Tragedy at the Seattle Waterfront

Since our published account of the fire Sunday morning, we have learned the following additional particulars: When the incline fell, many persons were knocked down and were more or less hurt, but so far as reported but one death was occasioned from injuries received by the falling mass. Dan Mahoney, a longshoreman, had his leg broken in several places and also his arm. On Sunday the arm was amputated, and the suffering man soon after died. Among those injured were N. H. Martin, struck on the head; Hooley, the street contractor, bruised and laid up; A. U. Merrill, teamster, leg injured; and T. J. Doran, badly bruised. After the falling of the incline, the steamer George E. Starr towed the burning hulk of the Mississippi up onto the flats. The tug Goliath came into port and towed the wreck once onto the beach at North Seattle. The only person known to have perished in the flames was Charles Knapp, chief engineer of the ship, who had gone to bed but a short time before the fire and was sleeping so soundly that he did not waken until it was too late. Some charred bones were all that was to be found of him. Mr. Knapp was a man about fifty years of age and leaves a wife and children in San Francisco.