Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1859 — A Terrible Explosion. [ARTICLE]

A Terrible Explosion.

A terrible catastrophe happened on the i afternoon of the 2d inst., at No. 106 Goerick ) street, New York. About four o’clock a , steam boiler located on the premises alluded j to, which were occupied by John Roach as a foundery, exploded, completely demolish- | ing the building and burying all the hands I employed—fourteen in number—in the ruins. By some fortunate circumstance but i one man, named John Shaw; was killed, : while five others were more or-less injured. ' The names of those inju ed are John Stew- ) art, Edward Roach, Edward Petrie, Win. I Bernard and James Taft’el. The concussion i cau ed by the explosion was felt for a con- ! sidernble distance, and the people in the vi- ! cinity were much excited. i severe conflagratior. is reported from Europe. The town oi Kiosterlein Bohemia was almost whoely consumed on the 23d of Juiy; one hundred and sixty five houses were I burned, and several persons lost their lives; only a tew buildings reinrintd unbun.ed; ) and ne thousand persons were deprived ot shelter, food and clolhii g. All efforts to ' extinguish the flames were useless, in c<oi- ! sequence of tiie high wind, the nirr->wness I of the streets, ..nd the circumstance th it so i many ot the houses were built of wood; beI side which, several of the fire engines, which i had been brought too near the confl l grat:on r were obliged to be abandoned, and were i consumed. i Couldn't Get the "SiMNDULrcK ”—A—merchant in New York who held a clain of ! long standing against a Western customer. ! heard recently that the debtor was in good I circumstances again, and sent his claim to u I Western lawyer for collection In due time ) lie received a reply which effectually dashed ) any hope he might have entertained of re- ' ceiving the money. It ran this wise: “Sir: You will never get -my spondulick from Bill Johnson. Tiie undersigned called upon him i yesterday, and found him with nary tile; his | feet upon the naked earth; and not clothes ; enough to wad a gun." We call that an ex- - pressive simile. | ~— British Columbia.—Advices from Van--1 couver’s Island to the 15lh ult., state that .General Harney, on the 9th, ordered four artillery companies from Fort Washington to reinforce Captain Picke t, who stilf occupied San Juan unmolested. Governor Douglas had issued his protest against it, and sent a message to Vancouver’s Island’ Assembly, declaring that the British should land at San Juan. It was rumored at San J rancisco before the last steamer left, that the British steamer SaUelite had attacked the Island and killed thirty Americans. ! 00-The comparative esteem of the South- - ern aristocracy for poor white peopl‘d and negroes is illustrated by the remarks of a Lousiana paper in recording the death by lightning of “two likely negro men:’’ “The electric fluid of the clouds seems to be no respecter of persons. It would as soon kill a negro worth fifteen hundred or two thousand do.lars as a‘poor white man’not worth, the powder and lead it would take to ‘blow his brains out.’ ” J-Courtenay,Deputy Uniied States Marshal of the District of Texas, was killed on the Ist inst., in the town of Birdville, i n that State, by Col. A. G. Walker, editor of the Birdville Union. The immediate cause of the difficulty was the result of a political discussion, but there had been an old quarrel between them. Col. Walker was held to bail. A man named Reed was stabbed and almost instantly killed last Sunday night, at a G rinan bull, at a town called Prairie City, in Madison county, 111. He created some' disturbance at the ball, and a cry was raised to “put him out ’’ He was put out, but put out a corpse. No clue to the murderer bai been obtained. (0"Bla -kwood says Louis Napoleon, under the garb of generosity and moderation, has driven the wedge into Europe, nnd ia n .w in a position to split up its States as he desires. ' 1 ~pr writer says witnessing Blondin walk his tight rope is almost as good as seeing a man hung.