The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-09-16

From the N. Y. Com. Adv.
ANOTHER STEAMBOAT Ex:LosioN.-.
The following account of another dis
trcssing steamboat explosion in our
harbor, with painful sacrifice Of life,
is copied from the Daily Advertiser Of
this morning. We base received no
additional PARTICULARS
On Saturday tho steamboat, United
States, Captain Beechcr, lcf. this city
at A o'clock, p. M. for New Haven,
with about 25 or 80 passengers on
board As the boat was passing Black
wells Island, in the western passage,
] tie before 5 o'clock, and about five
m distant from the place from
" ,nce she departed, the boiler burst,
was attended by very distressing
cumstances. Three colored men,
iploycd as hands on board, were so
ldly scalded as to prove fatal. Their
.Iamcs were Charles Bull, Charles Led
dy, and Benjamin Hasl<ins. They
were taken TO the hospital, and died on
Sunday morning. MIR. Ephraim Woos-
ter, of Derby, Conn. supposed to be.a-
bout 60 years Of age, was badly scaldcd
and went overheard. Mr.. Woodruff,
Superintendent Of the Penitcntiury on
Rlackwclps Island, upon seeing the
disaster. immediately put offirhis boat,
and picked up Mr.. Wooster, and car
ried him to his own housconthe Island,
,,,haro ayorx, attant.ou xvoo oaiI him,
and every effort made to restore him,
but without effect /; he died in about ff-
teen minutes. Mr.. Hiram ". Clark,
merchant, Of New Haven, leaped over.
board, and is supposed to have been
drowned. Mr.. Clark is not known
to have been injured by tho cx-
plosion. A colored boy, about Ii or
ID years old, who was a waiter on
board, is missing, and is supposed to
be dead. Capt. Becchcr was injured
by the explosion, but We are happy to
say not seriously. Henry Shelby, Of
Guilford, Conn. who was scaldcd, was
taken to the hospital, and is likely to
recover.-Martin, fireman, was taken
to the Bellevue hospital, and it is fear
cd may not recover.
The explosion took place before a
list Of passengers had been made out,
and therefore, neither the numbers nor
the names Of all the passengers were
ascertained, which renders it imprac-
ticablc to determine the precise number
Of persons who nrc missing. All the
baggage ON board is said to be account
ed for.
The foregoing facts were obtained
from the Coroner of this city, who held
an inquest upon the body Of Mr.. Woost-
1t also appeared, by the testimony Of
Capt. Beecher and the Engineer, be-
fore the Coroner's Jury, that, within
two or three minutes Of the time when
the explosion occurred, they had both
in succession examined tho boiler, and
found sufficient supply Of water, and
not more than 121 inches Of steam,
though il was common for the boat to
carry Ia inches; that the boiler, which
was Of iron, had been repaired within
week or eight days previously by Mr..
Allaire, Of this city who had found the
iron in the bottom defective, and taken
out parts of it, and supplied them by
new; that the rent in the boilerswas in
the new sheets, thus recently put in, 4
did not extend to the old iron.-The
cause Of the disaster is not explained.
The new iron made use of, il is said,
appears to be good; but we should
think the probability is, that it must
have been defective.
This melancholy disaster occurred
under different circumstances, ut least
in one particular, from any that we had
been previously acquainted. The
steamboat had been under way for
nearly an hour, and il would seem, by
the testimony ofthe captain and engin-
eer, without any extraordinary pressure
Of steam. The Chief Justice Marshall,
when the explosion tohsyiace on board
OF that steamboat some months since.
had Just started from the wharf at New
burgh. 49,.
N.vAL.--A letter from Port Mahcn. in.
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Commodore Crane Of the sh;, sv;,,,,o,