Litchfield enquirer., 1833-10-17
THE ENQUIRER.
LITCHFIELD, OCT. I7, 1888.
DREADFUL STEAM BOAT DISASTER.

steam boat ew-EnglaDd, Of the Hartford IiHe Oi bOaIs on the morning of "Wednesday Oi last week, a. bout ocleck-by which al least ionrteen lives were lOst and many other persons badly scaded, or other wise wounded. daughter of the Rev. Mr. Camp, of this town, (Nor,rfeld Society," was among those considerably scaded bui whose name is not mentioned among lhe list. She was in company with Mr. War; ner, who was kiIIed which is probably the reason she was not named. They had been on board only few minutes, having been taken in Lyme, short dis tance below where the accident took place.
 From the Eew-Hayen Palladium of Saturday we cory the pariiculars witch folIow:-
 Stsan.6oat ErplOsion.-The New-England was en- gagged in landing passengers at Essex, | small town near the mouth of Connecticut river when both o her boilers burst at the same instant The explosion was irene endous, and heard at tue distance ct ten miles, Persons, at distance of three miles. were awakened from their sleep by the jar of their houses and the ratng of their windows. The whole of the r,ner works in the centre and after part of ihe boat were shattered tD fragments. The f,eamSoat was y- jne about twice her breadth from the wharf, but her engine at the monsent were not n molten. The small b0ai at the wharf landing passenger. lie dad just stepped upon the wharf, when in an instant e fouud himself in ae water the other side with the a,roken fraQulens of ie vessel Aoang around him.- He eescaped uni,.iured The scene was now dreadful beyond imagination. The ladies' cabin was instantly filled with burnine steam and scading water Every birth in this cabin was occupied. Some sprang from siieir births into the scading water, which was ancte deep upon the cabin floor. Those n the alter part oi the cabin and those who remained in their births sui- fered less-whIe those in the gentlemans cabin es- capped entirely uninared. The groans and screech- es oftie swoundedhe frantic cry ot mothers 6roth- ers husbands wives and children, for their friends, adde to the deep horror of the scene Several oi the and some of the wounded. who were knock ed oyerboard were also calling for help
 The Review informs us that :" the immediate cause of ihe accident must for time remain matter ofspe- culation aud surmise''-whle others who were pas sengers and who have come late from the scene xxantSoa have cam hN about 1t: but of this have nothing 10 say at pres ens. The exciemen, must pass of before the whole truth be known. The engineer tsays the Rev'ewl was at his post in te engine room. and escaped He declares that there but inches of s.eam at the time.
 of the explosion says,-,hat when the boat came to aie Saybrook iandng, some difficulty occurred with ale engine tha, they were unable 10 start the boat ahead ,hat she lay al anchor about iweniy m'nues 'o .,reyent her drifting ashore, during which tune no steam was blown off, and that he went iwice oesow and found "qni,e too much steam on; ih's was SIX miles below the scene of the disaster. No sieam was A,own of when she arrived at Essex which was hail nn hour afier. The regnar engineer, Mir Poiter was not on board bn, Mir. Marshall, the acting engineer, considered fully comDeient 10 hii h.s place. lne boat, boilers, and machinery were entirely new-ehe hoilers were made at the West Point Foundery, and were oi the hest copper. Nothing remains oi 'hem h", the front and 6nes The Directors 2, e so S,eam at HarIord, dispatched the Steamboat Massachusetts 60 e asaisusnce of the sufferers: whenshe brought back the aud some OI tue Wounueus
 We have seen the copy of Il letter seat to New York; hy Mir. Phelps, the collector at Middlet"wn, aad also the copy of one published Ia the Cammerc'a' Afy4stiser written liy passenger in the New-Eng- Iand bod, these seem to agree with the account above the maHHcr ot the expsosnn, ahd the dnm- age done to the boai Se. Mir. Phelps states that nnch sas i,sgh. was desyeo % na " have "n, been recovered. Tue ioi6wing Is 'be list as iar as we have bccn able ascertain from different soarces ef the deal and wounded.
 Re0 iie Pratt haUg ve-ga 01 s4IlrtbOfus : Jared Lane, ef Kingworih, deck haad; child oi Mrs Thdinrsnn. about two years old Mf. EastnrHoh. wich, Con; J. M. iieran, Esq. .f Reading. G.; Mr. Lyman Warner, oi Pymaoih. Ct. lskpu broken ;l Dr. Stephen B. Whii'"g, of Reading; cs; E."s Bushnell. oC Killing worth, c.. deck hand.
 WouRded. d.--Samuel Pesha and - Bronson, gSseck hands, both badly; Mrs. Thomson and 2 eh'i- d.en, Imo,her of the child men,i2ned as dfaa1i her husl,ad lives in Thompsonsilic, Ct. Miss Jane ffad- den, chami,ermaid, of Har,rl an elderly lady name not ascer,aned. R. c. F. Gsodich of We,hcrsie'd, Conn.; Mrs Pomeroy, of Norihfeid. Mas; Mrs. Kasungsof Gill, Mass, Mrs. Sucking of M'ddle'nwn Wm. Savage. of Harsiard. clerk of the boat; Giles Farngm, Kiliingworh fireman; Edwin Bell. of Gas- tenhury, deck hand and3 others, one oi ea ienaie @ P. S We have since learned thai Measss. Fesha and Bronson are dead.
 Mir. Burges, of WaierviiIes N. Y. is also dead.
 In addition to the above. we copy from the N. Y. Daily Advertiser of Saturday the following extract of ieaer, dated
 HARTFORD, l0,h Oct. 1883.
 I returned from the New England this aliernoonr-- To give description of the scene that witnessed is ou, of my power. When ieIi, persons were dead a persons belonging 10 the boat and passengers, and missing There l2 to l5 more passengers, and others belonging io the boa badly injured and two or three of them will not probably tive out the s4iay. The boat Is a complete wreck Abat the wheels. Both boilers went ai the same insaDi--lhe lar board boiler have gos part up on the wharf; Il s torn all in picces-ihe copper sheets torn each way like paper. The -siari,oard boiler is entirely gone; nothiag remains by which can judge the si.u a,ion of 1t. hardly believe it u as much the other, but there are some things which look like tt. Bnth guards torn, completely of about the length 0f the milers. The kOees and beams were as square of as if sawed. The upper deck has all fallen down; and the ladies cabin is split apar and partly stove in--bM will go further. l have at- ready gone iustler tisan intended. Fise engine was in charge of Mr. Marshal. make no comments on she causeoaiy ii does appear to be want oi wa ter. You will have opp0runity n seeing and judg- ing for yourself in few days. She will be taken down to New York the wounded people .ean 1,e removed.
 FThe Hartford Courant furnishes a lew more parii' caars-sistss in addition 10 ihe abese the death o Mrs Thompsoa and Mrs. Hunier Scotch women,l and Daniel H. Jerome aud James C. Bronson, dect hands, and that there three four others bad ,ly wounded that their recover is doubtful.
 The Courant remarks--.'I In regard to the o Ihis dreadiu explosion, believe l! to be The pre- vaing opinion of all who have taken pains tn ascer faia the facts a the case. thai may hc traced to neg iigemce presumption the part of the Engineer u Rermung the steam to acc1muiaie beyond what thu