Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-13
virtual, though limited, resumption Of specie

virtual, though limited, resumption of specie
Governor Axten, Of New Mexico has been re-
moved and General Wallace, OF Indiana, Ap-
pointed in his place.
The President has removed Postmaster
Filey, OF st. Louis, and appointed Samuel
Hays to ill the vacancy. Hon. s. Newton
Pettis, Of Pennsylvania, has been appointed
minister resident and oonsul-general at Bolivia.
Foreign News.
In portions Of Spain brigAndAge prevails to
such an extent that travel is unsafe, and the
project Of Madrid has decided to send four
gendarmes with each train to the Pyrenees.
By railroad collision near Sittingbourne
Junction, England, eight persons were killed
and thirty severely injured.
The town Of Miskolez, capital of the Circle
OF Borsod, in Hungary has been almost entire
" laid waste by storm. A thousand houses
were destroyed by the rainfall, and over 400
persons were killed. The population Of the
place was estimated at about 10000.
Three young ladies, named Maggie and
Lizzie Lee and Ada Edwards, were drowned
while bathing in the river Ottawa, at Pembroke,
Ont recently.
From across the water comes news Of a
frightful steamboat collision on the Thames.
The excursion steamer Princess Alice, return
ing from Gravesend to London, with about 700
passengers on board, was run down off Barking,
about eight o'clock in the evening, by screw
steamer, and many hundred lives lost various
ly estimated at from 500 to $50. The Princess
Alice Twas struck amidships and sank almost
Immediately. Her steward stated that after
the collision the other steamer proceeded with
out attempting to render aid. He estimated
that 700 persons were on board the Princess
Alice. She sunk bow first in five minutes after
she was struck Some small boats and another
excursion steamer rendered what assistance
was possible. The.drowned include an extra
ordinary proportion Of women and children.
Several of the survivors lost as many as three,
five and six children. They described the
water as covered with hundreds of shrieking
people. The captain and nearly all the crew OF
the Princess Alice we're drowned. They had nc
time to lower the boats, and there were but
few lfe-buoys on the steamer.
Further reports from England give the fol
lowing particulars of the steamboat collision
on the Thames: The paddle-wheel excursion
steamer Princess Alice, which was run into and
sunk with such frightful results while on hel
return from Gravesend to London by the screw
collier Bywell Castle, was one OF the largest
saloon steamers of the London Steamboat
Company. She left London at about eleven
o'clock in the morning fer Gravesend and
Shearness, many excursionists being induced
by the fine weather to 60 for a holiday trip
The vessel left Gravesend on the return Jour.
ney soon after six o'clock in the evening an6
arrived within sight Of the royal arsenal al
Woolwich at about eight o'clock. The Bywel
Castle was then approaching on the opposite
course The two steamers were near the
| middle OF the stream, just off the City of Lon
don gas works at Beckton, and below the
North Woolwich gardens almost the precise
spot where the fatal collision occurred between
the Metis and Wentworth ten years ago. Tn,
screw steamer struck the Princess Alice GA thu
port side near the fore sponsing. A seen,
which has had no parallel on the river ensued
A few persons clambered on the other vessel
but nearly all rushed to the after part Of tn,
Princess Alice. AS the bow subsideC
gradually under the water the shrieks wer,
fearful, and nothing could be done t.
save life. There we're dozen or NOR,
| life-buoys on board, and some boats wer,
swinging in the davits, but even if they coult
have been got at they would have been of littl
service under the circumstances. Within fiv
minutes the Princess Alice keeled completed
over and went down in deep water. Some small
boats fastened to the scene, and the Duke o
Teck, another steamer belonging to the sam
company, which was also on the passage up tn
river with party of excursionists, went to tn
| rescue, but the river. for hundred yards, wa
full Of drowning people, screaming in anguish
and praying for help, and as it was growing
dark then not much could be done. It is be
| lieved that not more than one hundred an,
| fifty persons escaped out of the eight hundre'
aboard the vessel. The Princess Alice was
| long and low river steamer, built for excursion
down the Thames of which the middle ant
poorer classes of Londoners were YER
fond. She had saloons on the forwar
and after decks, and her passenger-carryin
capacity was unusually large. A large pre-
| portion of her passengers were on the uppe
| or saloon deck, and must have seen beforehan
their impending doom, but those in the sterl
of the steamer had no warming until the,
heard the crash and found the passenger
from the forward part of the vessel running t
the after part. Before the boats came in col
lision there were cries from one to the other t.
keep out of the way, but, as usual in sue
cases, the accident was probably due to mis-
understanding, the one mlsinterpreting tn
intention of the other. ALI the rules of sailing
were cast to the winds in the moment of peri
each taking the wrong course to avoid eac
others blunder. Barking, off where tn
disaster occurred, is On the Rodney about tw
miles above its junction with the Thames
seven miles northeast of London.