The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1875, Page 7

THE ERIE RAILWAY. English Opinion of Mr. Jewett’s Ap-| pointment as Receiver. THE PRICE OF THE SHARES IN LONDON What American Bankers Think | of the Crisis. | [SPRCIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE. ] Loypoy, May 27, 1875. It is the impression here that the appoint- ment of Mr. Jewett as receiver in the case of the Erie Railway is a fact favorable to the Interests of the shareholders, THE PRICE OF SHARES IN LONDON. Shares suld in this market Inst night at 14}, and are two per cent better to-day. WHAT AMERICAN BANKERS THINK. Ihave talked with the prominent American bankers here on the subject. MR. MORGAN'S OPINION. Mr. Morgan believes that the insolvency of | the company is due to treachery in its own | Board. He says the company was prepared to pay the interest due on June 1, having | tontracted with the Delaware and Lacka- | wanna Company for a loan of half a million of dollars, but the bear party in the Erie Board refused to ratify the arrangement. MR. M'CULLOCH’S OPINION. | Mr. McCulloch regards the appointment | | | 2s a favorable one. He says the Erie property is worth double the amount of the present price of its bonds, the toad having earned more than the interest | during an exceptionally bad period, dospite | the disaster with the Delaware bridge and the | sncumbrance of the Atlantic and Great West- | ern. His house was yesterday restrained from | paying the interest due Juno 1. MR. SELIGMAN'S OPINION. H Mr. Seligman thinks favorably of tbe ap- | pdintment of Mr. Jewett, aud does not doubt | that the earnings of the road are suflicient to | pay the interest on its bonds. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE. ] Lonpox, May 27, 1875. Three divers worked around the spot where the steamship Schiller was lost during a space pf three hours to-day. * i WHAT THEY RECOVERED, Each diver recovered about half o ton of eopper. | THE MOODY-SANKEY REVIVALS. | Slee deenseaiaes | HE AMERICAN MISSIONARINS STILL SUCCESSFUL | IN ENGLAND—PEOPLE AND PEERS UNDER THE | INFLUENCE OF THE CALL. Lonpon, May 27, 1875, Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the American | Fevivalists, continue to hold a number of revival — mootings cally. ! There is no diminution in tne number of people | who gather to hear them. Among their hearers | yesterday were the Ear! of Snaftesbury, Lora | Dairns, the Ear! of Cavan ana many clergymen. PAUL BOYTON’S SWIM. H ‘HE AMERICAN SEA WALEER TO JOURNEY Fro | THE FRENCH TO THE ENGLISH COAST—A PRE- PARATORY TRIP IN THE WATER. Lonpon, May 27, 1875, ‘This is the day fixed upon by Paul Boyton to | paddie tn bis saiety sult from Boulogne to Cape | Grisnez, from waolch place he will start ‘or Eng- Jana. STATS OF THE WEATHER AND THE SEA. The weather and the sea inthe Channel are heavy. WATCHING THE WALKER OF THE WATERS, Mr. sebenck, the American Minister, and Mr. Plimsoll, member of Parliament, will witness Boston’s second attempt to-morrow to swim peross the Channel after he starts from the French Jor the English side. BOYTON IN THE WATER, | BovLoGNe, May 27, 1875, Paul Boyton entered the water here at a quar. | ter-past two o'clock this sfternoon and immedi- ately started for Cape Grisnez. AN IMMENSE CROWD OF SPECTATORS, An immense crowd of people witnessed his de~ parture. THE WIND UNFAVORABLE. Be labors under the disadvantage of an adverse ‘wind. BOYTON OUT FROM THE WATER. BovLoone, May 27, 1875. Paul Boytom ianded at Andreselies, about two- Thirds of the distance between here ana Cape Grisnez, at sixteen minutes past five o'clock this afternoon, and has gone to the latter place. ROYAL ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE DEEP 8A | TOURIST. Lonnon, May 28—5 A. M. fhe Queen and Prince of Wales e had te! @rams sent to Panl Boyton expressing their pes for his success. | FRANCE. tn YHE COMMITTEF OF THIRTY ORGANIZED 1H FAVOR OF THE REPUBLIC. Panis, May 27, 1875, The Committee of Thirty organized this after- toon by the election of M. ds Lavergne as Presi- fent and MM. Labouiaye and Leroyer Vice Prest- tents. ‘ de Lavergne tn his opening address, which | sitiou, a8 | Years are a gratuity they still understand that the | supply them with fartner food, | Shall immediately consider a plan which contem- | ABANDONMENT OF THEIR OLD HOMES i | doubtiess, seriously embarrass the proposition tor | tre vaca | fled by Congress. | war is rendered less likely should tne fudiana NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. THE SIOUX CHIEFS. | —-_—_ SOW THE PROPOSITION TO REMOVE TO THE rs. | DIAN TERRITORY 8 RECEIVED—THE PUR- | CHASE OF THS BLACK HILLS DMPERILLED— | THE INDIAN NATURE ASSERTING ITSELY. i WASHINGTON, May 27, 1875. | “It makes my heart feel heavy to hear the Great Father talk about sending us away from ourowa | country.’ This sentence, spoken witn a great deal of pathos by Spotted Tat) to-nigit to ons of the interpreters, represents the way in which the proposition that they shall remove to the indian Verritory is received, There is every reason to believe that the Indians came here witha de- | termination to make A FORMAL PROPOSITION for the surrender of the Black Hills, That propo- nearly as can be ascertained, was substantilly this:—They would yteld to the general government all the Black Hilis country within sheir reservation, in consideration cf supplies to be furnished them by the government for fiteen years. They are conscions of the fact that under the Sherman- Augur Treaty of 1668 their rght to provisions ex- pired two years ago by limi‘ation, and while they deny that ihe sypropriations for the last two Government is under no treaty obligations to On tbe basis of the amount considered necessary for tie support of these Iudiaus for the last two fiscal years the Propositicn of the Sioux tor the cession of tne Black Bills country 1s that the government sball bay the gross sum of $15,000,000 in annual instal- ments, commuted in provisions of $1,000,000 eact. The Indians rely, with an audacious confidence, upon their primeval right of porses- sion, and think Inhat im any event the government will continue to feed. th ‘The Indians, in their private counsels, wave cousidered a proposition of @ similar nature, and bave argued tat they could weil afford to surrender the portion of the Black Mills within their reservation, as they wonld taen have 24,000,000 acres, Very cousiderably more than & square mite to each Indiao, The proposition Ol the President yesterday, nowever, that ty Diates an and removal of them to unknown Indian territory is uniaverably received by the Indians and will, ion ofthe Black Hills country. Spotted the Indians upon Tail expressed tue yiews of os Proposition Wien he toid Secretary Delano ay, thatarthe lidian Territury is such a good | cousety the hite men now iu the Black nulls | Shou'd be sent there and the Inaians left alone. ‘The delegates trom the irontier Staves and Ter: re say taat although tne sioux chicis have learned that resistance to the government means to them final extermination, still they Would die in their tracks in whas they cali the | land of their tathers betore they would surrender the Nocth sioux couatry to enter upon agricul | tura: pursuits in the indian Territory. Ibis possible that a basis of a compromise can be agreed vpun, but at p nt an agreement of any Kind seeais Impossibie. ‘Lhe managers of the | Black Hills scheme say that the precipitation or the Indian Terriro.y question. at the present time imiperils the success Of the seneme, to accomplisia | Which the Indians were induced to make this Journey. = WHAT THE INDIANS SAY, i The Ind‘ang, woo wili not tink of removing to the Indian Territory, say to-night they wisn to remain as the Southwestern Jakota, except the Biack Hills, as | at present, and occupy as maceded lands to and inciuding the valley of tne Noprara on the souta, and the western line ®til probably be irom ita | headwaters to the Tongue or some otner stream | mons Muto the Yellowstone. The northern eastern boundaries will remain as av present, tbe former being the Jorty-sixth paratiel | and the latter the Missourl. This wiil open the | Wind River, Sweetwater aud Big Horn regions. tn Nourtawestero Wyong, tirouga to Montana, and give Wyoming an open route through and across the Yellowstone ito Montana, whicn, it is claimed, 1s a better route for overiaud freigot | than nortn from Corinne, Utab. | THE SCHILLER. | THE ORIGINAL AGITATION Biack fills busioess, it has trans- orihern Pa- of this whole pired, arose from the jact that the cific ‘road desired to make connection | wita the Yellowstone, bus was on a line | too far north, and hence the advisaoility of running Gown to the southwest was mvoted, which developed the Black Hills as a desiravle | point of interception, on account of its mineral Tesources. ‘The Sioux country was Known to be impassable, and General Custer was sent to ex- plore it in the interest of civiuization and ratiroad enterprise, More than one of the latter have in- terests ut stake In the solution of the problem, The Sionx Indians, it ts now asserted, will be suc- cessiuily and peaceably disposed of in the course of three montns at furthest, when a new treaty Will be made, which will be reported to and rati- ‘THUS the possibility Ol a great Keep faith. THE BOSTON EXPLOSION. Boston, Mass., May 27, 1878, rch Was made throughout the night in the ruins of the building on Washington street no more bodies have been discovered, The fol- low ing 1s a record of the casuaities so far as can be jearned up to noon to-' DEAD. Mrs. Lizzie Crompton, Jane M. Frawley, Etta Batley (child). SEVERELY INJURED. Maurice Ackerman, John Farley, Mrs, Martha London. Though SLIGHTLY INJURED, George A. Stetson, Mrs. Lizzie Baile, John J, Mahoney, George Lamb, Samuel Hey wood, Mrs, Wihiam A. Cofttin, Reury McIntire, Thomas Cun- ners, Fred, H. Lord, Thomas Carney, of Haverhill, | P. J. Buckley, Mre. Lillie KE. Hersey, Samuei Far- well, Wiliam Pratt, William E. Gardner, Mra, Loring Garaner, George Hamlin, Jacob Valois, Lizzie Getney, Sayward I and Mr, White. Total, three dead, three severely injured nnd twenry-two slightly injured. Several other persons who retused to give thelr names or who started for (heit homes vadoubtedly subscquent to the expiosion ere known to have been more or less injured. Of those who were severely injured, Ackerman is the only one that is Unlikely to recover. The losses by the explosion will be’matertally re. duced from the first estimate, and will probably Not exceed $60,000, divided among the various ocenpants of the building and neighboring stores. ‘rhe cause of the explosion is as yet unexplainea. Coroner Foye has been directed to summon a jury and make a thorough investigation into the circumstances attending the catastrdphe and the death of the persons killed, one of whom will be sciected as the subject of the inques: The scene of the disaster has been the centre of attraction for thousands to-day, Washington street is now open to travel, notwithstanding the Immense mass of dévris precipitated into it Coroner Foye was engaged this afternoon in the formation of a jury of inquest, and has summoned @ Dumber of gentiemen well qualified to investi- gate the caus .of the terrible explosion a: Dow's drug store last evening. They ineiude Professor William R. Nichols, of the Insti- tare of Technology ; Air. Shaw, Inspector 0: Buila- ings; Commissioner Chamberlin, of the Fire Dee partment; ex-Alderman Fairbanks, manufacturer of soda water; Mr. Morrison, the well known butider, and one other gentieman, al! of whom are expected to serve. THE DISTINGUISHED DEFAULTER, Boston, May 27, 1878. Abraham Jackson, the tawyer and miliionnaire Gefauiter, arrived in this city this evening in charge of @ detective who had been sent after him, He assumes innocence, and will prob- was received with cneers, cailed upon all good citizens ‘to rally round the Republic.” tHE ASSEMBLY WORK OF THR COMMITTER oF THIRTY. The Commitvee of Thirty have decided to con- sider first the bill concerning public powers, next the Senate bili and third the Rlectoral bill, SPAIN. NAVAL ACTION BY THR CARLISTS—AN ALFONSIST | ADMIRAL SAID TO HAVE BREN KILLED, LONDON, May 235 A. M. Aspectal despatch from St. Jean de Luz to the | | | Stancard states that @ Carlist battery at Mouat Rico had fired on the Spanish squadron, and thas the admiral commanding was killed and four of 19 OMcers Wounded, THE MONEY PANIC IN BRAZIL. ee Lompox, May 27, 1875. Ad viees (fem Bio Janeiro report that the mone tere vamic in that city 1s subsiding, | 8,000 ene of $100 each. | Raw. B. ably fight to the end tne multitude of complaints Which witl be brought against him. Noone came forward to offer bonds for his futare appearance, and he was immediately committed to the Charles Street Jail, Attorney General Train came into the Municipal Criminal Court thts afternoon and signed & complaint embracing nine specifio counts, charging Jackson with the embezzlement | of vari sums of noney from different parties, The speetOcations in tue several counts wer for the following speciiic sums — $8,641 $20,452, $2% $500, s4s,048 and amounting tn all to $30 Tt is un- Gerstood that io will ve arraigned’ to-morron, | nit is expected another schedule of eharges | Will be prepared and preferred. THE BC STC IN POST Boston, May 27, 1875, Acertificate of pald up capital of the Roston | Post Company was filed yesterday and a charter ‘obtained. The object of the company is to con- tinue the pudilahing and printing Susiness and hold the material and good wil of the boston | Post. The capita: stock {3 $300,000, divided inte , the corporators are Porter, presidens, How. Lara a Wiaaiow, secretary. are, retaloing their territory in | . | With great rapidity. A HOLOCAU ST. } A Church aa PE Con- sumed by Fire. A MEMORABLE CORPUS CHRISTI. The French Catholic Church at Holyoke, Mass., a Funeral Pyre. THE ALTAR DRAPINGS IGNITE | Overwhelming Confusion---Trampled and Roasted Alive. THE RUSH FOR THE DOORS Whole Families Perish To- gether. Seventy-fivo Lives Lost---Great Num- bers Wounded. A Catastrophe Over in Twenty Minutes. Heroie Endeavors to Fight the Flames aud Rescue the Congregation. THE FLIGHT FROM THE GALLERY. Heartrending Scenes Around the Charred Bodies. MIRACULOUS ESOAPES HOLYOKE, Mass., May 27, 1875. As the French Catholics were celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi at their church at South Holyoke this evening the altar adornments caught fire trom a lamp, and the dames spread ‘The ciurch was filied to re- pletion, and the crowd were instantly panio struck and a grand rush was made for the doors. | The peopie piled one above another until! tho doors were filled up, thus preventing egress. A few escaped by the windows, and a few by the rear enirance. The fumes spread with lightning speed; scores were burned todeath. The alarm was quickly spread and the fire department were soon on the ground; but the | church was built of wood, ana a mere sitll. It was soon wrapt in flames, and the poor unforta- nates who were not suffocated in the pile that was crowded in the doors were burned to death. Those nearest the outside were dragged out, Some dead and others badiy burned. Frank Beaudrean was badly burned on the arms; Miss | Roselle Desjarciin, of No. 4 Hadley Block, dead; Sophie Dion, of Midole street, very badly burned; Saline Doucette, dead; Nellie Lapierre and moth- er, reported missing, supposed to have been buried in the church. THS GALLERY STAIRS. The place where the greater number of deaths occurred was at the door near the foot of the gal- lery stairs. In coming down the stairs they pushed with such force as to throw those in advance down, and otbers fell on the top of them. Many were taken out from this place alive. After the firemen haa driven back the flames, the Sisters of Charity Were quickiy present and have done noble work in carmg for the wounded. The Fire Department did all that could be done. Mayor Pearsons was hard at work snperintending the remova! of the bodies and directing the volunteer relief gangs. THE DEAD BODIES, At ten o’clock thirty-six dead bodies were in Mowat’s store, on Main street. Two bodies were left at & paint shop, and at the school house were twelve more, Christine Dixon will probably not live till morning. Lizzie Mercier, badly burned; Desjardia, father, mother and two daughters, dead; and one daughter, badiy burned; Mrs. Burgess, dead; Mra. Bourdean, terribly burned; Mrs. Pleraux, badly burned; Alina Blair, badiy burned; Mrs. Theodore Blanchard, Mrs, Dapont, Hermine Laponite, Louise Terril, Henrtette Siminenr, Caiixte Dofresne, Loulsa Barns, Victor Grier, slightly burned; Louise Laquetta, Louise Terriere, wounded; Rosalie Davian. In Pascal Paqnette’s family there is one dead and twodsing. Family of Francis Dewy there are few slightly burned and one missing. NAMES OF THE RECOGNIZED DEAD. Mrs. Bargess, Mrs. Victa Morin, Mr. Desjardins, wife and fonr children; Isai Morin, Fabien Mo- | | gallery skirved both | entrancs leading to the house back of the altar, | from | and several deaths occurred in rean, Misses Exiida, Lafrance, Mrs. Lavaina, Isai | | the New york Mills boarding house, and the Morin, Faben Morear, Mary Doncette, Etta Mea- nier, daughter of Augustus Cooche, and Alsene Newton. Fifty-one bodies have been taken out of the rnins, mostly women and children, none of whom are as yet identifed. ESCAPE OF THE PASTOR. ‘The pastor, the Rev. A. B. Dufresne, escaped through a side door, and, im the panic of the mo- ment or supposing that the people had escaped from the church, commenced te remove the furnt- ture from the parsonage. HORRIBLE SIGHTS. of the aead and dying lay to | gether. One poor girl lingered for an hour | | while stranger alter stranger passed ap trying to | iMentify her, and at length a brother came iu time tosee her breathe her last. Another, who had | escaped from the church, was crying pitevusiy that her father, mother and al! of her family had | perished. NUMBER OF DEATHS. The wildest estimates were made of tne number | Supposed to be lost, It is probable that the exact | number of lives joss will not be known for some | days, A large foros of men ave working among the | ruins, The number present in the church when | the fre broke outts variously estimated, but whe | seating capacity of the bullding when crowded full was about eight hundred. A majority of those who perished were girls and women. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. SPRINGFIELD, Mags., May 27, 1875, | The most terrible disaster in the history of | Holyoke, Mass., occurred toenight in the burning of the French Catholic ciurch at South Holyoke guring the evening service, tuvolving the loss of sixty-six meu, women and children. The exercises had neariy closed aud 5 vesyer service was being sung, when the draperies | on the altar caught fire from a candle, and the | wall being low and the finmes streaming up the | building was set on fire, The audience numbered about 700, Tne people in the body of the church escaped, but on the stairway leading | from the gallery human.beings were packed in a dense mass struggling to escape, as the flames rushed toward them. Many leaped tothe foor beneath and were trampled to death, The gallery skirted both sides of tne building, witn only one entrance from the front, The scene was fearful in the extreme during the rush. for the whole was over in twenty minutes, Be- sides sixty-six deal there are epough fataily — wounded to carry tne totat css of lle upto | weventy-four, The recognized aead up to this hour are gs follows:—Mrs. Burgess, Mrs, | Victor Norio, Mrs. Catixte Larivie, Mra, Lavina, ; Mr. Desperdin’s wife aud four children, Isaac | | Morin, Fabier Morean, Miss Ida La France, Justine | Brissan, Aiphonsine Morean, Mary Dancett, Etta Menener, the danghters of Auzustus Coache and | Alzent Naoton, i BADLY BURNED, Mrs, Theophile Blanchard, Mrs. Burdeanx, Mra. | Dupont, Germine Laporte, Henrietta Timinne, | Caixte Dutresne. | ina state of tr | west side of the church. thirteen of those iareeee and four other physicians attenned from two to four persons SCENES AND INCIDENTS. Thrilling scenes and incidents were numerous. The following are selected frome large nomber | collected by the reporters of the Springfeld Re- publican, Peter Monatto, in whose store the dead bodies were afterwards ta- ken, was in the cody of tke cburch with three children when the fre caught, He immedi- atelyran toward tne Games and attempted to put them cut with several patis of water taken from = the priest’a residence ad- | joining the church, Finding it useless be then tried tosave some of the furniture, out was quickly driven away. He and his chucren Were allsaved. One giri escaped from the gallery by jumping on the back of & wan, who carried her out, THE UNHEEDED WARNINGS. THY TERRIBLE CALAMITY AT SANTIAGO, CHILI. On the feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 1863, Santiago, the capitol of the Re- publ c of Chil, was visited by the mot termbie calamity that has ever been known tn connection with a chures, The Chureh of the Jesuits, one of the most magnificent editices tn Soutn America, was crowded to suffocation, An eye witness thus describes the scene:— A few mingtes before seven o'clock, and when the religious performance was about to commence, they were still lignting the jast lights in the chancel when tve portable gas in the ball moon of canvas and wood that formed the pedestalofa colossal image of the Virgin Mary began to burn one Of the extremities of the apparatus. Some one rushed oa the rising fame and succeeded in smothering It, but bya fatal rebound the gas, com- pressed by the effort, burst ont with redoubled vigor at the other extremity of tne false half moon. the sacristy crying, ‘Water, water!” while the women, who filled the nave, arose in tumultuous confusion, screaming for help, The flre spread with wonderfni rapidity to the reredos ot wood and hangings, and thence attracted by the cur- rent of alr In @ ‘ew moments all over head wasa mass of flames, In the meantime the men bad succeeded in escaping, for'in this church the sexes were separated by an iron grating, and the Women had fled as far as the middle of the cuuren most terrible contusion. headlong hurry, the fainting, the obstruction of the bell-shaped dresses and the frantic eagerness to gain the street, which, by a culpable impru- dence, gave access to the fresh alr only towara the open space in front and the small court on the ‘That obstacle was the | barrier of death. SLIGHTLY BURNED. Louise Puquette, Louise Ferriere. WOUNDED. Rosalie Davian and Pascal Pasquetre’s family, There 1s one dead and two dying in tho family of Francois Derey. There are four slightly burned | H and ono miasing. | THE PRIEST’S HOUSE. | | The priest’s house, which joins the church on the rear, was also burned, | The bodies were taken to Peter Mowatt’s Main | street store and to the Park street schoolhouse | for temporary deposit. THE INQUEST. The inquest will be held to-moorrow at nine | o'clock A. M. THE Loss. The loss on the church is total, bat is small, it being an old structure. There 13 $400 insurance on it and $1,000 on the priest's house. A CANDLE FLAME, The exercises had nearly closed when a candle | caught the drapery around the statue of the | Virgin Mary, and the walls being Jow 11, streamed up an4 caught the building. Immediately a panio ensnea, and the people rushed for the doors, The | sides of the building, | with one entrance from the front. On the stair- way leading from the galiery the peopie were packed In a solid mass, straggling to clear tnem- selves as the flames rushed toward them, and this soon became blocked, readering BXIT IMPOSSIBLE, Many jumped over the sides of the galleries on | the crowd beneath, and a namber were trampled on and &illed, The priest’s residenee joins the charch on the rear, and many escaped through an SCREAMS OF THE LIVING. | The priest's exertions to Keep order were fruit- | less. The screams of the living anil the moans of the dying made a deafening tumult above the or- ders of the pastor, Who worked most heroically and was personaily instrumental in saviog many hives. One family of tour were im the charen and all wero = killed, Many were pulled ont by the arms ana feet so badly burned that they lived but a few hours, the fesh peeling of on being “touched. Some taken out with scarcely any fiesh remain- jug on their bones. Tne Sisters of Mercy, the Convent, were soon on hana, car- Ing for the wounded and holding services over the dying, while Father Dafresne also heid many services over the dying, His mother was among those terribly burned. Father Duiresne Jost almost everything in his residence, so raptidiy was the building consumed, it betog as dry as tinder. . The large wooden tenement block of Josepn Prew, near the burned church, wes thrown open for the reception of the dead and woundea, tats batiding “uring the night. Several were also taken to were physicians gave medicsi care. | Those who were too badiy burned to recover | were put under | THE EFFECTS OP MORPHINE, and passed away without astruggie. While the ex ereises Were boing held over the dying the most in tense quiet prevailed, and the rough laborers knelt upon the floor with mncovered heads; but about the Morgue and in the streets tne wailing of the muititade was pitiful to hear. Among the per. the wounded the best of | sons in Language ts powerless to express the horribie | sights disclosed in removing the dead and mu- tilated bodies from the building. Bystanders ana firemen worked bravely, bat the dead bodies removed far outnumbered the living, A cor- ner of the gallery, which fell without being demolished, was piled full of mangied | and dismembered bodies. A brother of the Rev. | Mr. Dufresne was quite badly burned while en- gaged in the work of rescue. On the grounds ana open spaces surrounding the church for half a Mile in area the scene was heartrending. Mothers, children and friends were searching among the crowd for friends who, it was feared, were among the lost, All over the mounds end sand banks back of the church groups of terror-stricken people Were gatheted about eome poor mourning sufferer, im one hollow twenty-five bodies A DYING CONDITION are Mary Lachance, Mrs. Bridge, the moiner ot seven children, one of whom is missing and probably among the dead; Bazanth Briggs, Sophia fibbert, Annie Lacosta Bildor, Charlies Comme, will recover, Lapointe, borned padiy, but Will probably tue brother of Father Dufresne, and tt tn estimated that twenty or tnirty were taken ¢o other houses, some of whom must dis, LATER. The following were aiso seriousiy burded:— | Mary Gacing, Mary and Lacy Hicka, Louisa Brown, @ young chapel girl, Victoria Brison, Lonisa Tor. | rier, Lizzie Mercles and Leaa Rat. A large mas jority of these must di One girl was ter arned, and was removed to the House of Providence. Drs. Chase Smith dressed the wounds of And now what appeared most horrible was that, } Seeing the salvation of lives within reach of our arms, it was impossible to saveeven one of the victims, threshold. voted themselves to save lives at the peril of their own, seized by the arms or the clothes a pros- tiate form than the other women, mad with terror | from the nearuess of the fire, clutched the victim about to be saved, and, in some cases, dragyed vVhose who came to help them into that flery vor- tex, It was almost tmpossib:e to extricate even one from that heap of despairing wretcheg and to undo that ghastly knot. But the fire accom- piisned that which baMed man and the passage into the doomed church was cleared only when that impenetrable phalanx of beautiful, prectous life, wasa handful of cinders, At midnight the smok- | Ing rutns of the fatal temple—so soon a@ silent | charnel hcuse—were visite, and by the light of a lantern every Step showed to the appallea gaze fearful groups of carbonized corpses, that pre- served still the supplicating or despairing attitude vo! their frightfal martyrdom.”* ‘Three tnousand women, comprising the beauty and fashion of Santiago, were in the charch, and 20,000 camphene lights filamtnated the eaifice. When the fre occurred the scene was terrible. Women, seized in the embraces of the flames, were seea to undergo @ transformation, as though by an optical deluston; first, dazzlingly bright, then black statues, rigidly Mxed in agony. The silence, after the piercing screams were hushed im death, waa horrible. It was the silence of the grave, unbroken but by the bitter wall or fainting crs. deal of fire to the judgment seat of God, THE SYRACUSE BAPTIST CHURCH DISASTER On the evening of the 234 of June, 1874, whilea strawberry festival was tn progress in the Central | Baptist church of Syracuse, N. Y., without any premonition the floor gave way, precipitating the people into the story below. The number in the room was variously estimated at the time from 300 to 600, The effect was appailing beyond conception. The descent or the - floor was accompanied with a terrible crushing of timbers, while from the throng of humanity went up ® dismal wall of despair, accompanied by shrieks jor ald, The firemen and police were quickly on hand and at work clearing away the dépria, with & View to the rescue of the nno- fortunates. The scene both withia and without the edifice was heartrending. Fathers mothers searching for their children, husbands looking for wives, wives inquiring for hus- bands, brothers for sisters and chidren for their parents, of whose fate all was uncertainty and dread, The work was vigorously but siowiy pros- ecuted ond before midnight the living and dead had been taken our, Investigation showed that thirteen persons had been killed outright and 107 more or Iess seriously injured. It was shown, on the Coroner's inquest, that the supports of the floor were very imper ect, rendering it incapabie ol sustaining the immense weight there was upon it. CATASTROPHE AT LONDON, THE ENGLAND. In October, 1856, at the service on Saumday morn- ing, m the music hall at Sarrey Gardens, London, atalse alarm of Ganger was given during the ce- livery of a sermon by the Rev. C, H. Spurgeon, now of the Metropolitan Tabernacie, Southwark, | England, which Nad the effect of causing arnsh of the lence to the doors and statre » The eagerness of the people to get ont of the bailding resulted im & scramble and @ crush, in which it was supposed more than fifty persons lost their lives, THe ST. ANDREW'S CALAMITY. ‘The terrivie catastrophe at St. Andrew's churon, im Duane street, om the 25th of February last, js still so frean in the pubdltc mind that thts new and appaiiog disaster must have a powerful effect in forcing public attention te the necessity of adopting proper precan- tions against such accidents, The dreadful scene of horror, confusion and panic that totlowed the falling in of the shattered wali of the haif burned building on the roof of the citurch, where hundreds of devout people ‘were terventiy pray- ing, With no thought of danger in their minds and | no word of warning as to havoc about to be made among them, will help to convey some idea of the scene in the little wooden charch at Nolyoxe yester- day. The prayers and other services which usually precede tne sermon in Catholic churches in the evenings had been gone throngn, and Father ( Stepnen’a, bad mou the pulpit and was speaking with great solemnity of death, and Warning the attentive congregation of ihe danger of postponing the final preparation for t's coming, when @ dreadful crash was heard, and a mass of the terribie ‘oll, of § into the inidst of the amazed and herror-stricken crowd, The mad stampede of the crowd, tramp- ling and ecrvening each other to death in their wild and irenzied efforts to escape the falling roof, anit the dreadfal scene at tne doors, caused oy the fact that they oniy opened imwardiy, and tuo prevented (ree egress, have left an impression that will not soon be effaced. Immediately @ flerce flame rushed up, | The peopie who thronget the church flew toward | that always circulates between the | upper boarding and the roof, rolled through the | | church, But the | piled one upon another on the very — Hardly had the noble men, who de- | Over 2,000 souls had passed through that or- | | and | SURREY GARDEXs, | loose bricks falling on the | roof crushed tt fn and carried instant destruction ‘uch a scene of | | Wild panic and frenzy must have taken piace on | 7 SUE | the breaking out of the fire in tne Prench odurch | in Holyoax, and the misery and confusion mist have been heightened by the want of adequate preparation for such a calamity. | OBITUARY. | TIEUTENANT ORMSBY m'kWIGHT MITOHELL. Acabie despatch from Londen brings the sa¢ intelligence of the sudden dearth of Ormsby McKnight Mitcuell, iormerly of the United States army, from brain ‘ever. Mr, Mitchell was the | youngest son of the late General Ormsby McKnight Mitctell, wo was favorabiy known throuzhout the Union asa patriotic leader in the war againer | armed secession and to the world of science esa popular téacher of astronomy. Young Mitcnet! Was born at Cincinnati, Unio, Adour 1843; entered West Point as @ cadet July 1, 1861; graavated and Was attached a8 @ second ileutenaut to the Seven: teenth tnantiy June 23, 1585, ones pro moted 10 & first Leutenancy served iM Garr sou at Fe Preoie, Me, and at gree ' Island, N. was adjutant to vecember, 1-66 Acting ass stant adjutent general on irontier duty at San Auton and at Galveston, Lexa, to Janu ary, 1867, de-de-cainp to General Canby to Aw gust, 1867, when he Was transierred to the Fourte Artillery as firstileutenant. ile was subsequenuy | tor some time detailed to duty in the sigual ser- vice, He sfterward married, at Detroit, Mich. 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Matied freedo any address, by LAPSLRY & BAAGEY, 74 Broad- way. prowe ‘pinECTORY CITY OF NEW YORA, For 187576, WAN be issued in a Cow age In announcing the Sth annual publication of few complete Standard Directory of the City of New Yort the publishers deem it their duty to Paution (hs pabiie ng, as Y vIRFCTORY, TROW'S NEW abook purporting to be a compendium of correet ad dresses, but tor which the caitvass was prinetpally Made during April nnd prior to the anunal moving day, when changes ie places of residence and bus | The value of a directory is ih its accuracy. TROW'S DIRKCTORY ‘The canvass for commanced May 3, and consequently every addross throughont tae city is ncourately reported for the May 1, 1878. | Year ending | qne pabite wilt protect heir own interests by refuting 1 offered instend of ¢ DIRECTORT. to purchese | ; a ee Se ee eo