Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-03

Guy, billiard & Coffin, $50 rolls bagging.
H. P. Eggers & Co., 800 barrels meal.
M. L. Meacham & Co., 80 barrels corn
meal, so barrels -four, Is boxes crackers, 25
boxes soap.
T. B. Sims & Co., 100 barrels meal
c.. B. Carter & Co, 100 barrels meal.
| John K Speed, 125 barrels meal.
Brooks. Nicely & Co., 80 barrels meal.
A. t. Treadwell & Co., Is barrels meal.
Fader, Jacobs & Co., 30 barrels -four, 81
barrels meal, 10 barrels pork.
NJ. Gavin & Co., dozen empty kegs, loo
barrels meal, 9 bundles paper bags.
Estes, Fizer & Co. Sc barrels meal.
Oliver. Finnie & Co., so barrels -four.
J. I. Fargason, so barrels meal.
Powell, M 'Dougal & Co., 800 sacks bran
200 bales hay, 100 sacks corn.
Cooper & Co., 800 sacks bran.
G. G. Manson, 80 sacks corn, 20 sacks oats
Brothers & Shaw, SO rolls felt.
M. V. M 'Kaig, of the Chicago oil company
1900 bundles empty sacks.
J. G. Johnson, 700 barrels cotton-seed oil.
ID. Fl. Fear, 6 barrels coal-tar and 30 pack.
ages of shipping freight for the Memphis
Pine Bluff and Arkansas river packet COM
pany.
Memphis cooperative ASSOCIATION, Is bar
rels -four.
A. III. Boyd, 10 barrels meal.
E. Richardson, 10 barrels meal.
Rose & Co., $50 barrels meal.
The major portion of the cornmeal and
other freight has remained at the elevator for
several days, some of it for two weeks, and
Captain AID Storm has been for the past two
or three days begging the merchants, who
are now the losers, to remove their freight
from the elevator. The following is a list OF
FREIGHT ON THE CAPITOL CITY,
which was consigned to this port:
Thomas 81. Allen & Co., Is bales cotton.
Pratt's gin, 6 bales cotton.
James S. Richardson, 2 bales cotton.
Memphis cotton-seed association, 81 bum
dies empty sacks and Ii sacks seed.
G. P. Hunt, boxes peaches.
None of the freight was saved. In addition
for st. Louis.
SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
So far as known, but two persons on the
were thirty-fve or forty cabin and deck pas
sengers. jim Cassidy, diver, who was on
the elevator, had his hands and face burnt
He was rescued by the tug Oriole, and man
whose name we could not learn, had to jump
from the elevator in order to avoid the
flames, which had blocked the way. Louis
Block, of st. Louis, was aroused by the ring
ing of the bell, and upon reaching the cabin,
saw the boat on fire. He left his watch, and
upon reaching the elevator, found the doors
locked. He was In a dangerous place,
between the burning steamer and
elevator walls, which were also wrapped In
flames. Finally, someone from within opened
the door and Black escaped. His roommate,
George Fell, drummer for a st. Louis shoe
house, got out safe, but lost his clothing and
sample trunk. G. ]. Barker, a carpenter,
who was en- route to his home in PittsburR,
lost his trunk, tool chest and twenty-five dol
lars in money. In fact, the crew saved but
little, as is also the case with the passengers.
The steamers safe and papers were found In
the debris of the wreck. The safe was
opened, but the books were defaced and
blackened by the heat so as to be use
less. In the safe was found the money
chest containing about two or three
hundred dollars in silver, besides partially
burnt bank bills. Captain Morris NJ Nicely
took charge of the money to await the own
ers of the vessel. When the safe was opened
and the money found, some excitement was
but Captain M Nicely would not
let the crowd take it. He will deliver the
money to the proper parties. About twenty
bags of government mail were DESTROYED.
Of the entire contents only about thirty or
forty packages were rescued In anything like
good condition. The letters were either
blackened or else their edges burnt off.
FIREMEN sCORCHED BY FLAMES.
The fremen, after entering the vast build
ing, were almost suffocated with smoke, and
several just did manage to escape death.
They were lost in the thick smoke and almost
sti1ed with the fumes from the burning meat
oil and other products. William Conway, of
engine company No. 2, made the narrowest
aecape, the hair of his head being singed by
the flames, while his hands and face are
painfully burned. Captain Raja. of No. 2,
was also scorched by the heat. Frank
Frank, Captain Raja and VIM. Conway
mad to crawl through the dense smoke, foi
their eyes were of no use because of the heat
and pain. They followed the hose with their
hands, thereby cropping along the floor and
over great piles of freight until the doorway
was reached. Mr.. Conway has been unfor-
month from burns received at fire, and pre-
7ious to that he received injuries from falling
through porch floor. This is the third seri-
ous injury he has received within the past
few months.
TWO PASSENGERS BURNED TO DEATH.
Since the conaagration yesterday morning,
he crews of the tugs Oriole and DeSoto have
oeen pumping out the hold of the wrecked
boat. Up to the present writing the burned
bodies of two men have been found One
was found under the debris on the lower
leck, near the wheelhouse. The body was
burned almost to crisp, one of the legs and
IN arm being missing. Captain Crane Is OF
opinion that this was lame man who got
aboard at Point Lookout, where he took deck
passage for st. Louis. He was about forty
FEARS of age. Deputy-Coroner Britt held an
inquest on the body. Another body, supposed
o be that of passenger, was also found, but
IN examination proved to be that OF
pear, which belonged to the steamers mate.
During the burning of the boat the bear could
De heard above the roar of the flames.
A HORRIBLE DEATH
Coroner Britt held an inquest on the body
If man found lying on the boilers, sup
posed to be that of Mr.. Thomas Ewing, of
Jolfax, Clinton county, Indiana. The legs of
he body, below the knees, were entirely
,urnt off, as were also the arms below the
houlders. Nearly all of the flesh was burnt
IF the body, rendering it impossible to tell
whether it was white or black man. The
My thing that led to the belief that 1t is
dr. Ewing is the suspenders' buckles, |
which were shown to his wife, and his teeth, |
which fill the description given by his |
wife. Mr.. Ewing and his wife occupied |
DOM No. 16, forward of the wheel, aud the |
asst seen of the old man was by his wife, |
fter they had left their room and were nearly |
o the door; the old lady is very intirm, and |
vas carried off the boat by the officers; Mr.. |
living is seventy-three years old, and, with |
lis wife, had been spending the winter with |
married daughter, near Barnard landing. |
arkansas, aud were en- route home; he had |
ne hundred and twenty-five dollars on his |
erson, is farmer and in good circumstances;
hey had two trunks, which were lost
THE STEAMER CAPITOL CITY
7as built at Louisville and came out in 1871. |
he Piled for one or two seasons In the st. |
.ouis and New Orleans trade, and was after
7ard purchased by the Anchor line and |
laced in the Vicksburg trade. She mas been
good money-making boat for the line, and
D TO her burning. Her value was about forty
We thousand dollars. The Anchor line, '