, 1880-07-08

/ down nv throat. | reached this city on the
! SyIvAn Glen. which also had several Of our
I r,ssepssrs on board. O,ker passengers
Sers taken oa board the Osseo, Granite
/ state aud M,nnelannOek, and were carried
I 10 those boats destinations. A lady Was
climbing down the ladder leading from the
promenade to ths main decks, but this lad
I Der IS a preiiy hard ,hinG for a man 10 get
down on at auy time. She fell into the
rangUAy amid the danes. Myself and
| about DOZEN others rescued her from the
perilous position. I saW 4 hatcher, who
belongs either AZ Great Neck or Sands
Point. grab NJ aa asparagus boz, and be
fore I couli stop him jumped overheard
With il. yelled 80 him not 20 jump OF he
would be struck by the wheel. lie did no;
heed me ana went over forward. The last
saw Of him he was going under the wheel.
Several others who ~ent over forward also
vent under the paddle wheels.
Bodies at tne Morgue.
At midaight twelve bOdies-nins adults,
one child and two babies-were brought to
the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. mum.
Der OF persons, who had relatives and
friends on the SeavanhakA, were waiting to
identify them il among the unfortunate.
Railroad Aceidens as Petersburg.
HABR1sDURo, June 29.-Two freight trains
came in collision early this morning at
Peters burg. on the Pennsylvania railroad.
Another freight train. with John y Craw-
ford, engiseer, and III. A. Shrivsr, fireman,
ran into the wreck and both men were in
s,antiy killed.
T.. t. : Another Expiesios.
NEW YORK, June S0.-The explosion Of
tweLty pound keg Of powder pulverized an
iron safe on which il stood in the Office of
the Dittmar Powder Company, at Park
Place, and did other damage, to-day. Mi
raculously nobody was killed,
Hancock tails ON TildeB.
. Gen. Hancock having expressed desire
to call informally upon Gov. Tllden, the
General met Senator Wallace OF Pennsyl-
vania, Gen, Franklin of Connecticut, and
Mr.. Henry Watterson of Kentucky, this
morning at the Gilsey House by appoint
ment, from whence the party repaired to
Grammercy Park, ,iand were received and en-
tertslued by Gov, rilden with cordial hos
pitality Gen. Hancock accepted an invita-.
lion to pay an early visit to Greystone. The
feeling between the two is represented to
be extremely cordial. No one was pres
ent except the gentlemen named, and in
tercourse was unceremonious and unre.
strained. .t ..u.,.. .... .......r.
A Meteor Falls In Macon. Ga.
MACON, June 30.-Near 12 o'clock last
night q meteor as large as barrel, starting |
from the zenith, plunged down the north
eastern sky and exploded with report that
reverberated for thirty seconds and shook
the earth at this point. Tho meteor was
about fve seconds falling. during which
time the city was Lit up as by an electric
light. Much excitement prevailed in the
negro quarters, the inhabitants rushing into
the houses, closing doors and filling the air
with screams and prayers. The time be-
tween the disappearance OF the meteor and
the report was about three minutes.
Flood in HsncOck COunty. Illinois.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, June 3O.-The Rspubli-
cans special from Warsaw, Illinois. says:
The ,evee, which protects bottom lands in
this county, broke last night, and water is !
pouring through crevasses two hundred feet |
wide. All wheat and corn and other crops |
will be lost, and $4,000 acres of land will be |
overfowed. The people are now engaged
in getting their live stock of the bottom |
lands.
Flood fn Adams county.
QUiNoY, June 30.--The levee below the
ci y gave way to day and inundated over
81, 600 to LOO. 900 acres of the best farming
lAndsin Illinois, The damage to hay and
corn is incalculable. Wheat is largely Sc
oared. 4 ssilfF I tbfRl4 EfEEE
II Troops for the souihwest.
SANTA FE, June 80 Generals Popo and
Hatch have had q conference in regard TO
the distribution of troops in Southerrt New
Mexico. They agreed to scatter soldiers in
small detachments over the entire exposed
Territory, and give GEN. Buell. 900 men for
active service.