The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-07
FERRY BOAT BURNS.
More Than @ Hundred and Fifty
 Lives Lost at Rio Bay.
TWO EXPLOSIONS IN A FURNACE.
Six Persons Seriously Injured In a Train Wreck-An Unknown Man Believed to Have Been Burned in a
 Hotel Fire.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-A correspondent writing from Rio de Janeiro gives the details of the burning of the ferry boat Tiercera and the loss of over 100 lives. The Tiercera, with over 300 pas sengers, left the Rio side of the bay at about p. m. San Domingo was one of the points of disembarlSation, where it landed perhaps 200 persons and received on board fifty others. Soon after backing out of the dock at San Domingo and turning toward Praia Grande, another point on the Nichthe roy side, it was discovered that the Tiercera was on fire and burning rap idly. At the same time the ferryboat Quinta left Praia Grande in the direc- tion of San Domingo, having aboard quite large number of passengers. The alarm seems to have been given first from aboard the Quinta by means of her steam whistle. The master pilot of the Quinta steamed quite close to the Tiercera, now almost entirely ungov- ernable. He intended to run along side near enough to save the passen- gers, who were in danger of being burned. But when nearly in striking distance of the burning wreck he was prevented by the cowardice of the pas sengers of the Quinta, who, in a large crowd, went to the pilot house and, with drawn revolvers, compelled him to abandon the people on the burning boat, who were thus allowed to burn to death or throw themselves into the bay. A large number of the launches and other craft hastened from the Rio side and attempted to save the drown ing men, women and children, and many were thus rescued, but over 100 lives were unnecessarily lost.
 TWO EXPLOSIONS.
 STEUBENvILLE, O., Feb. 1.-Two ex- plosions occurred yesterday at River side furnace in this city, injuring large number of workmen, several of them fatally. The explosions were caused by stock in the furnace settling and the accumulated gas between what had settled and what was hanging above blowing out tons of stock and bricks, The first accident was small explosion which occurred in the morn ing when considerable stock was blown out, and the igniting gas set fire to the clothes of Pat Timlin. He ran out of the flames, was rolled in the snow and his blazing clothes torn off by Will liam Burke. He is burned from head to foot, and is not expected to live.
 The second explosion took place early in the afternoon, and was the worst one, the material blown out wrecking the roofs of all the buildings as if they had been cannonaded. The explosion occurred at the hour when the whistle was blowing for work, and few men were around, or more would have been injured. A score of men were burned or injured by flying mis- siles. The ground for 200 yards around the furnace is covered with brick, coke and other debris.
 DOWN AN EMBANKNENT.
 NEWTON, H., Feb. IA bad wreck of an extra freight train carrying a passenger coach occurred on the Indiana & Illinois Southern railroad miles west of Oblong about 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The train was running, it was said, over schedule time when a rail broke, plunging five cars, including the passenger coach, down fifteen foot embankment. Ford's Thcater Co.,, billed here for this week, composed of eleven people, and two other passengers, were in the coach. Six were rather badly injured, but none fatally. The coach and two of the cars were mass of ruins.
 FIRE IN A HOTEL.
 PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 4-An early morning fire at McKeesport, Pa., yes terday, destroyed the Hotel Columbia, Warrens wholesale comm ission house and three-story brick dwelling. The fire started in the kitchen of the hotel and spread so rapidly that the guests were compelled to leave in their night One man, whose name is not known, the register having been de- is missing and is believed to have been burned to death. Total loss estimated at S75,000.