The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-26
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TWEED'S RETURN.
EFFECT OF HIS SURRENDER AND HOW HE
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DISASTERS AT SEA.
Ship Missing with Three Hundred Coolies
Vessels Lost aud Disabled.
THE EASTERN WAR.
ProIongatior Of the Amistice---Peace
Propositions Discussed.
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NEW YORK, September 24.-The great en-
rineering feat Of rending the rock which OBJ
structed navigation at He'll Gate has been
successfully accomplished in the precise
time and manner intended, and without q
single accident. About II O'Clock streams
OF pedestrians were pouring across the city
to points Of observation on the east SIDE.
Vast numbers of strangers came to see what
everybody expected would be a magnificent
spectacle. Street-cars going up town were
loaded with police and citizens, and First
and Second avenues, rs viewed from
heights, was black with pedestrians moving
towards Ninetieth street.
On the First-ayenue cars men were seen
sitting in the windows Mt either side, with
legs dangling out Of the windows, About
. o'clock the cross streets and avenues from
which view could be had were swarmlng
with people, and the house-tops along the
east Side were crowded, when heavy
shower OF rain came down, and the i'm
mense multitude were Immediately under
the shelter OF umbrellas. Thousands
on thousands OF carriages and yehl-
cles OF every description crowded the
heights and cross streets from which the eX-
plosion could be seen. Great alarm pre-
vailed among many residents OF First ave-
nue. and cross streets from Eighty-second to
Ninety-siXth street, and some houses were
entirely deserted by the residents through
fear Of rocks being hurled across the river
or huge waves being caused by the up
heayal. Every house in that vicinity had
doors and windows open as a matter Of pre-.
caution: but great mass OF the people had
no fears whatever, and spectators swarmed
on the piers and low, grounds directly In
line with the rocks, where they would have
been drowned by thousands in case OF
wave. -''' .:. .,.s.
Police lined First and Second avenues,
and were stationed among the crowds on
the rocks, to be available in case OF panic.
A bird's-eye view OF the point OF interest
was had by twelve or thirteen thousand PEG,
pie at the heights between Ninety-second
and Ninety-siXth streets and Third avenue,
where there are no houses. Directly oppo-
site, across the river, was Hallet's Point,
and the timbers and shanties at the opening
OF the shaft. Nearly midway in the river,
but a little to the north, was little island,
with q boat-house, and few hundred yards
south q little rock, surmounted by adver-
Using boards. The rock to be blasted lay
beneath the surface between little island
and Hallet's Point.
Government scow, and Police and Emf.
grafton Board steamers, and hundreds OF
barges and row boats lay between New
York and Wards island, about opposite
Observation-Disclosures th street. At2 O'CLOCK
faint puff Of smoke arose, followed by a
report OF the first gun, and there was IN
slant commotion, crowds swaying about In
eagerness to get good standpoint. Cries
of "Down umbrellas " were unheeded.
Ten minutes later another report, and q
deep hush fell upon the multitude. Still
ness was complete and unbroken from then
until the third gun, $50 O'Clock, which was
followed precisely at 2:5l O'Clock by the
explosion. In a straight and seemingly
narrow line, running north ana south ios
about three hundred yards, water whitened
arose evenly three or four feet high. A dull
| thud was heard, rocks trembled beneath the
| feet OF the multitude rs from two quick pull
sations OF an earthquake. The water,
which appeared to remain stationary, Tor
an instant broke and spurted up In irregu-
| lar dark-yellowish masses about twelve 1eet
bioh. mixed with dark smoke from the
dynamite, and then it fell back. In mo-
ment fine river resumed its usual peaceful
osnect. Then mighty cheer arose from all
| fine northeast side OF the city ana from
steamers and boats, and steam-Whlsties
were blown and bells were rung .3oyousiy,
and all was over. The report was scarcely
noticeable. Not the smallest fragment OF
rock was hurled up, and not 80 much as q
rinple was caused upon the water save JUST
over the SPOT where the explosion took
Mace. There was no conclusion IN the an,
and not pane OF glass was broken IN tne
city or on Wards island. -.
Immediately after the explosion hundreos
OF row-boats set out at their best speed Iol
He'll Gate, each anxious to have the honor
| of first passing over the scene OF the expo
sion, That the work was effectuaiiy cone
is the general feeling, and this also appears
| from the fact that the police-boat passed
over the spot safely. A5
The tide has been changed materially Q!
the explosion, and now the current sets al
rectly to Big and Little-Mil ROCKS. Inc!
will have to be exploded next.
PERFECT SUCCESS. / @
i New YORK, September 25.-General New
ton to-day pronounced the Hell-Gate expio
sion ga thorough explosion Some per
sons were inclined to believe from the singh,
noise and shock that only o part OF the ex'
plosiyes had been discharged le IS, g $a u,
| j General Newton's daughter Mary, aged
three wears, touched the key which exploded
at Halle's Point reef Sunday. RI
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