Yesterday morn between 10 and 11 o'clock, Capt. PURDY of schr. "Water Lily" lodged information at the Police Station that four men had been found dead in the cabin of schr. "E.B. Ketchum" lying at South Wharf. Sgt. DOBSON and a policeman immediately went aboard the schooner. On entering the cabin, the bodies of the crew were found lying in the berths apparently calmly sleeping. Kneeling on the floor with his right arm resting on two trunks on which he had been lying with his face downwards and resting on his right arm was Millidge McFARLANE. His head and face was much congested and his right hand was raised and bent at the elbow, the fingers crooked up and teeth rigidly set as though the last struggle had been a desperate one. This man had all his clothes on. In one of the lower berths was Michael HAYES, his muscles entirely relaxed. He had a black eye - the left - and his nose had been bleeding, the blood from the position of the head running into the left eye and out over the temple. There was also blood upon his right hand as though he had drawn it across his bleeding nose. In the berth above him lay young James IRVING son of the owner of the vessel. His coat and vest were off and his expression was calm and placid, death in his case having come upon him without causing a struggle or contortion of feature. In the other berth lay Capt. DESDERNIER in pants and white shirt, without vest or coat, his feature calm and regular and his limbs showing no contortion. The bodies of the Captain and McFarlane were quite warm but life was extinct. The bodies were removed to the Dead House. The following men were selected as (coroner's) jury: John CRAWFORD, foreman, Miles HANCOCK, J.M.F. WHITING, A.D. BLAKSLEE, H.G. HUNT, Jas. ADAMS. The "E.B.K." belongs to Dover (Albert Co.) from which place she took a cargo of plaster to St. Andrews and was then chartered by HAYS to bring a cargo of turnips to St. John. As cinders were in the (cabin's) stove this morn., when the hatches were taken off, it is supposed that they had left a small fire in the stove the previous night and shut the hatches down to confine the heat as the night was cold and there was a danger of the turnips freezing. There being no escape for the coal gas except through some augur holes in the cabin floor, it is thought that the gas which passed through them caused death. (see original)