Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-03-29
DREADFUL DISASTERl

Extract IF letter gentlemen ia AorJoik, dated
:" MOBILE, March 10.
al open this letter TO tell you of disaster that has
just happened, which has ended in the death of 20 or
more persons. The Mobile steam packet Ben franklin
was Just under way her trip Montgomery with
upwards OF 100 persons on board when she burst both
her JOiierS. The amount of damage cannot vel
be ascertoined The boat is complete icreck There
are great many wounded Some pieces of the wreck
fell on the wharf"
lfrOm lie Mobile Mercantile .7drertiser, March I3)
The spectacle truly affecting. The boat was forty
or hy yards out In the stream the whole of the boiler
deck, the boilers and chimneys gone and over the
surface OF he water were sirewed the fragments the
Doai boxes, barrels and even human beings One indi.
v'dual, Mr. Isaac Williams of Wilcox cosnty near
Portland, blown up full enc hundred feet and fell
IN t!ie dock, near the shore full hundred and fifty
yards from the boat. Speedy were resorled
10 for picking up such oil the officers hands and
gers Of the boat could be rescued before they
No person on board that in the cabin on the hur-
icanc deck, was injured in the least have learned
though the number of passengers quite large II is
matter of impossbity 10 ascertain the Number of
prrsons Killed and missing the boat was Just leaving
and probably one half of the persons board
had not registered their names The number has been
varIousy estimated from zen TO twenty.
We give below list Of tie sufferers as far us We
nave been able To learn them with certainty:
Robert Drinkley, % Pilot killed; Isaac Williams,
Wilcox county, do; James Presnall, do do, missing
Alr - Jones, 10. do, Go.; Jacob Patty Fireman do
James iiulson, deck hand, do Isaac Flanagan do do
two Negroes, belonging TO Mr.. S. b. Hcad Of Mont.
gomcry, do do. belonging to Mrs Terry Of CIai-
borne, do; . others badly wounded, and slightly
DEsrRucrioSo or THE ARsgYAL at Frankfort, Ky-We
learn from the Lexington Intelgencer that the Arse.
nal, containing the public arms at Frankfort Ky was
discovered TO be on re about clock the morning
OF the l2h inst and such the head which il had
then arrived, and the rapid progress of the flames that
the building, with its whole contents was DESTROYED
Mp sword musket, cartoucbox trapping was saved
The origin of the fire had been asceitained IL an.
pears however that the hands had been engaged in clean.
ing the arms the day previous and thence il is probable
resulted the accident.
Mr. Clay is expected to leave Washington for his re-
sidence IN Kentucky some time next month.
.1ierandria CazeAe.
Inc Legislature of Mississippi have refused to char.
Ter the NewOrlcans and Nashville Rail Road Tie
House OF Representatives passed the bill locating the
road east ul Pearl river; the Senate refused to concur
because OF the supposed mpractcabity of that route
Good ExAMPLE-WeH done, Ohio The Leqisla-
ture of Ohio at its late session. rejected thirtythre
plcat'ons tor new Banks II passed law prohibiting
te issuing and circulating within the State small bank
notes IL also passed prohibiting the brberv HonL
within the State.
We hope that every Democratic State in the Union
VIII follow The exampe.-GloLe.