National Republican., 1880-06-29

About forty Of the ll.fatcd passengers, some
moro or loss burned and scalded, were rescued
by members Of the Eastern Boulevard club
and taken to the clubhouse, opposite the
scene of tho disaster"
Among the passengers was l. w. England,
publisher of the San. lie was saved. Captain
Smith is confined in the hospital on RandalPs
island suffering from severe burns on tho face
and arms. He says the Ere was caused by an
explosion. He made every effort 10 beach the
vessel, bat tho flames spread so rapidly that
it was impossible. The fireman explains that
some of the small tubes Of the boiler must
have burst, throwing tho furnace door open
and scattering hot Goals which set fro to tho
vessel.
The number Of lives lost by the accident
cannot be learned as tho steamer was morely
daily transport and kept no register. 1t isnob
likely that those lost will number more than
fifty. At Wards island the following list of
rescued was furhished V. Lopes of Sea Cliff,
l.. l., d. X. Hall of No. 10 Keep street,
Brook lyn, ,DaniclMaloney Of Morganstown LII,
Ida Smith of No. 637 Leonard street, Brooklyn,
Maggie Mcehan of No. PSI East Thirty-seventh
street, New York. Annie Sherry Of Que
hundred.apd nineteenth street and Second
avenue Margaret Sherry OF One-hundred.and.
nineteenth street and Second avenue, and
Katie Rohsbach of 1876 Ninth avenue,
who We're suffering from exhaustion.
IhIS' oUulCT, VI 4UO Nb3t fl1Ly-Lnllu 6IlCcI,
was badly burned about the body. She lost
two children of her own, saved one, and lost
one child three years old, named Katie
Rouscher, whose parents 1.-Two at 1875 West
Fifi y-tbird street. Charity Jones, y colored
woman, living at 109 West Twenty.sixth
street, was slightly burned. Her seven.
montbs-old child was drowned. Mrs Chaun-
ccy Hawkins, OF rs Rodman street, Brook lyn,
received severe internal injuries, and her
q 6anu ht huI boo Il,
AT the dead-house on Wards island was
| found the body of woman with child
| claspcd in her arms, both burned to n crisp,
a woman, probably Mary Reed; tho body OF a
man burned beyond recognition; woman
about foriy-five years old, dressed in a bomba-
zine dress and wearing drab gloves; y man
| forty-hve years old, bald head slight nous
tache and chin beard, with no clothing on his
| body with tho exception of pair of black
pants. The body of child was discovered
lodged on the psddle-whcel of tho burning
vessel, but when an attempt was made to SO.
cure it IL fell into the water and disappeared
At Rsndull's island but ono body was found
II was that of child.
The New York Herald gives the following
list of the dead ms far as known: Mamie
| Beach, two years of nge, daughter of the late
Judge Beach of Glen Cove, L. l.; Martha
Boiler, eight years old, Fifty-third street; Con
tantine Cherry, four years old. of No. 1897
Sccond avenue; Mrs. George W. Cotton, No
1850 Pacific street, Brooklyn (drowned); -
Jones, colored, child of Charity Jones Of
No. 100 West Twenty-sixth street; Mrs. Mary
Reed, drowned; - Shaler, child of Mrs
Shaler of No. 406 West Fifty.third street, who
was saved with her other child Yandcrwatei
-, two years old, of Glen Cove, l. l., body
| not recovorod; Watson -.
Unknown dead-Male child, eight months
old, burned; female child, twelve months old
drowned; awoman forty years Of ago burned
to crisp; boy three years old, German
woman, and baby eighteen months old
drowned.
The following persons were cared for in the
| hospital: William II. Grace, 81 Wall street
and bis'wife and child; Mamie Sherman, II
Eighth avenue and Brnadwayr Asioyla, L. /.
Leonora Brumfcld, 30 West Forty-sevcntli til
| street; Mrs. ii. NJ. Thorp, Glonwood, l.. l.
Margaret Wylie. 439 Seventh avenue; Caro-
line Hooper, 14S West Tenth street; Amei.
NJ. Fields Rosyn. l.. l.; Mrs. Susie j. Wander
water, Glen Cove, j.. l.; her baby wa,
| drowned; Mary Carson, s West Thirty.third
street; Bridget litzsmmOns, 200 Madison
avenue; Mrs. Dillon, Brooklyn; Mrs. Myers
East Ffty-ninth street, and Colonel Sypes,
Sea Cliff, l.. l.; Mrs. Ncsbit, wife of con
tractor Nosht, aud her two-year-old child
and Mamie Beach, daughter Of the late Judge
| Beach.
Among The missing are Henry Arthur of 81
Gold street, John Berbeck of Brook lyn, Ed
| ward l.. Cobb OF Brooklyn, Furman Field, .
boy Of fifteen. lilly Fell and Lewis Green o.
NOrwalk, Conn., are reported lost.
At midnight twelve bodics---nine adults, ono
child and Two babies-were brought to the
morgue at Bellevue hospital by the hospital
| steamboat. Among the bodies is that of Mrs
| Ritchie of Locust Grove, J.. /. 1t is said som,
Of tho crow did not do their duty, but jumped
| into the river and swan ashore