The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-04-23
THE MEDORA,

destined to ply between Baltimore and Norfolk.
sho was in tho hands of the Company, having
been delivered by the builders, Messrs Waterman
Culley, and Brown, according TO contract, at the
! place where she was to receive her machinery.
AS stated last week she was about to start down
the bay to make trial of her qualities. and the
persons on board, independent of the enpincers
and hands, were mostly stockholders and inau-
entail citizens who had been invited to witness
hei performance. Her wheels had made revo-
i"lloh and half, when her stopping bell was
rnng-she stopped, and in moment the explo-
sion LOOK place with tremendous report. She
was shattered to ii perfect wreck, and sunk inn
mediateiy' A majority of the unfortunate indi-
viduals on board were killed, scaldca, or vo,n-
ded. e..
The following is list of those who we,e Kill
led instantly,o or who died since, numbering &c
john c. Moale, Andrew F. Henderson,
William Aloalc, John Boston,
Joseph Lecompte, William Lewis,
Capt. John Nckers, George Geddes,
Edmund Young, S. W. Hackney,
Ben amin French, James w. LAYERS,
John Il. Boon, james Mitchell,
Ohm Burns, John Kemp,
Richard Linthicum, John Ycager,
Robert Doyle, Jackson Rccder,
George Finley, John SPEEDILY
John Harper, Duncan Ferguson,
John Haley. Francis Meal ear.-26
LIST OF THE WOUNDED.
Captain Sutton Patrick Collins,
oicph Cragg, Francis Beayt,
john Mitchell, Strppe,
II. II. Middleton, James Crawford,
John Henderson, George Reynolds,
Albert Ramsay, George lloolnagle,
Xpchnrnh Nichols, Samuel Sm:th,
Alexander Spawn, George Hyde,
Samuel Glenn, Henry Snyder,
Wesley Culley, George CLASSY,
John Kayor, William Bnion,
I,mcs Wilson, Isaiah Wagner, broth
William Rohclt,, Louis Wagner, ! ers,
Lawrence Reigar, Daniel Stevens,
Jdmes Clark Martin Hickey,
Thomas iiilditch, James Montgomery,
David Frazier, Henry Lghlner.
William Allen and two sons.
Captln Coffee, steamboat Georgia, (slghtly.)
Making in all IS wounded.
List ofthosc who were on board, and who esca-
ped unhurt.
R. B. Gully, Gideon Brown,
Thomas WILDLY, William IOmnson,
A. Spcddrn, A. Watson
Walter Ball, George Ayrcs
John Waterman, VIM. Stith,
J. r. Bromwell, John Chapman, : cold.
>. j. Foley, Benz. Brown,
and - Chicken (who was engineer Of the Pu-
laski when she blew up)
Making N all, 10 persons on board at the time
| Of the accident.
"Altogcthcr" says the Clipper, 'ths is one of
the most dreadful catastrophcs which has ever
happened in our city; and as may be well sup
posed, ITS occurrence caused Tremendous eX-
element. Thousands of citizens were passing to
and from the vicinity and the wreck from the
moment Of tho accident until after dark, and ma
ny OF them with most anxious fears and painful
anlicipatons, for, us it was publicly known that
the Aicdora was TO make the proposed trip, there
were hundreds who kn.w not but they would
find in that scene OF dcsolation and death hus-
band, father brother or chid-or, missing them,
be left to the painful anticipation that they were
buried beneath the fragments the wreck. The
affair happening in the immediate vicinity of our
crowded wharvcs, and the sufferers beng well
known, has caused deep and settled feeling OF
gloom to oveIshadow the community"
A Coroncrs inquest was held on Monday NOR
ming over the body ofJohn r. Bnvn, for the pur-
pose ofasccrtaining ifpossblo the cause or eau
scs of the dreadful calamity. \ number of wit
nesses were examined, some of whom testify that
they had fears that all was not right, and that
too much steam was on, before the explosion.
The jury gave in the following:
VERDICT.-The jury of inquest in the
case of the death Of John II. Boon, hav-
ing examined many witnesses who were
on board of the steamboat Medora OF the
time Of the explosion of her boiler; and
having ascerlaincd that the deceased was
on board of said steamer after she was
hauled out Of the dock, and having also
| examined those who assisted in taking
him out Of the water, have agreed that he
came to his death by in juries sustained by
the explosion of the boiler of the Medora;
and, from the evidence before us, we are
of opinion that the accident was OCCASION
ed by raising the steam too high, and
greatly above the guage intended To be
used in the ordinary use of said machine
ny aboard of said sieamer-whether this
excess was owing to careessness or tam
perlng with the safety valve, the jury
cannot undertake to say
TIE CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION
We make the following extract from all aft
Joseph Cragg, one of the wounded. 1t will serve
to explain what produced the disaster, by which
so many useful members of society, were in mo-
ment hurled into eternity, After stating the time