Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-10-18
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FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE STEAMBo At


DISASTER.
The annexed article stating many Of tho ,,,,c,,,
cohcernln. The late dtAl steamboat casualty on The Com
neclcu river, IL hom extra of The Hartford Review
da,ed ne Io'h instant II appears from information
sun more r. cent late, that ten of those who injured
by the explosion have since died. and .a there ,eTn So
veral oihes OF whose surviving hopes entesned
appears iurther HAT the person who had been enIpy
ed as engineer u the New England LEFT her orevious IL
the last aud fatal trip in quence said OF dis,
greement about wages; and that the immediate cause of
The accident wAs the complete exhaustion OF water from
!he boilers lha superinendonce Of the engine il is al.
legged In morning paper bad been entrusted
10 person employed IN steam engine manuactnry h,
whether he competent to the duty and The acc;dnr,
occurred through his caelessness or whether he
DOM incompetent ami Careless, is not stated Proper In.
Ves'iga'ion', IL is hoped, will be instituted. The whole
NUMBER OF persons Injured by this explosion is upwards of
hy, oil whom ten have already died, and nearly rs ma
ny more il is thought cannot survive much longer
The boilers OF the New England were of coppar anil
on the low pressure principle The Journal OF Commerce
says Ills certain that both exploded, because the ,nbcrs
oil me guards or both sides OF the boat were broken of
including the knees, which otherwise could not
pened The boat WIS lying at Essex, the inhabitants of
which town had generally evnced the most active hun,
nifty on the occasion. Few of tho sufferers however
were III situation 10 allow OF their being removed from
me boat bn' every PracIicahc a.vang their
anguish had been rcsored to. Tie following is an sx
tract OF letter receiTed at tie Daily Advertiser Office
rom Hartford, dated the I0lil instant
'l returned from the New England this afternoon To
give description oil Inc scene that Witnessed out Of
my power. When LEFT, persons weye deaJ-3 nersons
oeohghg to Inc boat and passengers, and one missing
mere are lSio 10 more passengers and others eIonqng
TO The boat badly Injured; and two or three of them
not probably live out the day. The boat is comlI3fe
wreck abalt the wheels. Both boilers went over -, ,b
same insan-of The arbo ard boiler we have ao mar, M
on the wharf; II is torn all in pieces-te CONFER sheets
are torn each way like paper he tafboar boiler is en-
ure'y gone nothing remains by which can Judge the
situation OF H. cln hardly believe it is a. much torn =.
me othe', but there things which look like
nom guards are torn completely of about the length OF
the boilers The knees and beams as square off az
u sawed The upper deck has all fallen down: and u,c
azores capn sP' apart and partly stove in. The engine
was IN charge OF Mr. Marshall She will be ,aken Io,.
10 New York as soon the wounded people can be re-
movek." foF ~" 'o 'e-
We now sujoin the extra from the Office Of ,I,o u,
count yet publ; shed. ~ any "'-
HE SrEAMBoAr EXrLosGoN.-we gather from a
gentleman who visited Tie disaster the follow
ing particulars On Wednesday morning about o,c,oct
while the steamboat New Eng land was engaged in Ird
ing passengers al EseX small village the mouth of
our Tver ooh her boilers exploited at The same instant
The conclusion was tremendous Persons tho yeI Iroa
fes rom the place were awakened from their .Ieep bv
the shaking OF their houses. The whole Of In. unn
works in The centre aud alter part OF the boat wcr. h,
tered to fragments, and with greater par, of the ha
o. The passengers scattered 10 the tour winds The en-
gine at tn" moment, in notion and the st.a,no,,
was lying about twice her brea It'll from the wharf IT,
small boat was at the wharf TO land passenger IJe had
stepped on the wharf and in the act of turning IN go
mp "hen ~ an 'ns''"t he found himself in the water on
te other eide Of the wharf amidst ihe broken r. ,a,
lie escaped uniijHred Several were blown oyerboati
HoIa 'he boat DGt were recOvercI Opy one ia Ca,
known TO he missing, though here may be oilers
ne believing arc nc names OF The unfortunate person,
who are known he injured with tbosp who GO 1
when orr iuiorman. lett las evening At 5o'coek DaoI
- Allen Pralt, OF Hartford baggage master shocLinsI
,cadcd IN. leg broken and the body found some lime al
ter The accident on The bottom Of the liver jared lane
Of hiiIingworth. dcc hand. child Of Mrs THOMPSON
about years OIL trunk and hat found and from, so,ne
papers continued in hem the Of the oty per wac no.
ceHdned to be --- Edstbrook, OF Concord " r. There
can be no douhi ihnt he WAC drowned. Total dead
- IDy bdHy injured and net Hkelv 10 suypipe NJ
shepard, merchant 81 Norwich Ct passeuger hnu.
sclded and much bruised. j. NJ Heron Es1 ri /! ,J;n
~ Passenger, badly scalded and brni.ed Mr. Ivntm
warner OF PIymoIh Con. not sci!5ed-skull ladv f,c
.uIeu, dying Nj Burgess, passenger from W,terviIle
ohtna CO. ~ trUrIlyo Colchester Con very baJIv
tcameh. SimH"l Pesha anil --- Il. onsoo deck L,nlS
snocKhgy 'cairl Mrs. Thompson (ler husband Iiyes
~ lh2npson'i'le Con) rom New York The no,b"r nj
me c",,1 ao'e mentioned as dcad badly scaLIcJ NJ
Jane prudent OF Hartford. chsn,b,r ui,b vs,v ti
cerisincd Total o. "'''S was not as
Bady igjured bn net consiiercd Zimmerman, p..,
stephen y iWmtsg Oi R,sdilg, Con. W X n G. 60
rich OF eiliersIrld, Cor, o. Pon,efoy -, - ",
Mass, NJ Sockrg Ut Middleown fwo c, ygt,'.cu,
brs Thomps u, above mentioned Mrs U,.,i," '" y, /
nll, Mae, Nr Wism savage Of Hartford cler. - ~,
6d Giles Ffnum Of Kitipgworfh brennan liz
DiShhei OF ktlug~oub, deck hlnd Eiwstd Bell =,
Ns'ehbhfY, fireman three hers, tyO ~, n and o, /
woman names Hot asrer'aincd. Total IT,
DeYas duon, distress aud death were upon every side
ihsIe were about so passengers on board at The time Of
e o'S'S'sr most OF "Sm fortunatelyin their berhs
ibose VINO were IN the gendemcn's cabin we believe