The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-08-11
DREADFUL DISASTER
To an Excursion Party from Baltimore-A
Crowded Wharf Gives Way-An Inde-
scribable Scene of Terror-Lost Bodies
Recovered
FEARFUL CALAMITY.

scribable Scene of Terror-Lost Bodies
Recovered.
FEARFUL CALAMITY.
Baltimore, July 24.-A terrible calamity
occurred at North Point, Tivoli, TO an ex-
cursiOn party on the Patapsco, ten miles
from this city, about 10 o'clock last night,
by which many lives were lost. The num-
Der is estimated between so and 20 The
accident was Occasioned by the giving way
| of the outer portion of the pier, on which
several hundred persons had cOngregated,
! awaiting for the boat to return TO this city
The locality is on as mall bay, distant about
two miles from Warren Point Lighthouse
II was formerly knOwn as Holygroye, 1t
was an excursion place fitted up ID years
ago, and was a most popular resort at that
time and for several years afterward Yes
terUiay an excursion was given to Tivoli
under the management of Mt. Royal Benef-
I icent Society of Corpus Christie, of which
! Father Starr is pastor The Mt. ROyal-av
enue and MOsher-street extension went
down on the barge COckade City, which
I was towed by the tug Amanda Howell
/ The barge was formerly an old canal boat,
refitted with double decks for excursion
purposes, and used for such for several
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, six and seven O'clock, and reached Tivoli
before ten O'Clock. During the day she had
taken on board five hundred persons, and
on her last trip about seven hundred. A
large number of those who went down dur
ing the day had remained, intending to
return the last trip When the barge ap-
preached all these made a rush for the end
of the wharf AS the barge came alongside
OH ybar fha yI,or ~ nd
denly and without warning gave way and
q large portion fell into the water, which
was about ten feet deep. Many were able
to save themselves by fleeing toward the
shore as the outer end of the pier crumbled
and fell. Darkness added to the confusion,
and little could he done at once to rescue
the drowning, most of whom were women
and children.
ISDESCRIBABLE TERROR AND HOPELESS
NESS REIGNED.
The shrieks, curses, gr0ans and cries "fOr
Gods sake save u.s." were heartrending-
The darkness impeded the help rendered by
those who jumped into the water Those
whose swimming powers were the means
of saving the lives of Others are as follows,
together with the number of persons each
saved: Charles N. Connor six, E. A. Fitz-
.
nell four, Jacob Barnet ten, James Burns
ten William Carey two. Chris. Doyle nd
Captain Robertson of the tug boat Amanda
Powell sixty. Some women were pulled
upon the wharf and some We're dragged
into shallow water. The movements of the
barge caused a wash that carried those bat
tling with the water under the wharf and
among the piles. The men were mostly
obi 10 ufr and
drowned were endeavoring to save the wo-
men and children. After the confusion was
over huge fire was built on the shore for
those who had been save |, and their clothes
were soon drying. Dredging for the bodies
then commenced Twenty-eight Were
found up to ten O'Clock, when Father Starr
dering the boat ND to Baltimore and it
came up and went back at daybreak.
The Cholera Epidemic.
London, July ga case of sickness sus-
Pected to be cholera has been discovered in
the London docks and another in Wales.
Proper precautions have been taken in con-
nection with each case. Forty members of
the Army Hospital Corps have been ordered
to Egypt
The deaths from cholera yesterday at Da-
mietta numbered p, Medalla p, Chobar 6,
Samanoud Z, Mehalet Sc, Ziefeth %. Man
sourah IL, Ghizeh 55, Menscalet and Cairo
422
Alexandria, July 26.-The Khediye re n
turned to this city from Cairo to-day. He
was received with much enthusiasm by the
populace.
Alexandria, July 27.-Tewfik Pasha, Khe-
dive of Egypt, was stricken with the chol-
era yesterday afternoon. His physician
pronounced him in a critical condition. The
Khedive returned from Cairo yesterday
morning. He inspected and personally Wis
tied all the great cholera hospitals at Cairo
during his visit there. The first symptoms
of the terrible disease made their appear
ance in a few hours after his arrival from
Cairo. The news of the Khedive's condi-
tiOn has created panic throughout the ci-
ty. The English physicians are in constant
attendance on the stricken monarch.
Cairo, July 26:-The cholera Is shifting
towards the more thickly settled quarters
in the eastern part of the city.
Berlin, July ga special dispatch says
the cholera is reported at Rostov, Russia
and that several deaths have already oc-
CURED there
Paris, July 26.-Ths Chamber of Deputies
has granted the credit of 80, 900 francs asked
for by the Government to pay the expenses
Of a scientific commission which is to be
sent to Egypt to investigate the cholera ep-
idemic.
Died by Dynamite.
A man named Stephenson, formerly clerk
in the Bank OF New South Wales at Crom.
well, who has been separated from his wife
some time through drunkenness, waylaid
her in street in Dunedin, New Zealand, on