The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-08-18

At 7 4. ". the Niagara's passengers and mails
were put aboard the Commander. Both steamers
remained together, and the Niagara went aheau
till 4 p. N, when she stopped to send the PurSer'
stewardess and ships safe aboard the Com-
mauder CAPTAIN Baker then turned the Nj
AGAR, toward the Florida coast and ran her
ashore in &c feet Of water, off Indian Key. The
Niagara had twenty-five passengers, one of
whom was n lady. There was no panic when
the fire Wa, announced. The fire is supposed
to have been caused by the igniting of some
oombustIble stored near the engine-rooms. She
carried miscellaneous cargo of provisions, in
Guiding hour. meal, oass,' hams, fish, etc. She
Is an irOn-screw steamer, built in 1877, Of
2,295 tons and cost $3.50. 900. She IS fully in
sured.
Boston, July IA telegram from Lisbon,
speaking Of the wrecked bark Pampoa, hence
about the middle of May, with II crew of thir-
teen men and twenty passengers, says The
bark arrived safely at Fayal, aud landed a ma
jOrity Of the passengers. When a short distance
from that port she went ashore on an island,
and all on board, except the mate, cook and one
passenger, were drowned.
DEATH on THE RAIL.
Albion, N. W July ga terrible accident
occurred on the Rome, Watertown and Ogiens-
burg railroad, at Charlton station, at $50 O'Clock
last evening, by which IS persons were killed and
thirty wounded. The train, a double header
was an excursion train No. 50, bound for Clay
ton with Thousand Island tourists, mostly from
Michigan. 1t was behind time and at the time
of the collision was running at the rate of forty
miles an hour. The wind was blowing a gale,
and had blown a freight car of the siding partly
on the main track and when the excursion train
came laundering along it caused a collision with
it, throwing one of the engines on its end the
other into the ditch. The baggage car aud two
sleepers were completely demolished. The cars
were piled up on one another, until 1t was one
vast heap of ruins. At the time a heavy thunder
shower was passing over and the night was dark
The cries and shrieks of the dying and wounded
were terrible. The crash was heard three miles
away. The country is but thinly settled and it
was some time before assistance could be OBJ
tanned. Coroner Cothrane of Albion was sent
for, and the work of recovering the bodies COM
menced. They are still at work.
The following are the names of persons identi-
fed: Thomas Haynes, Chicago Jane Carl,
Lansing, Mich; Professor, C. W. Stone, Battle
Greek Mich; Lutte J. Francis, o swego; William
Lefavre, Bay City, Michigan; Ashley Ty-
Ter, Camden, ". Y; Thomas Stalls, Watertown
n. Y; o. b. Troop and granddaughter, Mary
Troop, Schoharie, ". Y, J. c. Schench, Cleve-
land; Thomas Dixon, No. 2l9 Pearl street,
Cleveland, Ohio; two ladies with rings marked
'COrnelia to Louis.' and IL. j. 3. to c.. VI. B."
one thought to be Mrs. Booth of Bay City, Mich. {;
Mrs. L. J. WortIey, Saline. Mich; Henry Me
Cormick, Bolton, Mich, and an unknown body
thought to be Mr.. Booth Of Bay City. The fire
man was instantly killed and the engineer, Jas.
NoCarFhv Of fba =a.,uI anyf,a ur,- ta-ribIy-
scalded so that ne died after he was put on board
the train for Oswego. The engineer, fireman
and train dispatcher on the first engine escaped,
although all Were injured. Those of the injured
who could travel were placed in sleepers and
taken to Niagara Falls while the rest were taken
to a neighboring house and cared for. One man
who lives but a few rods from the scene of the
wreck, had driven his son to Lyndonville, a dis
lance of three miles, to take the train, and got
home just in time to find his corpse. The work
of removing the debris is being pushed forward
rapidly, and the track will be cleared in a few
hours.
The unknown lady with the ring is Mrs. Boos
wife of Louis ]. Boos, of HOS Pine street, Phil
a~delphia. He also has since been found dead.
a PROMINENT LAWYER AMONG THE KILLED.
Chicago, July rs Thomas A. Hayne, one of
the victims of the Albion railroad accident, was
one of the oldest residents of this city, pr omi-
nent at the bar and possessed of considerable
wealth. Under misconstruction of the city char
ter he was elected Mayor of the city by a large
popular vote eight years ago, but he was only
allowed to hold Office a few weeks, owing to the
construction given the charter by the Courts.
ANOTHER COLLISION.
Buffalo, July 2S.-A collision occurred at Har-
Dor creek, on the AXE shore read, to-day, a
fast passenger train running into the siding
from an open switch and telescopipg q freight
train. Engineer Bates and fireman John Conrad
jumped and saved their lives. Several freight
cars were completely wrecked. Frank and
John Barker were asleep in the caboose when
the others jumped, but miraculously escaped.
They are badly scalded by steam, but will live.
No passengers were hurt beyond Commissions.
A TRAIN DERAILED.
Washington, July 2s.-A report was curr ent
in the evening newspapers that o train from New
York over the Baltimore and Ohio road left the
track near the Navy Yard, and two persons were
killed. The engine and postal car were thrown
from the track and badly broken The passen-
gers were unhurt, but the newsboy and postal
clerk were badly bruised.
NURDER OF ISNoCENTs.
An American paper says 4 profound sensa-
ton has been created in Philadelphia by the
discovery in a cellar of the house No. 2,243
North Fifth street of the bodies of twenty-one
infants who had been killed before birth, The
house was occupied until a few months ago by
DIR. Isaac Hathaway, who is now safely lodged
in Moyamensing Prison, awaiting trial on a
charge of assault and battery upon Rose Elmer,
his wife's daughter by a former marriage. Act
ing on information which he had received from
a step-son of DR.. Hathaway. the Chief of Police
detailed detectives Miller and Wolf 10 go to
Hathaway late residence and make a thorough
examination. Armed with picks and spades, the
detectives went to the house, and having ex-
planned their mission to the present occupants,
began digging in the cellar, and before they
stopped had turned up the bodies of tyenty-one
murdered children. Mary Butler. . servant,
when she thought she was about to die, con-
fessed to a physician in March. 1881, that Hath
away had been guilty Of malpractiYe in her case,