Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-26
ColIiery Explosion Attended by the Loss
of Six Lives and the WOunding OF
Five Men-TWO Girls Burned
TO Death.
Fire in the Western Union Telegraph
Building, Philadelphia Wife
Killed by Drunken iIus-
band-Damage by
Heavy Rains,
The Mohawk Disaster Inquest
ROwland's Release on Colonel CrOs-
hy's EYidence-The Scene in
COurt-CrOsby' State.
ment-Etc., Etc.
Killed His Wife.

Killed His Wife.
; NEW YORK, July 25.-Patrick Tee
van, OF 274 Third street, Brooklyn, hs'
been arrested, charged with causing
while drunk, the death of his wife.
I'm the Tells
GREEN RIVER, Wy, July 25 Til.
passenger train OF yesterday, bound
east, is laying here yet. They think thai
they will get the wreck clear to night,
30 that trains can run again.
Burned 20 Death.
CINCINNATI, July 25.-TRO yourg
daughters of ID. Pritchsrd, near LOgans.
port, Indiana, wsre burned to desth on
Sunday night by the explosion of coal.
Oil can from which they were pouring
oil on fire.
Six Men Killed and Five Wounded.
GAN FRANCISCO, July 25.-An expo.
zion In the Black Diamond coai.mire,
near Mount DsblO today killed six
miners Five were badly injured. The
explosion Wa caused by blast ignitirg
from accumulated coal-dust.
COunterfeiters GObbIed.
NEW YORK, July 25.-SamueI Has.
kins, of Liberty street, lawyer, and
Samuel Cobb, residing st the National
hotel, were arrested day for ende8vOr.
ing to negotiate number OF counterfeit
one thousand dollar bonds Of the water
works OF Erie, Pennsylvania.
Arrest of r Notorious Burglar.
PITTsBURG, July 25.-George B. Ora.
ham, alias George Mason, q notorious
eastern craftsman, charged with bur.
gIarizirg the First National bank o:
| WellsborO Tioga county, and commit
| ir,n ID lon ACCOMMODATIONS ~, ~
| phia, wss arrested at the MOnongabela
house this evening, and held to await
| the action of the eastern authorities,
Damage by Heavy Rains.
SAN FRANCIsCO, July 25.-A dispatch
from Eureka, New, reports heavy rains
| on the surrounding mountains, which
| flooded the t)Wn, causing great cOns!er-
nation among the inhabitants and On
siderable damage to property, several
houses having been swept away. At
last account the water WIS subsiding.
| The storm seems - have been general
| in Nevada. A dispatch from ElkO re-
ports a washout on the Central Pacific,
near AZino, and an engine and hIteen
cars ditched. LIZ = hesvy, but no lives
lest. The eaIt-bound express YVES de-
| layed twenty-five houI5.
Fire in the Western Union Telegraph
Bulldog.
PHILADELPHIA, July 25.-The fire In
the Western Union telegraph Office, be.
tween twelve and one O'Clock this morn
ing, resulted in damsge amounting II
atlut eight thousand dollars, on which
there was no insurance. TIE bujldingI Is
owned by the telegraph company. 4he
fire broke out in the wooden cupalO on
the rcof, through which all the Wir1J
nd 10 al - hoN va hcnl 0uV7CoR
by the everlasting of come of the wirt3
In the bat cry room beneath. WOTkmen
were promptly put to work, and by six
o'clock, the Norfolk wire establishing
come 3tion with Boston, ty way Of Nor
folk, Virginia, was in operation, and by
seven O'Clock communication Was open
with New York sud Washington, and
since then the work OF repair ha7 gone
on.ss rapidly as possible.
A woman KiIIed-Escape of a Noted
Thief
ST. LOUIS, July 25-D5puty Sheriff
Romans, with a posse of eight men,
surrouRdnd the house Of Albert Harris,
six mile3 south of Laminte, Missouri, at
daylight this morning, unuer the belief
that Sam M'Kean, suspected of being
one of the party who recently robbed the
Missouri and Pacific railroad train, weJ
stopping there. Harris and his wife
opened the front door aud began to talk
with part OF the posse. During the
parley a shotgun III the hands of one
of the posse, nsmC1 Aims, who wEs sta
toned in the rear OF the house, Wss &C.
cidentslly discharged, and five buskshOt
pa 3ed through the partition OF the
killing her instantly. During the con-
fusion following the accident, A'Kean
dashed out the rear door and escaped in
to the brush.
9he Mohawk Disaster.
INQUEST AND THE RESULT.
New York Herald, of Sunday
Staten Island was in mourning yester-
day. The flags on the public buildings
and on most OF the private dwellings
were at half-mRat. The inquest on the
bodies wes begun at halt pest eighF in
the morning. It was held in the village
hall, which YVES crowded to suffOcatiOn
long before the hour fixed for the OPEN
ing of the 80 Curt," IS the villagers had
it. Everybody wanted to hear what
Mr.. Rowland, the cspt1iU of the yacht,
had to say, and the great majority OF
the men, mostly sailolJI who crowded
into the rcom, judging from the way
they tAlEe5, were very much prejuttced
Ggainst the unfortunate man. Ha was
brought into the courtroom in chsrge Of
a sergeant of police, sometime before
the general crowd was admit ed and WIS
ofcourse the observed OF ell observers.
He locked calm and collected, apparent
ly looking upon the inquest as a mere
form atty, in which he was in no way
| concerned. However, when Fergessen
went on the st2lC, and testified
L. -
considerably; he listened sttentively to
every word uttered by the sailor, the
color coming and disappearing on his
face like one in fever. At times when
the testimony was damaging to him ais
eyes fl shed aud his hands moved atout
restlessly. Had he DEP 1nded for bis
safety upon his own men he would have
Jared very badly. 1t wss evident from the
moment that the inquest Vas begun that
the tide OF public sentiment was against
him, and the opinion OF nine people out
OF ten before the hall was opened wss
that he would be convicted OF criminal
negligence by the jury before leaving
| their seat1. But the fate S ordained other
wise, for Colonel Crosby's voluntary tes-
timoDy proved his salvation. The colo.
mel mad not been subpenaed as q wit
ness, but he ws1 80 outraged by the te9-
timony of Fergessen, the quartermaster,
who evidently was ill-disposed toward
the captain, that he could not refrain
! from speaking a word in his favor.
After the last witnes1 had ben ex.
amiped the colonel got up and
said that be dc1ired to make a
statement. The coroner told him that
he could say what he desired, pre-.
vided what he wanted to say referred to
the subject matter Of the inquest. When
the colonel stood up dead silence came
over the courtroom, Almost everybody
expected to hear denunciatioD of Row
land, but they were disappointed. Cool
| ly and calmly he told of what he knew
about the captains action on the yacht,
and so eloquently did he plead his cause
as against the charges Of Fergessen that
the audience applauded him right
heartily-the same audience, by the
way, which was ready to hang the uu-
fortunate fellow to the nesrest lamp
pest the night before. Colonel Crosby