The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-12-16
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A Blind Defaultsr Makes Tracks, for
Canada. 3
a Greedy Congressman Steers His
Course Northward.
Efforts to Collect from Negro Tenants
Met With Bullets. ,-r
Dakotaisns Devising Means to Start a
State Government.
A Mississippi Steamer Burned With
Sixty PsrsOas.
Gotham's Stock Market Gees to Pieces
With Rush.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. 14-It is cur-
rentIy rumored hereEt that the elegant
steamer J. II. White,i running between
Vlcksburg and New Orleans, burned at al,
carly hour this morning near Baton
Rouge. Louisiana, and that dRy lives were
lost
LATER-The Inss of the steamer j. W.
White has bUen confirmed. She burned
TO the waters edge a. II o'clock Last night
while lying al the bank near Bayuo
sara, Louisiana. About sixty lives
were lost. largely women and children. .
Nearly all the crew were saved. Among
the passengers reported lost Is the super.
iHtendent of the VidalIa railroad al
Natchtz, who. together with his vile and
children, persisted in the disaster. The
books OF the boat were Lost.
The j b. White Was the finest steamer
ON the Mississippi river. She was en-
route TO New Orleans aud had q cargo OF
cotton on board, estimated st not less than
1000 bales. The surviving passengers
and crew were conveyed 10 New Orleans
this morning.
the boat and cargo are total loss. J..
NJ White was built in 1873 at a cost of
1925 600 and was the facet and tastes
puat ever run ON the Mississippi. The
boat was owned by Captain John ". To-
bin and was valued at $100, GOO; cargo At
500, 900. Insurance on the boat, $29, 600,
and the cargo is doubtlessly coYeEed by
insurance. go. ~
MANY LIVES LOST.
A telegram from J. 81 Powell, station
agen: at Baton Rouge, La, says it is Inn
possible TO get list OF the Lost or saved
In the j. NJ. White disaster. Only few
passengers came TO Baton Rouge. The
rest were lett at Bayou Sara. The only
names ascertained of the lost are Mr..
Stafford, wife and children, from Vida
Tia; G. Washington Floyd, formerly cap
tain OF the Viii s. Hays. All the officers
were saved and are not disposed 70 talk.
Ii is understood many other passengers
were lost, besides seven or eight of the
crew.
ANOTHER REPORT.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. IA The steamer
j. Nj. White from Vicksburg, Misc, to
New Orleans burned at 10 O'Clock last
night at Blue Store, Point Coupe, thirty
miles above Baton Rouge, She had
quite.a number OF passengers aboard,
2 100 bales of cotton, 600 sacks of seed.
Several lives are reported lost, but Capt.
James r. Muse, who was in command,
telegraphs that only one life, the porter
OF the boat Is known TO be lost.
Thomas Barry, the second engineer,
was on duty when the fice broke out In
the cotton emidship. For time he
thought he had tue fire under control,
but finally IL gained such hesdway that
nothing could be done with it. Barry
stated that the fire then spread so rapidly
that the boat was wrapped In lanes In
short time. He thinks there were ten or
twelve lives lost, Including colOred
fireman and two colOred characteristics,
one named Martha Washington The
second cook, cOlored, was also lost. Bar
~ also reports the loss Of Captain Bird
Floyd ana the superintendent OF the VII
ialia railroad, with wife and daughter.
Barry knows nothing as to the number
thinks there were not very maRy. he
believes there were some women and
children on deck.
THE LATEST.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. IA special from
New Orleans al pding to the burning Of
me steamer White says all the rescued
people ro.k the Mississippi Valley rail-
road tEsin for this city, arriving this
noon VIM. McGreeVy, chief engineer
of the boat, gives the following state.
nent of the disaster: At about 10 10
O'Clock last night, while landing Gs Dr..
Ferres's place above the p0stofioe land
ing at Point Coupe, ct which place the
boat was loading cotton seed, fire broke
out amidships just between the
engines on top Of the cotton below the
boiler deck. Engineers Barry and Jenny,
who were on the watch, gave the alarm,
and the pumps were put 10 work but
without avail. The watchman gave the
alarm by ringing the bell. Clerks Gala
han and Bell st once aroused the people
Ia the cabin. The hre spread rapidly,
and In less than fifteen minutes the boat
had burned to the watar's edge. There
were four kegs Of powder in the maya.
zine, and the moment the fire reached
them the flames shot up about 100
feet high. The sight was the most
heart rendinR one ever witnessed by Q
human being. The shrieking Of women
and children for help was awful. BE
saw the superintendent Of the Vidalia
railroad standing aft outside the ladies'
cabin throwing his two little d0ughie El
into the water. He stood there and
burned to death with his wife. There
were In the cabin nine lady passengers
and about eight men. At New Texas
twenty deck hands were taken on board
all OF whom are supposed 20 be lost. 4
10 learned that Andrew Pierce, Q sailor
and Antonio Rebatta, q fireman, are thu
ones 70 whom all the credit Of saving thC
survivors is dus. The following
offioers are known TO be saved. CaptaiT
| Muse, Clerks A. McVay, 0. Bell and Cal.
| lahen; piIots, John Stewart and Boil
1 OulttuS SukiDetSEBs w Uls MCNEICSNFs 1O1
Barry, r. g. Psttlson and steve Jenny
| mates, John Grant and Tom Trimble
watchmap, Tom Miller; sailor, And
Pierce; stewards, Pat Ryan and Nunez
| Colonel L. James, VINO was in Q stat
room. managed to get ashore and had b
| walk two mileR without coat, hat O
shoes, in the chilly winds before he coulC
! reach q railroad station Among tllost
lost are Lewis, the second cook; o car
the baker; Ames, the porter, and Dicl
Randolph, the fireman. A prize OK
taken on at VicksbuTg. was roasted D
death, and two Of the five keepers per
ished.
FIRE AT CHANUTE-
CHANUTE, Kan, Dec. 1.-The South
ern Kansas depot and WfekaFd's elevA
tor at this place burned to-day.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION
| EVANSVILLE, Ind Dec. IA dis
astrous boiler explosion occurred thi
| morning at Charles Hofferbirsh's extern
sive saw mill In the western suburbs o
this city. Three forty feet boilers, ex
plOded, wrecking the mill, killing Franz
Popiin, and woandinR A. HerneF. super
fntendent; Henry Diller, E. A DIcken
son, John William Flmdorf, John DoOly
Fred L1ochner ami . man named PERM
man. all employees.
CASUALTIES.
THE DOODLE CASE.
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