The Sun (New York) Newspaper, July 31, 1871, Page 1

“THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. AN AWTUL DISASTER, if Whe Explosion of the Staten *- Island Boat Westfield. ‘An Appalling Spectacle at Whitehall. Dver Fifty Persons Killed and One flundred and Thirty Wounded. The Hospitals Filled with the Wounded and Dying. ‘Terrible Scenes in the Centre Street Hospital. ATATEMENT OF THE COLORED ENGINEER. Hundreds of Persons Blown into the East River, Wairbreadth Escapes and Incidents. ‘ ‘ Whe Mayor and Council of Syracuse on the Boat. ‘Sheriff Madden of Brooklyn Badly Wounded —— {Agony of Men and Women over Missing Re! Twenty Thousand People at the Battery. ‘wanes OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. ‘Tho boiler of the Staten Island ferry bout festield exploded at Whitehall ferry yesterday fternoon, at balf-past one o'clock, 400 persons were on boa: . by counting bis money, arrives at this con Between 300 The ferrymas. |} The boat was in the slip at the time of the ex. Ae the day was very warm, the majority f the passengers crowded to the forward part o! boas to catch the sea breeze. be boat waa @ colored man. {| Tue font of the boiler was 1d wedged in the bow, thirty feet distant, The for- ard part of the boat, upper cabin hantiy abivered and split into a thousand pieces, dit, “Tue forward part the boat was lifted Afly feet in the air, the smoke- eck (ell, and (hem everything was buried in the Tiis life is saved. ddenly blown out, 8 an eye witness expres | Pessoncors, chairs, stools, horses, benches ife-proservers were cropped into the hold fronting huge bower, which poured out « deadiy volume Many persons were blown overboard, A father and a mother who were on the upper Bock bad thoir children blown from their arms. Vibe woter in an instant was alive with men, Ben, and children stragg!ing for life. ‘The after part of the boa! force of the explosion, would bave been painjured, but they were panic Dverboard without regard to the consequences Capt, Ullman, of the New street Police, bearing be explosion, was promptly at band, The fire Glarm wns sounded. Dr. hhine was at the scene of the di ton minutes, well provided with medicines and Dandages, He worked like a bero, Cool and coll ¢:- Od, he saved Hoveral lives by his prudence, ta twenty minutes lospector Jameson was on tne Lhe efforts of the police and keep- wiich bad escaped the ieken and leaped ground direct tug back the multitude Many persons were drowned, host came to the rescue, and a gentlemen who was Av © rowboat nour the Battery saved some lives, from Governor's nd right bravely ‘The harbor police firemen and Yalan also wont to the rescu Bid they work. Toe dedris in the fure part of the hold wis first removed. ‘he crise of (20 poor half-boiled victims were heort rerding, Stimulants were given them as they @irugeled beneath the beams, and oll was poured the wounted were re deck of another Eovered ney were borne to ferry boat moored sloneside, wherg they wore tear Geriy cared for by Dr. Shine. Within twenty minutes the ambulances from the Contre Ftreck Horpiiul were @eaided victims were placed iu the ambulances and to the bose ital at €aprees Wagons Were also brought toto eurance Patrol wagons bore av eral londs of moaning buman belongs to the hospital Otbors were delirious with ome died on the way One ambulance was lied with ©)08 Were Closed and Whose Whule faces Were Bwelled ‘Their little feet and legs Beyond ull recognition Were cooked, and thoirtonder muse By 4 o'clock over fev Been received in the Centre Street Hoapttss pf tem died within un boor, Wore hoortrending. “wove dead Dost, oi.hb have since been found died, making, #0 far as known, troonty seven persons kidled nearly outright, water clung to the piles until they nk belore aid could least Ji/ty persona must have is basing it on od persons had ‘The scenes here were removed from the in the water, end #even have Fosoued, but otvers Feath trem. At been kill and drowned. die lowest catim ate, ‘Ve Wounded will reach over one hundred, ©! ‘hom were placed in carriages, and driven to their tie neighborhood Boeri) Masdon of bis residences, Brooklyn, who was driven to Over 15,060 versons gothored at the Battery within ANKOe Fd tenrtul i quiries for f Street Hospital was also be were at the scone Initevd, the former was there not Ho took charge of W400 oe afer the explosion, he boat and ordered tie ay wor from New Yora ‘The Hhiv News Ofice Report- talon Island terry bout Wo (te: Hy at Whitehall and old, while ip rowded with passengers, ‘Vn concussion was rt of the bout and ber of poopte. od overboard, and fell over Mrko Uncaber Of porsons Im the water, Who Word Nhe, Meatloring (he lorward fad wcalding a g Wurricene doce was car drowned, The entire number of persons supposed to be lost is 150. The scene is beyond deseription, men sirnck dumb at their loss of winus and litte ones, aud women distracted, having lost hue yinds and children, while litue childr are crying for their parents who are loe’. — A Card trom Comm To the Bastor of The Sun Sin: I see by your “extra,” issued this even- ing, describing the unfortunate accident which oo- curred this afternoon on board the amboat Weate Held, belonging to the Staten Island Ferry Company, you bave stated that “J was the head and front of that Company Tn contradiction to your report, yon wil! please state that I have no interest of any kind, nor hi 1 Anything whatever to do with the Staten Island Ferry Company, nor with any other eteamboat or Ship company, nor have {bad for the last five years ©. VANDERBILT, P. S.—If any other of the daily papers should commit the same eri or, 1 will be obliged if they will copy thi cy. New Your, July 20, 1871. — ‘The Enginoer’s Story. The most important statement is that o / the en. gineer, Henry Robinson. He ts an intelligent coi ored man, small, and of a wiry frame, Up to late in tho afternoon he had been missing, and many thonght he bad been buried im the ruins or drowned. He turned up, bowever, about three hours after the explosion, ‘The following is his story: I live in Stapleton, Staten Tetand, Am about 40 years of age, Have been an ongincer for twenty se-rs. Have been employea by the Company for fixteen yee T got a certificate and passed an ex- amination, My certificate is home, 1 did not bring my certificate to the Company, for the Company did not require one on this ferry. I had entire charge of the Westfeld, The boat i# half-vour boat run on Sundays betwoen regular trips, Was on the boat when the explosion took place I had just come off the dock. Ik was then twenty. five minutes past one, I went down into the fre room, One of the ergineers, Patrick Finnegan was in the room. I said: ‘ Patrick, how is the wa- ter? And he replied: * Ali right." At this time, I appromched the boiler and tried the third cock. I foand that the water touched the third cock, ‘The boiler has only three cocks, T then went up to the engine room, and passing the door looked in. 1 found that the boiler carried 27 pounds of ateam. I then went on the dock. Two minates alter I went again on the bost, and into the pilot house, ‘The captain was in there at toe tim Just as T was going down stairs into the engine room the explosion took place, From where I stpod Iknew I couldn't get out through the door, $01 ovened the trap door, As 1 did #0 I saw the fire: man, Robert Crosson, coming up the trap, The boiler was in ose nive year Tt was con- sidered © good boiler. I cannot say what cause! the explosion. The boiler hud @ pateh on the cylin- dor part where the explosion occurred. The boiler was overhauled last winter; in fact the boilers of doth the Westfeld and Northfield, 1 examined the pateh last Thuraday, It seemed to be in very good coadition. I went on duty at 19 o'clock noon, 1 relieved the engincer, Robert Brown. He is a white man, The Company pay us $35 month, That is all I know about the affair, Robinson appeared to be perfectly sober, all rumors to the contrary notwithstauding, He gave Lis statement of the affair ina cool and collected manner. © Vanderbilt. ee Capt. Isaac M. Vreeland, of the ill-fated steam- Dout Weatfeld, which has been taken to the foot of ‘Twelfth street, East River, said last night toa Sun reporter that the Westfield apd two others were making regular trips, The Westfcld was know: the half-hour boat ; that is, she remains until one of tho hour boats ts near the slip before she starts She goes as quckiy possidle on the trip, and merely touches the three wharves on the eaat shore of the island, and theo she puts back to New York, In the afternoon at 1:30, 1 went into the pilot house aft, ‘Ibe pilot, Mr. McGee, was in the one forward I was about to pull the bell to signal the engineer to start, bot waited, l saw the boat that was coming ‘was not quite abreast Governor's Island. While 1 was watching ber with my hand on the beil- pull. I heard poise like ® collision, and the next minute I saw the forward part rise in the sir and sink ip A WRECK ON THE LowRR pm I fell flat, stunned, as it were, When 1 recovered the p fall of smoke and steam, and the river covered with people shouting and .screeening, 1 walked cautiously to the walking: bea and all foi ward was torn away. The decks of the two cabins were jumbied up in a heap, and the smoke stack was |jing on top ofall. Bverwhere 1 lovked were Passengers in the hold, among the debris, in the wa. clinging to the wharves and spi, I stood Werless, unadle to mowe, OF render assistance, vht. sir, Will never leive me; and even now, sround, ean scarcely credit my senses. When | vad sufficiently recovered I hastened down sivirs, ordering thoee Who were reckless y jumping from ‘the top 10 the lower decks, men and women with children in their arma, to stop. Most of these were severely injured by so'doang, Others l saw JUMP INTO THE WaT! One poor woman with » babe in ler arms rushed throagh the steam and threw herself overboard, Sie ard two men sank tocetner, While I was en: doayoring to rescue at man aid woman who were frightfully sralded, holding a child between them in the wate: —they supvorting themselves by the spiles —I was told by one of my men that the cry of fire was raised. and the engines were about to flood the toat, T preventod this, as I saw there was no danger. Had they done’ so, they would have drowned those who were heaped op in the hold, Mr. McGee, the pilot, was liited tuto the air with co ry i bis bouse, bat fell straight down. He was ony slightly wounded, After we bad removed those who were not covered with the wreck, we fonud a dead woman, and two men nearly dead, jammed te wreck, We have two firemen, Robert Crungi aud Parriey Bey, . Crason was down in tront 51 fhe Doiler tenaing to the furnace, the doors of which were opened, ‘Tne other one, ‘Pat Finnegan, was up stairs seated near tue comb of the boiler. ht ishis duty when the boat starts to go dowp a Abnt the doors, Crason was cut if the chin and Finnegan iad ils leg broken and received other a bruises, being “u 7 egaluas the side of tue canin, In answer to a qrestion abovt HOW MANY WERE ON BOARD, be said fully (wo hunitre: porter —( . what sort of a boiler flew he ‘renlied, and it carried 5 pounds » old on’, but had been inspected was deviitd strong and secure & patch on h # the feedir aptain, the Bremen or engi inquired the an Cuptain—Well, sumetimes the Bremen and some times the envineer, Tey are fulthfu', vigilint meu and exercise every care, The enginesr, Mr. Kobin son, was not injured. On examination we found that the head or crown sheet of the boiler was biown of und driven to the bow of the voat. As usual tis is Where the people congregate, and iho-e who escaped trom being blown up by bvine in the slern were the ones that wero sculded as the osc, ing steam rushed through the cavins ow thom. The fires were not put out, und THE BOILER WAS ONLY SHIFTED, A fow weeks ago she was overhauled and cloaned, And a new bovtom was put Inco her. ‘The captain repeatedly said bow fortunate it wae toe did sot ring tue signal to start. Had we, dhe, been out in th> stream, the calamity nust vo been truly appalling, There war no premoni: otbing Whatever to wa unexpected he ‘The wharves «round boat lies were crowded with peop chored by a derrick, which is makin only means of aporoach is b Ks from the Kieventh street wharf, the police have lite dificuly in keeping the crowd from her. Those who do Yenture stand chances for a duck ‘The boat appears just as she was the second after the aceident, ‘The Whole Half from the paadie-box to the bow is level with the deck. At the bow is the tp of the wheel house, ‘The Qo ris Glis 4 hold, The otber ball is intact. The Thieves Pickpocke: Mr. Richard Thurston, of 54 Chatham atr was slanding close by at the time of the accident. ‘Toe Gret intimation that be received was « dull, hovyy sound, w# though a large bale of cloth pad been overturned in & warehouse. Kunuing ap, he few that the forward part of the boot was ripped uy nt Was rinking, Jim description ol the scones sound the wreck does not differ trom that of other Witnowse crealuly caw al Ar. Tiurston says bias in au almost in Ort Beco Oi Limo altor the accident 6 Gumvor of Bowery pickpookew sad thieves hurry to the ferry in twos and threes and begin operations. They went through the deat and wounded, and committed several daring robberies among tl ectavors. a Renioving the Wounded to the Hon ‘Toe first notice the surgeons at the Park Hospital received of the catastrophe was the arrival of a carriage at 2 o'clock in the afternoon with four of the injured persons, It was ascertained from them that the boiler of the extra Staten Islaud ferry boat, heavily Indon with passengers, had exploded just as the was about to steam out of the ferry slip for the Islond, and that Lundreds had been more or less in- jured ‘The surgeons assembled all their available staf and prepared to meet the exigencies of the cuse, which, even hetore seen, was known to be of 80 Ereat a magnitude as almost to unnerve any man or body of men whose duty it was to attend to the wounded. : ‘The ambulance ander the direction of Dr. Ama bile had already started. Soon it returned with a load of young ebildren from six months old to five years, from whose bodies the skin had been scalded off until it hung in shrivelled shreds at the ends of the fingers and toes, ‘Their clothes had been blown off by the explosion. Dr. Amabile, after he iad secured attendance for the little ones, shouted for Huseed oil, having ob talued which he leaned on the ambulance, and dash- ed away at the ton of the horses’ speed for the scene of the horror. It was afterwards seen why he had called fur the oil, ‘The ambulance had scarcely departed betore « carriage wos driven up, in which were two women, evidently very respectable, handsomely attired fu rich biack silk dresses and with costly gold watches and chains, Their hend-dresses had been lost in the confusion, ‘The younger appeared about thirty. five yours old, ond the elder about sixty, the hair of the latter being nearly white, Both were badly but rot dangerously injured, although suffering considerably. The younger, notwithstanding the great pain she endured, turned several times to the gentleman who was assisting ber up stairs, and said, “Never mind me ; do look after mother !"' ‘The mother, who was, however, close bebind, was being escorted by another volunteer up the stairs of the hospital to the third floor, where both were taken charge of by the nurses ‘The next co arrive was another carriage, in which Were several women with torn and wet clothes, saturated with blood, thelr skin shrivelled and blis- tered by the steam, and ruffering intensely, They, however, uttered not a word, and were borne on stretchers to the upper floor. ‘Then came a licht wagon, in which was an elderly man, his face raw, the skin ritwing pesied off, and hanging to the end of the nose and chin. Linseod oil had been applied to Lis face, and although this only had been done, it had relieved much of his agony. Then the ampniance drove uo again with the active Dr. Amabile, who sprang out, and a recoud time took several children into tro hospital. ‘Their little faces presented more the appearance Of turprise than of pain, the latter having been alleviated by the liberal use of linseed oil. The ambulance, emptied, again dashed off, By this time the beds in the wards were full, and it became necessary to make beds by placing blank- ets and pillows on the Boor, To add to the horror of the scene, the inflamma. tion following injury began to set in, and the groans of the adults and the shrieks of the children made the hearts of even those used to suco sights end sounds bleea with sympathy, At this time a mail express wagon drove up flied ‘with the Jnjured, the majority of whom bad received all the preliminary attention that could be giv Those whose injuries were apparently slight were placed on straw on the ground floor, wiiile those more seriously burt were carried up stairs on stretchers. A loud shout on the outside of the building told the story of another arrival, This was the Insur- ance Patrol wagon, with a number of firemen a fire patro!lmen, who had brought several of the #uf- ferers whose wounds had been partially dressed. This arrival of fresh men relieved the regula At the hospital of much lebor, as the fre- mon carried the sufferers either up stairs or into the hurriedly made wards on the ground floor. The injured persons having been taken into the hospital, the patrol wagon drove away, The next to arrive was « beautiful eirl, who, as she was being removed into the hospital, seemed merely asleep. Her face hud no mark of injury, and & bright flush was on her cheek. It was ascer tained that all ber {injuries were on the body and lower limbs, and that but Little hope was enter tained for her life, She was insensible, The ma jority of the women were removed to the hospital in carriages, ‘Tne ambulance was hurried backward and for- , each time bringing fresh loads of injured, and every Kind of vehicle was pressed tuto use for the removal of the sufferers. Over an hour was thus occupied, even with the despatch that was used, in removing the injured to the boapital; but meantime many had been partially relieved of their sufferings by the preliminary dress ings they had received at te scene of the explosion, so that some insisted upon going to their homes as soon as the physicians said there was no immediate aangor. ie principal surgeon of the hospital, Anding that several of his patients must surely die, sent a volun- toer messenger for a Catholic priest, and soon two were on the spot administering to the sufferers the consolations of religion, This Guty was a very sad one, as the priests’ admonitions were often iuter- rupted by the shrieks of tue children and the groans of adults. Among the volunteer assistants who were most active at the hospital were Coroner Young, in his shirt sleeves, and Mr, Goorge Roome, the keeper of the City Hall, ‘Tiere were others, whose names in the confusion could not be ascertained, Capt. Thorne, of the City Hull police, was also very active with the few men be bad at bis command in keeoing the crowd away from the main door of the hospital, so thst the vehicles could drive up to the building and discnarge thelr ghastly lode as quickly a» possible It might be well here to thorities that if the Park E with an elevator on the ambulance principle, 1t Would be fur better for the sufferers and save the assistants a great amount of lapor; for in such a caso as this walking up stairs Was indescribably painful to the patients, and it was impossible to car- ry every 006 on a stretcher, The hospital offic assistants, and volauteers, however, deserve credit for the expeditions and yet careful mannor with whico they removed the sufferers from the vehiclos in which they had been conveyed to the hospital to the wards whero their injuries were attended to by the nurgeons, One child, whose name could not be ascertained, was saved by a gentleman from drowning, and ro moved to the rosideuce of Mrs, Duna, of 8 State street, She was frightfnlly scalded, and up to & P, M, could not be removed, neeest to the city au pital were furnished Park 1 ‘Within a few minutes after the accitent the of. ficers of the Park Howpital were busy in bringing to their wards the maimed and scalded victims, All the ambulances belonging to the Department of Ubarities and Correction were at once called into requisition, carriages were hired, wagons im Pressed, ond the sufferers rapidly borne to where their wounds could be dressed and their torments ‘, ‘on load after wagon load arrived at the entrance of the hospital crowds of people congre. gated there, and when tho victims were taken trom the various vehicles as they came ap the women and children burst into toars and filled the air with ejaculations of horror and pity, Never before in the history of New York haa there been ereater cause for the tenderost sympathy, and certainly fever be. fore has that sympathy been more lavishly and carnostly bestowed ‘Tue mullitude increased as the day wore on, and more and More victims were brought © the hor of care do within aa hour after the alarm was sounded Centre stroot was almost blocked from Duano far boiow Tryon Row, Bvery wagon or car tinge, 9f Wuck Wat drove up ot oace Lecawo om object of interest, Mon, women, boys, and girls crowded sroond it, climbed poo the wheel nervous scrutiny to study the Nueaments of the mutilated passencers sought by Quick, the windows Wak One NOt soon to be f the spectator saw d filled his very blood tained of the £ yn office, the scone forgotien ; but on the spot what made bis blood run cold, soul with gloomy horror, One by one the blistered, Diceding, writhing bodies were removed to the dif ferent rooms of the hospital, and as fast as each wis care‘uily taken away, and the crowd had fallen nother was brought up, aad amid the cries of the women and children, avd th of sympathy from a for the unfortanates went on, urtil the le bad been received and ti» wards of the house of mercy were filled. Within the hospital the scene wa: flere uvon the heartfelt words art men, the work of caring harrowing in floor of the middie room lay a boy of 10 writhing and twisting in the agony of worse than death. His lithe body wa tealded from head to foot, und the tortures that the poor child sutfered were intens strong man bruised and barned beyond the posal Dility of recognition, his once beaithy frame now one horrid mass of brokeo flesh. the room was 9 fine-looking whose head andf{shoulders were raw, and whose lower limbs wore burned to livid white. In ali the roome were and children tn all stages of distress, Two wee things of perhaps five months of age, and avparently twins, were brought in at three o'clock, their bodies torn and scalded most terribly. ‘woman of thirty-five was suffering the last pangs of © distros#'ul death, and another, stiteh ot clothing on her body, Milled the hor heartrending sereams of agony. there were perbaps sixty wounded people in the different wards, the wonien occupying toe upper 4 assistants wore indo‘ati gable in their efforts to scothe the pain ufferers, and their various aids deserve more than praise for the tenderness and care with whien they treated their Within two hours after the arriy: tim, death bean to move amoge the ranks Hove the terrible torments of the sufferers, who died were at once removed from the sight of tho living to New street + Morgue, where their bodies | ficuion of friends and relatives, Near bim lay « ness by the boiling wat At this time fering charce, of the first vic- And thence to the awaiting the identi. Street Hospital Wards. In the different wards of the Centre str pital, the scenes yesterday afternoon were more horrible than those in Bellevve during tho Wounded and dying men flied the beds and lay stretched on the floor when better accom- modation was unprocursbl pinced in the upper part of th entirely isolated from the mal Ascending a fight of stone steps 4 the hallway of the hospital, countered a throng of physician could not spare time to give him any information, right of the corridor was a white door on which was painted in black letters x beds, but Lad only one victim of 8 tall, Mae-looking young He had been toar- Through the © hospital, and were Sox reporter Tt contained the explosion Irishman named Jamo fully scalded about the legs and body, twenty minutes be liad lain tn ded groaning and crying loudly for @ docto came unbearab! condition of complete nudity, and fro through the ward. ‘THE DEATH OF TUE CUSTOM HovsE stictDR. stood there sad little scene was eacted, William Prali, the Castom House y dying (n= bed cose by, A beantiful bionably dressed young wom: daughter, sat at nh ly be breathed his tast, and the young “UF ue couch, overcome by per Young gently drew her a were four beds, At length his pain be- aping from bis couch in a paced rapidly to While the rep: woman flung te Seated on one of these was a Mr. Copinger, who had been scalded He held bis arms crossed on bis 4 uttered low walls of agony from time about the arms, In s room adjoining a middle-aged man lay in a ce was horribly scalded, and, unable to unbroken groan escaped frou his lips, and bis limbs quivered with agony. ‘This peculiar quivering was observable in every case of scalding, The third ward contained five victims, lay dying, was so blackened by smoke that his features were almost unrecognizabl too, quivered convnl+i pain which be suffered, dreadfully injored a8 to be speschiess, window sat Mr. 8, Phillip of 120 Rast Forty-0fta Phillips is a desler in furs. wrapped in @ blanket, and was cryivg for adrink of give bis pame, one len Another was 0 someboty wend for a cai me home tor the love of God." J. H, Brovard, of Spencer street, Brooklyn, also He was not much ourt aod was f H. ©. Clarke, of 161 West ‘dwenty-aixth street, suttering (rom scaids about the He rolained init Penses and conversed He wos sitting in the cab when be suddenly found himself YLYING THROUOM THE Ain, In this ward also lay B. perfectly cool ant collec’ In another room face and legs. He fell into tbe water. Moniey, th6 companion of Mr. Reagan Bt and bead, Mary Murphy, of 18 Desbr , oecupled # bed in the corner, aided about the body. On a pillow lay an infant Tt was motiouloss, and did not utter a ery. In the recept om the scene baffled doserip. 4 and dying lay in the lose to the entrance stretched the boay of a boy apparently abouts ‘Ho was literally BOILED ALIV! heart-rending, don the floor. His shirt Was puturated with blood, pag lin breathed faintly: ndsome youn nd much pity. was expressed at bis untimely end: at near the window name weyy Abbot of Willi Abolich WORRded MAK Frederick Frieduoff of 151 Lhowp- Alot, Wall old man kave bis name overcrowded, It was uchos in the stables aud This was aone with ail er of the wourded Many of ihe iovat serious ‘direct from They lay thers on the rude conen ing tie care of the surgeons, who were busy u e conveyed below em Were a's0 tak was ulso used us @ receptucle for the cases which BEYOND ALL KARTALY Alp, there in order to make room ‘Whom it Was yet po: nued Were being received Centre Hospital was in a slate of indescribeb: Norges, and physicians rushod to. and tro Hivseed ofl and cotton wool were passed rapidly 1; and no efforts were alleviate the pains of the sufferers, yovunteered us nurses and helping hand to the physicians these Were the @reme #0 many of tho wouus ‘Those brave mon worked like hero for those #ufte from band tot Many persons Assistants, and Prominent awong . WhO bud helped in carrying from the ferry to tie hos. were inde wtigable, aud from one ward | or cobperating wii ido Verp chergeric in A LARGE FORCK OF SUROKONS onal volunteers were im attend were Dr. Vanv on the suiferers ter, the surgeon in char bulanoe surgeon, and were ullerward Joined by’ Dr Bellevue, and Drs. Maynard from Fre igh, Andrews, Van Baren, ard Ruteyinson, urceons, Dr, dytlew of the Board of Health, Noble of Brooklyn, Dr. Anderson of t-@ Tomos, Dr, Nealis, and Dr, Haran also rendered all tie ais Bosides these modical entlemen Con.'s#ior Rell, Police Commissioner Qnd gaye valuable asniatan pd Mrs. Brown were ip suflerers, and the most wure Warden George Brown vticvble in their ex mitting care and kinduess to th THR CONSOLATIONS OF RELIOION Passing from ward to ward noisolossly UL ost@nintion were two Catholic olorgymon Key, Patuers Ourrea ead Hoary, ON Thoy wore (hou 1871, stoles thrown over their conte, and administered the Just rites to all who stvod in heed of tuem, OUTSIDE THR HOSPITAL. As soon as the news of the terrible disaster spread throughout the city Centre Street Hospital wan sur. rounded by a crowd of exciled men and won ‘They crowded around the ambulance entrance and Impeded the movements of the drivers to such an extent that it soon became necessary to summon the police to the epot, A cordon of officers was soon drawn around the building, and it was ordered that NO one shonld be allowed to pass through except on business. Many tearfal women and grave-fnced men, who imagined that they had dear ones among the Wounded, itiplored permission to pass. It was denied in most instances, but a few gained access to @ hospital, —.— Whart Company's Officers Say, No theory is offered by the officers of the com. pany for the disaster, The engineer of the North field says that when the Westfield steamed out trom the Island she had four cocks of water, and from the fact that only a slight report accompanied the explosion he thinks there could have been but « small head of steam on. Mr. Stevens, the Secretary of the Staten I*iand Ferry Company, says that there wosa Governwent salety valve attucled to the boile A fireman, Pat. Finnegan. was the only employe of ‘the boat who was seriously injured. His log was broken. The collector arserts positively that there could not bave been more than 2) persons on board the boat, The Westfeld being tie extra boat, and bat few persons deme aware that it had been placed on the ling, he holds that it was not possiDie for so many to have been on her as though she had been on a regular trip. Mr. Stevens was on a Fulton ferry boat coming over from Brooklyn when the WestGeld was blown up. A deck hand on board the former saw the ex- plosion and said. “Mr. Stevens, the: one of your boats!" He looked, and un Wo see any- Uning of the Wesifield, ne came near fainting at the thought of the terrible calamity, On the scone he despatched all his men for surgeons, he could fad. Henry Rooivson, the engineer, judiciously peared sooo after the catastrophe, and all effor tae reporter to learn bis whereabouts proved futile, te ‘The Scene in B Below tho City Hall, shortly after the catastrophe, all was excitement. Carriages and expross wagor were hurrying toward the hospitals with the Wounded and dying, while express wagons were conveying the dead to the police stations, and to (heir resvective homes. Many of the sligbtly bruised oF scalded were wending their way on foot, tiatless, contions, and shoeless, to their residences. At the ferry house all was confusion, When a body was found s rush was made by excited spectators, who bad missed their friends; and when a body was identified, the scene was heart-rending. A policeman With the scalded desd body of a boy abont four years rival on of was depositing te body io a cai father glanced at the corpse he uttered a and fell fainting to the pavement, Mrs, Shay, of 34 Resox street, was bewailing the loss of her little daughter, Six years old, who was standing beride hor at the instant of the explosion. Mrs. Shay was herself blown into the water, Miss O'Neil, of 34 Cherry street, was with Mrs, Shay, and had an infant sister on her arms, and was in charge of three other chil- dren. She and the children are missing, W, Heliwerder, of Canal and Sullivan streets, was with his wile and four children, He was blown tn to the water and his family were lost, Two gentle mon, residents of Brooklyn, but too badly scalded to give their names, were attended by Mr, Price at his drag store, at Gand 8 Whitehall street, They were afterward sent to the horpital, John Johnson, of 289 East Fifty-second street, was injured internally about the lumbar region, Mr. Sanford, of the orm of Smith, Sanford & Co., Church and Thomes streets, was, with his partner, Mr. Rice, looking at the engine at the moment of the explosion. Mr. Saniord has not since been seen. Mr. Rice was blown ten feetan tb 4 lauded om his back on deck, He is not seriously injured. IN THE RASTERN MOUS was busy among the wounded in the Eastern Hotel. Tho parlor floor was covered with wounded women, As soon #8 be heard the explo- sion, Mr. Betts, the proprietor, rushed on to the boat, The first object of mercy he saw was Mrs. Yannelly, of Essex street, who bad fallen ato tue hold within the boiler, and was praying, * For God's sake, Mister, shoot me! on,do shoot me!" Mr, Betts jeaved down, and afer a heroic struggle in the débris rescued her. Ble is scalded and burned from head to foot, and must die, Her husband and one coild were lost, Mrs, Bartelle aod husband, of 67 Hudson street, iny on the floor frigaifully scalded in the face and body. A little boy belonging to them was lost, Mr. Wilson and wife, of the Bow: ery, were badly h".ued, and also lay on the floor. Mrs, Wilson's leg was broken, and Mr. Wilson bad his leit arm broken ia two places, Mrs, Moore, of Staten Island, was bumed about the face. Her hus. band iy nissing, Mr, Bette took in and cared for fourteen of the wounded, all of whom were sub qieutly sent to the Lospiial IN MR, PRICE'S DRUG STORE. Mr. Price of 6 and 8 Whitehall street, threw open bis doors tu the wounded, and wich bis own bande, aided by lis did everything possible for the auflerers, the wounds of twenty- ven, and when pay wae offered him I d to take it, A beautitul young woman, whose vame {he reporter «id vot learn, londerly assisted in dress- ing the wound Roectators say that Jo fellow calling Wiison, who keeps « drog store at 99 Whitehall street, furriedly ciosed his store and re'used to open it.’ Aud notwithstandinz the repeated calis for asaistince, and tLe groans of the victims, be (turned a deaf ear to ail their suffer- ig. Dr. McRwi fer the catastrophe # — +. The Mayor and Common Counsel of Syra- case Among the Victim His Monor T, E. Carroll, Mayor of Syraou: N.¥.,and Aldermen Jacob Levi, C. ©. Bradley, and Wm, Phillipson, City Cierk 8, W. Sherloc«, aud Chief Engineer Philip Eekel, composing a com mittee appointed by the Common Council of Syra- cuse to investigate the workings of our Hire Do partment, and to examine the various patterns of steam fire apparatus, ‘They arrived in town on Saturday, and put up at the Grand Central Hoje), Alderman Bradley having aa juvitation to visit some friends inthe upper part of the city, went her, {a8 rest of them determ!ned upon a down the bay. They were among the passen- cers onthe ill-fated steamboat, and narrowly es- cuped with siivir lives, MAYOR CARROLL'S STORY. T woe atending 00 the main deck loaning against (he fail, reading a newspaper, Mr. Eckel and Mr, Sherlock were standing beside me, Mr, Phillipson tnd Mr, Levi were sitting in the forward cabin. Suddenly there wasa terrific explosion, toe violence of wich hurled me into the air, and I fell into the bold among @ conjused mass of dead and dying men, Women, and children, Iwas nearly coverea with (he débris and almost blinded by the dust and dirt, Kecoveriug in a moment, I groped my way Uirough the darkness and clambered out without Assistanco. It weoned a tuough everytuing 1 (ook hold of Was red-hot, My bands were dreadiuily burned, A jot of steam struck me on the forehead and some faling pieces of wood or iron braised my ankles as Lwas groping my Way ont, The scene Was (rieht‘ul and the croans of tie wounded app ling. With the expiorion J rout wita shricks I tinally made my the debris, and os the CLOUD OF DUST CLRARRD AWAY I gained the deck and was assisted to the landing, Miere Was no premonition, uo sound of eacapine steam, but while all were gaily chatting or loukiug about the explosion look place with & heavy ra bling sound like the blasting of rocks, I kaw peo- ple Hurlod bither and thither, and thea with me all was darkness fur a moueut.' T hope never to be hud another such feariul scene, MB, SHERLOCK'S stony, Twas standing alongside Mayor Carroll, smoking Acizar and watching the people, wien Lwas sud donly boisted into tho air, It seomed to me that I never should come down, but I did, and tell hond long into the water, sinking L know not how many leet deop, ‘ie splsh into the water brought me to my senses, and being an exceliont awinimer, I rows to the suriace. My head came in contact with some: thing bard, apd belleving I has risen under the bol tom of the boat, | held my breath and struck out toward the hight. Reaching the suriace, I was helped out of the water by the people ou the wharl, CONDITION OF THR SYRACUSE OFFICIALS, Alderman Levi, Who is @ very heavy, thick-set man, Wan also vlown into the rubvish in the hold ‘One 'of hia hands ¥ ae Hy burned by thy ston; bis bead cut by u falling hus wrist was sprained, splinter of wood or iron. City Olerk Bherlock, a very leavy mao, weighing ub 9) pounds, was Olowe invo Oe wir! tue Torce Of the explosion disiocating Lis ankle, ie also re ceived a alight cubon the head, eacaping otherwise walnjured, He (oll iaio tue Wator, aud boiug an ox: pert awimmer soon reached tho wharf, tand was helped out by the police. Alderman Phillipson waa stenck by some fiving miseile and injured internally. His pantalvons were nearly torn of Te was also blown into the water. from whieh bo was reacued by those in the email oats, Mr. Rekol, Chief Engineer of the Syracase Fire Deoartment, who is aisoa heavy man, wis badly cat about the head, His wrist was sprained, and he is otherwise severely hurt, Mayor Carroll's hands were burned to blisters, tho skin peeling off in large pieces, He was bruised about his enkles and nd received acut or scald upon ‘The Mayo ‘ssociatos, making their wi throngh the dense crowd, were driven (ot! ran Central Motel, where their wounds were dressed b: Dr. Fisher, When visited by the SUN reporter, In evening, they were cow; ively comfgi table, and hope to'be able to endure the journey home by t morrow. Mayor Carroli was bolstered in « lary arm cbair, his hanas enveloyed in cloths, whi were continually moistened by soothing liquids, Their associate, Alderman Bradley, was all atten: tion, doing all ia bis power to alleviate their suffer- ings. — The Boller-Plate Under Examination in th M eo Central Ofice. In the Inspector's room at the Police Central office there Inst night Iny a black, jagged piece of tron plate, It was about five feet long, but varied in width, for it was torn and ragged. At ite widest Dart it mensured fifteen or eighteen inches, It wae bent nearly double, Some tremendous force had evidently battered and broken it, What is that? ked @ Sum reporter of In- #pector Jamieson, “ Whore did it come from?" ‘The Inspector was sitting in bis private offic bis hat pushed back from his forehead, and he was describing the scene of yesterday's disaster, as it appeared to him on his arrival there, & part of the exploded boiler," he replied to the reporter's question, ‘The reporter examined the fragment clonely. At one end there was n row of rivets, the beads about an ineh in diameter. Here there liad been a am in the boiler, The plate itself was about ‘A FOURTH OF AN INCH IN THICKNESS, nd where the rivets were it had been overlapped ; but the plate which occupied the outer place had been corroded until it was no thicker than a atest of ordinary zinc. In some places the torn edge was still bright, but im others wasas biack as though it had been eaten thro tirely some time ago. ‘The reporter asked Inspector Jamieson what he thought about this Well, no," he rephed, “When I first saw it this morning it wore a eliehtly different appearance. It bas rusted since then, You could look along the edge and see exactly were jt had been torn apart, for the sundered part was bright and unmistakes: ble, And by Heavens, the plate was po thicker than FOUR LAYERS OF THIS NOTE PAPER ‘on my desk.” * From what part of the bolle Porter, “do you suppose this fragm “1 thing," answered the inspector, ** it must have come from the part which yielded first. You see yourself that it NEEDED BUT LITTLE FORCE to sunder the seam at this potot, Where was it when you found it?" inquired the re- t came 1" ‘bieh the disaster occurred, and tfor Staten Island with it when I made my ‘They thoueht 1t would be advisable to Piece of evidence ont of sight and id, *Oh, nol ou can't take that out diction of the New York city authorities, do.’ 1 took possession of it and sent it aca The Rush to the Sun Office to Learn th Newn The news of the catastrophe brought thousands of persons down from up town to get the particu. lare ; and such was the demand for the news that it was deemed prudent to publish an extra SUN as ® moans of ridding the SUN office of the vast throngs that poured into it. Accorulogly at 35 minutes past S o'clock & poster wes put up in front of the bux office announcing that an extra would be printed. At 2) minutes of 6 about 500 persons stood around the SUN office reading the poster, and woiting for the extra, They waited patiently, Meanwhile the street became alive with newsboys, who seemed to come forth from out the sidewalk, #0 suddenly were they at band. Of the 600 that surrounded the Sux office some tiring went away, but their places were immediately taken by other persons, and the multitude steadily tn creased ontil the Sum building wes in a of siege, It was a lively assemblage. Rvery one pushed ahead to get nearest to the door of the counting room, and the competition for these favor ite places became so brisk that a detachment of police had to be called to preserve order. Tho street remained blocked up until the extra appeared, and then there was such a rush as was never be- fore seen in ® newspaper office, Men pustied and rushed forward like madmen ; as though their lives wei depending on that extra Sun, Among the happy ones who first waved an extra over their beads were several of the editors aad reporters of t Times and Herald, who, by perseveringly waiting, had conquered places bear the door, A hundred voices announced at onee the issuing of the extra in the dulcifluous strain peculiar to New York news: boys. The whole neighdornood was stated, and some rushed out sexing fexrtully wi yer another Staten Isiand ferryboat had exploded, But no such thing had happened, the boys were not atalicraz , but making move: fast ae they could hand the pipers over co eacer buyers, In the SUN office the rush contin ‘The cager throng were troddon up. and pulled to pieces J for two hours, pn, and squeezed, Mt seemed, just to cet a copy ; and one, a reports the 7mes, was actually car- ried ous fainting m the counting-room, Women, children, old men, all wore in a fever of excitem Conductore s\epoed from their cars white ticy were passing ty to run into the SUN office and buy an ex: tra, All sorts of curious scones were enacted, such ws ovly THe £UN could inspire. It took some half an hour to get from the door to the counter, but when they had reached the desired goal tney tricm phantly waved their Sun above their neighb: heads, showing What buman endurance and ene could achieve, Now tle bappy end wa: hi and they rushed off to save tno treasure trom Clutches of the many who stood on, iting getacopy, Im ty) ours mote than 60,000) copios Were °.q aad then the tuslwas.over, Boon sltere ward the Zridune's extra appeared, Tho Nows in Newark, On receipt of the nows in Newark, multitudes gathered on the atreot corners, and ai the telesraph and newpaper offices, to learn the latest facts; but they could get notaing. When the extra SUN ar ed, and the true extent of the eaiamity became known, the excitement subsided, ‘Tue oxtra SUNS wors road oy ull Newark Inst might, Paesklhs Excitemont on Mtaten Isinnd, The excitement all over Staten Island was in tense, At cyery landing tho piers were crowded by persons wo were mcat anxious to lara the pames of the kilfed avd wo Inatently ceiving the jutelligeoce Capt. Holbrook svt to work to make preparations, He posted extra men at the forries, and made every arrangement to enforce or der, ‘Ibrongs on throngs poured down on the police asking for information which the latter coula not give, but order was proser QARIBALDI'S PARTNER, ‘The first of the wounded to arrive was Mr Mucbi, who reached Venderbilt Landinz ap hou aiier (he disaster, This gentloman, who ts about 73 years of ago, had beon severely scalded about the hands, chest, and neck, Ho is in the chandiery busi ess. and was A partner uf Garibaldi when the laiter was in this country, Capt. Holbrook took charge of the old genteman, Hoe was conveyed by lils friends to Ins residence iv Clifton, where he lies at the point of deat), ‘Taree physicians are in altendan ¢ on him, but it was thought, last evening, that they could not wave his life Alter procuring carriages for the wounded, ( Holbrook took all the available foree of the Is) to New York. where they arrived as 4 o'clock tor Visiting the New street police ststion and see are nore the body ot child, another victim. @ detatied, some to Bollovue and the others rk Hospital, with orders tt possi bie ty iden tily the Staten Island dead, or to procure convey ance for the wounded belonging iu Richmond county, THe WusTrIRLD. Capt, Jake Vanderbilt came upon the anme boat With (ie police, and says that the Weatheld was o Of the atanechest bow ‘Company, bo twelve mo Was a low-prossure d 13 feet width ot front, constructed wit fue. 16 had been ied 10.4 hydrostatic preasare of 84 ponnds to rquare ineb, but the Working pressure allowed ony % pounds to the wqnare inch. Ik tad one lockod-tip safoty valve, 8 inches in dlameter, lusded to ¥T pounds pressure per square inc), ‘The eugin: wae 6 low-prom one, 6) inohes in diameter evlinder, and 10 foot stroke, Aaa provision azainst Gro the boat had one Bre pump of 6 laches 4 Inches iv diamoter, and 409 foot of huss, one, 10 (eet in diameter — ——— Sa ee PRICE TWO CENTS. : ‘Woatfloid was bnilt in 1864 by Joremish Aimonsoa of Now York, and never nad an accident beiore, THE NUMBER ON BOARD THE BOA’ Mr. J. W. Braisted, Superintendent of the Perry, Aaya: “About 260 persona were aboard, the majorith Of them women and children, As the bow wad about to starc they all crowded to the front, over the boiler. We never had any fear of an explosion Of the Weatfield’s bolier, It was considered the safest of tie line, Thres woeke sgo the bollor was juspected and pronounced safe — One of Nature's Noblem Too much praise cannot be awarded to Michast Quigley, the popular Battery boatman. Whon th Panic-stricken women and children leaped over board, Mr. Quigley not alone gave his boats, bat lent his personal assistance in saving the drowning Two babes were taken from under a raft by tht gallant boatman and transferred to the snue quar tors of Mr. Quigley’s residence at 10 State street, When rescued they were nearly insensible, but not injured. The youngest was about eight months and other ir wet clothin: of the two Was recognized a a fon of Michael Foy of 818 Cons! stregh: Last Agvet eldest child was in the stredt in the charge of & nu crying for “mamma.” The clotoing worn, whea picked up, consisted o” short white musi rimmed with binck braid, white underciotiing, small cotton socks, and leather shoes. The litt Wail is very delic: eyes a bluish pray The Di by Ey. One of Tax Sun's reporters was at the scene of the disaster only afew minutes after the explo sion, The confusion, grief, and death that he wit- nessed beggar description, Husbands were in soarch of wives and children, and mothers half dead with fright were screaming for their children and their husbands, Another momo nt and the dutics of the Profession summon to action the ear and the pencil, and he sought the statements of those who before him were end witnesses of the torrible calamity, and before reaching detail he gladly tontifies of the ready ‘Willingness of every one to render aid and succor to ail who were the unfortunate victims of one of the saddest of calamities that has ever marked the history of the city. The following is. WHAT QUIGLEY AND COLLINS SAY, At half-past 1 o'clock, or thereabouts, we wore at Our boats as usual, and at the moment of the explo: Sion, we were looking in the direction of the Woat- field. Buddenly, as accident ever is, wo hoards fearfal sound, and high up in the air we saw men, women, spars, aud splinters enveloped in steam and smoke. In s moment wo leaped into our boats, ‘And rowed to rescue whom we could. We gave no order, but our men and boys, by th: manity tbat {sever ready tn trouble, followed on example, and in less than two or three minutes w had from six to eight boats by the side of the ferry- boat. KLEVEN PRRSONS SAVED BY ONE BOAT. Wo were together in the same boat and rowed for the Fouthwest corner ot the ferry boat slip, where the most of the peopie bad been blown by the force of the explos'on. We had no time to meditate, but {t was instant work,{men ,women and childrev flont. ing around us; some grasping for our boat, otuurs bauging on to tbe piles of tue ferry slip, and a groat wany more grasping at & spar and sinking with it, instantly out of sight and rising up agin. The scene was heart-rending. .We grasped at every one within our reach, .without 4 d to sex or condition, We could not say how many the rest of our m ved, but with our own bi wo saved eleven men, women, and children, and i rowed to shore with them and d the charge of the police of to Whoever woud take care of them, ‘TWO LOVELY BABES WITH MRS, QUIGLAY, Our reporter went to the house of Mr. Quiziey, ® State street, and witnessed the meeting o: a Litier with bis lost infant, und foding it in the good cue Of Uh t tenderly, Iberai-hoaricd Mrs. Qui was a lovely boy, nine thonths old, fat, piu Doalthy as ever child looked. Quigiey' and Goiltes had picked up out of the water wother @ d elill almost at the same instant, but it was a moment burry and bustle, and they passed tue 6nd 10 p01 one on the slip, Wille as quick we Wougut iey pitted the mover to some otners on the Tan tm i moment tae mother and the chiG weEe raved, THR FATHER FINDS HIS Lost CMTLu. Michael Foy, of 216 Canal sireet, had been on board the Westfield with his wite chill, ant mo- ther-in-law. ‘They were all saved, but how toy knew pot, and had hed a place of protects when tae father, with ap angzious ueart and introo step, immediately wandered evers waero in search of Lis culid, He aot to the house of Mrs. Q tigioy our repor taking poles from tie Los ol tie spectator, Mr. Foy eutered and looked at the ore Ho, Where Lis babe lay us sweet a4 ever live created, , dt with wonder, and his child. It was ike one torea ty him, nd with that semi the cra itu (eof x bursting i: The Kord hie had « and over me, never for.ek Hin. Michael Foy was a grateful man, and well he might be, for Quizley and Collins botu deciared that the Child that Was now as blooming as inioe cence and healta could ever Le, had boon ready dead, Ithad got eutangied under and umong the splintered raters, und it was ouly with bis oar that Ove Of tacm Was abie Wo reach 11, disentangle it, and Ket itinto the boat [twas already blue end ioam iug st the mouth when they got hold of 1t, and held AC UNL the Water gushed Out Of it body, A BOY FOUND WiTHOUT A MoTHaR, Mrs. Quigley had another beautiiul boy (4 charge avunt eighteen or twenty months old, has a lurge foretead ana beauti ul lorm of face, hod ona white muslin dress, trim harrow worsted bluck braiv and attacaed to the dress, He had o toned shoes, number five. He bad got m Mit brusied under the lot ear ‘but otherwise wi marked. When our reporter saw lim ooject of every care irom Quizie, {nen +, who flocked around tae litte tel tue joy and ympaiuy as ii he bad beom owned by each of them, WENEY GEOOMAGAN'# STORY, T was ox the * Jenny " pile driving machine at the momera of the bursting of the boiler of tue Wost fie!.j, and siw all that any berson could neo in the midst of such coniusion, It was a terribe scone, which I never hope co withess ag sim. L sprang 100 one of Collins's boats and row. od for the wreck. 1 first picked ty a mam about 90 years of age, 1 (hink @ German’ who was floating in the water, 1 ton peigod a baby aight Puy months old, wut can give no descrip tou of uress OF Sex, ‘There wis a Indy on the burrioane dock Culling out fur her chilv, and T immedatel bended her the baby that Tid tuken ous of the Water. I was doubtiul iaat i was hers, for ane did nt avem so euraptured a+ T tink tbe ‘would have beon act Ht been her own, ‘Tole tady wae preity Dadiy cut, Wna we y.lod Was stroaming over bur tureheud, WHAT WM. FLOOD AND JOHN CONNORS fa¥, We were stugcing near the boaty of Collins @ Quigiey's view bus accident occurred, aud We leaped 1h10 oF Hid rowed OUliroM tLe Biole, | We vicked Up a woman aud cuild, Ax so0n as Lie WoIniA Was rapgnd into the Loat she expired; we thon grabbed atu cuild and got it inty the a¥ the womun's death, the child died a» we looked atit’ Wo rowed asbore and gave she Dodies to Ge police, ‘The womun Wax neatly areseed, » ux aboub ) eure of azo, aud seemed to be German, The baby Was provubly fl.tocn montas old. OFFICKH JAMES QUIGLHY'S sTORT Officer Quigley of Church street got into om tho bouts Wish ® young man, Thomas Sea, ana the former buy? “We row Niatoly among thom, ana picked up Wor nd two cuildren, ‘two of tae womon were dressed in biack, one avout 4) and the olber 55 years of age, ‘Tue two olver Women were about 23 apd 89, The children were 8 und 6 years uf ae, a 00; and a girl, saw two or three sirugging ‘a the walter, but We could not reaca tuem to remier assistance, ‘Some tried to slo, anu bore claw to" pies of wond and. the guards of the oat. IE Was A(errible sight to see DUGAD beings urow bing and yet unable ty reac. them.” Jolin Bukersbery, the captain of the sixth engin worked like u Drive than, [9 tied w rope. rom bis waist and got down by ths mip and pieced Ciree email children, As avon a8 tue firemen wi sure that ine boat was fi from fre, Caos, Bakers: bery directed their energies 0 delivering the Doe at were jammed togesior among the debra d part of the buat, Totiood a Lise boy Among the vroken Limbors holding on to a paper of un dropa. He did nut woom eituer to bave boa hurt or alarmed COL, MIOHARL MURPHT's sTORT T was in a email boat with @ friond returning te thee and was right im troat of the boat Wueo tne explosion occurred. We picked uy a woman Woman was very sick from the m to be vers, Tae. litle ting woe clinging on Lo the paddle wheel of tie Harbor Police boat, Lalmired sno enerey ind devotion of the Battery boatmen; but for Wem scores would lave perished who are vow saved. Ap soon as we lanced, A brought (omy nouse, Whitehslt treet, tour grown persons aud the ite ett till they were taken sumewiore elre b) (ue OF dor of Cupt. Uiiman, ! JOUN A, DELANCKY's Brour T got into @ boas, and was immodiately sinong the people straggling In the waier, 1 picked three men mon ano two wumou slive and brows! Suom asuure, fF atterward rvcay Bee Second Page.) n id Uiree dead ——- ee emmalies