Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-24
NIGHT
A STEAMER BLOWN UP.
Five Men Killed and Several
Others Injured.
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE
ACCIDENT.

PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, March %.
The steamer Magenta blew up OPP.
posite Scarborough this morning. Al
fred Reynolds. Richard Lone and two
unknown men were killed aud five
others badly scalded.
NEW YORK, March %.
The steamer Magenta, on board o
which was the fatal explosion thi,
morning, left Haverstraw at twenty
minutes of seven, landed at Sing Sing,
took aboard a large number of passen
gers aud started on her way to New
York. At ten minutes past seven, she
had steamed out in the stream a dis
tance of a mile, when the passengers
were startled 10y a terrible ex explosion,
A scene of the widest terror followed,
and when the steam cleared away there
were seen lying in the forward cabin,
near the stove directly in front of the
engine room, the bodies of u dozen
men. The steam on the floor still
created . light vapOr, and the sur-
rounding wood work was dripping
from its nearness to the exploded pipe.
Two persons were dead, and eighteen
we're badly and two fatally scalded
The steamer Alice was lying at Rock
land Lake, and seeing the Magents
enveloped in smoke started off at once,
and in a short time had comeupto her
The wounded were at once transferred
to her, and the dead to the Thomas p,
May. which had just come up, and
were by the latter conveyed to Sing
Sing. Exactly how the accident &C
Cured is not yet known. The spot
where it happened was between the
main and upper decks, we'll forward.
The steam chimney, which was the
cause of the accident, was forward OF
the engine, and measured about twelve
feet in circumference. 1t is surmised
that a bolt started and was blown out,
1t is also said the Magenta was running
at great speed across the fiat to ge,
ahead of an opposition boat. Albert
Rubrels and Mr.. Wright, of Sing Sing,
were killed outright. Mr.. Law, OF
Sing Sing, is not expected to recover
VIM. Taylor, watchman, is seriously
injured. A party of five, from Pleas
antville, were all scalded, more or less,
and one boy of IL years is supposed to
have been blown overheard.
Investigation or Judge LeOnard's
Death.
WASHINGTON, March %.
The death of Judge Leonard in Cuba
will be investigated, rumor being
afoat that he vas poisoned by the
Cubans.
Linderman ON the Mints-The Gov.
~ernorshipO of Utah.
WASHINGTON, March %.
! The opinion of Director Linderman,
Is to the necessity of a new mint de-
ponds on the continuance of trade dol
lar coinage. He says If the trade dol
lar is coined the capacity of the pres
.snt MINIS will not be sufficient to keep
up the minimum of the new dollar.
He favors the making of trade dol
lars, because a definite demand has
been created for them in the East, and
the outlet is thus provided for a large
silver report. They should be coined
only for foreign expectation. II we
abandon the trade dollar the English
will probably establish a mint at
Hongkong for striking a similar coin.
So far "a the United States il concerned
the trade dollar il merely SO much
bullion, whose weight and fineness is
certified by the Government.
Governor Emery, of Utah, arrived
IN this city last evening and to-day