New York Times, The (Newspaper) - December 22, 1884, New York, New York VOL NEW-YORK MONDAY DECEMBER 22 1884 PRICE TWO CENTS DYNAMITE AT WINDSOR MACHINE FOUND IN THE RAILWAY STATION TBE BUILDING SET ON FIRE BY CAN CLOCKWORK AND COMBUSTIBLES FOUND IN THE DEBRIS LOVDON Dec fire broke out in tho parcel at tho Windsor Railway tion on Saturday and quite ly far a while but was soon Among tho wero found i number of brass wheels and a bottlo posed to contain an ozploslvo substance They aro supposed to bo tho remains of an Infernal machine No to tho person who left tho machine bra as yet been found A foreigner WHS noticed loitering about the tion on Friday Ic 13 believed that tho culprit finding that ho was unable to enter tho Royal and that tho Queen had gono to and thinking that his designs wore frustrated took tho machine to the railway station In order to rid himself of It The affair has caused great excitement The wheels found In the debris wore exactly similar to In tho machines used in out- rages at tho Victoria and other and arts of tho cheap American clock pattern A tin can containing a dark gelatinous substance also found and Its contents aro now being analyzed A fuso mado of cotton and saturated with cohol protruded from tho neck of tho bottle A broken quart bottlo which had recently contained rectified spirit was also found In close proximity to the scene of tho Ire It U believed that the fuse Instead of exploding tho ignited tho adjacent articles Col Chief Inspector of Explosives U n careful examination Tho man noticed loitering about tho station on Friday Is described ns having tho appearance of an American frith a sallow face and n mustache lie has smco disappeared No further clues to tho London Bridge ex- plosion have been discovered It is reported Carter's boat the Ariel was seen three hours after tho explosion at Stairs Tho boat has not yet however been traced It is also reported that a boatman In that vicinity found part of an Infernal machine BISMARCK AND THE SOCIALISTS BERLIN Dec Tho Germanic Ultra- In a pessimist article compares the position of the German to a dance upon a volcano and says that tho electoral successes of the Socialists the searches of the barracks by tho police and tho trial of anarchists at Indicate that tho State Is beginning to decay A letter from Prince Bismarck U published In tho Chancellor gratefully acknowledges the numerous addressee of devotion and which ho has received from all of tho tho adverse vote of tho ho Buys arc to bo- placed these numerous proofs or tho confluence of the Germans In hU foreign policy Tho national feeling pervading tbo people him even with his falling strength to persist in liU struggle against the parties whose disunion and unanimity against ill guidance of Government nrc impeding tho progress of tho empire and endangering tho unity bought with many sacrifices and THE BERLIN Dec Germany Holland and Italy arc now In accord upon tho proposition to neutralize tho territory of tho African Society Tho between Germany and Franco la tending to a rupture In her opposition to tho tion or the territory Tho Gazette in a cle expresses astonishment that France which until recently has shared In tho will toward the International tion now wishes to despoil the association of Its territory Tho Gazette declares that Germany will defend the Interests of tho International Association which are those of all Germans knowing us she docs that German traders will find In the territory of tho tion a better welcome than they would Una In territory FOREIGN TOPICS PARIS Due tho elections to-day tho complete autonomist list of Senatorial gates was elected In Paris Tho opportunists were successful at Dijon and Grenoble and tho nt Lyonn The Court has sentenced M LTS a M the author of un novel to pay a lino of nml pilfer Imprisonment for ono month for boiling the novel In M Minister of tho In- presented tbu medals by tho Trades Association to workmen In u speech bo declared that all his efforts directed toward restoring between capital and labor Without wishing a policy of State socialism ho protection of labor death from era is nt Toledo At Tarragona four new mid three deaths aro reported CAPE TOWN Deo numbers of armed Boors arc leaving tho for tho Tho President Is to prevent their Dec from St burg gavo a few details of tho recent attempt upon tho life of tho Czar The attempt was ninde upon the occasion of tho recent fete of tho Chevaliers of St George The rails on tho line over which tho bad to wero found loosened at n certain spot The soldier on guard at tho place whore the train wim expected to leave tho rails was found murdered MILAN Dec young named 13 of nco day while in the act of placing n bomb under tho station He confessed that he hnd been instructed to Mro the with n cigar Ho Is a member of the Del A which was founded In memory of tho Austrian anarchist Ho refused to disclose tho names of his associates Ten other men who had In their possession proclamations glorifying arrested A RUNAWAY COUPLE FOUND ELOPING BOSTON PAIR ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL Dec occurrence which caused a sensation In Boston last Spring bos just been consummated In Minneapolis by an made by Inspector M Hanscom of tho Boston police Tno gentleman arrested has been living in Minneapolis a few months un- der tho name of W S Holbrook but his real name Is Herman L Gowen and he lived In S to ugh ton near Boston He was last year a eling by sample only for several In Boston and Richmond It was discovered that ho was short In bis accounts having collected money appropriated it to his own use His embezzlements amounted to or Becoming aware that his wero ho but not alone Although a married man ho became enamored of tbe of his neighbor Walter Reynolds und reciprocating his unholy affection sbo ran away with him This was about April and created considerable commotion In Boston wife and Mrs husband used every endeavor tind tho guilty pair but until recently were to discover their abouts From letters to friends It was Joun I out a short time UKO that they In Minneapolis under the of Mr and Mrs Holbrook U was then ft comparatively easy mutter to apprehend them An indictment was Gowen for and n requisition from tne Governor When the ar- rest was made nt tho house No South tho man acknowledged bis guilt Mrs made no excuses for self but signified to BO back to ton with him They bean living In that only about a having roomed before on Tbo party started for A HOMICIDE IN TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA Dec special dis- patch from says that about 4 o'clock this afternoon Mann of North Carolina but who li lit tho employ of tbe Dayton Ohio was stabbed and by uf linoi County Blu A DISASTER AT TEE BIG FAIR AN UNFINISHED HOTEL CRASHES TO THE MAN KILLED NEW-ORLEANS Doc to people visited tho Exposition to-day 1 and from 3.000 to occupied seats In Music Hall during tho claying of sacred music by tho Mexican band and tho brief sermon by tbo Rev Charles A Allen of tho Unitarian Church Tho machinery was not working and a fow of the exhibits wero covered with tarpaulins otherwise there was no change from tho ordinary week day appearance of tho great exhibition A largo corrugated Iron building known as Hotel In process of erection Just west of the main exposition building fell with a fearful crash at o'clock this Ing and fortunately resulted in no great loss of life though about 50 workmen were In Imminent danger Tho building SOO by 100 feet and at tho time of tbo accident part of tho supports and frame work had been up This morning at tho usual hour 0 o'clock 40 or 50 workmen em- ployed on tbo building took their posts to begin work A brisk breeze was blowing from tho cast Thoy had boon at work an hour when ono of thorn remarked that tho lower end was rather shaky as It seemed to sway a to the high wind blowing Mr Miller foreman of tho told his workmen to up the or ropes aa tho seemed to yield from east to west While tho was being obeyed two of the laborers on tho very top pf tho southern end cried out that they could not hold any longer as they were sure tho building would fall No sooner had they uttered tho cry than an ominous crash was heard and the greater part of huge ure swayed to and fro for a while and carno down noise Tho accident resulted In the Instant death of workman and tho dangerous wounding of two others The man killed was Frank Grcon a colored man from Nashville Tenn Green Jumped at the Instant tho rafter begun to move and lia must have been struck by one of tho heavy ports for he was picked up underneath a very heavy post by those who hurried to tho rescue Albert received Internal Injuries which aro considered fatal Ho Is a native of Michigan and has been in New-Orleans only months James Carroll from go was seriously but not dangerously wounded In an Interview tho foreman In charge said It was the narrowest from death ho had ever witnessed in his life and on the part of tho 40 or moro workmen who were on tho building they wero all congregated on part next to when tho was given and had no Mmo to save themselves I was right In tho way of tno falling timbers ho said and saw all those heavy pieces Hying down on mo It Is indeed a miracle that I caped Most of tho men wero at work Inside of tho building Those on top wero Frank Green the dead man James Carroll Albert Louis U Curtis and N They nil full In a vegetable garden un tho street side Tho distance men fell was between CO and feet the highest man and Green tho colored man Just next to him Foreman Miller attributes tho accident to tho weakness of tho foundations and to tho of the supporting ropes Ho said also that tho posts temporarily put up near tho middle of tho building wero not far enough driven In and that with the very heavy rainy weather lately experienced and tho strong wind blowing for two clays past tho building was to stand too heavy witn tho weight nf Iron and timber Ho had observed that tne building Imd gong out of plumb from east to west about two feet and had Just attempted to remedy that by having tension put upon tho main or when tho structure swayed and with a crash came down L B Curtis ono of tho workmen who was 45 feet above tho ground and who came down with the debris said ho know there was an accident imminent but ho did not Jump Ho held on and escaped with a slight bruise Fully three-quarters or Jhe hotel was wrecked for a distance of 350 feet The destruction can be said to be almost complete and tho ing of tho whole structure will bo necessary Tho building was owned by Malor li A Burke Director-General of tho Exposition and was being erected by him as a private prise In view of tho expected treat demand for accommodations near tho Exposition grounds In tho course of tho season It was being erected by Mr the architect of the Exposition Building and was Intended to accommodate 500 people with lodgings BODY STEALING IN CANADA THE OP A VAULT CAJOLED INTO GIVING UP A CORPSE TORONTO Ontario Dec daring case of body snatching has occurred nt Violet a a fow miles cast of this city Mr John late of the Court died about six weeks ago and his body was placed Jn tho vault at Violet Physicians who had their at- tention called to his disease at a loss to account for tho cause of death and ufter his demise sought permission of tho relatives to make an but refused Tho day following the funeral a young man giving his name as and ing to bo a brother of tho of Mr went to Mr Perry who has tho key of the vault In which tbe body wUs placed and stated that tho relatives had received certain Information that an attempt was to be mado by get of the body and that they were determined to succeed no mutter what tho hazard proposed that tho friends bo allowed to remove tho body uc night und have It secretly Interred BO as to defeat tho ulans of tho To this Mr Perry demurred and to con- vince tho applicant that there was no causo for fear ho went to tho and showed him how securely It was locked and barred stino depicted with tears eyes tho of tho relatives and tho determination of the ghoulish students who would resort to any means even to gunpowder or dynamite to get possession of the coveted subject At length tho old gentleman allowed his scruples to bo overcome by his sympathies and mado an pointment to Into of tho friends dark About o'clock returned with four men and during the wholo of tho alter proceedings they maintained a silence but this was not at tbe time remarked by tho unsuspecting of tho vault the body was removed and handed over to the claimants who immediately loft with their but Ill-gotten booty Tho day It was learned that tho persons who received tho body had no authority whatever tor their action Several cases of grave robbery have been re- ported from this district recently It is believed that tho robberies nro by of American colleges who It a matter of comparative ease to get the corpses across tho lino and Into New-York State SEEKING REINSTATEMENT IN OTTAWA Ontario Dec Miller who was recently forced to resign from tho Manitoba Cabinet for ordering a prisoner named to be publicly nt Winnipeg Is hero urging tdc Government to re- instate him as a In tbo Manitoba courts which position ho resigned at tho time he went Into Premier Government Ho did eo at tho solicitation of Sir John Macdonald that ho might be In a position to counteract the in- other of tho Cabinet who wero agitating bitter terms for tho Province from tho Dominion Government His presence did not have tho quieting Sir John hod looked for and Premier thought best to seizo upon tho first offered to rid himself and tho Cabinet of one whom had learned to regard as a trailer to the In- of tho Province and to tbu Dominion Government JOHN II QUINN'S MANY CRIMES Dec Jolm H Quinn formerly la the employ of tho Lotus Club of New-York but who was dismissed for was arrested hero to-day charged with bing a house in South of elry and diamonds Ho was found at tbo railroad station ready to go to New-York and much of the stolen property was found on him Ho will have an examination to-morrow Ing Ho was arrested last Spring on tho charge of endeavoring to burn the Hotel but was acquitted on tho that ho was so Intoxicated that ho didn't know what ho was doing on ho arrested In New-York for passing counterfeit money but escaped ishment Tho police now ho was tho man who earned tho title of silver In this city at tho time so many were of silverware und ho perpetrated other His arrest Is an Important oue DESTITUTION IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND Deo application of 1.000 destitute to tho for aid during tho past week has prompted an It Is now stated that at least 8.000 workmen are In It la thought that tho authorities will have to vide 15.000 people with the necessities of during tbo rest of tho Winter There 13 moro destitution in tbo city now than tho WARNING MR CLEVELAND BAD MEN TRYING TO INFLUENCE CABINET APPOINTMENTS STAR ROUTE AND OTHER GANGS A SHARP HARBOUR AND THE POSTMASTER-GENERALSHIP WASHINGTON Dec it was learned In this city that Mr John S Barbour had declined to tho Presidency of the Virginia Midland Railroad tho was at once started that It because ho expected to bo Postmaster-General under President Cleveland A good many persons pinned their faith to tho report because of tho statement which waa under tho law no person could bo Postmaster-General who was Interested la any way tn any contract for carrying tho United States malls The fact re- called when tho lato A T art was j proposed for Secretary of tho Treasury ho waa found to bo ineligible because ho was engaged in nnd It that Mr by withdrawing from tho Presidency of n ing mil wny hnd put It out of anybody's power to raise tho point against him in cuso ho was nominated that ho Inter- ested in a mall contract Those who taken enough interest to look Into tho matter over havo discovered that Mr Barbour still re- mains in tho directory of tho Virginia Midland and it to thorn that if tho President of n railroad U interested in all of Its con- tracts tho Directors nro In tho sumo Section 412 ot tho utes provides that no person i employed In tho Post Department shall become Interested {n any contract for carrying tho mull or act as agent with or without compensation for nny contractor or person offering to become u contractor In any business tbo ment Opinions differ as to whether or not this provision applies tn tno bead as well as to the employes of tue department nnd there aro some who bold if Mr should bo offered tho ho could It without stepping out of tho Presidency of a road which carries malls Mr has bcon mentioned very frequently tor tho place of eral perhaps because there aro so many con- venient Virginians nt hand to keep tho report that bo Is to bo chosen In active circulation there nro some Western nnd Southern who without disputing Mr ability express preferences for other mon Among tho Democratic Senators tho mention of the name of Senator Cockrell of Missouri for either tho Post Department or tho Department of tho In- is received with very cordial If not unanimous approval Tho admiration of Mr Cockrell Is reasonable Ho is n man of tho munds sort in many respects Ho is moro vigorous nnd more affable but hu Is a tireless worker a dog who knows every claim who does not hesitate to measures of doubtful expediency to tho bitter extremity und who will certainly not bo accused of being anything but a positive crat The star route gang will not him as a candidate for Postmaster-General Tho land grabbers who flourish under the Interior Department nro Enid to be entirely opposed to nny mnn they cannot select and control It has been asserted hero of lato that moro than suggested for General under nro men chosen by tho star routers who aro Indifferent about tho party In control so long as they can thrive A well-known Democrat who In 1870 prominently connected with Mr said yesterday If you will look closely into the history of many of tfco men pressed for offices under Cleveland you will find that they aro backed by precisely the samo gang's of bloodsuckers nnd bers who basked In tho of official favor under rule Mr Cleveland will to look out for They can afford to and do employ tho smartest cates In the land to conduct their business for them nnd only tho strictest scrutiny of scheming patriots will prevent from them up only to that ho has warmed a nest of vipers and made u false step at the out- set of his career ns President BAD MEN IN OFFICE Tho Capital this in an article Intended to direct attention to tho doubt ns to whether n hnd character is nn im- pediment to employment In the ice mentions tho employment of J J who prepared charges against Controller rence and who has been shown to bo a notorious person in Kansas It sneaks of Seth A Terry who is a clerk In tho War ment and who testified at tho and flatly accuses him of of tho earnings of poor men and women ho was Secretary of a land nnd building association The thud case referred to is Durine tho reign of tho star route thieves In tho Vast Department II D Norton chief of tho finance division Brady Dorsey and company wero being tried tho attorneys for tho prosecution con- that tha sympathies of Norton had long been with tho defense and thoy requested the Postmaster-General to re- move him To n stranger to tho of Washington it would appear that such an exit from would prove nn Insuperable to n re-entrance Not so Lust week Mr Norton appointed an Inspector In the Pose Office Department Tie Is set to watch honest men and catch thieves Perhaps it is all right and he may proven useful inspector There nro doubtless capable clerks In tbo department whoso characters are without a stain to whom such nn appointment would havo been a tion mnv now feel that they not tho proper qualifications WAITE'S ILLNESS Waito who has boun ill for n week past and whose condition yesterday nnd on Friday was euch ns to bis and friends much uneasiness Is much better to-night Ho rested easily nnd slept well to-day and tho alarming symptoms in his case bavo entirely disappeared Tho has been suffering from tho effects of overwork lately and a week ngo contracted n severe cold which was tho uto of bis prostration Early last week erysipelas sot In in bis face and much Irom neuralgic pains Tho erysipelas was the dangerous symptom but this entirely disappeared and to-night his condition has Im- so much that his son who wus summoned hero from Ohio curly in tho week has left for home INDIANA AND THE CABINET An informal mooting of tho Democratic members of and citizens of Indiana held at tho capital last night Tho sentiment was generally expressed that Indiana was en- titled to recognition In tho Cabinet of tho and tho opinion was unanimous that In that event tho honor should bo conferred McDonald Senator und all tho Democratic members of tho wero present and concurred Jn the views ex- pressed A Off THR PANHANDLE ROAD DAYTON Ohio Dec most trous wreck on tho Panhandle Hoad ono mile cost of this city this on a steep embankment over 30 feet high where an extra freight train from west hound and n yard switch engine with n loc of cars came in collision Both engines literally demolished and six loaded freight cnrs woro burled down tho ment was a heavy all tbo afternoon and the two truing within only a fow car of each other tho engineer of either could see the approaching They camo crush and Snell all thu engineer together with a train men Jumped JUen had his hips injured and wus otherwise bruised George was badly injured knees and Engineer kins had a hand crushed land and escaped with slight Timothy met with most miraculous from death Ho was standing on tho top of a box car when tho collision occurred and made a most desperate leap for his life down the embankment n dis- tance of 40 feet When ho alighted hu heard tho rumbling noise of tho cars rolling down the em- upon him Ho attempted to get up and run but waa to ceed on account of a broken ankle However be managed to crawl unon his hunds and knees nnd thus being caught Both his sides nro severely bruised and It is feared that he has suffered severe Internal Injuries Coal and merchandise of all tion aro scattered tha track in all tions Tho loss to tbo railroad company will be KILLED POLICEMAN Deo 8 o'clock this evening William Rice a bricklayer was shot and Instantly killed by Snyder of tho Allegheny City force hnd n companion of for disorderly conduct nnd tho latter with a friend attempted to with tha THE EVARTS AND MORTON BOOMS MR ANNOUNCES HIS MR MORTON'S FRIENDS Dee editor of tho Evening Journal returned from New-York lost night a further contribution to tbo boom This Is a letter written by Mr Evarts himself In in response to tho de- mands of many Republicans throughout tho State ho formally announces himself 03 a date for tho office of United States Senator Tho document has an from tbo fact that to the rural editor seldom falls tho lot of announcing tho purposes of distinguished public citizens and It was carefully locked up In tho before tho editor retired for the Tho publication is expected gomo time this week Speaking of tno Senatorial contest u informed been watching tho apparent growth of the vass and I'm surprised no less at tho number of members of the Legislature who nro Hocking to them at the preferences of somo of them I detect among those who announced themselves for Morton nnd Erwin several who If they followed their natural In- would never mannered even us Morton is nnd certainly they would nothing to dci with nny combination which Tom Plutt wus I ntn thut they undercover purposely If they arc the list of tho combination will certainly have to bo revised for these converts have not come to I huve heard it Intimated that tho breeds a candidate of their own in tho background and that tho signal Is given ho Is brought to view u considerable ber of gentlemen will slump away Irom tho crowd onco n lot of to take all tho money that offered by anybody for their votes nnd nt the proper time vote for him is thoy Intended They by tho ho was elected and the southwestern end of tho State duly enriched ns one of tho consequences Maybe similar bus been to those who nro locking to Morton nnd I don't know could possibly be unless it is M If you will carefully rend over his tor again you wlU sco that Mr does not absolutely tako himself out of tho race you will Is moro popular among many ot so-called Morton men Morton Is or ever can be In tho language of the makers 1 should About the first quarter of January look out for a melting away of tho Morton farces ARMED MOB IN DAKOTA AN ATTACK ON A TOWN THREATENED BY FROM ANOTHER PLACE CHICAGO Doc Tribune special from states that another dis- patch received from tho Sheriff of Roberts County by Gov Pierce this afternoon as From Traverse Dakota Your tele- gram received We cannot guns for our There will bo nn organized armed mob of 150 mon who will bo hero In 21 hours saying thoy will burn tho town and man in it If wo don't give them the balance of the records Your immediate attention will property and bloodshed Advices received here ns to the causo of the outrageous proceedings slate tho In u recent election the town of Wllmott received u majority of the county tho Board discovered thut tho ballot boxes had been stuffed In two towns nnd rejected them giving tho county gent to Traverse A mandamus was served on the board but wus quashed after arguments before Judge Smith nnd Traverse nUo out victorious in a second mandamus proceeding tho riotous proceedings on the part of tho Wilmott mob Very serious trouble is feared Dakota Deo spy hna arrived from Wilmott Ho says that a ence of 150 men being held In Mann's office Tho Chairman standing on top of the stolen sale said that the combination hud been tele- graphed for and if It not received by Sunday morning tho safo would bo blown open Ho asked Iho What shall wo do if tho books aro not in the safe V A motion wus nnd carried cheers and howls to iro to Traverse nnu sack und burn every building nnd every man found All tho men nt tho meeting armed with Winchesters and shotguns On re- of tills news the ordered tho women nnd children to leave town and the order la being rapidly obeyed The mob Is not expected to reach hero much be- fore dark Buildings aro being and there nro runners out all over tho county lor arms nnd men Tho force in Traverse at present is rather small for such an emergency but tho men on the urc well and will make u llcht All the weak-kneed huve been asked to town None havo left Men from northeastern part of tho county uro to tho cue but mav not get hero in Gov will havo troops hero by to-morrow ing but they also may bo too Into Tno officers here aro cool nnd will make tho most of their circumstances Gov Pierce telegraphed tho Sheriff to cull every man in the county to his assistance note ono who refused Ex- runs high Tho county records boon secreted nnd uo ono except the of Deeds knows CATTON HEATS CHICAGO Doc Tho billiard match between William II of St Louis ana Edward McLaughlln of phia for straight rail 3.000 points was concluded at Control Music at a very Into hour last night night points and lost wus resumed by McLaughlln from position In which tho bulls had been left McLaughlln scored hla 1.500 points Friday Catton wus laboriously piling up 4117 billiards Tho former mado n wonderful run of Uf and his was 37 Tho St Louis man appeared to bo In bard luck nnd his highest run was laj hla was 10 Betting was ten to eight him last night opened tho play with a run of I nnd after a few short Innings gathered tho bulls and plied up Hoon after he added 255 points to his nnd rnn 175 Cation bottled down to work utter a low In- and by careful piny passed his opponent and put points to h s credit before missing uneasy follow shot The crowd went nt his unusual play ns ho Imd only 7 points to finish tho which ho did in short order McLaughlln made points in the Tho iramo Cut ton 28 UI The St Loula man is tho ncro of tho hour In billiard circles MME ARLINE'S LACES CHICAGO Dec Mme Arlino tho handsome mysterious wus obliged to surrender to tho customs of- in her parlor nt tho Palmer House yesterday nf about worth of laces and fancy goods on which BUO had neglected to pay duty told n reporter to-day she had been misrepresented in papers She had never denied that tho goods came through free of duty Sho bought them In Europe intending to sell them in Cuba und sho told tho York officials so They hnd examined tho contents of each trunk but Instead of them pending her departure for Cuba they allowed to take tbo goods with bnr After she had changed her mind about going to Cuba sho thought would bo no harm done if sho sold tho goods In this country considering tho course taken by tho York Sho expects to got her back Mrs Wilson tho New-York modiste accompanying Mmc Arlino It under- stood that her goods been pronounced all by the officials Sho mot Mme Arlino first In casually met nor In York She could havo gone to-day she said but sho did not wish to tho city under a cloud GOV CLEVELAND AND MEXICO BOSTON Dec Tho Herald will lish to-morrow an interview with Simeon Levy proprietor of tho financier who ed Gov Cleveland last week and had a talk with him upon Mexican affairs Mr Lovy f nru suro of ono tiling from my conversation Mr Cleveland and that H ho will not countenance any harebrained scheme for tho acquisition of territory cither by choco or force He realizes Importance of maintaining our present rotations with Mexico und was Interested in statistics tho enormous investment of American capital in thut country EMBEZZLED MONEY RECOVERED TORONTO Ontario Doc A dispatch from New-Orleans says that of stolen money has been recovered from tho nnd Mr manager and Mr solicitor of tho British and Canadian Investment Company an on their way back to Toronto They nro vory In favor with tho Indies D W Co toino very beautiful SiU anil OIL TANKS IN FLAMES FOR BLAZING UNCONTROLLED FOURTEEN HOURS THE FIREMEN POWERLESS TO CHECK THE CONFLAGRATION PROPERTY WORTH OVER DESTROYED Pratt's Astral Oil Works on Creek Eastern District caught Oro yesterday and nil through tho afternoon nnd night rain poured on Brooklyn from a reddened sky Tho flro begun at noon At midnight no ono could assign Its cause Tho first intimation of it camo In un explosion which shook the houses in the ern part of and broke windows for 300 feet tho North front of tho new Gas Works Superintendent of tho oil worka whoso house is near bv ran out to find n lino of people moving toward tho works At the same there was a tremendous of Iron Aa Mr Moffatt turned Into North the Kreut safety on top a naphtha tank at the southeastern corner of the grounds were dancing about toys Tho next Instant a body of llamo shot up from the tank which contained barrels of naphtha This was quickly succeeded by outbursts of flro nnd blaek smoke Tho wind fortunately was and that pavo hope that tho damage bo confined to that tank though It was in close proximity to a other tanks of naphtha and crude and oil none smaller than the one nnd most of them from 3.000 to barrels TJio however did not need tho wind's help to communicate with the adjoining Whirling upward in immense gusts it cut through its of as It fell darting In all directions There wero a few men employed in the works at tho time of tho explosion Mr Moffatt plied them with shovels and sot them to making n dam of dust across North to prevent the threatened overflow cif oil toward tho gas works nnd another dam enst of tho tank for similar protection to tbo largo tanks In the vard Ily the time the men got fairly at work which was within live minutes after tho explosion flro engines began to arrive Tho at the scene was engine No which wus driven ly to within about 13 feet of tho blaze Tho volume of tho Brew with each outburst the descending as furiously as they rose A terrific blaze us tho began Ita work revealed tho lank of boiler iron red hot to tho ground the bolts thut held the plates with each movement of the liquid within Suddenly us by u supremo effort tho Humes spread Into a vast sheet at the top of tho tank For aw foot around tho heat was unbearable The workmen dropped their shovels anil firemen their hose running pell mcll up North Tho sheet llamo wrapped within Itself a second tank containing also barrets and Instantly tho extent of tho Ore was doubled It was sible for the firemen to return to their for 15 minutes or for tho workmen to resume their damming From tho point at which tho fire started to tho end of the wharf all of which Is owned by tho Standard Oil Company with which Co aro connected Is 400 feet The tank yard occupied of this space feet In depth nnd extended from North Twelfth to North Thirteenth street foot tho tank yard a packing and brick house ran along tho upper tion of They wero separated from tho yard by a brick wall nearly feet thick and CO feet high Tho purpose In building this was to shut off lire from the und rooms In cuso of explosion among the tanks Yesterday It wus put to Just this test proving absurdly unequal to it for ns soon as tho Humes from tho first lank took to spreading themselves out Instead ot directly upward they leaped tho wall und sot lire to the packing shod won tilled with barrels and cans of oil as wus tho storage building although as that was new It hud not become as full as the shed Tho bulkhead ran out 50 or moro beyond these buildings Moored there yesterday wero a three-masted cr partly loaded with oil four bouts three scows full of coal and several canal The deck of the bulkhead like nil tlie woodwork thereabout was well caked with oil Thus when tho tiro touched the packing It mot conditions almost as as in tho tanks and without ping lo consume tho shed ran into storage and the wharf toward tho shipping Luckily two or three men were who cut tho ropes und let everything adrift nnd passing tuffs caught tho Doats as they out Ono canal bout failed to catch tho current und wu s necessarily left to Its destruction Tho lire within hall un hour of iu origin em- braced tho two naphtha tunko ino packing house nnd storage house the wharf und the boat Its surface urea was not less than 1100 loot lone by from 50 to 100 feet widening as It lei t tank yard A general alarm hnd been pout out engines and they woro rattling in from nil directions while Sloan nnd wero busy in tho stream pouring on the dock nnd the land wero devoting themselves to preventing a rush of lire toward thu main building ol tho oil company which runs Irom the edge of tho tunk yard back to about JOO feet and the width of tho block from North Twelfth to North Thirteenth street U was machinery for cooperage und tin cun This work was made comparatively easy by the direction of tho wind which was toward tho river although us from the first tho fT Humes themselves without much regard to anything but their own caprice Three or four limes during tho hour thoy blew toward the building so hot as to send tho ing from the roof nnd t put u stop to work from the shore side while almost as hot under an extra puff of darted over the of tho river sending tho to refuge Much concern felt by officers of tho company ns tho Homes grew In to the edge of tho tunk yard In this house was the apparatus oil In un emergency from tank to tank or discharging it altogether If need be Could tho oil from tanks nearest those been discharged at 1 o'clock tho lire have been kept within the bounds f on bed for it would hnd no oil near by to feed It It was hoped oven when tho protecting wall the packing house was vaulted that the pump house bo saved for this purpose But tho llames wero merciless Thoy took tho pump houee In their embrace and molted or mado otherwise useless the pumping apparatus so that if men could have stood the heat In tho house long enough to work they could have dono nothing By o'clock only the useless brick wall between tho tank yard and tho river Tho wharf with all upon it was burned to edge Tho second tank quickly followed Its lender In becoming red hot nnd was u shapeless bulging Ing a maddened live thing urid threatening everything combustible within its Influence Another element of danger then appeared from tho boiling oil which over- flowed tbo sinking tanks with each outburst nnd ran In burning streams over tho yard nnd toward the river and Creek Whether it from those streams or from tho ping was such n blinding dazzling rush of and smoke In tho air und all about tho third tank of barrels caught lire no ono could tell but while tho oil was tho nlr and on tho ground nnd tho moving landward to save tho bridge across Creek It burst its safety nnd the roar of Its und to tho of tho scene Borne of tho firemen were detached from tho main building to guard tho bridge Thoy took their lines of hose around nnd played Into water Tho on tho other side Tho Incongruity of turning tho hoso on n stream of water to prevent the spread of lire did not peal to risibilities just then for up the stream beyond the bridge woro representing millions of combustible property which awaited only contact with thu oil to make a blaze absolutely beyond control Tho burning oil was this place and nt this place only to human skill Inward as the boatH played upon It und toward midstream when from bridge was turned that way within n circular of perhaps 50 yards in diameter u tiny movable Island There no special developments from 2 until 4 o'clock The tanks kept on using selves uo ns lust as they could anu oil run 113 It hud started to do in u Dickering stream to the river lint nt 4 o'clock tho tank having burned out lla oil and to all tho misshaping influences nf crushed with n tremendous no MO tu ground second tank was superior In Illuminating und heating capacity to the as It wua in Ing capacity Thu oil scorned most to lift Itself from Ha bed to the bidding of thu which hurled themselves Into the air and shot red bolts in all For blocks sUy was thu It almost in lor thu 11 re rue n lo water In be grew red tu as thuro no water and it was so hot that as far as street 600 foet from tho flames tho rubber coata of firemen and spectators wore dried by it on tho toward tho flro while the rain poured unhindered aown tho side From dunk until midnight earlier scenes repented on a scale of Increasing tude Tank after tank yielded to tbo Inevitable until tho full dozen Ing out their contents from tho top Tbo Greatest Bight of tho entire conflagration was about 10 o'clock when tho tank revealed IU splendors In a blaze that ed tho river to tho New-York shore nnd tho shoro back to tho thick settlement of residences a half milo or more back in or burg seemed under tho ning glare und smoke and rolled ward over tho housetops nnd river was felt nt tho for tho gas works across North Tho stream of oil could no longer bo kept In course toward Creek but broko down tho dam of coal dust that tho workmen had raised nnd crossing North mado a big blaze of its own at tho river of tho ROS works Mr Moffatt was In the yard and n party of his clerks wero In tho office nt tho west und of the main building when tne overflow occurred windows wont up and men tumbled out of them almost aa quickly ns u I lush of oil Superintendent and his party in tho yard rushed nt full speed up tho yard nnd oven Chief had been summoned from this city curly In the evening to tuko charge of men sought refuge beyond thu broiling point The II re bouts wero helpless to check er- Blon of the oil stream or to assist in quenching or confining and tho could only let It have Its own way for 10 or 15 minutes while tho heat lasted Efforts at this time still directed to saving tho ing whose walls wore hot lo keeping the of oil from vetting up the crock for which purpose the bouts Standard nnd hud been lidded to tho force1 und to saving u half of In of the com- pany wus thrown Into crowd along North street by tho sudden discharge of one of tho lurgo retorta of tho uos company by which tho of block was filled with the smell of gus but there woro no further With this hirgo lank not loss than barrels of oil hud fallen under tho Humes all tho ducing works burned nnd tho rest of the company's plant was Jn Imminent Two tanks and the vast stretch of brick and the house hud nut been touched by flames n few minutes 10 Their safety depended upon the tion of the wind A number of tho said If the wind continued to blow westward all would bo well nnd the Humes Ing no more ground could bo gradually got un- der way seemed In a most blc condition when the wind quick its n of lightning turned eastward A cry went up Irom tho assembled crowd tho ness and of became parent to them Tho wholo mass of hissing flume tho of smoko which uad been floating toward tho river turned ns if by In the direction of tho untouched The crowd of people rushed back and tho men ran to Chief for Institutions Chief was taken by tho in tho wind Wo can't help tho dock Tho thing cannot bo helped now It burn itself Warn ono in tho neighborhood to look out for themselves the ran down thu dock The flames took possession of tho two untouched before ono could tho sudden change und it became dent to all thut tho vast stretch of brick offices nnd tho tin house which hud been regarded as of escape must go At liquor saloon No HZ North the excitement pre- A rushing Into nnd forcing his through tho gated at tho bar exclaimed to the waiters My orders to gl vo you ono hour to fret out of this saloon will be burned Have nnd tuko my A number of tho men rushed out Into tho ruin man behind the bur quickly collected und hold Himself In readiness to vacate ut u ment's notice The saloon wus insured that tho men In tno proprietor was absent In Stamford Conn took things in u or equanimity At 11 o'clock tho crowd denser rein had censed und the wholo neighborhood aroused saloon however the only house to which warning given it and the ncross Crcok there was no of any description whatsoever Tho streams of from the hoso were powerless us tho wind con- to blow eastward nnd the Humes In- creased In volume the blinding clouds of smoko spreading n thick pall In nil directions until nt lust It to see u yard in advance It was ascertained on very good authority tho loss of plant wua something moro than Tho Astral Oil Company Imd improvements nnd tho most expensive chinery All ila accessories were considered to bo the best In the country und no expense had been On authority it wus learned Unit tunk hud boon full to Its utmost The depression In trade had seriously the company und for homo time prist had been done Tho of ml nnd on tho premises moro ling lurge excitement existed among tho crowd us to the effect of an explosion from tho Company opposite It was stated tnat In view of tho Intense bout works In Imminent danger It is not said Superintendent of thut company though hu nevertheless remained In his until long after midnight Wo have our house nnd the for ing coal In this street They may go Wo holders the of the throe being feet Only tivo of arc tilled with gap und even If they aid Ig- nito It would boa suddon Hash und there would bo no danger ut all When wo of the condition of things we rnn us much gas into tho city as could Tho Gaslight Company supplies one third of lyn with gas Superintendent fluted that ho was going to his dinner yesterday ut with Foreman Merrill of tral Oil Company when no heard u loud noUo thunder It to otherwise than lhat un explosion hud occurred Tbo two men run buck as quickly us they could Tho find caught fire nnd the Humes were In progress Tho Company had a largo supply of hoso and firemen on tho premises and they wero Immediately sent out to tho ol the burning tunks Tho oil company was so well said Mr that It could huve grappled with n sum I tire As it Is however nil the king's horses und all won't help them Tho loss which the Ing Company had ut merely amounted to 51.000 which was by Iho burning of coal houses nnd The main were untouched though It wus doubtful If they would so A It was staled wus seriously Injured and was takon to St Hospital Tho members of the firm or Co arc Charles Pratt Henry H and and Charles M Pratt 1 have no of the amount of our enid Charles M tho Treasurer of tho Company last evening Our insurances uro comparatively small I no knowledge of what companies will suffer thu most until I examine our which uro safely stored In New-York To what causo do you attribute tho asked n TIMES reporter That Is Just what Is my brain nt this moment he answered Wo do no work of any sort on tho nnd tho only son usually who can bo found on the ises of u Sunday Is our wutchman lie H i very trustworthy man und I feel that It was through no of that official hat WHS The only cause that I can is through tho negligence of Gna Company Two or three times cry day the persons In charge of thu works them olf und It is possible thut tbo Humes ram tho iras works nuvo reached our I have always hnd a fear something of this sort would from their carelessness They of course work Sunday ind all legal I have every reason to that tho fault Hit with the nai At all events thut Is tho only plausible cause I can give nt present Did you havo much oil on ho uttered with a sigh thut la o moko very Wo have boon very busy und through trouble In tho shipments our stock on hand wus very large most of It was crude oil and two largo auks which aro generally empty wore full at ho time of the explosion Aff FAW Mass Dec At tho Catholic Church to-day there was con- disturbance for tho evident purpose of annoying who Is obnoxious to a largo number of tho but no acts violence committed A meeting wan to take further stops toward ngu fund to scud u to Homo to lay their before tho A PERIL A NIECE OF O Doc 21 Siator tho of tho orphan asylum attached tn St Mary's Church In thin city Is dangerously 111 and her recovery Is doubtful Bister Is a of O from last Monday where Mic was culled by the of FIRE STOPPING THE SERVICES IN A CHURCH THE IN CHRIST BROOKLYN QUIETLY DISPERSE THEY ARE BY SMOKE During tho morning service In Christ Church Protestant at and Clinton streets yesterday a flro broke out under tho vestibule of tho were enough cool heads In the con- to prevent n panic and gel everybody out of the church uninjured The usually numbers about but In consequence of tho inclement weather only about LXX persons In the ing Tho Hev Dr L W Bancroft Hector of tho church and Ills assistant Ilev J A wood were In tho chancel conducting the ices nnd liad scarcely tho tory part of tho morning prayer when a peculiar odor spread through the building and tho suspicion of Trustee L W White and who made nn Immediate of the cellar In the vicinity of tho Their fruitless however and they returned to of church the services had proceeded men and together luur finished ing thu Prayer und the choir had just begun to when some one of smoke ing from in tho tilo flooring of tho There was no outcry however no rushing for doors und the intimation the congregation nt had that something nix nit to happen was tho sudden hushing of organ nnd The organist Mr seeing n Him of smoke imping over tho of the little looking glass above Iho orirnu keyboard inferred that tho church wni on Immediately stopped playing directly over tho vestibule und smoke found ltd way theio before reaching the other of tho church Mr quietly communicated his to the of the choir and followed by them leisurely to main The sexton in the meantime hnd Informed the the Dr calmly stepped to rail with a ol thut had a fifed on hii told the lo us ns as tin church on lire congregation calmly us the Imd terminated In lho and proceeded to leave the church without Hurry and without contusion Tho only from the usual way of und children went out of the men As soon as tne Indices and out ol the building the men turned intention to the Some hurried nil to -.omul un others attached n to hydrant In tho street before the church und others water from the room from thu hose had been turned Into ono of registers In the when Chief Engineer Thomas Ni vim and several endues chief ut once sounded u and another ol engines toon after ar- rived Tho whole building by this tilled with smoke while firemen hewed at the to h tlie lire tne men of the with removing cushions und portable rty of the church to sale The lire Dually without more to the than de- struction several pews und a of the mg noir the The lire was caused by the overhauling of the pipe which came in contact with one of the wooden Ue ow the The to the building Tho of Christ Church was in und tho congregation Is not only ono if the oldest but ono of tin wealthiest in Tlic church which is of und one of the In tho city was built In ixi ut of It ifl freu from debt und insured for 1n New-York und Dr crott hits been itn Iti ctor for M A ing ot the Vestrymen was held after- noon und a was to hava the church In time loi the holding of services The lias been tendered nml lius accepted the use of tlie Churches TERRIFIC OF GAS SEVERAL AND AT LEAST PERSON KILLED Dec explosion of natural In force occurred at tbo corner of and Maiden about o'clock tins morning Jacob nnd Mr hla brother-in-law with their families occupied a brick at thu point named Mr und Mrs ened and thinking they burning paint proceeded to the lower rooms for tho of but discovering nothing wrong went buck to In u few minutes however they greeted with Iho went below this Inking u lighted them curried While pushing through one of the sho the lamp In front of Her Us us hur when n loud explosion The oil Hew all over Mrs Italic and in an WILS In tinmen Her bjp hlon A of here are nub fuel and It M that a valve tho malu line had loosened permitting largo ol RIIS to two or luot below the Tins Its way along service pipe the und luto the residence spoken ul >vith thu When It carnu in contact with the light in tho hunds of Miv a shock took place The entire brick front on Irom tne ground to the roof wua knocked out N MJt rooms besides completely wrecking the building On corner the iront of tbo lower stury was also torn out und tho adjoining building Mr and Mm Rube wore the street to L ufter u few hours of Mrs breathed her last Thu torture bo thut her lo kill hei Mr lay the Famo bed und It Is believed thut the sight ho witnessed In witli his wife's death will in Ins case a latal ono They leave two little daughters Penn Dec building on occupied liy II Studt as a store uus this by un explosion which terribly frightened the dents of thut part of the city damaged erty to the of A special to tho t Gazette Just re- the lino resilience of Sir John jutes entirely and thu family ol John lutea wife Tour dren all up were burled In the debris Fortunately Uio entire family wero rescued without d all oL wero more or seriously hurt A STRANDED Warde tho a week's nt thu Theatre on day evening company in such when It came hero the receipts of the week failed u erable cum to cr t lie ex There waa lot n money enough in the topay thu und Mr Warde paid sum duo out of bla lias been on the rond lor weeks tho boason In Detroit on h wits bud all Northwest und Southwest and when New-Orleans nus reached It be- came to reduce salaries Under this reduction struggled until Philadelphia The expenses hero huve und the receipts small and the company finds Itself ut a backer of what Mr terms the enterprise 18 Mr Wied a hardware manufacturer of N V lie Is reported lo bo but of is said from tho general In Mr Wardo und his company In awaiting to Mr he said and he has replied that hols unable to come to ut but has we will receive 11 lie money tu pay tbe that aie due on and to liquidate our wo will nt once continue our tour If Mr Weed Imi no Iho company will bo to j NAVAL Doc master W W of tlie navy Un Hoen Monroe I lun liorn to uf nu v3 j lua for Uie him bj
