ANOTHER STEAMER SUNK FHE CITY OF CHESTER GOES DOWN IN FIFTY FATHOMS OF WATER.,~ THIRTY-FOUR LIVES LOST, SAN FRANCISCO, Lal, Aug, 22,—0One of the wost terrible marine disasters that has ever occurred on the Pacific (Bast happened at about 10 A. M, to- day in the Bay of San Francisco, at a short distance from the Golden Gate. The steamer City of Chester left her dock at 9.30 and started on her regular trip to Eureka, on the northern coast of California. An unusually large pumber of passengers stood on her decks and waved adieu to friends on the wharf. The Chester steamed slowly down the bay, and when within two miles of the St. Heads encountered a thick fog. Captain Wallace began to blow his whistle to warn all vessels of his approach. The Chester proceeded cautiously on her course till off Port Point, when the hoarse sound of another whistle floated across the water. Captain Wallace answered the signal and gave proper warning to the stranger Lo pass on the port side, This was evidently not un. derstood, for in a moment those on board saw the huge prow of the Occl- dental and Oriental steamer Oceanic smerge from the fog. The Oceanic had just arrived from Hongkong and Yokohama and was moving up the bay to her dock. The huge steamer was so close to the Ches- ter that there was no possibility for the latter to escape. The cabin passengers were nearly all on deck and ibe captain seeing the danger, called to them to prepare for the shock. A panic ensued at once, particularly among the women and children, of whom there was a large pumber. The Oceanic struck the Chester on the port side, at the gangway, and the shock was terrific. Her prow cut into the Chester's upper works and then crushed down the bulwarks tearing the great timbers and iron plates and breaking into the staterooms and cabin. The wildest confusion prevailed among the passengers, who crowded together, some shrieking with fear and others praying for help. The bow of the Oceanic crushed into ter, cutting her almost into halves, and causing her to reel under the terrible blow. When the vessels were locked a number of the City of Chester's passen- gers were passed up to the Oceanic’s bow, and rescued in this way. she swung around, and immediately began to launch her boats, At the moment of the shock most of the officers and crew of the City of Chester seemed to - lose possessioa of thelr senses, and several passengers stated afterwards that some of the crew took the first opportunity to climb gers to cut away the boats, One of these was lowered as soon as possible and a number of passengers taken off. Others provided themselves with life preservers and jumped overboard, The greater portion, however, were com: pelled to remain on the steamer, which began to sink immediatelly after the collision. Torrents of water rushed into her hold, and in five minutes after the col- lision the City of Chester had disap- peared. She sank in 50 fathoms of water. Those of the passengers and crew who came to the surface were the greater number were drawn down by the rushing water and never ap- peared again, As soon as it was known that the collision had occurred, a number of tugs and boats of all de- scriptions went to the scene and ren. dered what service they could In pick- ing up the living and dead floating among the wreckage. The greatest loss of life is believed to have occurred among the steerage passengers, of whom there were 23 on board. Only two of these were ac- counted for late this afternoon. The others are regarded as lost, They were | on the lower deck of the steamer at the time of the collision, and there was no opportunity to warn them of dan- ger or render them assistance aller. wards, The cabin passengers numbered 70, and of these 10 are lost, NEWS OF THE WEEK. —At Wheeling, West Virginia, on the 21st, a storm raged with destruct. ive effect. On the evening of the 21st Wheeling Creek was a fool higher than ever before, and roads were flooded from two to six feet deep. Several bridges were carried away, and the water, gas and natural gas mains, pewers, telegraph and telephone wires were broken. The losses are estimated at $250,000. All trains have been or- dered abandoned on the Ohlo River steamers Oceanic from Hong Kong and Yokohama ran loto the steamer City of Chester in the Bay of San Francisco, off Port Point, on the morning of the 22d, during a thick fog, and cut her almost into halves. When the steamers were locked a number of the City of Chester's passengers were to Oceanic’sbow and res. ~The tower. i056 feet nigh, of the new Church of the Covenant, at Wash. ington, D. C., Rev. Pr. Hamlin, Fas tor, fell on the 22d, taking with it the entire front portion of the edifice. The damage is placed at from $10,000 to $20,000. The bullder sald the founda- tions of the tower were all right, but the trouble was the plers at the four ends or corners of the tower were too weak. The entire weight of the su- perstructuie was carried by arches on the plers, — While walling in a political pro- cession in Allentown, Penna., on the evening of the 22d, William Reimer fell dead in the ranks, Ie was a prominent citizen and a former County Treasurer. In Sargent's Bay, Lake Memphremagog, on the 22d, Willlam I. Hilton and Miss Mellie Archibald, of Montreal, were drowned. LEelr boat was capsizad, —A prominent grain shipper of St. Paul is quoted as saying the farmeis who had reported their wheat unin- jured by frost ‘‘were poasibly a toifle previous.” He had examined some frosted wheat just threshed, which then seemed all night, but after stand- ing a few hours the effect of the frost was apparent. The wheat injured by | frost was only found in spots, he said, | but by careless mixing of such wheat | with sound grain the value of the pro- ! duct of a much larger area would be affected, Oliver Dalrymple, the bon- anza farmer of Dakota, said on the 23d: “*Winter wheat has been greatly dam- aged by early frosts and the crop will be shurt. Farmers will do well to hold their wheat just as long as possible, for it will be worth 81 a bushel before long. There will be a short crop in Europe, and that with the deficiency here will make wheat go up to a high figure.” A dispatch from Aberdeen, Dakota, says: ‘The first car of new wheat for the season was shipped from this city ou the 224. It is graded No. 1 North- ern, and brought 07 cents per bushel, which is 13 cents above the price paid last year. The Galveston Nears published on the 23d colton crop reports from 141 points in 83 counties, covering the entire cotton-produciog section of the State, These indicate the condition of the crop to be about | the same as last year. Allowing for | the increased acreage and the super- | abundance of rain during the frst six | bales seems assured, with the possi. bility of an Increase of 25 per cent, fall favors the y late cotlon, again, and an open development of all i! | ~The Grand Lodpeof Pennsylvania, | Knizhts of DPrthias, In session | Wilkesbarre, on the evening of the 23d agreed to accept the terms of the Sapreme Lodg The State Lodge will | revise its by-ls and constitution in | accordance wi structions from the | Supreme Lodge. [le vole was 265 { for reconciliatiou thi the Sapreme | Lodge and 62 aga —A despatch from Pittsburg says | the estimate of tha loss by the storm was not exaggerated. It will reach $1,000.000, and may exceed that. The loss of Wheeling, including the dam- ! age to the Baltimore and Oblo system, is reported at $250,000; at Altoona, | Pa., including damage to Pennsylvania road, $250,000; Washington county, | $200,000; Westmorland county, £100. 000, and Indiana county, $100,000. | The damage at Pittsburg was confined to the flooding of houses and the slop. | Zanesville, Ohio, despatch says the lage by floods all over i county. Cincinnati Railway has a dozen wash | outs between Zanesville and Caldwell, | The loss to the railroad will amount to Washiogton | suffered serious damage. A large sec- | tion of New Orleans, west of Claiborne | street, is still submerged. The City Council op the 22a appropriated §5000 for the relief of destitute persons In the overflowed quarter, and the wealthy citizens are sending in contributions. Stormy weather continues, Near Monticello, Georgia, on the 224, during the meeting of a Baptist association, a desperate fight occurred between the Tyler and Malone families and their friends. Thirty shots were fired in less than one minute, James Malone and Sam Tyler wpre instantly killed. Ed Tyler was mortally and Walker Malone seriously wounded. Others were wounded but are out of the reach of the Sheriff, An old fam- ily fend caused the trouble. — During a fire in the engine room of the Whiting Paper Mill in Neenah, Wisconsin, at 12 o'clock on the night of the 224, a boiler, measuring 24 feet in length and 74 feet in diameter. ex- ploded, killing 14 men and injuring about the same number, ~Sixteen new cases of yellow fever have been reported at Jacksonville, Florida, since 6 o'clock on the evening of the 224. ‘I'here have been two deaths, Two deaths occurred on the 23d at Greenland, 10 miles from Jacksonville. ~H, H. Marshall, Postmaster at Bt. Clair, Schuylkill county, disappeared on the 21st, and an examination of his accounts by Post Office Inspectors shows a shortage of $1600. It is sup- posed that Marshall squandered the money in stock gambling. It is also charged that the missing Iostmaster forged the names of several business men Lo car:y on his stock speculations, He was the Treasurer of a number of lodges, and it is feared they will also suffer. Marshall's bondsmen have s made good the amount of his de’alea- + New 234. The rise stood at 48°, «Derle La Breque, a barber, declares womati scream murder why she did not give the alarm. Three men, supposed to be the murderers of the wife of Major Howes, who was shot on the 10th, while canoeing on the Toblque river, were captured on the river on the 21st, and taken to jail at Andover, New Brunswick. A despatch from Springfield, Missourl, says that Captain Nat Kinney, the famous chief and founder of the Bald Knob- bers’ organization, was shot and instantly killed at Ozark, on the 20th, by Bill* Miles, an anti Bald Knobber. Miles escaped. The man who was mysteriously killed on the afternoon of the 20th, in Park Row, New York, was identified on the 21st by two Itallans as a countryman, Fer, dinana Serganidi, 44 years old. The man Manning, arrested on suspicion was examined by the Coroner on the 21st, The newsboy who caught a glimpse of the supposed murdeter on the 20th, could not identify Manning, and the latter declared he never carried a pistol, He was remanded. The case may prove to be a suicide. While preparations were in progress for Whe marriage of the youngest daughter of Michael Willem, in Cincinnati, on the 21st, another daughter of Mr, Willem, who, a despatch says, grieved because she feared she was doomed to live the life of an old maid, cut her throat and died instantly, The wedding was not postponed. ~Two tornadoes swept over New Castle county, Delaware, on the even- ing of the 21st, One person was killed and twenty-four injured, four, 1t is feared, fatally. The damage to prop- erty is estimated at $150,000. At still Pond, Maryland, the large frame build- ing occupied as a canning establish ment by Black & Krebs was demolished. About 100 men and women were at work, and in thelr efforts to escape nine were killed and a number injured, three dangerously. The storm demol- ished many houses and barns and swept clean all the orchards in the vicinity. At Pittsburg the lowlands are sub- merged. Reports from adjoining dis- scarcely be estimated, At McKeesport are closed on account of the on the 224 at Lewisburg, Norlh himself, Gid. Nicholson of North Carolina, committed hanging > alelad Raleigh, —J. W. Leweling, who Is digging an the Stonewall Summer Resort Com. pany from the Maxwell grant, near Trinidad, Colorado, was notified by the settders that he should not prosecute the work. Leweling sant to Trinidad for arms and ammunition, and will dis. regard the threats against his life, E. Stonewall, but who occupies a ranch under a lease from the grant company, wrote a letter to Sheriff Burns at Trini- wife during Randolph's absence from be hanged unless they once, ‘The Sherifi bas sent special keep the peace. Ejecment suils are being prepared against 77 settlers, The imminent —A despatch from Saratoga, New son, of Philadelphia, and his family Mr. Wilson was badly hurt and the At the State Camp of the New Jersey National Guard, at Sea Girt on the 24th, Peter Kneip, loader of gun No. 3, of the gun detachment of the Third Regiment, mistook an order, and opened the breech of the gun just as the piece was discharged. The load blew out, injuring Kneip so badly that he died in a short time. Another gunner, named Fuller, was severely injured, —While track repairers were at work on the 24th, under the Broudway rail- road bridge, at Olneyville, Rhode Island, their attention was atiracted Ly a noise in a freight car side-tracked pear by. In the car was found a man about 30 years old wasted away almost to a skeleton. He said he boarded the train in Chicago seven days ago to ride to the seaboard. The car, a Chicago and Atlante one, was drawn in at Olneyville four days ago. When asked if ie wanted food, he feebly answered: “No, I've been hungry too long.” The car contalned miscellaneous freight and Le expected that it would be promptly opened when It arrived at its destina- tion. «Henry Schmidt, Jacob Hubruge and Louis Werne were drowned at Bay City, Michigan, on the 24th, by the capsizing of their boat, Two sons of J. W. Bailie, of McKeesport, Penna., aged ten and eleven years, were drowned on the 231 while bathing sear Pittsburg, Mrs. Daniel Pennington was thrown from her carriage, which collided with a stump at Chicago, on the evening of the 23d, and she was ins. antly killed, Charles Mayor made an ascénsion In a hot-air balloon, on the evening of the 284, near Kenton, Hlinois, came down in a forest, and, grasping the itmb of a tree, let go of the balloon. The Jimb broke and Mayor fell 75 feet, receiving probably fatal injuries. ~The loss to Washington county Penna., by the recent storm as footed i by the Commissioners, is $150 000. ifty were away. of face, and the others were wounded in the back and arm. 50th CONGRESS. —First Session BENATE. In the U. 8. Senate on the 21st, almost immediately after the reading of the Journal, the Senate went into open executive session on the Fisheries Treaty, and Mr, Morgan proceeded with his speesh in favor of ratification. At the close of Mr. Morgan's speech the benate proceeded to vote on the Fisheries Treaty, the fiest vote being taken on Mr, Gibson’s motion, looking either to amendment of the treaty or to arbitration. It was rejected by a strict party vote— yeas (Democrats), 20; nays (Republicans), 81. The next vote was an amendment offered by Mr, Gray to Article II, providing that on all occasions facilities shall be ac- corded to United States fishing vessels in Canadian ports for the purehase of casual or needful provisions and sup- plies, It was rejected bya like party vote, yeas, 28; nays, 30. The next vote was on the resolution of ratifica- tion—requiring a two-thirds majority. The resolution was rejected by a like party vote—yeas, 27; nays, 50. A number of reports from committees were then made, including one by Mr. Harris from the Committee on Epi demic Diseases to appropriate $200,000 for the suppression of yellow fever, The House amendment to the Chinese Prohiqition hill was concurred In, and the bill now goes to the President. The conference report on the Naval Appropriation bill was agreed to, All the pension bills on the calendar were passed. In the U, 8. Senate on the 224, Mr, Reagan introduced a bill to define trusts and to provide for the punish- ment of persons connected with them, it being a substitute for his former bill on the same subject. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The bill sons fection in the Inter-State commerce of | the United States was discussed at some length, and, after being amended, was passed, Mr. Chandier called up | his resolution heretofore offered in re- | Lousiana election, apd made dress upon the subject, | cluding his speech, Mr. yielded the floor for a metiou ad journ, which was adopted. N, In the LU. { resolution making the daily hour of | meeting 12 o'clock was adopted, | gan on Wednesday for the invesliga- tion of the last | The resolution was ! action, the resident respecting the fisheries | question and laid over, after which the Senate adjourned, In the United 24th the message from the President on be subject of the | eries Treaty was read, Louisiana laid aside without Mr. the matter went over without The conference report on the sage action, New York tt} th ier's warehouse in agreed to, after which journed, novsae In the House on the 2ist Hooker introduced a bill changing the | time for the assembling of Congress to | the first Monday in December. It was The House then went into Commiltee | Pending the conclusion of Mr. Dibble’s | remarks the committee rose and Lhe { House proceeded, as Lhe special order, to the consideration of resolutions ac- | eepting, on behalf of Congress, statues of Ricberd Stockton and Philip Kear ney. The resolutions were adopted and the House resumed, in Committee of the Whole, the conmderation of the Deficiency blll, and, pending discus- sion, adjourned, In the House on the 224, Mr, Towns- hend prescmted the conference report upon the Army Appropriation bill, con- sideration of which was postponed, Mr. Herbert then presented the conference report on the Naval Approprian Uill, which was agreed to without division. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Deficiency Ap- propriation bill, Mr, Durnes raised a point of order upon the paragraph of the French Spoliation Claim Section, and, pending a decision, the commit tes rose and the Houss adjourned. In the House on the 23d, a joint resolution, offered by Mr, Crain, au- thoriaing the President to veto specific items In appropriation bills was re. ferred. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Deli clency Appropriation bill. The com- mittee rose and a message from the President, relative to the fisheries, was Jresquted, The speaker referred the ocument to the Committee on For- eign Affairs, Mr, Wilson offered a bill, which was referred to the same come mittes, entiled “An act to empower the President more effectually to carry out the purposes of an act entitled ‘An wet to authorize the President to pro- tect and defend the rights of Ameri can fishermen, American trading and other vessels in cases and for other purposes’ There being no quorum present, the House then ad- ourned, RS on — A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. The Eruption of a Japanese Volcano and its Results. Kews of an awful and destructive catastrophe has just been received, In the province of Tukushima, near the city of Wakamastu, about 165 miles north of Tokio, a terrible and most cal- amitous eruption of the apparently ex- tinct Bandai-san volcano bas taken place, resulting in the burial under volcanic mud and rocks and ashes of a region of about 75 square niles, and causing more or less damage and de- vastation within an area extending over more than 670 square miles, It was on July 15. The morning was un- usually Lot and sultry, At this season of the year peasants from the adjacent regions frequent for the purpose of health and recreation the little moun- tain hamlet of Iwase and its three hot springs, which are, besides a few weath- er-beaten and partly decomposed scoria- ceous rocks cropping out on the sur- face, the only indications of the vol- been quiescent for about a thousand filled up long ago by the slow processes of nature. There was no ground for apprehension of any kind, and a few earthquake shocks, days previous to the eruption, present Earthquake shocks and seismic tremors are cominon throughout Japan, Some of the people were quietly enjoying the hot baths on the slope of the moun- tains, others conversed with the visitors that had come from a distance, while a majority were lying on their mats, talk- ing, Old Bandal-san presented bis usual appearance, and nature herself, dreamy and drowsy, seemed about to fall into slumber. Suddenly, a few minutes past 8 o'clock, a low rumbling was heard like the sound of distant thunder, actually believed to be such by some, but before undulating like water shaken in a bowl From then shot the up jolo the a4 cannon s GOOCH TEL «1 TE fogs 44% £ wu ACCOMPAnIGN UY A LOBE a5 Os & thunder-storms combined, a < y g 1 tiie of red Cali ¥ Yurill + ex Vg wd brilliant canop ts fall, cover willl 4 DIS ' sheet of voleanic mud, and glowing from seven 1, WoImer last agonies, 41 150 Visit s found ars to the hot sp from sickness and disease, a fatal circle, described by a ; of five miles around the n £ san 31 iy fia faiags og ¥ oS few people were abie 10 escape un- at beyond that di i Fay ruwy 8 Or i0JUNeG, el cure Within ANE” # sa $4 0% Baal Dense ével ns were kill i covered ile constantly 1 wks increased fugitives, Once in every quake shi the trembling dirt y $a ¢ 1} stark naked and ashy pale, ran at fell terror; a from few, ders: women fainted and exhaustion ¢ A ana and stones, hopped or old, were torn from the ground and thrown upward, whilesulphurous flames burst forth between their crackling roots, presenting to the wild and excit- ed imagination of the people the spec- So similar experiences; in fact, nobody was likely, under such circumstances, to it~ quire into what was the matter. Thus far 476 bodies have been recovered. The dismal records speak of fractured skulls, of broken limbs, of faces and bodies battered beyond recognition, of bodies literally ent into halves or quar- ters, or into still smaller pieces, of bodies actually parboiled by the seeth- ing water that fell upon the unsuspects ing victims of the eruption. Dome bodies were found suspended from the trees into which they had fallen when descending from the air. Harrowing details thers are many, but one Case, sad and dismal enough, must suffice. A mother with her child tied to ber back stumbled onward, in hot haste, under a storm of glowing ashes, burn ing cinders and falling rocks. A large red-hot stone struck the child and be- spattered the mother with blood with- out, however, harmning her, Holding fast, with a desperate grasp, the red burden on her back, the mother suc- ceeded in reaching Wakamatsu, but only to find that her child was dead. The damage done to life and property | is not yel exactly known, but itis ap- palling. The emperor at o1 contri buted three thousand ven for the re- lief of the suffering pe dis~ patched a special comin to the afflicted region. Through the prompt | initiative of Captain Brinkley, of “The Japan Mail,”’ money to be forwarded to the distressed district is now being rapidly collected among the foreign resi- dents herc and Yokohama, The vernacular press is also doing is duty in this direction. The police and local authorities at Wakamatsu have already | taken steps to provide for the destitule, some of whom have in very truth saved nothing but their naked life. i in Fon— WITH BLIND EYES. How an Old Soldier Sces an Incident of the Battle of Gettysburg. lecently an old man with silvery hair was led into the Cyclorama of | Gettysburg In New York, by a bright- in a jaunty Lat and | dress and sat down while she described to him the teatures of picture in detall, occasionally askivg her a ques- tion or shaking his } slowly as if in doubt of the accuracy of ber account, she had described to him in ber own { way the on rush of Pickell’s men and { the hand-to-hand conflict at the stone fence where the Pennsvivania veterans charge of U Southerners, when he asked, “But where's the ar- tillery, Mag?” “Oh, you mean the big guns. They're 4 Vilts the ie ‘All in a row?” he asked. ““Yes,’' she replied. He shook his head. gald he, “There must that are not in line,’ “Yes ' she said, “there are some | down here that are all upsat and seem to be broken. 1 think they are | bursted.” *Is that where the men over the stone wall?” ““Yes, grandpa.” “Is there a grove of trees?’ “Yes, grandpa. Ii seems to be fall of men, but the smoke is so thick you can nol ses them.” “Oh, I can see them,” be cried. It was then noticed by several peopie | who were listening to him that he was | blind. The little girl said, “Ub, no, grandpa; you can’t see them.’ “Yes | can,” Le answered, “Ican | see them very well, and the broken | cannon, 100.” The child looked at him with cent surprise as she said, “*You joking now.” “No, my dear,” replied the old man. | “No. That was the last time I ever | saw on earth. There was a caisson ex- | ploded there just this side of that fence, | and that was the last termible picture I | ever saw, for it was then I lost my eye- | sight, and 1 have never got the picture | of 1t out of my head.” “Look around,” be some more are coming inno- are tacle of weird-looking suakes, hissing | ———— He Got a Bad Fiver. At 10 o'clock the scene had reached “Ha! hal” by jove, you know!” he quake shocks did not cease until 41g Tiastroit. the other o o'clock in the afternoon. The land- | Stutacn. | on a you Anow.t> a scape then presented a piteous aspect. | “How?” asked ihe sergeant. Within a distance of five miles around | « was going along a street up bere, the mountain trees and shrubs as well | by jovel when a chap run into me with as all the tea and rice plants—the en- | oo force as to knock me down, you tire crop of the year—had been destroy- | ynew, He insisted on paying me dam- ed. Forty-four houses were found ages by Jove." buried to a depth of 20 feet, aud many | y more were covered to a less depth. Strange to say, few or no small stones | were found among the debris; heavy rocks seem 10 have been numerous; one of them is said to measure 8 feel in length. The village of Iwase seems to have suffered most, then Yozan and Hibara. Three hamlets near the latter place were covered completely. Nota soul was saved, At Hibara itself, the river Nagase was blocked up by falling debris, apd by the sudden tise of a pataral bank, 400 feet high and several miles long, across the river's course, obstructing the flow of its waters. Un- jess the imprisoned river is promptly liberated the entire region will be flood. ed and a lake furmed where once fine rice fields stood, At Inawashiro and in its neighborhood the people, though not in danger, escaped, at the time of the eruption, with all their furniture, as though a military invasion had taken he people state that the noise ‘What damages?” “To my plug bat, by jove!l It rolled in the dust, you know. [He sisted lon paying me a dollar, and rather | than burt his feelings 1 accepted, He gave me a fiver, and I returned him the change. “Well?” “Well, bere’s the fiver, and it's a dead broken bank. by jowvel Took It into four places, but it’s no go. The chap put up the job on me, by jovel and 1'm four cases out of pocket, you kpow. Hal ba! but I must be green, by jove— green, indeed. What would you advise me to do, by jove?” A Curious Phenomenon, Advices from the fshing village of Kerschkaranza, in the Kola peninsula, on the White sea, state, according to Nature that on Jan. 5 a curious and de- structive occurred there. At 4 a. m, the inhabitants were awak- ened bya peculiar, dull, heavy inton- ation like that of distant artillery
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