Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-07
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SPECIAL 70 The ProoHE DAHL
Eastern DISPATCHES.

CINCINNATI, August 6.-The following
persons were lost ON the steamer Pat
Rogers. in addition to those reported
yesterday; Anna Cook and two children;
Simon Gestner, Cincinnati; the wife and
child OF DR.. L. Gibbons, Madison, Ind. ;
A. NJ. Bats, North Carolina; James
smith, deckhand; John q. Hughes.
Theodore Matt aud f. N. Stone were
badly burned. Many who escaped to
the shore We're disfgured for life by the
flames, which blew strongly in that direc-
ton from the boat. Mss Rowden, of
Louisville, jumped from the boat to-
wards the Indiana shore, and hungry
tongues Of flame licking along the sur
face of the water. horribly burned her
head aud face. she had no ilfe-pr-servrr,
and only secured one end of a plank by
clinging to the psnta.oons of a man who
swan past her. She says that while
moving through the water, several gasp
ing. drowning wretches extended their
hands toward her; some even grasplng
her hair and tearing out handtulls In
their terror. The last living object seen
on board the boat was little child, three
or four years of age, running about.
screaming with fright, and surrounded
by flames, with its legs, arms and face
exposed to terrible heat. The negro
crew behaved badly, hurrying of the
boats before there was any danger and
monopolizing all available means of
support.
New YORK, August Cit is stated that
Sutton 4 Co., publishers of the Aldine,
an illustrated journal, have failed. The
firm states that the matters can be
bridged over.
The railroad war concerning the 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 reconciliation. and after consider
! able discussion, 1t was resolved to re-
store the old rates, which have not been
| in force since March 2S. This increases
the immigration fare to the West more
than ten per cent, and to some points
more than fifteen per cent. While the
railroad war has been thus amicably con.
cluded, the steamship companies still
ontinue.
DhObhL1N, aug NC pohiu VI ar
dermen las voted two millions unquali-
fedly for continuance of the work on the
bridge connecting that city with New
York.
George II. Foster, counsel of Tracy
Robinson, late agent for the Panama
Railroad on the Isthmus, states that his
client has been grossly maligned by the
officers of the company, and that he has
brought suit against Rufus Hatch, the
managing director, for $4,000 damages
in consequence.
New YoRK, August Cone millior
and half Government gold was award
ed at from S972 to 9.SS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The Superin
tendent of the New Orleans Mint is her,
making arrangements to recommends
operations, but owing to the smallnes'
of the Congressional appropriation, the,
will for the present be confined to assay
ing only. No business has been done a
that Mint since 1861, when the Confed
crate authorities took the property.
Secretary Delano returned to day with
his family, and will remain in charge o
the Interior Department for few days