Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-10-07
From the PHI. Ledger.
sissippi.--I.oss OF thirty Lives.

c2d instant the particulars Of a terrible steamboat
accident, which occurred to the stamhoa, Clip
per. No. !, on the Mississippi, al Bayou Sara. on
the 10Th instant. The steamer pied between New
Orleans and that place, and was commanded hy
Capt. Laurent. While she was hacking out Of thr
port to proceed to Tuniea, her boiers burst, tear
ing off all her midship cabin, and causing her to
sink Immediately TO her hurricane dtct. Captain
laurent who was ON the s;,:o Of the hnrtcanu
deck at the moment, well es sereta. others, erca.
ped by swimming and were saved. The wholp
number saved was perhaps 81, 80 ten, nnl Of those
who perished, between twenty and thirty. There
were no passengers on board ., the moment. We
awai, the arrival of other hosts TO give US he par
licuars of this terrible disaster.
The following is the account given by ;hs l. u,
isiana Chronicle
Yesterday, a, quarter post ,l .clocs, So the
steamer Clipper No. ! was hacking ont from her
moornes a, our landing, shs View up with an cx>
plosion that shook earth cir and heaven as though
the walls of the world ,umb.ing TO pieces ahou,
our ears. All the boilers hurs, simultaneously
machinery, vast fragments OF tie boilers, huge
teams Of timber, fur itere e-j human beings in
every degree of mua:on, weIs alike shot np per-
pendicularly many ban5ied fs,homs in the air.
On reaching the eres.ss, hesh', the various bodice
iivereed like the Jets Of fouD:en in all directions
falling to the earth, and uron roofs ofhouscs in
come instances a. much as tHc hun3re1 snj fity
Yards from the scene of destruction. The haPless
victims were scaje1, crushed, tom, nsng,ed and
scattered in every possible direction +; rnsny into
the river, some in the s.ree;r come on no other
ride of the Bayou, nearly three hundred yards;
some torn asunder by coming il. con,ac. wish pick.
cts and posts, and others shoi IKE cannon bslls
through the solid walls Of houses great distance
from the boat. All in front o! the wheel houses ap.
pears as though swept by o whslwind. But any,
hing like an adequate description o: .he scene
Of wreck and ruin is utterly on, Of the
question. What remains Of the hull has been
firmly ashed to the shore, bu; i; seems to haze bro
ken in two and partially sunk. She had just Ia
ken on board, at the Railroad Depot, abou, eighty.
eiI bales of cotton, nearly all Of which, together
with the money chest and most OF the cabin frrni>
ture, we are glad to learn, he's been saved.
On reaching the spot under whip and spur, we
Immediately bent our steps towards the temporary
hospital hastily prepared for the reception Of such
nigh, be found to retain a spark Of life, The
scene was such we hope to look upon again.
The foors Of the two large wacrooms were liter
ally srewn with the dead and dying and others
pouring in as fast as it was possible 70 convey them
praying, groaning, bowling and wri.hing in every
possible con,or,ion Of ply steal agony. 10 the mids,
of this confusing din, up to their srm-pits in oil
and cotton bandages, we found our p,aiseworth =
physicians, like good Samarsns, doing good, qui,
ety and silently, but with the energy and activity
apparently Of fifty pair of hsnds, now washing q
burn, now dressing a wound and now splinteing
fractured limb. Indeed our citizens generally, e.
very man and mothers son, appeared only an1iou,
=. 10 how they might render most service TO the
poor sufferers, white and back, without distinc
ton.
Tbs following are the nos, inporan, par;i:
u'ars, as far as we have been able to gather them
The crew consisted of captain, mate, Q clerks
) engineers. pilots, carpenter, watchmin,
chnmbermsid, stewards, cooks, Is fremen,
deck hands-43.
Passtngers.-L. Thomas, missing r. d. Mon
toms,, commission merchant, Ne. Orleans, an,
one small boy, wounded WD, Sumter, second en-
gineer, thrown one hundred and fifty or two hun
deed yards through the roof and gable end Of tn,
house Into the back yard sgsins. the fence on
was torn of, ond the fras pen;s of his carcas
scattered over the tree VIM. Nelson, third engi
noer, FREQ man Of color, killed Arnsuh J. Lavund
pilot, missing William Wall, pilot, kied; Joh
Peterson, mate. badly sesdol though likely TO re
cover; Gabriel Pool, carpenter, missing watch
man killed chsmbermsid saved unhur /; steward
al killed or mssing two Of the cooks killed an
one wounded 4; eigh, k!e:aaa k!lied or missing
four deck hanas killed o: !ajssing
!. may ne well enough here 10 state, ihs, a
,hos. we have put dowa as n ssing, ara doubles
dead, as every search has been made in the vcni'
to recover their hodies m vain. They have doub
less found q watery grave.
The rem ins of those picked up on shore we
inferred decenily.
The we,chman white mar, was thrown alis
l90 yards, through the solid wall OF Bakers hot,
,n.o bed. He retained his sense. perfectly son
time after, bu lbe poor fellow expired during I,
evening.
The cabin boy was thrown sbou, two hundn
yards through the roof of & shed, and was pick
up in mangled condition.
Nh. Thomas, grocer Of Bayou Sara, had