Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-02-25
EASTERN.

1 NEW YORK, Feb. 2l.-A fire broke out ! this afternoon on 2nd floor of the schoo house attached to the German Roman ! Catholic church on Fourth street, be. | tween avenue A and First avenue. The scene was fearful. The calamity IS nc | less than l6 children lost. Over seven
 hundred scholars, mostly children of ! the poorer class, ranging from 6 to II years of age attended thls school and in | the class rooms when the alarm was raised fearful panic followed. The re-
 mOval Of the children from the fourth floor began quietly enough and was pro- ! gressing rapidly when Sister of Charity
 in charge of the class of girls, faInted ! This immediately alarmed the class who 1 became panic stricken and a rush was
 made for the hallway on the stairs. A
 deadly crush took place. The railing of | the stars broke and mass of struggling children was precipitated to the floor | below, falling ID & packed mass, one up- on another, from four to six feet deep. The police and iremen soon arrived and commenced the work of rescue. l Such efforts were greatly retarded by | the frightened children who continued
 to fall or leap from the stairway. Those | in front were pushed over the banisters | by the crowd of terrOrized children struggling to reach the bottom, and ten
 more died immediately after the rescue,
 making 9 total of 16. A large number of others were carried to neighboring tenements reported dying. The excite ment when the news spread. was fear ful and great throngs of people blocked the streets surrounding the school. Many were lost in the excitement and are reported missing The scene as de- scri5ed is heartrendering and awful beyond description. The dead were conveyed to a station and placed in q row. All were quickly unidentified by the sorrow stricken parents, brothers and sisters. 4 survey of the building shows that every rule ana precsution for safety were disregarded.
 GALVESTON, Mo. Feb. 20.-Frank James was to-day arraIgned upon three indictments; one for the murder of McMillan in the Western train robbery 2nd as accessory to the murder of con- ductor Westfall and third, the murder Of cashier Szets in Gallatin bank rob bery. He pleaded not guilty. Trlal set for the 3rd Monday in June.
 WAsHIxGroN, Feb. 20.-The tariff bill passed the Senate tonight, 42 to l9. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, being the on- ly Republican voting m the negative.
 APPOINTMENTS.
 The President sent to the Senate to- day the following names of new civil service reform committee appointed un- der the Peudleton Act: q. B. Eaton, New York; J. NJ. Gregory, Illinois; J. Thomas, Of Youngstown, Ohio.
 MEMPHIS. Tenn, Feb. 21.-The river this morning at six o'clock marked 34 feet, which is the danger line. The nv CT continues to rise slowly.
 FRANKLIN, Texas, Feb. 20.-The Mayor of Hern reports several cases of smallpox on Brazos, and five cases from here. The disease is of the most malignant type and IS probably going over the country introduced by MeIi- cans.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 2O.-C. r. Hunting ton has gone to Washington. It Is now certain that Huntington has not only purchased Morgan's Louisiana and Texas railway. but all of the Morgan company's steamships and railway prop erty in Louisiana. and all of the com pany's railway property in Texas. The price IS understood to be ID the of fifteen millions.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Two or three papers have. within a few dsys, pub ished scandalous inslnustions about the President. They have not dared to go further than insinuste. No facts are known 10 any one to justify the insinua- io ns. The President has shown some