The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-09
THE MOSEL DISASTER.
HARSH SCENES AT BREMERHANEN.

THE MUSLA D1OAk AAOs
HARSH SCENES AT BREMERHANEN.
BLOWN TO AroMs-DIsCovERY OF THE CRIMI-
NAI-THoMAs COMMITS sUICIDE-THE CIRCUM-
STANCES PRECEDING THE CRIME.
The Bremen correspondent of the London
Times writing on December ~, says:
ga gentleman who visited the scene OF the
disaster q few hours after the event said 1t
aooked more terrible than q field OF battle.
Hospital attendants and policemen, aided by
volunteers from all classes OF the populauon,
Aaa indeed. removed those remnants OF hu-
nanitv in viii ,h the vital spark was not Who'll
T. extinct. but what remained was human
ahambles.
A in an anatomical dissec!ing- room, all
Aha individual limbs of the human body might
- saen living about separately in CHASTITY iso-
ht;on- Here head was stuck on q railing.
lille hand was seen pointing at empty space
from a window sill. More horribly, perhaps,
than the lacerated limbs whose outward shape
vas sufficiently preserved to admit OF recog-
ALTON, were the formless masses OF flesh
.trevn in every direction, mixed up with
.ru,s and feet. On the fatal spot were boots
And shoes. coats and shawls, and countless
anlinters Of iron and wood. Where the wagon
.tn ID from which the deadly chest was throw
vawped a hole over six feet deep and seven
1set wide.
literally blown into atoms, without trace OF
them LETT. On the brink of the opening
which marked the spot where they disap.
pesred, an infants shoe was seen, empty and
askipe for the tiny foot which had tenanted It
shat morning. A notebook was there con-
saining the memoranda OF dead man. Later
in the dsy the most horrid indications OF the
catastrophe we're carefully collected and car.
RED away to the churchyard, preparatory to
removal; but many of the shivered fragments
we're thrown too great q distance and had
been lodged in too improbable localities to DC
found at the first search.
For two or three days after the event terri
Ale discoveries were continually made IN
hnnses and court-yards, in stables and river
boats. A man would 60 up to the loft to
fetch fuel, and find leg flung across the
Goals. A woman feeding poultry in the hem
house was shocked to behold q finger fought
n, Nv the feathery tribe. In the harbor,
Asoody trunks rose and fell with the stream,
Tor several days, presenting revolving aspect,
Ana causing the authorities to have the river
dredoed. The most narrowing spectacle was
that presented in the dead-house OF the
churchvard before the first burial OF the re-
mains, Heads without trunks, trunks with.
ant heads, legs without feet, and arms without
hands we're displayed in hideous rows tor
identification.
Picture for yourself a woman looking for
her husband among these CORY relics, and
the thought beggars description. For Two
consecutive days these visits to torn members
Continued. For two days farewells were taken
of heads and hands. For two days portions
Of the cadaverous array were gradually re-
moved by relatives bringing full-slzed cohns
for q single limb, and having 1t carefully
sovn up in linen before consigning 1t to Its
last incosure Then the grave hid Its own.
Neanvhile some thirty persons. not wholly
killed by the explosion, were lying IN an I'M
proyised hospital not far from the scene, an
nnascertained number Of other sufferers nav
ing been received in private houses:
There was great want OF lint, linen, ana
other necessaries at inst; but the bremen PEG
Me. proverbially liberal and klnd-hearted,
soon supplied all requisites. Physicians, too
arrived from the country, Offering assistance
and helping their colleagues at the Haven in
.ha first ministrations. But 1t soon became
,nnarent that there was little occasion Tor doc
.ar;no. ONLY the milder cases admitted o.
the services of the healing art Ii there was
.nvth;no calculated to render the effects o.
Ahe catastrophe more appalling, it was thai
ANe infliction is confined to Comparatively 1eU
samilies. Whole families having gone to see
their relatives of, whole families were killed
and wounded. A terrible instance Is that o.
NJ, Elmer. who with all his neares
and dearest accompanied his eldest son to tn
Nat tn wish him Go1 speed on his departure
- tha Wast Indies. The father, the elder
md Younger son, one son-in.law. the brothe
o1 .nother son-in-law, and cousin are dead
Tha mother has had her arm broken. One
ne daughters has lost her right ha! q; anotne
a.nohter Is wounded in tho face, hands ant
iacs: a third daughter wounded IN the arm
-S;,a the sister Of one of the sons-inlaw hat
her left foot blown of. That son-in.law whos'
hrother ia dead is terribly lsoerated in the ao
domen This is the worst case put o'n nj
might be cited hardly less melancholy. ~
explosion was heard for many miles around
r IS affirmed that low, mutterlng noise pene
snted to the very environs of Hamburg.
THOMAS DISCOVERED.
The Berlin correspondent OF the Londol
bully Ne,cs writes:
among the persons who were movint
about the ruins of the catastrophe, IN tn
course Of the afternoon was first-class pas
BeDger, seemingly foreigner, who expressed
great regret at the accident. and also ad
dressed several questions to the Captain
When, during the evening, some person
we're passing through the stateroom groan
were heard to issue from one of the cabins
One hurried Immediately to yard the spot
and the door, closed on the inside. wa
Iprcibly broken open.
Stretched out on the sofa was q man il