Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-29

l Grant, lying ahead of the Robinson, had her
 joiner work carried away and her machinery
 damaged The Robinson sank immediately, carrying with it the body of Cleary, the fireman. One section of the boiler, weigh. ing two or three tons, was hurled four hun dred feet against the top of three-story building, crushing in part of the wall Am other section. weighing nearly ton, crushed in the roof of the coal barge F. M. Downing and still another section was hurled to the rear, grazing the cabin of the coal boat Apollo and tearing away the roof before it fell into heriver. Buildings were shaken, windows shattered and general consternation prevailed in the vicinity. The exploded boiler was built by Robert Livingston, of this city, in 1882.
 The loss by the wracking of the J. s. Rob. inson is estimated at g., ,OO0. The Cora was uninsured, and the loss is put at $5, ,o00- The gence of the engineer in allowing the water in the boiler to get foo low.
 Captain McAndreW.. of the canal boat Apollo, which was in. the rear of the J. s. Robinson. and his wife had mar row escape. They were asleep when piece of the boiler carried away a section of the roof about 1-2 feet long and l 1-2 feet wide, together with part of the end of the cabin nearly down to the bed. The roof was only two feet above their heads MT. McAndrew says that the first thing he knew was that he was sitting on the floor with his back against the wall. and that things were flying all around him. His wife, he said, was insensible in the bed covered with the ruins of pictures and looking glass. Captain Robinson of he tug Hattie M. Betts, who was asleep in the pilot house, turned 8 complete somsr- arlf ooir ,l--G on the dock. The officers in the First pre- cinot station house, one eighth of a mile dis taut, were thrown from their beds on the floor and the whole building shook violently for three seconds. At first they thought that 1t was an earthquake.
 A Young Girls Rutn-The Terrible sys- tenn by Which Virtue and Youth are
 Led Into Infamous Ways.
 BRoonYN, Sept. 2s.-Mrs. Catherne Mo Gowan, of Columbia street, N. r., began an action in the Supreme court of Kings coun- ty against Rugnot Platt to recover $25, 900 damages for enticing away the plaintiffs daughter Kate McGowan and the loss of her services. If the allegations are true they disclose a most infamous system by which innocent girls are induced to forsake home and friends and are decoyed into dens of in- fanny in the city of New York. Kate Mo- Gowan was an exceedingly comedy girl in her eighteenth year. She was employed in New York and resided with her widowed mother. She was afectionate and dutiful and materially aided her mother. On May 15 of this year she left home as usual, her mother supposing she was going to her work. Gha diSo pTamrad howa1Ar ond fo~ q her friends heard nothing of her where abouts. The grief of her m other can we'll be imagined, but not described. On June 4th Mrs. McGowan heard that her daughter was an inmate of an infamous den in Chatham street, New York. She went over and visited the place and was satisfied that her unfortunate child was an inmate of the dive. Returning to Brooklyn the mother procured warrant for the arrest of her daughter and she was captured while on a visit to this city and sent to jail as disorder ly person. The defendant, August Platt, came over to Brooklyn and appeared before Justice Bergen. He claimed he was married te Kate and the ceremony was performed at 8 church on Elizabeth and Broome streets, New York, on May 27th. On hearing this statement Justice Bergen asked the mother
 
 was. Thereupon the justice discharged Kate and the defendant took her away in 8 car riage to Chatham street, New York.
 Two weeks later Mrs. McGowan went to see her daughter. She found a number of other girls in the place. On enquiring for her daughter as the wife of Platt the other girls began to chaff her and said they were all the wives of Platt. She saw her daugh- ter, who said she was PIatt's wife. The mother went away satisfied, however, that something was wrong. A week afterward Platt came to this city and saw Mrs. Mo Gowan. He said that Kate had run away and he did not know where she was. He was accompanied by two women who re- vealed to the mother the true character of the place in Chatham street. The mother consulted lawyer and the suit began Platt is rich man and owns real estate including the alleged dive in Chatham street. The records of the church on the corner of Eliza beth street and Broome street have been searched and no such marriage as Platt speaks of has been found therein. The gen tlemen serving the summons on Platt in Chatham street found twenty young girls in the place.