Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — Page 7

The Brooklyn Disaster—Digging for Bodies.

Tbewoikof th# flrttday after the terribie cajaiuily of Tuesday night was coatined al moat exclusively to fembvlng the great pile ol deadirem the cellar of the vestibule. In this part of the work the ijoor victims lay packed' together so closely that comparatively little digging was requliW until the pile was pretty well removed. Ashes and cinders had sifted down uftbn as with a pall. A"tew beatam-mfd timbers lay on thb top, these were removed to one side, and the mining out ofuhe corpses weaken. one tak a out of that fatal cellar iMMiody •fta wwnan in the. early morWng. She wws found ahitost standing against the wall on the right hand side just inside the inner vestibule doors. From that time until evening, there was a constant succession of charred and fire scorched bodies taken out inevery, conceivable forpi d< distortion atadtwisting, liladkendu land Uurned by foe fiery breath ol the fmmfes until nearly all 'resemblance to humanity was burned out of them. Some were calcined to mere cinders. 1 w...

It was" terrible work upon the nerves as well as the muscles of the men engaged. Strong men who were accustomed to terrible sightetilpfcd nw»y from that awful pit in horttft findrirtiddering. NbarlyW) poor human beings but a few hours before had crowded the doors of the fatal gallery with happy hearts and expectant faces, intent upon thd scenes of the mimic life that passed before their eyfes upon the stage. Little did they think that ere the night had reachttLits noon they wpuld be actors tn a dram£other lhari sod one that met their eym upon the stage. Slowly, yet all too <he hand of. the flock crept on toward the close of the play, and doubtless the thoughts of very many turned homeward as they settled themselves to witness foe last act A last act it was indeed to very many of them. The drama of their livej-was drawing to a close, and soon would end in utter blackness and horror and agony. About 400 persons purchased tickets for the eallery on that fataL night, and of that number only about one quarter escaped with life. The rest, old and young, male and female, the stripling boy ami the strong, broadshouldered man, went down in that fiery crater that leaped around them as, with the instinct of self-preservation, they madly rushed ion foe stairs. Let us hope that they were at once suffocated when the volumes of blaclkMaoke struck them, for if such were theSjWe they were saved from the terrible aJM of bgjjtg burned dive. One man tell<<sttji?rof how, after the roof and street fell, he saw away üßi&fthe peak a poor wretch clingingtp jn*MMl of the window. As the' horror struck, the limhrfroifoajHrure seemed to contract and draw thefoSlves together, and then the grasp loohejfcd, and the poor wretch went whirlinrffoiwn into the deadly jaws of the leapingjtames. It was' a sight to be remembenSHnr a lifetime. The posltlMof foe pile of bodies showed that yßy were massed on the stairs and lajKigs, lying apparently in heaps, until timbers burned and the weight carriedFjhem into the cellar beneath througMße lower floor of the vestibule. The goffer portion lay between the inner dodjaand the center of the lobby. SonyMbre scattered beydtad, and the last one 4Knl in the cellar under the lobby was axfayjat the further end where the toilet-roomsiwere located. Doubtless it was some par wretch who crawled out to that end ot . foe gallery in the hope of reaching sonffiyndows of exit in that direction. In exhumMjV the bodies the greatest care was used.jlpd they were handled as tenderly They were not dragged rodejm- from the pile, but the material was removed, and they weft carefully lifted into the boxes in waffijg and decently covered with a blaqMti to shield them from the eyes of.foe gfipyig crowd outside. The poor vbwielMFuw humanity were dealt with as carefcllyns possible. After the work-ts f clearing out the vestibule was IfofopleUid, the men turned their attentiJH for.the remains of Claw Burroffifos and Harry S. Murdoch. Bat it was now dark, and the necessary liSrwas afforded by the means of two brilliant calcium lights, which shed a weird- *nd lurid’mare over the scene. Cknids of smoke still arose from some parts of the ruins, principally near < the. stage, blown hither and thither ny’the night wind, sometimes shrouding the workmen from view, and »then again blown away altogether. Through the smoke their lanterns gleamed with red and fitful gl&re, overhead the calm Stars looked down upon the scene of woe, and around towered the blackened And crumbling walls of the* ruined building. It was a weird scene,’ and the terrible work of the toilers made foe spectacle doubly impressive. The dressing-rooms of the two aetors were in the same location as the directors’ box—on foe right-hand side. One was above and one below the box. The site of thia quarter of the theatre Svas covered with mounds of ashes and brickwork. The site of the dressing-room was locate 4, foe unfortunate young men were last seep in that neighborhood. It was thought that if found, it would be in that quarter., .Tha surmjse proved terribly correct.’, At about tea O'clock the first fragments were found, and in about an hour the body of Mr. Burroughs was discovered. After their bodies were removed from under the mass of brickwork, the workmen went back to the other end of foe aucntoriuin and began foe search amopg the debris for other remains. They did not go over much ground, but, in foe corner near foe Washington street entrance, foe bodies of two women and a child were found, near together. This was about three o’clock on Wednesday morning. Nothing further was found before daylight, when foe men stopped work. During fofttiext forenoon no work was done in tlwruips. The firemen were utterly woHohk with'foeir exertions and needed rest. Accordingly Chief Nevins made arrangements io have a gang of men outside ready for work at one o’ dock, and they acoordingly -began at that time. Although foe auditorium had already been searched over, it was determined to go over foe entirg interior' again and then find out. for,*, certainty whether there were any more unfortunates in foe ruins. The vestibule, had ppea thoroughly searched already mid work wu therefore commenced against the party wall in the tha men working toward the stage across foe-whole -width of foe auditorium- I . 7 .b r - - j.. . They worked steadily but slowly. While one portion removed the riveted rods of iron, burned timbers and masses of brickwork ottfc of foe way, the others, provided with shovels, careftilly. turned over foe ashes and debris shovelful at a

time,, keeping a strict watch for valuables or artioiee- of personal property -or any signs of human remains. Very many small articles were found, and fragments of clothing also; but the only bodies discovered were ones on foe side toward foe alley. There, under the parquet, about on foe curve (had foe seats been there), two or three remains were found. The last one was apparently the body of a woman. Nothing was left but the trunk, head and stumps of the lower limbs. All day long foe workmen shoveled away, throwing the ashes behind them as fast as they were searched over. The iron work was broken up and carried out of foe cellar and thrown in a pile on foe other side of foe alley. By nightfall yesterday they had got beyond the low wall that formed the front of foe stage, and into the piles of brickwork that felt from foe outside walls. Not many articles were found during foe day, some fragments of stage dresses and little matters lost in the stampede of foe crowd when foe fire broke out. Aside from taking out the large fragments of iron-work and pieces of timber, none of the debris was taken out of the building. It was cleared away down to the cellar floor, but the workmen threw- it behind them in their progress toward the stage. Eagle, Dec. 9.

The Proposed Conversion of the Sahara Desert into a Sea.

The proposed piercing of the Istumus of Suez ana the scheme of reconverting the Sahara into a sea has induced Dr. Rcclam, the well-known advocate of cremation,to write a warning article in his periodical, celled Gesundheit (“ Health.”) He points to a remarkable change in the climate of the Torres Straits, between Australia and New Guinea, which in 1606 were only beset by twenty-six coral islands, now augmented to 160. The gradual deviation of a warm current of sea water, owing to this successive stopping up of foe Torres passage, has already wrought a great alteration of the climate in those quarters. Dr. Roclam apprehends a similar danger for the European, and especially the German, climate from the deviation of the Gulf Stream after piercing the Isthmus of Suez. He says Europe owes its moderate climate partly to foe warm-water heating by the Gulf Stream, partly to the hot-air boating by the wind from the African desert. That hot wind, known in Switzerland as foe Fohn, is a snow-de-vourer and glacier-destroyer. Wifoout.it, the sun and the summer would not suffice to stop the progress of glacier formation. The ice-period of Europe explains itself by assuming that the Sahara was then covered with sea-water. The ice-period would return if the Detert were reconverted into a lake. Dr. Reclam, who is a friend of Fire, has decidedly an objection to the extension of the domain of Water. —London Examiner.

Hang Up Your Barn Lamp.

Don’t ever stand your barn lamp on foe floor or any other place where it will be liable to get turned over while the wick is lighted. Whenever we enter foe barn with a lighted lamp it is hung on a strong nail at one end of the feeding room, so that foe light will shine to the further end. When the lamp is hanging at that point one can see to cut fodder with foe hay-cutter, pump water for the live stock, mix feed, fill the racks or anything else that is to be done in the feeding apartment without any danger of turning foe lamp over. The barn lamp is never set down. When we go into the stable to milk the cow, to litter the floor, to groom the animals, the first thing is to hang foe lamp on a nail which has been driven into some post or joist or beam on purpose for the lamp. No other article is ever hung on the nails where the lamp is to be hung. If it is necessary to go on the mow to pitch down hay or other fodder the lamp is always secured on an appropriate nail before a forkful of hay is lifted. By such an orderly arrangement ore can always rely on foe light which the lamp will shed around him, and he will always feel assured that the building will not lie set on fire. Many a large barn has been burned to ashes simply because the lamp was not hung up on a nail where it could not be turned over. We have seen farmers move about in their barns with a lighted candle in one hand, which was set down here and there at places where it was liable to be turned over and to set hay on Are. One cannot be too careful when carrying a lighted candle or lamp where there are shavings, hay, straw, or other dry, combustible material. If a lamp must be taken into the stable or barn let large nails be driven into the timber so that heedless employes can have no excuse for setting a barn-lamp down.— N. Y. Herald.

Fattening Cattle.

The Journal of Chemistry, in discussing foe question from a scientific standpoint, says that poor animals consist of about two-thirds water, while fat ones only tone-half, in the total weight, and compares poor animals to bog meadows. It adds that when the fattening process begins, water commences to disappear, and fat or suet takes its place; ana the increase in bulk during the process is largely of adipose matter. It is a curious circumstance that, during the fattening, the proteids, or nitrogenous compounds, increase only about seven per cent., and the bone qaateriul, or inorganic substance, only one and a half per cent. ' The cost to a fanner of fattening an ox is much greater at the close of foe process than at the commencement; that is, increase in bulk or dry weight at that period is much more costly. . If it costs three cents a pound for bulk for the first month after a poor animal is put in the fattening stall, it will cost five cents foe last month. If, then, a farmer consults his mopey interests, he will not carry foe increase in fat beyond a certain" point, provided he can turn his partially fattened animals to fair advantage. Farmers have, perhaps, learned this fact from experience and observation, and hence comparatively lean beef abounds in our. markets. While this is of advantage to the fanner, it is very disadvantageous to consumers of foe bet f, for the flesh of a fat animal in every case is much richer in fixed, nourishing material than that of the lean, and it is never good economy to purchase lean beef. It is better to purchase the poorest part of a fat animal than the best of a lean one. The best part of a fat ox (the loin) contains from twenty-one to twenty-eight per cent, more fixed material than’the corresponding piece in a lean one, and curiously enough the worst piece in foe lean animal (foe neck) is the richest in nourishing material. The flesh of foe neck improves very little in fattening, hence, economy considered, it is foe best portion to purchase, as its value is in a measure a fixed one.— N. Y. Observer. —Two Pittsburghers have just died from handling a mattress from a house where there bad been smaU-pex.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Every farmer can have a hitching post, safe and secure for a team and also a scraper to clean foe feet. A neglect of these are an index of character, and all men should so regard it. ■'—Any farmer can build a wood-house, and foe saving in time and quality of weed, will pay for foe lumber in one year. It is a convenient place to spend a wet day or be protected from foe storms of > winter. —To Bees-wax Leaves.—First press all leaves .between books or paper till perfectly dry; then iron them on several thicknesses nt brown paper with a moderately hot iron.touching the bees-wax once for every leaf; iron first on the right side, then on foe other, and spread on a table to dry, not letting them touch each other. —Boiled Apple Dumplings. —Take nine ripe sour apples, peel and core them; make a dough of one quart of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking-pewder, one teaspoonful of salt, one-half coflee-cup of lard, enough lard to make a soft-dough; roll and cut in nine pieces, cook your apples, stick them with a fork, bake, boil, or steam them.

—For Christmas cake three cups light bread sponge, two cups sugar, one cup butter, three eggs, one-third cup of milk in which is dissolved one teaspoonful of soda, two cups currants, one cup chopped raisins, one-quarter pound sliced citron. Mix with the hands, thoroughly. Raise till light, and bake in a moderate oven slowly. There should be no flour added. This is the style of half a century ago, but will be found very good, and compare well with the newer kinds of cake. —Molasses Pound Cake —Rub together one-half pound of butter (or butter and lard mixed), half pound of brown sugar, fourtabiespoonfulsof ginger, one of cinnamon, one-hall teaspoonful of cloves, a pinch of mace, one-half nutmeg grated, and the grated rind of a lemon and the juice; add 8 pint of molasses; beat up well • sift one pound and a half of prepared flour, into which you have put a full teaspoonful of baking powder; beat five eggs very light; stir foe flour and eggs ana one small half cup of milk alternately and gradually into foe other ingredients ; bake at once. —When so many find it difficult to make a mere sufficiency for life’s support, it seems unaccountable that the pleasant and profitable business of poultry raising should be seldom or never resorted to for the purpose of gaining a livelihood, and establishing a paying and permanent business, while an eager, struggling crowd are jostling each other in every other avenue of industry, n» matter how difficult or how meager and uncertain the remuneration promised. Poultry raising for profit is a light employment, requiring no particular adaptability, and but a modicum of real work, with, of course, that regular and ceaseless attention which must be given to any business to insure success, and it pays from foe day of investment. The one secret of success is thoroughness. The chickens must be well and regularly fed with a variety of good food and fresh water. The coops must be kept clean and well ventilated, and the chicks must have more or less room in which to exercise, and, to reap the fullest measure of success, must have comfortable, sheltered and sunny winter quarters.— Poultry Nation. Pan-cakes or Griddle-cakes. —Take as many tablespoonfuls of flour as there are eggs to be used. Beat the eggs (yelks and whites separately), then stir in the flour till smooth; add enough sweet, rich milk to make the eggs ana flour into a thin batter, and a little salt. Grease the pan or griddle, when quite hot, with butter or sweet lard. Stir it briskly to prevent its scorching. Drop in the batter quickly for small round cakes. Turn the cakes as soon as nicely browned, taking great care not to scorch them. When both sides are browned, fold them over, putting sugar or Itoney and butter between. Some think a little nutmeg or cinnamon an improvement. — Christian Union. The present Vermont Legislature is made up very largely of farmers, there being 138 out of the 236 members. .Of the remainder eighteen are merchants, seventeen manufactqjers, nine physicians, five clergymen and three editors, while foe legal profession is represented by only thirteen. All but thirty are natives of Vermont, and only two are foreigners.

The Shivering Victime

Of fever and ague, who freeze tq,-day to burn to morrow, might have been exempted from their present trials had they availed themselves in time of that safeguard against all malarious diseases, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. But if it is too late for prevention, it is not too late for cure. A single bottle of this irresistible herbal tonic will ston the paroxysms, and a brief counie of it will restore the patient to vigorous health. The prudent and thoughtful, however, who would rather forestall disease than wait for its assaults, will resort to this sure defense against intermittent and remittent fevers at the commencement of the season when they prevail. Now is the time to forearm the system against fever and ague, bilions complaints and dyspepsia—diseases which are often engendered, and always aggravated, by the chills and damps of winter and early spring. i

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Cowardly Assanlts.

When a candidate tor high office Is so well liked and so popular with foe masses as to make hla defeat difficult In a fair and honorable fight, mean and cowardly men are not wanting who delight in manufacturing lies and slandering hu good name. There are also those Whose selfishness prompt them to prostitute their honor, pervert truth, and ignore right, for the sake of Injuring a com-, petitor in business, Whose prosperity they envy, and with whose business sagacity they have not the talent to successfully compete In an honorable way. These thoughts are suggested by foe mean, cowardly attacks made upon me and my medicines, by those who imagine their pecuniary prospects injured by foe great popularity which my standard medicines have acquired, and the continued growth of my profesefonal praotl e©. Narrow-minded practitioners of medlcine, and manufacturers of preparations which do not possess sufficient merit to successfully compete for popular favor, have resorted to such cowardly strategy as to publish all sorts of ridiculous reports about the composition of my medicines. Almanacs, “Receipt Books,” and other pamphlets, are Issued and scattered broadcast over the land, wherein these contemptible knaves publish pretended analyses of my medicines, and receipts for making them. Some of these publications are given high-sounding names, pretend to be issued by respectable men of education and position, for the good of foe people—the more completely to blind the reader to foe real object in their circulation, which is to injure the sale of my medicines. “ The Popular Health Almanac” is the highsounding name of on#of these publications, Which contains bogus receipts, without a grain of truth in them. Not less devoid of truth are those which have been fmblished by one Dr. !>., of Detroit, n foe Michigan Parmer, and by other manufacturers of medicines, in several so-called journals of Pharmacy. They arc all prompted by jealousy and utterly fail in accomplishing the objcctof their authors, for, notwithstanding their free circulation, my medicines continue to sell more largely than any others manufactured In this country, and are constantly increasing in sale despite the base lies concocted and circulated by such knaves. The people find that these medicines possess genuine merit, accomplish what their manufacturer claims for them, and are not the vile, poisonous nostrums which jealous, narrow-minded physicians and sneaking compounders of competing medicines represent them to be. Among foe large number of pretended analyses published, it is a significant fact that no two have been at all alike—conclusively proving the dishonesty of their authors. It is enough for the people to know that while thousands, yes, I may truthfully say millions, have taken my medicines and have been cured, no one has ever received injure from their use.

R. V. PIRRCE,

Proprietor of Dr. Pierce’s Medicines. World's Dispensary. Buffalo. N. Y.

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CATARRH and 1 hav? utad every known resaody without avudfc anUi I bought a bottleWjhe above Ccu» Don you. which gave mo almost Instant reuef. It being a constitutional so wall as a local remedy, I believe it to be ail that la claimed for ft, a Radical Cure for_Crtartk. GREATLY AFFLICTED. JTsasra. Z O. Botumrth A Cb., Dsneer.' Gsirrteme*.--. I take pleasure In recommendingfiawroaD'a KanioaL Cvna run CaTtBM to all who are afflicted With tbia disease. I was greatly afflicted with It for a long time, and eursd It with two bottlea of the above Cubbl About a year afterwards I was again taken with Catarrh quite aeverely, and Immediately sent for another bottle, whleh fixed me all right, giving me relief fraX the first dose. lam confident tnal this remedy will 4ta all that Is claimed for It, aad mere too. Wishing yow success in Its introduction, 1 am, Verytruly yytra, D8XT88,0ct.4,1875. of Smith ADoIL # TRIED EVERYTHING. Jfssera. Z O. Bosworth 4 Cb., JMaeer, OAr GtMIo men,—l have nsed SaxrosD’s Rapicax. Comb ro* CATABU, and It has given perfect satisfaction. I have, tried almost everything, and it is the only thing that has given me relief. I therefore take pleasure in recommending its use to all afflicted with Catarrh of any kind, and offer this as my testimony to fts benefits. Very traly, W. S. DECKER. . Dirm, Oct Lira. gIJO per package. For sale by all Wholesale and Rotall Druggists throughout the United States. WEEKS A POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale DruggiaUb QCQLLINS’ VOLTAIC PLASTERS i Afford the most grateful relief in all Affections of the Chest and Lungs. CHRONIC PLEURISY CURED. Monte. Wmmke & Pottzm i GtnUemen,— Having for many months past suffered with a very lame aide, called by my physician Chronio Pleurisy, caused by a former Injury and strain, and for which I used many prescriptions and liniments, as well as the' so-called rheumatic cures, without the least benefit, my phyalclan recommended one of your Cota LUTS' VOLTAlC Plastxbs, which, to my great surprise, relieved the pain and soreness almost immediately, and I have been able to attend to my household it fairs ever since with perfect ease and comfort, whereri before the application of your invaluable plaster was scarcely able to do anything. I consider them Inestimable, and shall with pleasure recommend them to the afflicted. Yours respectfully. Mrs. FRANCES &ARRIMAK. Oklamu, Me., April 21,1878. There is no medical or protective appliance that will Drove so irrateAil and effective in Tickling" CoughM Irritation and Soreness of the Chest and LungKWe believe them capable of tNVMMngaerioaea&eaMg of these organs.

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