Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-02
The Steamer Eastern Oregon
at Olympia.
CRUISER NEW YORK LAUNCHED.
Children Burned, Health Of Foster,
Big Haul, Miss MitchelI's Mar
riage, Accident on Great North
ern, Ben Butler III, Quite a Sur
prise, Kicked to Death, Foreign
and State News, etc.

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steamer Eastern Oregon caught fire
here last night on the gridiron at
Percivais dock. The boat was put
on the gridirons yesterday for clean.
ing and repainting, and last night,
when the alarm was given, Captain
Green was experimenting a force
Of men at work on the hull. The
fire caught In the galley but the
cause Is unknown, The captain
thinks the paint stored in the galley
was accidentIy lgnited by one of the
several men at work there. The
steamship is a sorry sight this morn
ing. Nothing is left of the wood
work but charred timbers. The
body of the third cook named
Charlie was found in the
ruins burned to a crisp.
rhe crew escaped with difficulty but
1t is thought DO more than one man
was burned. Water Is still being
pumped into the hold.
THE NEW YORK LAUNCHED.
PHILADELPHIA, Penn, Dec, e.
The United States arm )red cruiser
New York was lau nched this after
noonI from the yard Of Camp, Ship
Building Co., in the presence Of
fifteen thousand people. Among
whom were secretarys of the navy,
the treasury and the interior de-
partments. Miss Helen Page,
daughter of Seaver Page secretary of
the Union League Club of New York
broke the traditional bottle of wine
upon the great steel ram of the
cruiser as she slid from the wooden
cradle into the Delaware river
and christened her the New York,
When the New York is finished she
will be the most formidable cruiser
that floats the stars and stripes, and
in addition, she has the largest and
most powerful engines of any steam
ship ever built outside of European
shipyards. Ifthe design ofher build
ers is fulfilled there is nothing afloat
today of her class that will be able
to steam from her or to engage with
her with any hopes of victory.
The New York will carry battery
of six-inch breech-loadiug rifles,
IL four-inch rapid-firing guns, 8six-
Founders, four gatling and six
torpedo tubes.
CHILDREN BURNED.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Dec. 2.-Capt,
Maxwell's store at Dewitt burned
last night. Three children perished
BEN BUTLER is ILL.
BOSTON, Dec. 2.-General b. F..
Butler is seriously Ill at his home in
Lowell. Every effort has been made
by his family and physicians TO
keep the knowledge of his condi-
ton from the newspapers, and, in
deed, 81 far as possible from the
general public, but it can safely be
said that the gravest doubts Of his
recovery are entertained by those
who are In position TO know most
about his condition, and some of
them assert that he will never again
be able TO leave his home.
ACCIDENT ON GREAT NORTHERN.
HELENA, Mont, Dec. 2..At 8
o'clock Saturday morning the west
span of the Great Northern bridge
on the north fork of the Columbia
river, six miles from Columbia falls
fell, carrying with It nine men,
three of whom are dead. Three of
those who escaped death are thought
TO be fatally wounded. The dead
are Hugh Bradley, John Pooley
aud Patrick Lane. The three who
will probably die are Leonard Her
ringer, Nell Stuart and Martin Wha-
len. Peter McAnnally 10 also
wounded so that recovery is improb-
able. -Four immense guy rods fell
from the top and struck a support
OF the false work, causing 1t TO give
way. All Of the framing work was
nearly completed, aud only the last
span 10 be bolted. The span was
sixty feet long, and the men fell In
the awful crash Of timber aud IRON,
a distance Of eighty-fopr feet, two of
them being pinned down under
several feet of water. The accident
will delay the advance OF the ex-
tension of the Great Northern about
two weeks.
BIG HAUL.
PARIS, Tex. Dec. 2.-The through
Texas express which was robbed
Monday night at Glendale, Mo-,
reached here last night. The ex-
press messenger who relieved |
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