Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-03
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FURIOUS FLAMES.

Mississippi River Steamer and Elevator
Burned at Memphis Two Passengers
Burned to Death and Others Injured
Heved to Be Incendiary.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. July about o'clock
this morning fire broke out near the boiler
head of the Anchor line steamer Capitol City
from Vicksburg to st. Louis, while lying at the
elevator here, and in a few minutes the whole
boat was enwrapt in flames, the officers, crew
and passengers barely escaping with their
lives, leaving clothing and everything else be-
hind. A strong westerly gale was blowing at
the time, and before engines and tugs could
reach the scene the elevator was on fire and the
gale drove the flames through the building,
where was stored 900 barrels of oil, bagging
and other infammable articles, which caused
such terrific heat as to speedily drive back
the frenien, but not until one named Connors
had been dangerously burned.
As soor as the fire was discovered Capt.
Crane ordered the boat to be cut loose in order
to save the elevator, but the gale held the boat
hard against it until pulled off by tug, when
the boat foated down a hundred yards among
some trading and wood boats and burned to the
boiler deck, after setting those boats on fire.
The elevator soon burned to the water edge,
and, together with large amount of valuable
merchandise, is total loss.
Despite heavy rain which was falling
at the time, the bluffs and levee were lined
with people to witness the awful conf1a-
grafton which lit up the whole city front.
| There are numerous conjectures as TO the;
number of lives lost, but up this writing only
one body has been found, which lies on the
deck of the Capitol City, only the trunk being
left, and thus far it has not been identified.
| One passenger was severely burnt in trying to
save his baggage.
Captain Crane thinks the fire was the work
of an incendiary,
The total loss will exceed 5000, 900, the greater
portion of which falls on the Anchor Line COM
pany of ST. Louis. AS the books and papers
of the elevator are lost, it is impossible to OBJ
surance.
The body found in the Capitol 'Cioy this
morning has been identified as that of Thomas
Ewing of Colfax Ind, by his aged wife. BE
was 73 years Of age and was returning home
from the South. Captain Crane put his wife
on the elevator when the fire was discovered
and told him to follow but he turned back to
save something left behind and was lost. Mr.
Robinson of Longwood, Miss, was severely
but not dangerously burned. All the crew are
safe and the only passenger known to be lost Ii
Mr.. Ewing. The boat was crowded with pas
sengers when she arrived here but the majority
of them had gone ashore.
Capt. Crane thinks the boat ana elevate
were set on fire at the same time, as he had ex
amined the boat half an hour before the fir
was discovered and found all right and within
five minutes before the fire broke out hat
passed the spot and noticed nothing wrong.
The Anchor line carried their own risks
The oil in the elevator was insured for SD, 500
each, in the Imperial of London and People
of Memphis, and $4,000 in the Home of Ne,
York.
LATER-ANoTHER DEAD BoDY-LossEs.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 2.-Another body SUP
posed to be that of a lame deck passenger fo
st. Louis from Point Lookout, was found i
, the wreck of the Capitol City this P. NJ, wit
leg and arm burned off, and the body burne
/ to crisp.
Some twenty bags of government mail WEI
, destroyed and the remainder more or less dan
aged. The boat had 26 bales of cotton and *
sacks of cotton seed and list of miscellaneor
freight for St. Louis, all of which los
; There was in the elevator 1000 pieces of bal
; ging, 1000 barrels of meal, 400 barrels of fou
200 bales Of hay, and large amount of n,isce
: laneous freight, little of which was covered +
j, insurance. It is estimated the total loss by ii
fire will reach quarter Of million of dollar