New-York tribune., 1880-06-30

| with brown hair and fair colnplexion dressed III a
blue flannel suit, whose face was greatly dstgured,
| being burned almost to o crisp, was described IN
| tO-day's TRIBUNE as being among the unhientined
dead. II is surmlsed that this is the body Of Mary
| Anne Flynn. as me description tales with that OF
her dress and appearance. Charles Spiro, lawyer
| Il guest ut the WhltesOne House. has not yet re-
and by STi nSrs 5S P%Gc
cred fatal. The guests of the White1tono House ,,e
proprietor, +. b. Booth were on board at
the time OF the accident, and yet they all escaped
| without serious injury.
4. NJ. Livingston says that he saw several persons
| on the upper deck who were either afraid to jump
off or could not reach the lower deck and who were
literally burned to death. One man clung TO
carpet-bag which he held in his band with wOnGer-
full tenacity. Presently tho flames caped forward
aui enveope1 him, ard Mr.. Livingston had Just
time TO see the caIpet-baG burned to crlsp hcIHIe
The flames and smoke smut the man from his sight.
| INJURED RESIDENTS OF ROSLYN.
| STATEMENTS or EDGAR KS. THE ENGINEER OF
| THE> EAwANHAKA. TIE ASSISTANT FIREMAN 1liE
| MATE ATD oInERs-coNDUcr OF THE PEOPLE
| oXTHEB BoAr-HOw THE CAPTAIN STOOD DRAVKIY
AT HIS POST.
| truoN 4 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or THR TRrBUNE.l
| RosLYN, June 29-This village is much excited
over the loss of the Seawaahaka as n number Oh the
officers live here it being the last lauding mad" by
the boat Few persons from this place were on the
boat however, as tie cars furnish more convenient
transit Edgar Weeks. the engineer of the doomed
steamer, was found at his home this afternoon by
the TmBUNE correspondent his face and hands
covered with lime and lnscrd Ull poultces. lie
| made the following statement:
"The first warning which had of the coming
| disaster was q low rumblng sound, resembling
| distant thunder coming from the furnace. stepped
to the re-room and shut off the steam Jet draft Ill
| tending to prevent any catastrophe from the OK
| plosion which could not understand. As soon as
shut it of the fire bechrd ont of the furnace in
large blue fame, directly in my face, and shot np
| the buiknCad between tho boilers anu
ongine-roOm. As soon as l saw tins l opened
the steam jet again hoping to stop the
flames and in doing So got badly burned about the
face ana hands. The woodwork igntcd like gun
| powder and saw that the steamer woull have TO
| burn; so l ran on deck and started the donkey
| engine that works the frc-pump then ran to the
pilot-hOuse and told the captain TO head her or the
| shore ana afterward pulled down lifc-prcserver,
| and gave them to the people. tied them on .eV-
eral chdIcn. told the people to keen g. ol and
| not Jump til We grounded The boat burned Ike
| finder. 1t could not have been over five minutes
from the tune tn" ra brcke "ui brfo'e the boat w1+
grounded and all the were taken of except
| two or three vino ere paraiNZrd by fright.
AT this time the flames were bursting through
! the upper cabin windows. WAS onr of the last ("
| leave the steamer. Ga Jumping int" the wafer !
| cane IntO contact with WOHrn whom L llciprd
into one oi the coats of the Grant" state After
| got ashore worked hard helping people out of the
water aud assisting Tie doctors. These dIrtOrs d.
serve great credit for the way they worked iastmgit
| should think we had ABOUT 300 or 225 people
aboard and do not think over 30 were Lost. Most
of these might have been saved If they htd had
presence Of mind st the time OF tho accIdent
we were running uud thrty-ihrce pounds Of
stean; the Government Inspection MOVED ~
forty pounds. We also had plcniv of Hi-prcscrY-
ers on every deck. and stored IN every aydiiabic
space aud know ali ihc requirements OF IA" we're
complied with. The bo.lci, were ~ thc Or5t cor
| di ion and the explosion mast lave been caused
by some accumulation oi cas Ia thr fHrs. have
been engineer Of the Sawanaaka Cor iGurtt Ell
Yeas, ever since she was bark, and never had an
| acciden; on her, atiIolRh was burned III another
| steam IOat fire previously"
| Francis Weeks, tue engineers son, who acted ms
assistant fireman. Is at bis fathers house uHIujurc.
| and gave the following account Of the disaster
| was sitting BY the door Of the iirc-r0Om when the
explosion occurred. The boilers he'd plenty of wa
tor | was just about to shit the feed from one
boiler to the other when tbs fire broke out Of the
starbuard furnace. MY father came III the room
aud opened the draft and aftorward closed II. who
| | went forward and told the people, who were
mostly Oh the forward promenade deck what had
happened, and urged them to keen cool and not
Some Of them behaved admirably, but
others were panic t,ckcn and | knocked
overheard By tho crowd. In tho water | found
life fc-prcseryer which had been dropped by young
man who had jumped of and went under he wheel.
and was probably killed / soon had to give half
the lifepreserver to Il man In the water to get him
| to let 20 of me- Then swan around tho boat, and
seeing little girl with her clothes fire. pushed
| her under the water once and put out the fumes.
| Two boats from the Granite State came to our as
| sistance one manned by the purser and ono by tho
first officer. did not meet my father after the ac-
cident until l saw him shore with doctor.
| pumping tho arms of woman to restore her
i breathing"
| John Ray, mate of the steamer arrived from Now
York to-day. He sustained injuries, and at the
time of the accident the promenade deck for
| ward, where most Of the people were cOnRregated.
He says he tried to keep the people from jumping
over until the boat was grounded. lie also helped
to distribute fe-preservers. and Of the last
to leave the burning steamer.
Peter Smith, resident here. passenger on
the steamboat. His hands and head are badly
burned and one leg is bruised. He says; Il think
the fire caught from the fues winch blew the fire
ont into the fre'room. When the hamos appeared
| two women asked my assistance, and got them life
| nrrserycTs ard helped them over the side, and
Then we jumped into the water. One OF them nearly
drowned me by her struggles In the water. do not
| know who they were but they asked my nane
| which gave them Afterward saw an old man
| stand and bnrn up without trying to save himself"
bov on the steamer, was burned slightly about the
face and hands. He ls expected home Tonight
Censey steward i. Of Inc h% YeS @
| New.York on the freight-boat 5. A. Brown. He Is
burned on both hands and injured internally.
| lie was totally exhausted when picked up in the
| liver by two women IN o row-boat, who lifted him
IN and gave him % some ThskeS; th Charles Has Has