water horribly
burned her head and face. She had
no Life prsserver and only secured n
end Of q plank by clinging to the panta.
looms leg al q man who swan past her.
She says that while she was moving
through the water several drowning
wretches, extended their hands toward
her, some even grasping her hair and
tearing out handfulls In their terror.
The last living object seen on board the
boat was a little child 3 or 4 years Of age
running about screaming with alright,
surrounded by flames, its legs, arms and
face exposed to the terrible heat. The
negro crew behaved badly, h~urrying Of
the boat before there was any danger.
and monopolizing all available means Of
support.
The East River bridge.
BROOKLYN. July 6.-Ths Board Of Al
dermen has voted 81, 600, 900. unquali-
fiedly, for the continuance Of work on
the bridge connecting that city with
New York.
Libel sait.
George II. Foster, counsel OF Tracy
Robinson. late agent Of tho Panama
Railroad on the Isthmus, states that his
client has been grossly malisnsd by off,
GERS Of the company, and that he has
brought suit against Rufus Hatch, Man.
aging Director, for $4,000 in conss-
quencs.
Failure ofthe Aidins Publishers.
NEW Yonx, Aug. CT Is stated SUIT
ton 4 Co.. publishers Of the Aidi"s ~
llstratoi Journal, have failed. Tho firm
state that the matter car DO bridgsd
over.
Railroad and Steamship warfare.
The railraad war concerning rates OF
passage for immigrants, which opened
in March last, has just been brought to
a close. The combatants were the New
York Central & Hudson River, Erie and
Pennsylvania railroads. Recently the
railroad agents took measures tending
toward a reconciliation. and, after con-
siderable discussion. II was resolved to
restore the old rates, which have not
been In force since March 2Sth. This
increases immigrant fare TO the west
more than ten per cent, and to some
points more than fifteen per cent.
While the railroad wa had been thus
amicably concluded. the contest among
the steamship companies still continues.
sale Of Gold.
NEW YoRx, July CA million and q
half OF Government gold was awarded
al from 9.72 to 9.8s.
Tho New Orleans Hist-werk % be
Resumed.
WASHINGTON, August G.-The Super
intsndent OF the New Orleans Mint Is
here making arrangements to rscon'-
operations, but owing to the
smallness Of tho Congressional appro-
priation, they will for the present be
confined to assayins only. No business
has been done at that Mint since 1861.
when the Confederate authorities took
the property.
Returned.
Secretary Dslano returned to-day with
his family. and will remain in charge Of
tho Interior Department for . few days.
speeie Shipments.
NEW Yonx, August 6.-Ths specie
shipments to-day amounted to $500 900,
s42l 900 gold coin and tho remainder in