The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-01

HtofCtut OuScCtc OIcouSUuES cpcCinl
says: There was a riot at Jeanette
last night. A number of colored men
and others employed at Jeanette came
to this place and supplied themselves
with whisky and with the aid of an I'M
licensed whisky shop in Jeanette q
high carnival was held there during the
morning hours. In the afternoon the
colored men became quarrelsome.
Thirty or forty men gathered in one of
the shanties and soon desperate fight
begun, with knives and pistols brough
into play. William Calvin. who lives
in East Greensoury, was terribly cut.
and it is reported tonight that he can
not live. while colored man named
Carroel had an arm terribly lacerated
by knives. Others are reported to
have received dangerous wounds. A
messenger was despatched for Sheriff
Byers, and Deputy Sheriff Alcom and a
posse were sent at once to the scene.
THE BRISTOL" BURNED.
NEWPORT, r. l., Decembsr 3..-The
steamer Bristol, of the Old Colony Lin I.
was burned at her dock this morning,
and is total loss. She arrived from
New York about $50, and landed all
her freight and her Fall River pas
sengers. There were left on board only
a few Newport passengers and their
personal baggage. At $50, just as the
last passenger train was drawing out of
the depot, fire was discovered on the
steamer, and the alarm was at once
given from the company's signal on
the premises. The fire started near
the kitchen and spread with great
rapidity, rendering futile all efforts to
stop its progress. Three alarms were
sounded in rapid succession. Tho usands
of citizens were attracted to the spot by
the brilliant illumination, volumes of
fire and clouds of smoke which arose
from the burning steamer.
THE FIRE APPARATUS
on the steamer was brought into use
and as soon as the flames were discov-
cred the crew worked with great vigor
to save the boat, but the joiner. work of
the stateroom, saloon and stairway was
dry as finder, and draughts through the
steamer caused a fearfully rapid spread
of the flames, so that before the city ire
department arrived there was mass of
fire sweeping from stem to stern.
Some passengers were still on baard
and did not understand the meaning of
the first alarm, and were only aroused
by the cracking of the flames. All es-
capped, but some only by burninga por-
ton of their clothing, and some by
crawling over the rails near the burniDg
timbers. A man with two little chill
dren occupying q stateroom was
awakened by the cracking flames near
by and barely escaped with the little
ones with their clothing in their hands.
Another young man borrowed clothing
to go to his home in this city.
ALL PERSONAL BAGGAGE
was saved. When the fire department
arrived the upper deck and center OF
the steamer was mass of flames,
which gave out such intense heat il
could scarcely be borne at distance
of several hundred feet. This greatly
impeded the work OF the fremen. The
flames gained such Roadway that they
could only be fought from the wharf
sides, while the great heat and sparks
endangered the buildings and the great
steamers lying on both sides of the
wharf, and constant efforts were re-
quired on the part of the firemen to
prevent them from igniting. A dozen
streams were soon pouring on the
f1amess with little apparent effect for
over an hour, while others were en-
ployed in drenching neighboring build
ings and other vessels.
The insurance amounts to $500 900,
which covers the loss.