Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-14
NEW YORK.
Wreck of Q spanish Brig.

z NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-A heavy northeast rain storm prevailed at Squan Beach, N J., ! yesterday. The coast has been enveloped in
 Blasts of steam whistles and frequent boom ling of gun heard on the beach indicated the perilous nature of navigation in the cloudy mist. At noon the patrol of Life Saving Station No. 10, on the south side of Squan Inlet, heard vessel laboring on the outer bar, but he could not discern the craft, which was only few yards away. The crew of the station were notified and they repaired to the Invisible vessel with the apparatus By ap- preaching the edge of the surf the outlines of s the vessel were seen. Captain David Fleming
 shot line across the vessel and awaited the result. Presently the line was hauled aboard :; then 8 cable and the brooches buoy. The rescue occupied but little time and the cap tain and seven men were landed. All proved Ito be Spaniards, none able to speak English. Nothing could be learned from them. The vessel is the brig Veloz, in ballast, from
 Ponce, Porto Rico, for New York. At high water the Veloz swung over the bar, broadside zto the beach. Soon after she logged and
 gave evidence of breaking in two amidships. &Death OfTwo Young Girls from Inhaling Illuminating Gas.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-The necessity of scarefulness in turning off gas, which has ire 3quently been shown in a tragic way, was aagain illustrated yesterday morning by the
 suffocation of two young women. Henrietta Braundofer and Barbara Weiss were found Adead in their bed at No. 599 Third avenue, Z where they were employed in the restaurant ; of Mir. Fitz Heinrich. The former, who was s17 years of age, was native of ] the city and left her parents house lat No. 224 East Fifty-sixth street two years sago to take service in the family where a sister of hers had been engaged before. Barbara was nineteen years of age and had 5 less than two years since come to this coun- 3try from Germany with an aunt. They slept Hin hall bedroom on the third floor. About ! no o'clock on Friday night the two young women retired. There were two gas jets in 5 the room and probably both had been turned
 on in the darkness and only one had been slighted. That at least seems the readiest Sexplanation of what occurred in the room
 during the night. Next to it and communi- Beating with it by door, which was slightly &aiar, is a large apartment in which Mrs
 
 #tle child used to sleep, and the former was awakened yesterday morning by a strange *asense of oppression, to find that her room Z kwas filled with light vapor and that heavy
 odor of gas pervaded it. The old lady
 roused herself at once and, fearful least some
 accident had occurred, she ran out upon the
 Standing and called for assistance. MT. #Henrich's wife answered her, and when she Hheard what occasioned the other's fright she Hhastily joined her. A suffocating smell of &gas was filling the house, and Mrs. Heinrich las she turned into the room to carry out the 8schild who had been left in it was almost #stifed. She returned, though, and flung up 2 zthe windows to give the offensive odor a
 chance to escape, and then for the first time zsthought of the girls in the bedroom.
 # The door opening into it was first un- SscIosed, and as the lady swung it open to zsarouse the sleepers strong current of gas &swept out from it. No answer was given to 3her summons, and on looking In fearful slsight was presented to her. In the stifing ssroom the two inmates were lying on the bed 5zwhere they had fallen asleep, both Gfeless. #Help was summoned, but too late to be of zsavaiI. Barbara, the eldest girl, lay nearest
 1.-the wall, her face calm and composed
 that she seemed only to have dropped #asleep, were it not for the deathIy
 pallor that had settled on it and thin red 8stream that oozed from her nostrils The z3younger girl was more fearful to look upon. 8Death had stolen upon her quietly and stifed
 4her in her slumbers She had awakened
 while sufocating and struggled against it,
 but had suecumbed iD an agony that had left Every eloquent traces. The expression of the
 zface was dreadful. It most resembled that
 (which the victims of strangulation wear. a The skin was ivid, the eyes bulging out as
 athough bursting from their sockets, and Sthe pretruding tongue was covered with a
 scaly coating. The services of physician
 lwho was brought at once were of course use Bless, and then attention was turned to the
 causes of the girls horrible death. The ex-
 amination of the two gas jets explained it. HOnly one of them was turned off. Doubtless
 both had been turned on when the inmates
 of the room entered it and one had been left
 unlighted.
 a The family of Henrietta Braudofer were Uniformed of her hapless end, and most
 heartrending scene occurred when they
 reached the apartment where she lay dead. s