Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-04

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECoRD-UNIoN.l
DOMESTIC.
A Friend of Boss" Buckley Rushes to
His Defense.
WASHINGTON, MAY Sd. - The Herald,
which week ago printed an interview
with an old California Democrat" de-
| nouncing Buckley, contains to-day COM
munication signed San Franciscan" in
which, after charactcrizing the attack on
Buckley as "devilish and unmanly." the
| writer says: Give Buckley, or Rainey, or
the Chief of the fire department of San
Francisco, the name OF the party who in
! spired and instigated that article, and they
! will deal with him in their own way. In
behalf of Buckley aud Rainey, favorably
known to Inc in California, and in behalf
| of the fire department of San Francisco,
many of whose members | have long
known, and whose worthy Chief has been
my friend for over thirty years, | brand
| most of the statements in said article
| as maliciorsly false, and as to most
| of the rest their truth may be serious
| ly doubted. There are few men in
California who have a larger army of
| devoted friends and manly adherents than
| the men abused in that scurrilous article.
| found brave, reliable, honorable and truth
| full, and no one of them is capable of stab
| bling foe in the back or an opponent i'll
| the dark. He who inspired said article
would like to belong to what he is pleased
to term the better element i'll politics. but
true and loyal Democrats in California
| know no better element in their ranks.
| They rest no distinction of discrimination
on any such basis. If any valid reason
were sought why there now exists any
| rancor among CALIFORNIA; Democrats, it
might be found in the belief of this So
| called better element of their right to fill
| or to control all offices in that State,
| and that the Buckley-Rainey-a nd-fire-
department element should do all
| the voting, and be their hewers
of wood and drawers of water forever. If
he who inspired said article belongs to
what he terms the better element then by
his own showing he does not belong to the
regular and loyal organization Of his own
| party, for he admits that he and 600 others
bolted their party ticket except for Presi-
dent His exception was adroitly put in
as a saving clause for Presidential con-
sumption at Washington, to ensnare Sec
rotary Manning, for none but a seeker for
q Presidential Office in Secretary Manning s
Department could have inspired such an
article with such an exception"
| Fire and Loss of Life in New York.
NEW YORK, May 3d.-At midnight fire
broke out in five-story brick tenement
house. 672 First avenue. Three alarms
were soon sent out and two ambulances
called. The fire was discovered on the first
| floor, in the rear of John Humphreys
restaurant. 1t rapidly extended to the
roof and the dense smoke prevented the
/! occupants of the upper stories from escap-
| ing. Humphreys occupied 4 room on the
second floor, over the restaurant He and
! his child barely got out, but Mrs Hum
phreys jumped from the window and broke
both her legs. On the same floor Elizabeth
Hurley was found dead and Ira Rarick and
child were rescued by the police. John
| Harmon, who helped carry Mrs. Hum
| phreys across the street, said he saw d
! dozen dead bodies taken out of the build
| ing. The ambulance surgeon said four
teen people were taken from the house to
Bellevue Hospital and he thought eight Of
| them dead.
When the fremen arrived they found
| the house surrounded by great crowd,
and the dead, dying and wounded were
! lying on the sidewalk and i'll the halls and
bedrooms. The cries of agony were heart
rending. A general alarm was sent out.
came to the scene in goodly numbers The
wounded were separated as rapidly as pos
| sible from the dead and conveyed to Belle
vue Hospital. In half an hour fourteen
wounded were lying on the cots in the hos
| pital and as many doctors worked over
them trying TO restore life or alleviate pain.
Half Of the patients seemed to be dying.
| The names of none but Young koerner
could be learned.
! LATER.-At ! 80 o'clock it was found that
six lives had been lost and fourteen per-
sons were injured. The dead were. John
! Humphrey, his wife, 4-months-old child
and servant girl; Mrs. Krepechaner, a
| widow; Elizabeth Hurley, aged -, who
jumped from the third story. The
wounded were, three adult females suffo-
Gated and suffering from burns, one had a
, broken knee-she jumped from the top
w-ndow-four men, two women, three
boys and one girl, all suffocated and
| bruised The fire was soon eXtinguished
| The damage to the building was slight
| Christina koerner aged As, who lived on
the fifth floor died from suffocation; her
son Albert, 16 years old, was suffocated and
taken to the hospital her daughter,
Paulina, aged 10, jumped from the window
of her room, on the fifth floor, and was
missing up to \. NJ.
| THE VICTIMS or TIE DISASTER.
New York, May 3d.-Eight persons are
! known to have persisted in the fire which
occurred last night in the double brick ten
| ement, No. GU First avenue. They were
Joseph Humphrey, aged So; Thomas
! Humphrey, aged 1 months; Eliza Hum
| phrey, aged %; Mrs. Christina koerner,
| aged As; Mrs. Nina Kitermer, aged 81 :;
Richard Krithzman, aged Il; William
| Hurley and Mary, sister of Mrs Hum
| phrevS, aged Is. With the exception of
William Hurley, who died this morning,
all were taken out of the building dead
Besides the killed there were fourteen per
| sons injured.
Collapse of a Brewery.
PITTsBURG, MGy -Wainwright's brew
cry caved in with crash this morning.
The noise occasioned by the collapse
aroused the citizens residing in the vicin-
| ity, and for time the excitement was
| very great. The structure was a four-story
brick, and substantially built. In it We're
| 10000 barrels of beer, and lot of new
and valuable machinery The immense
weight of the beer, it is supposed, caused
the supports Of the floor to give way, and
the building collapsed from roof to cellar.
The falling in of the walls crushed the
beer barrels, and torrents of the malt
fluid ran down the streets, completely
flooding the cellars. The loss is estimated
at over 100000.
The Pittsburg Trunk Mystery.
Chicago, May 3d.-Francisco Curuso, a
resident of the Italian district of this city,
believes that the corpse discovered at Pitts
burg in trunk fromEhicago to be that of
his brother Phillipo Curuso. Francisco
does not understand English, and had not
heard of the mystery. This morning
when with others he listened TO the reading
by an interpreter of the newspaper account
OF the affair, he was at once impressed with
the belief that the dead man was his
brother, and said he thought Phillipo had
been murdered for his money. He and his
brother Francisco lived together Last
Thursday morning Phillipo took his say
ings, amounting to $3.50, and started in
search of lemon route, he being a peddler
of lemons Phillipo did not return that
night, nor has his brother since seen him.
Francisco is of the opinion that his brother
was victim of foul play and that his body
now awaits identification in Pittsburg.
Terrible Catastrophe in Texas.
GALVESTON, May 3d.-A terrible catas-
trophe occurred in this city at half-past
,fnl., =.