The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1871, Page 3

a re ere HUMAN TOLOCAUST, Horribie Catastrophe on the — aver alee A Lightning ene Passenger “trati Collides with an Oil Gr near New Famburg. The Of1 Tanks Burst and the Oi Tgnites and Explodes. Werrible Seoune of Death and Destruction. Men, Women and Children Crushed, Burned and Drowned. A Bed of Water and an Atmosphere of Fire. Full Particulars of the Occurrence. Scenes and Incidents—Grappling for the Dead—Doseriptions of the Bodies, Excitement im the City and Elsewhere. An apvatting catastrophe, which has aaded the Most rickening aud Hoody page to the record of Amertcan rattway horrors, oceurred on Monday Might last on the Hudson River Ratlroad, sixty-five miles above this city. Unlike most of the fearful accidents in which human life has been rated so cheaply, this was not cansed by the mismanage- ment of the company, and its employés are blame- less, Orieinating m the accidental displacement from the rats of one of a long train of freight cars, it ended in the violent death of probably more than filty persons, against whom all the elements of nature scemed to combine. Fire blinded their eyes and burned them in thelr sock- ets that they might nob see their way to Bafety. Water eugulfed and strangled them, when by a fearfsl blow they had been dashed to the foor of the car it had invaded. Fragments of splin- tered Wood wounded them. More ponderous frag- ments of tron crushed them. Torn, lacerated, burned, blinded, ernshed and drowned men, women avd childrea were hurried in agony “out of the world.” There was no time to weep, ne time to pray, and curses, tf there were any, were burned on the breath that uttered them, The Car's Rock tragedy, with Its soventeen palltd and wounded Victims and its six erisp ¢ se3, was traceable to crimimal human neglect, and it fades before the ter- rible apparition of this Incarnation of humaa suifer- Ing. THE OATASTRO PAE. ‘Phe Reginulns of a a Ta! e of Server—Deectio- tion of the Collision and Corfegention. At twenty-four minutes after teu o'clock on Mon- Gay night a special freight train, or “wild cat,” as such are called in rauroad phrase, laden with petroicum oii, In tanks and barre's, passed tie sta- tion of New Hamburg. It consisted of about thirty cars, Some two or three rods below the station one of the cars was thrown fron), or ‘gumped” the track. This was net known till the marks its wheels left on the ground and ties were discovered an hour Jater by the ligt of a lantern ta the hands of one of the hurrying passers-by. Yard after yard It burried stoug, jumping irom side to side, aud marking its devious path till, when nearly aquar- ter of a mile below tie station and on the drawbridge over Wappingers creek, the engmeer, doubuess feeling a check tn the speed of the train, drew out the ttettle, The renewed force threw the car, Which was already of the rails, clean over on and across the opposite or up track dd # pell mel) packiug of the vars ensucd. At this unfortunate moment a sight, always grand but now teiribie, greeted the eyes of the Maen on the locomotive. Twenty or thirty rods away loomed up amid a ciond of smoke flashes of flame andasiower of Sparks, me engine and train of the New York lightning ‘press. The engineer of the coming irain saw the car thrown upon his track, and, wit STARTING EYES AND BLANCALD cunrns, Grew the yaive and iet the steam eseape, i forth tn torrents and witht a Rissing, horrible aoise. The fireman, a voble Man of great courage, sprang the patent safety brakes; but ib Was too late. On dashed the train like a thanderboli, Toe fireman leaping, saved lis lic, The engineer, pule but stead- Jast, heid the vaive wide open, Then there was a crash—a sheet of fiane leaping hunaveds of feet m ihe air—the trembling and thnuder oi an exploston— and halt a nuniret souls were buried at the feet of God. The car struck by the locomotive of the train was surmounted by two huge woolen vats, coutaining nou-refiaed explosive petrotcum. One tank was shuttered, and the oil, rushing torth over the engine, was ignited by the giowtug cou's in the ash pan. iscaping gas in the secon K caught the flame anda the terriie explosion evsned. Thea for thousands of feet waa filled with the inrid-tame of the burning gas, It ascended to the height of hundreds of feet, It enveloped an area of hundreds more, and those who breathed in tiat fatal circle Dad to inhale liquid fire. Then, before any had an express opportunity to compute the time, crusbed by the weight of cara, digjolnted by the shock, the wooden drawbridge crumbled beneath the weight upon it and sauk with its load through the Ice and into the warer. Thou came all the terrors of Dante’s many hells to the siceping passengers and to the waking ones. fhe thie was not yet at ita full, and the water was not more than Tour ieet deep in the cars. If burst the doors, how- ever, of the bargage cars and came through the windows of the palace slecping car with its thirty- three occupants, Mingled with it were iragments of broken ico, sharp, cold and cutting. it rushed aloug tie passage ways and delused the berths, freezing where jt touched. But tm the space above was nothing but lurid Name—the atmosphere was burning gas. One half the person en veloped in liquid ice and tne other half in Liquid fire! Such was the catastrophe A SIMILAR OCCURRENCE IN BNGLAND. On the 20th of August, 1868, the Irish mall train. froin Chester to Holvhead, when about a mile and a half irom Abergele, ran ito the rear of the detached portion of @ freight train. The engineer jumped from the locomotive and escaped death The flreman was killed, the engine tender and three first class coaches were smashed, and betng covered by escaping petroleum from the freight train were burned, the flames consuming with them the dedies of twenty-three passengers, It was stated at the time that Lord Farnham and his two dangh- ters were burned, and that the Duchess of Aper- corn and Lord Castlerosse, with thelr fainiltes, escaped. None were able to recognize the charred bodies, and ali were buried in Abergele chureh- yard, A HERALD REPORTER AND HIS RIDE. On the down train arriving at Poughkeepsie after ‘the midnight succeeding the accident was a HERALD reporter, He was dozing in the smoking car. When just above Poughkeepsie it was rumored through the tram that an accident had occurred on the road. Instinctively he awoke in a. moment. He could learn notaing more definite, towever, than that a collision had taken place some dozen miles below, The train passed on and he dropped asleep, a mete Jt passed Pougnkeepsie, Seme two miles ! NEW YORK HERALD; WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAKY 8, 1871. THE SCENE OF THE SLAUGHTER. SS ” Nell Wy h = er REFERENCES. A—Y¥he point where the cars got off the track, P—Sridge, two hundred feet in length. (—The point where the oil car ran on the up track and where the collision eseurred, P—The car used as a depository of the dead when their bodies were removed from the dubzis. E—Sleeping and baggage cars. ‘—Swo sloops, frozen in. G—-Woppiiger Creek, frozen eter further rit slackened Its speed and stopped. Finally it went back to Poughkeepsie. The HeRaup re- porter inquired at the telegraph oifice and was in- formed that the accident had been reported trom New Hamburg, nine miles below. He went out ana | saw a locomotive standing some distance down the | track. It was “No, 40." He clambered invo the caboose and had a conversation with the engincer. The throttle was pulled forward and THY LOCOMOTIVE DARTED OUT INTO THE DARKNESS, towards the soone of the disaster. A hurried con- versation was heid with the engineer, William Cash, and the freman, Michael MeGeeny, in regard to the cause of the accident and its resulis, and as the fire- aan threw open the door of the furnace and the flanies leaped out, lighting up the anxious faces of the occupants of the caboose, they related fragments of the story as they had heard them trom eyewit- nosses of the disaster, They could not give any definite information save the followlng:—A friend of theirs, Wiluam Stmimons, engineer of the express trav, had been killed. They added that no jefe a wife and two children in Poughkeep- sie, sud a divorced wife and one culla somewhere else. ‘The baggage master, “Doc” Clow, bad ran up for the first time in place of a friend, and he was also killed, Subsequent inquiries lead to the fact being learned that Clow, whe was twenty-one years of age, bad resided in Thirty-fifth street, Peter Vosburgh, the well known sleeping car conductor, went downm with his car. He was twenty five years of age and leaves a wife and child to mourn for him at his home m Buffalo, Edwara Bartlett, an engineer, who 1s married and lived at Rondout, was riding over the road with his friend Simmons and shared his fate, These were the facts gained as the locomotive #.c%.through the night, with a flerce, unsteady motion, casting A NARROW STREAM OF LIGHT before, and jeaving aciond of white smoke behind it, spangled with countiess sparks. Here and there Ma narrow passage through the rocks a signalman stoed with a white light burning in his Jantera, and agam, as the frozen river came into view, here broad in the lowlands and there narrowed in the highlands, ts glitter subdued and seeming to breathe only of peace and beauty in the soft moon- hight, other men with light in hand were seen guard- ing the kab oa over sag pres wor EE SOENS OF THe DISASTER. A Sed ae After a Vear.ul Ni The locomotive stops in front of the New Hau- burg depot, where # group of a dozen persons are gathered, A quarter of @ mile below gieam many lights and there cesastoually flickers up subdued flashes of dame. Walking down the frozen and icy track, the dévria of broken and smoky cars is ob- served, while the track of the runaway car is plauly visible along the ground, and on the timbers or ties near by ave five pine coins painted biack. ‘the snell of burning oil impregnates the atr, aud clanbering round a pile of ropes, twisted tron wud splintered wood the reporter looks upon the CUASM OF DEATH. ‘ A field of ice stretching away to the right for miles, caim and unrafmed, and the mountajps rising dimly gray 0 ud; another and lesser patch of ice to the left wid at your feet an abyss 200 feet across, fied with A CONFUSED BEAP of black and charred fragments, with broken béams and with posts standing still upright and firm, but grim, burwed and reeking with a fetid odor and the fumes of oll. Thismass 18 looming here and there for four or five feet above the water, which 1s brown and filled with fragments of discolored ice, and now and anon you see fragments of a dress or cloak or @ coat, And down beneath all this, under two fathoms of water, lies a sleeping car contaimmng THIRTY-THREE CHARRED AND MANGLED BODIES, which last night were brim full of life and hope. They were thinking then of happiness, of joy and love, of busy dreams—of firesides where there were apxious fathers, mothers, husbands, wives or chil- dren waiting to welcome them, and where they never will be seen again. Some, perhaps, were thinking of a life which had been a@ struggle and a failure ever, and in which they hardiy expected anything less malevolent than the fate they found. On the margin of the ice, and on pianks planted on the débris, sturdy, earnest and begrinied men, employés of the raliroad company and villagers are searching with ropes and hooks for the bodies of the dead. At last, when the light becomes stronger and thelr number 15 in- creased, a body is found, It ts evidently that of a Jew, once a handsome man, but now how horrible to ook upon! Now that they have found the proper locality they draw forth another victim, and then, one after another, they raise to the surface and bear out upon the ice ihe body of 4 MOTHER AND HER TWO LITTLE CHILDREN, found clasped in her arma, Smoke curls from the chimneys of the village houses, and many looking frem their doors or win- dows observe for the first time that something un- usual has occurred. Gradually the news spreads abroad as the tide goes down, and the search is prosecuted with greater vigor and success, The train comes in from Poughkeepsie loaded with pas- sengers, Who have been Waiting above through the night and have heard many ramors of the disaster. disaster. Then trains come from the East, and pas- sengers who learn the fearful story for the first time look upon the scene with blanched cheeks and an awed expression. While the baggage 1s being trans- ferred around the chasm in sleighs running upon the ice those from different trains gather around the edge of ihe open space, carpet bags in hand, and are FAGER TO LEARN THR PARTICULARS, At noon people come from the country tm sleighs | gold hanting-case watch, and throng ‘the ice on Wappinger’s creek, young | horror & ound the scene, already appalling. He wit nien from the village sail their iceboats around the river side in the immediate vicinity, and boys are | skating past a few yards away. In the meant!mo | the telegraphic communieation with New York city, Which has been broken, is re-established by the mending of the wire, and the use of the wire has been secured by the HERALD reporter, THE DEAD. The Moraue of the Moment. Nearthe brink of the chasm a baggage car has been placed in charge of Mr. FE. 1. Bulson, under. taker, of Poughkeepsie, and in this the HERanp re porter has examined all the bodies that have been removed from the wreck. The first two taken ont were those of the two Jows above referred to, who are supposed to be Mes Forbach ana Rosentnal, They were found lying face down, and each was fearfully burned on the back of the head. The arms of the youngest were extended at fuil length. Re seemed to have clutched something and then to have released his hold, and there is no longer an appearance of rigidity in the hands, His nose is fattened as if erushed by a heavy weight, and around his head and neck there is @ pluk-colored mark as if a strap had been drawn tightly over it. He is apparently about thirty-five or thirty-six years of age, though he may have been older. His liair is rather curly. than oiher wise, and he has a mustache and imperial also in- chned to curl and rather lighter than bis bair, He Wears a piain black suit, of a smoky appearance, @ white shirt and gold studs. He wears high laced shoes, In his pocitet was found a silver hunt- ing-case watch, frozen by the waier which had entered the case. The back of his head is severely burned, THE ELDEST OF THE JRWS was fuund next after him, and very near. He is stouter and shorter. His face wears a fearful ex- pression, giving him the appearance of one who had been strangled, and his tongue Js thrust halt out of his mouth, between his clenched teeth. His | nair had he been apparently cropped close, ond wore closely trimmed black whis- kers, extending aronhd his face. clothes were all black. The vest, a& pe- cnliar one, buttons two inches up the neck, dnd tightly about it. In his vest pocket was fonnd a He too was found with his face down, and the back of nis head was burned almost to a coal. A MOTHER'S SHELTERING ARMS IN Dé. A wo1an, supposed to be the wife of the R rit Fowler, was next found, clasping her childrea tn her arms. Uniike those found before, her face and not.he back of the bead was burned, She was ly- ing on her back, and ler face bas the pertect ap- pearance of A SKULL CUT IN CHAR Aly His | | tlonable shape that but few persons were willing to | | put any credit In 1t whatever. jac probably not survive till morning, An unauthenticated rumor ig afloat in Albany thac Clinton Vage, one of the delegates to the Masonie Convention in this city, was killed by the aceldent | on the Hudson River Railroad. Fenrs fer the Safety of Members of the Low alvlature. ALBANY, Feb, 7, 1871. Great anxiety has been caused here by_a re. | | that Messrs, Jacobs and Wagner, members of the | . | onsting of Carey m House, were on the train that met with the acct. dent last night, cage Gentleman and His Panghter posed to Be on Board. Cmicaco, I, Feb, 7, 1871. It is claimed by friends here that Mr. E. Wood and danghter, of Irvington, were to take passage for this eity on the ill-fated Hutson River Railroad train last night, ‘Trains to Start from the Harlem Depot. HARLEM Rainoap Deriee) New York, Feb, 7, 1871. In consequence of the break on the Hudson River road express trains for the North end West, making close connections and running through without change, will leave Hariem depot at eight and eleven A. M. and four and eight o'clock P. M. W. H, VANDERBILT. EFFECT OF THE DISASTER IN ALBANY, Gloom Amoxzg the Members of the Legislature. The General Apprehsnsion that Six of the New York and Brooklyn Members were Among the Victims—A Rezolution of Investigation into the Cause of the Dira-ter Objected te in the Assembly—All the Miss- ing Members Turn Up Safely. ALBANY, Feb, 7, 1871. ‘The great topte of conversation here to-day, with- in and without the Legislatare, has been the ter- rible accident on the Hudson River Railroad, Tne first rumor of the horror reached here about three o'clock in the meraing; but It came in such a ques- Beslde the general | incredulity on the subject was rather confirmed an the lips beg opened, disclosed her teeth, white and | seeming to grin. Lying in the car, upon the foot one child, a litte girl of six years, is yet within hi embrace, and the other, @ babe of sixteen months, is | seemingly creeping up upon her besom, It must have been the poetic fancy of some one of the rough but honest men whose hands dropped her there 60 careleasly to place the littie omes she clung to so closely in this position. IN VELVET AND JEWELS. Near this woman now lies the body of another, dressed in a silk robe, with lace cuffs and alinen collar, A gold chain 18 suspended from her neck and attached to a watch (gold), and bearing an in- scription, and she wears diamond ornaments and rings. It is ramored that this is Mrs, Pease, of Buf- falo, though the inscription in the watch would lead one to believe that her name 1s Perry. The f0]- lowing is the inscription:— QAO OOOO LE RO LOLELELOLEDELELOEDELE DEED IO DEN HEEL D PRESENTED TO F. J. PERRY, as.an acknowledgment of his splendid inanegement OF WHE EXIILITION FAIR, BY WALTER B. FORBISH. OODLE TELE LEE UEEOLOILECTETELOGONDIOLELOLDLE SE RETEOD) O-sreree NANES OF SHE VICLIMs. The following are the names of the victims so far as now known: — PASSENGERS. C. Benedict, editor of the Cleveland Herald, and wile. George F, Thompson, of 47 Wall street, New York. James Stafford, of New York. Dr. Samuel Nancrede, late of New York, formerly of Philadelphia, Pa. Dr, Nanorede was recognized by his father in the car. A. A. Gillett, of Buffalo, Rey. Morrell Fowler, wife and two children, goiug from New York to Sait Lake Cliy, L. A. Root, residence unknown. EMPLOYES Of THE HUDSON RIVEB RAILROAD COM- PAI Y. Peter Vosburgh, sleeping coach conductor; resi- dence, Buffalo. William Simmons, engineer; keepsle. Edward Bartlett, engineer; residence, Rondout. resitence, Pough- “poc" Clow, acting baggage master. Residence, Thirty-ffth street, New York city. Lawrence Mooncy, brakeman. Residence un- known. James Vosburgh (colored), coach, Residence unknown, FATAL ACCIDENT. » While‘unloading heavy timbers from @ carnear the débris of the drawbridge, in the afternoon, one of ihe laborers was strioken to the ground by @ falling beam, . which struck him in the abdomen, crushing his limbs as it passed over them, The HERALD reporter witnessed the untimely acci- dent. The man groaned fearfully and spread a new porter of steeping hour or so afterward, when several railroad em- ployés put in an appearance and, in auswer to the questions put to them, scouted the idea of a loss of | life and declared that what bad given rise to the rumor was simply the burning of the bridge near | New Hampburg. ‘The papers were, consequently, eagerly scanned this morning at breakfast ume; but not & word was there about an accident. It was | not long, however, betore THE TERRIBLE TRUTH was broken to several parties here who Nad friends on the train, by means of despatches from Pough- keepsie. These despatches were necessarily very brief, but they were suficient to make the general anxiety all the more painful. One of them was addressed to a lady stopping at the Delavan Flouse. It read, “Safe; Peter dead.” Another, ‘‘Have not found him yet.’ Still another, “Yes""—Snort enough, indeed, but it doubtiess told volumes to the one who | so anxiously awaited a reply to his dispatch inquir- ing If hissson was safe. Probably THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE were more excited over the news than any other class of the community im this neighborhood. It would indeed be heartless for me to state why In a few cases the anxiety was so excessively great, or why it had more political selfishness about it than dread uncertainty as to the fate of a fellow being; but there is no denying the fact that the Lower House as @ whole were fearfully agitated i over the accident, and from motives the sincerity of which could not be questioner. When the two houses met every face wore an unmistakable expression of anxtety, The Speaker was pale and nervous, and when he called the House to order he did s0 in & mechanical sort of way, while his eyes wandered listlessly from one to the other of the six seats in front of him that were not occupied, The usual order of business was begun in the usual way, but nobody paia any attention to either the reading of the clerks or the regular calls of the Speaker. The atmosphere of the room seeméd to weigh heavily upon all, and no one person was at his ease. Even the pages took the imfection, and whenever they got chance assembled together in little groups of four and five in some of the dark corners of the chamber, whence were certain to come every Jew Moments fresh rumors as to the fate of the miss- ing ones, which were passed from mouth ve month, gathering new face and new coloring as they passed, until they finally assumed the shape of facts oficially promulgated from the scene of the awful disaster, The sending of despatches te New Ham- burg asking for information kept the messengers running constantly in and out of the chambers aud the arrival of every answer, was a cortain signal for arush of members about the recipient. A page ran breathiessly in with A DESPATCH IN HIS HAND and went straight to the Speaker's desk, “Where is it from???) “What does it say?’ rang out from ail sides, and everybody drew @ breath of relief when it was announced that O’Brien, Roche, Conselyea, Prime and Irving were safe. The latier was sick at home; the others were at New Hamburg, safe and sound, their trai, Which left New York at ¢cleven —TRIPLE SHEET. nm o'clock, having had to stop when it came to the scene where lay the dead and dying. FIVE VACANT SEATS Were no“longer objects for horrid speculation, But what of the other—had any person heard from Jacobs, of Kings county? Baylis and Goodrich, his colleagues, rau In and out of the room every few minutes, each endeavoring to get some tidings from Brooklyn. Jf Jacobs waa safe, or if he had not taken tlie fatal train, why did he not seud word, knowing as he id that the House would be tinpatient to hear irom him, Rue mors concerning him flew thick and fast, but notuing pointed to anything like a certainty until the receipt of a despatch irom the wife of William Fowler, of Prookiyn, asking for Information con- | cerning her husbaid, wao had left by tie train of death. it waa believed that Jacobs and Fowler werd | to come up together, and Fowler was not here, ‘Tae news appeared to extinguish THA LAST HOPE in the heart of every member, and the gloom became | general, The people in the galleries, which were , densely crowded up to the present time, ap- peared to be in a state of utter bewilter- | ment as to what bad caused the universal convereation, the low whisperings among the mem- | bers, the quiet way each one moved from place to place, as though there was a corpse laid out in their very midst, and the goneval air of tear and expectu- | tion that prevailed; but Lentreil finally proclatmed the reason and stared every one within the sound | of the Clerk's voice by offering a resolution that @ committee oO: five shovld be appointed to INVESTIO NTE TUN CAUSE of tlie accident Which had thrown sneh a pall over | both houses, ‘The following is the resolution; Whereas a frighifal aectdent has ocenrred on the Hudson River | ai, by Which many hves have n lost; (heverere be it resolved that the Judiciary directed to drafta bill to be submitted to prevent, if possible, a recurrence accidents on any of the railroads of | to the How this State, But it he startled his What he did, what the Hows by so suddenly doing act of Mr. Husted’s getting up and objeciing to the resoiumon was, Licave to every individual's aense of the piapriety of things, A solitary objection, Mr, Husted knew right well, | would compel the resolution to be laid over, and | they were aid over. How well a special committee could have probed the accident to the bottom even how, while the wounded are yet able to tell their story, and the dead He sti and stark on the feo to testify tv lis horror, needs no argument, Thé rall- road com y may not be at fanit, but Masted may be eatled upon yet to teil the public why le placed himself in the anomalous position ne did the very moment when the House was excited over the sup- Posed loss of one of its members, and the cries of anguish from fathers and mothers and sisters aud brothers were stil echoing in their ears as despatch afrer despatch flashed over the | wires in the vestioule, ‘The momentary excitement ocorsioned by the introduction of the resolution soon subsided, however, and again the members | | huddied together here and there about the reom epeculauing upon (he probability of MISSING MAN y that the question of the potiti- cul change that a death in the democratic ranks Would moke was net tonched upon would not be ‘or amid the general expression ot grief there loomicd ap more tha » the old idea of what the ‘at have accomphsied for one party or defeated for another, Yet it was natural toa certam degree, Idare say, that a few of the political majo! should have shown a litte anxiety for their political future, even wnder diz tessing cireuimstances which, in another place than legisiative halls, would bi pelled thoughts far less seliish, Butit was proper that the other sid> spoke not as 1t did—not of what it might gain by what the other would lose, The end had to come, however, Tt was linpossible to go on with the busin: of the House with such a dread hanging over it, and to Mr, elds was left the task of moving tie adjournment, In dowmg 80 he spoke a iew words a8 to the proba- | bility of the death of one of the Assemblymen, and the members went thelr ways—not bolsterously Dut | is their usual custom, y and slowly; for wore than one ef the } York mev, who had tn- to leave the city by the eight o’clock train Yesterda,, felt nat ho, too, mignt have been one of 3 Ne a epee nearly all my garments and recred. £ had just dozed of asiecp, I au about twenty minutes past ten, I peculiar notse, as if a car was of the track. Two or three minutes afterwards I looked out of the wine dow, and the whole scene around me was one blase Of luria ght, I had just time to drag my overcoat from thé rack, and jnmpea out toto the snow, nothing on but drawers and undershirr, ‘hd baggage, drawing room of the car I was tn just taken fire. I lost all my but was kindly supplied with shoes, hat and panta by some of the other passengers who were more lucky than myself, There were two men in the bag- wage car—ony was killed and the other escaped with a scorched back, When the engine whistled “down brakes’’ the sleeping cars in the rear were unniiched, and in these we made ourselves a8 com- fortable as pons sible for the ie nig . \GIVAW THE LOSS OF THR Speelal Ropert from fan Pranelseo, Herald Arrival of the Wrecked Ofte 8 and Crew at San Francisco. Al @afo, Well and in Goot Spirits. TELEGRAM TO THE | NEW YORK HERALD. By special telegram from the HeraLp cor respondent ai San Francisco we are furnished with the gra‘ifying intelligence of the arrival ai that port from Honolulu of the wrecked officers and crew of the United States steamer Saginaw. San Francisco, Feb. 7, 1871. Ti is with much pleasure that I have to ane nounce the arrival of tho steamship Moses Taylor at thts port to-day from Honolalu, hay- ing on board the wrecked officers and crew of the United States steamer Saginaw. The Moses Taylor lett Honolulu on the 28th ult. The steamer Kilneua, that was placed at the disposal of the United States Minister by the Hawiien government to go to the resoue of the unfortunates, arrived at Honolulu on her return from Ocean [slind on tho 14th of Janu- ‘y, bringing with her the entire party, all of them much debilitated and quite weak from want of proper diet, but they have since fully recovered and are now in good health and The od from the Moses Taylor to the United States steamer spirits. y have been transfi Saranac, While on Ocean Island the wrecked partly were limited to rations of one potato and They obiained seal, turtle and goneys, however, sufficient to sustain life. I have catied upon Captain Sicard to in- quire if he had any further particulars to communicate regarding the loss of the vessel and subsequent events, but he had nothing two ounces of bread daily. to give me other than hag already »een pub- | the holocaust at New Hamburg. sAcORS, to the great joy of the democratic majority, arrived here safe and sound thisevemby. it appears that he and Fowier had made"up their ssinds to take the | fotal train, bui that owing to what they considered their bad luek they failed to connect in time, } Jacobs states that he was not aware that the Legis- lature Was #0 coucerned as to his fate, else he would have done as the other mixsing men did—telegraph that he wus safe, He started for the eight o'clock train, he says; but when he got io the depot he found that he was just ten twimutes late. It ax hia intention to haye taken a berth in the | | | i i | car thai was consuine and he had tele giephed the conductor to secure fim a place, fhe mere tact of meetlag what he thought at ‘the time a too pnvivial iriond oa “his way to the depot was the cause of his missing the tran, | eh TO! MULYHY J fo Whose sa‘ety been expressed, also arrived tu- | cessary to s that the democrats in breathe more freely. 201 Abo cach house Ling IN tai CITY. tsi for News— Ex itement in the Streets | The news of the terrible disaster spread like wild- five throughont the city, and men rushed eagerly after the lcast ttem ef news from the scene of the tragedy. ‘The desire to learn the uames of the suf- ferers grew mere and more mtenge as tho day wore on, in the corridors and halls of the principal hoteis men and women crowded, anxiously asking ifany names had yet come in. Many a cheek was blanched and wany an eye Was moist as the thought of some absent iriend or reialiye rushed wW the mind, Numoers of guests ar VUE | Whose business in the thelr stars some trifitn: town. “Jack,” said one young man, grasping @ friend warmly by the hand, “1 shall never forget this for you. But for you, old feliow, 1 should have been on that train.” One lost a brother in such and HOTeLA iy was fished thanked ecident had kept them in such am accident; } another had # frend who lost @ wile m another, “1 | | broke thot arm, sir, in a tumble we had out | West.” Bat when ai risons had ended and | every railroad acid » years haa beea dis. cussed, this dwarfed them all, In omuibas cars, on tite streets and In the houses, the frightial H | aveideat was it THE ONLY SUBIKET oF CoN TION, | A thousatt red as to its cau and as quickly rejected; remedies to prevent the recurrence of such catastrophes were just as nu Merons and impossible. “The 5 er train ran into the f says the ‘reiyit ran taco ine passen- ger,” two gentlemen argacd. Tao discrssion was suddenly interrupted by ai old lady— “Whereis the telegrapi oitiee?” she gasped. “L waat to send @ message; viy son Was tn that train, going to Cincinagati.” She was directed to the nearest telegraph office, and thither she hastened, “] never take o/fa thing when T go into a sleeping car, sord an old traveller, “You never know tho momoens you may be flung into the jaws of death.” “This beats the massacre ab Carr's Rock all hol. low! And so it went on, Eight persons being killed got augmented to eighty, the wildest ru- mors taklag possession of men’s minds in the ab- sence of particulars. The horrible clreumstances of the event appalled tue stontest hearts—men and women jumping from their berths to be engulfed in flames and buried, half roasted, in the ice, War news los! 1ts Interest, and every other subject that usually engrosses men’s mtnds went out of view in the excitement of the hour, Conventionality was gone, and people talked with strangers as they would taik with old acquaintances, No accident has occurred that so stirred the feelings of the people to their very depths for & number of years, Ss and theories were 8: Statement of a Passenger. Mr. Adolph A. Son, passenger on board the Pactite j Mimsterial or express train last evening, #ays:—I was in the through Chicago car, aud was going to San Fraa- eco, At fen o'clock i divested mveelf of lished in the Hurarp. THE QUESTION OF re EAST. Turkey Watching the Roumanian Agitation. THE TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YOAK HERALD, Lonpon, Feb. 17, 1871. I received advices from Constantinople this evens ing which anuounce that a Tarkish army of obser. vation has been sent to Shumia to watch distur- bances in oye TE AUSTRIAN CABINET. ' Ministerial Reconstruction—New Appointments, iS TS THE WEW YORK HEGALS, VIRNNA, Feb. 7, 187. Thasten to inform the Heranp by eabie thata ¢ has occurred in this city, raph velieves Count Potoohe and his colieamues of Uh isterial functions, and ap- poinis Hohenwari Minister of the erior, with authority lo jor # new Cabinet. Otuer decrees follow, appointing Hoizuethan Mintster of mance, Sebati Minister of Commerce, Jiresk Minister of Public Worship aad Public Schools, end a uew Mine tater of War. The Emperor says:—“Iis Majesty believes thats Ministry standing on the constitution and rising above pirty will succeed m consolidating fhe power and promoting the welfare of the empir.”” TELEGRA AN Linperial aio Aasivo-Mfungarian Leal tion. PustH, Feb, 7, 1871. Inthe closing sitting of the Ausiro-lunganan delegations, baron Von Beust announced the ratifi- cation of the budget, and thanked tha members for their activity. He said he “hoped they would enjoy more cheering prospects when they reasse.abled.’? ENGLAND. larm tor the Outlying £ 1nd aang moats to Jarsoy. TELESQAM 16 T! Gelnforete EW YORK HEALD. Lonpon, Ue. 7, 1sTl. 1 have to report that the War Oftice has ordered inquiries to be made tn the isiaud of Jersey as to what accommodations there are for quartering additional troops. It is proposed to send a reinforcement of 700 men there at an early day, and the strengin ning of the fortifications 1s contemplated, Reminiscences of the Steamship (ity of Bose ton. Lowpox, Feb, 7, 18Tl. A law court appeal trial heard in this city In the case of Jenkins, a libel suit arising from the loss of the steamsmp City of Boston, has been decided in favor of the Inman Company. THE Shoe ad COAS f. Torrific Gate at Howlands Isiand=German Vessel Wrecked—indian Affairs in Arizoua. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 1871. Agale at Howland’s Isiand, lasting from Decem- ber 11 tothe 15th, drove the ship Reynard out to + sea. The German ship Licbeg Benghott was driven ashore on Baker's Isiand, She is a total wreck and two of her crew were drowned. The remainder of the crew were carried to Howland Island, ‘The San Fraucis:o Chamber of Commerce will be addressed to-morrow by Vogel, Postmaster General of New Zealand and Mr. Gray, Postal ering for the Colonies in benaty of the proposed American line of steamers from Austratia w New eee ae vices from all parts of ‘apuones tO, be unusuatiy active. Re} of men fare ports Killed, horses, miles. aaa cattls rug of, aud piundered come in from alt directions, Many. Iners are adandoning the country m despair, Several mass meetings bave Leen helt at feson te cousider the situation ap? devise means Of