Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-05-04
THE STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.

us,,son for Joseph j. Harconrt By the circumstance bang
nee marked tho OF Mr. L. having nrGn paced GFoa la
head of the misunderstanding Register '8PT" Is.
THE STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.
We annex from The Cincinnati Whg, the following
,dd;,;onol oarculars Of the melancholy Steamboat d
-, nt tho andinr of that city. The more we refecon
i the STRONGER i our belief that il is the imperative ry
Of those who have in charge The guardianship Of tie
liz and properly Of the communylo pass enacme's
nhc,inr penalties of such character as would not M
70 secure more caution and attention on the part o. those
b,vinr under their control so powerful an agent as tie
steam enqine The writer OF this paragraph GUM!
hort residence in Cincinnati has frequently observed
officers of boats taking them above the CITY, previous"
snrpr for lower port and there Outstanding Tie ss'n
in order that they might pass The city with velocity
which should excel any oihet-Ihe wonder Is, that &c:
cidents of this kind have not happened before
baltimore ChroEo,
From the Cincinnati Wig, april 2lJ
Anprr,oy,I pARrICULARs.--We have Just returned
from the scenes of horror occnsloned by the eIP',
and the account yesterday published, instead OF beng
the slightest degree exaggerated tas mas pee" r:"
by few falls short of tie dreadtM reality Inc i'',
mens of human bodies now lying scattered all 't;
the shore aud wc the corpse OF number so manefd
and torn that they bore scarcely any resemblance 70 To-:
human form We also saw several with their headsic;
arms entirely blown off others with only part Of ia'
head DESTROYED and others with their lower eHIreH'
shyered TO an apparent jelly. Fragments OF the boz
ers and other portions OF The boat, were thrown iron
fy TO two hundred yards on the shore, some ol !Ae
having passed entirely over the two lows oil buildings
on the street. and portion Of the boilers tearing away
the cable end of stable situated high up the steep hill,
in rear of the houses at eas, 900 yards from The boat
other paris of the boat driven entirely through!
are house on the street, entering through The wlEtE
on the one side and passing out al Inc other. us"
siliyely stated that man was picked up 'his ho'
on the Kentucky side, having oeeh o'o"h 'o'"Ps""
across the river. -,
The wreck of The boat now lies near the steam Ne%
Works (about 3 Of mile below where me accIasa
occr-rad\ ha her cnltnneys ana ABOUT EaIi Of ~
upper cabin above the water. great many persons so
employed in gathering The bodies freight, &c. OII
four bodies have to day been taken from the boat VI:
German woman and her two children, and ano5sI
SMALL boy. The number OF dead and mangcd byca
altogether that have been recovered is about twenty
nearly as has vet been ascertaincd A number 6f perl
sons severely wounded, have been sent to the Hospital
but whose names we have not yet heard. One ynGf:
man by the name Of Edward Sexton, from COnnectcCl
we saw in neighboring house, dreadully scalded b..
his physician thinks he will certainly get we'll.
The lower deck Of the beat is yet entirely under
ter and when the boat sha be raised, very large ngn
Der Of persons, it is expected, will be found
There are no doubt more persons lost than we hr|
stated We conversed wha ago, with Mr.. Broaiw,
the agent Of the boat, who says positively, that the
were ninety five deck passengers and thirty five chs
passengers, whose names were entered on the boatsr
gster, at Pittsburg, Wheeling, and othsr on .
river above this place, for Louisville ST. Louis. Il
other places below. Here then are one huadred ct
thirty passengers that must have been board, cxc
sve Of the very lnrge number who to"k passage al b
place. The boat was unusually crowded, and Mr.. 81
thinks the whole number on board at the lime oi ttd
accident, cannot be but little if any, short Of THREE
HUNDRED persons! From the best information We
gather il does not appear that more than - or ~
this number known to have been rescued. ]! 4
therefore probable that the whole number drowned Il
destroyed is somtrhcre in The neighGo'hood Of TMUI
HIINnR FIN OR TWO RENDERED AND IHlkliI
OR FORTY PERSONS! 1t is impossible hat any, a;
cuate detail Of the dead and missing can ever be mad
or the precise number ascertaned. very iage p"'I
ton Of them deck passengers whose humble sphere
in life will preclude the possibility Of finding oG' 0s'
names.
In addition 10 t~se we have already mentioned 1"
having been last or killed. we have a,cerlaned the fol-
lowing:
David James, Loudoun county, ya.-he had abori3
person S35 in cash.
John G. Freeman, Middletown, OhiO-had in his'&
ket book S4S2.
George Glasser Cincinnati.
James Barnet, Rolls county, Missouri.
James b. Mcfarland, Knox county, Ohio-had 'E'
him S465
Robert Watts, young man whose father resides ~
Newport, Ky. We saw his father weeping over y"
corpse III
James Douglass, merchant Of Chilicothe, OhiO-N' |
$50.
ColIy Dillon, boat hand.
Mr.. Burns, young man, book .binder from Phliao"
pnia-his mother weeping over the body: ,
Two of the Engineers, one named James Manceo,
boy learning the engineering business, was nei
others, but escaped.
The chief and second clerks-the latter is State
our extra to have escaped-but this proves TO be I'll
neous-he found alive, but has since died, as
derstand. The name of one Of The clerks is BO"H'r
but we have not ascertained which one. m L
Calvin R. Stone, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, hi =
dollars IL
Miss Durham, daughter Of Methodist c!ergI""
living on the Miami.
Mr.. Chapman, young mad, saddler, Cincinnati,
Henry Casey, young man, boot maker, Cinc""'-
H. Mitchell, bar keeper of the boat. a.
These all the particulars have as yet been -
10 ascertain. The of several Of the dead O'''
found, have not yet been discovered ..
The accident has created great deal OF EXETER
and distress in this city-and the Mayor mas i
proclamation. calling public meeting OF the c'.'T a,
the Council Chamber this afternoon at cloc", -
der TO devise the best of ascertaning, as h
possible, the number of persons lost, ano Inc lin
injury in other respects-as well as 10 ADOPT soH'
for burying the dead. ,c,. ,Lss bel
annexed statement II varies in some little degree
tile estimate of the Wing Of the number OF ives ~:
awe never before saw such an ILLUSTRATION ,rsl
mower of s,eam part of one Of the boilers was
distance of one hundred yards, and crushed Ws
meut where it fell; another large piece oil VoNe n.
thrown against building the hillside, back o. me
yard and not less than two hundred yards IT, h,,d
bcat-it totally demolished the gable end OF 's ,bs
ing: another heavy piece Tell about my ieet ,s
building, near vat, where hge men were a.
minutes before Numerous instances are mea"V ~slcn
The distance to which things we've throws, xiv o.
would surpass belief, but for the known fs'|