Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-13
twenty-five life preaervers before he could

twenty-five life preservers before he could
find one that would hold.
| President Babcock says he is making every
effort to get list of the passengers of the
Narragansett, but it has probably gone down
with the boat. From the best information
he could gather, he was led to hope the
number of persons lost would not prove to
be more than twenty or twenty.f FIVE, and psr-
haps less. Clerk Herman, on the contrary
says from seventy-fve to one hundred are
missing.
A survivors, story given to the reporters
of the Boston Eevening Transcript, says:
There were between five and SIX hundred
passengers on the Narragansett, the berths
and state rooms being all occupied, aad the
cabin floor covered with mattresses. He
thinks all the passengers were asleep at the
time, and believes not more than half were
saved. Several dead bodies were taken on
board of the Stonington.
THE RESCUED AT NEW YORK.
When the City of New York, with the sur
vivors, arrived here the scene on board and
on the pier were of the most heartrending
character. Women who had lost children or
husbands were weeping bitterly, and some
of them who had been in the water for
hours has scarcely enough strength left to
sit up. Little girls and boys were crying
and looking for their parents. Scarcely a
survivor was clad in comfortable suit of
clothes. Men and women, young and old
were wrapped in blankets or had single
articles of apparel which their fellow pas
sengers on the City of New York loaned
them. Many passengers left the boat soon
after its arrival and went clad in blankets,
with no shoes and no hats, to buy some
clothing.
The steamer Narragansett cost S32O,OO0,
in 1868. She was repaired last autumn at
an expense of $4,000 and was in excellent
condition. New boilers were put in about a
year ago. Her value at the time of the loss
was not less than 100000 She was insur-
ed against fire for 100000, and there was a
marine insurance upon her of $780, 900.
THE BRADFORD FIRE.
BRADFORD, Pa, June 12.-The fire was
got under control this morning. The build
ings destroyed were of the poorer quality of
frames on the outskirts of the town. The
oil tanks are blazing, but no danger exists.
The burning of the refinery, stills, etc,of the
Acme Oil works will involve loss of $780,
600 alone. There has been no estimate
placed on all the property destroyed.
At 3 o'clock a 5000 barrel tank at Titus.
vile belonging to the Acme works, contain
ing distlllate, exploded with terrible force,
endangering the lower part of the city. The
wind has changed unfavorably. Three
other tanks of huge proportion are in danger
of taking fire. The fremen have been on
duty for Sc hours and are so thoroughly
fatigued they have eft the grounds. Citi-
zens have taken their places tonight. The
town is again in almost as great peril as
at anytime since the commencement of the
fire. The night is lighted up with the bril-
liancy of day by the blazing tanks. Great
excitement prevails. The heat so intense and
the smoke so dense people
can't 90 into the burned section.
THE TITUsyILLE REPORT.
TITUsvILLE, Pa, June 12.-The fire has
spent it's fury, but still RACES with consider
able fury, disturbing and requiring the con-
tinual efforts of the fire department and the
detention of outside companies till the dan
ger is past. 1jae Emery oil tank on the hill,
containing $4,000 barrels of crude oil !,
succumbed this morning. Mr.. David Emery
offered the Cory fire department a reward
to save it, but in vain, and he presented
them $400 after their herculean, but futile
efforts were over. The explosion of the dis
tillate and benzine tanks on the Acme No. l
grounds,put fearful gloom and excitement
to the days distress. After dusk the Titus
vile citizen cavalry tried the experiment. of
shooting holes into the various burning oil
tanks to let the oil out so as to prevent lany
sudden overflow, which would defy control,
as the creek was rising, the
effects of a rain storm which has
the day. This had wholesome effect, and
there is little doubt that the ravages of the
fire will not cross the creek, and invade the
R., T. & 81. depot and the adjacent hotels
and shop; nor is any apprehension felt now
for the railroad bridge. Our people in the
main will sleep tonight in comparative Sc.
curity, though thousands will remain on
duty in keeping watch. The wind is favor
able to restraining the fire to its present
limits. A number of private dwellings on
the hill were destroyed to-day, though of
little value. Scores of families slept in the
woods, and Bloss street as we'll as Breed
street was practically deserted. One mother
fled to the woods Friday night with the
corpse of her child in her arms, which
hadEdied the dayEbefore. Titusville tempor-
arily loses by this accident about one-third
of her refining capacity, and works of the
most expensive and substantial kind in the
country. There is little doubt that Titus
viIle's rank as refining point will still be
retained. Nor will the Acme owners be apt
to abandon the point or leave it to other
hands. They as well as the people are deep
ly interested in their maintainence. More
careful estimates place the total loss at ST.
100000, the Acme being the heaviest losers.
We have been informed by the owners of
the burned works that they will reconstruct
on greater and more approved scale at the
earliest possible period.
LATEST DETAIED ACCOUNT.