American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-07-10
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION!

TERRIBLE EXPLOSION!
Dreadful Steamboat ErpLoSion!- Great Loss
Of Lye'-DeStructiOn Of the Marquette. A
most terrible steamboat explosion occurred at
New Orleans on the LIST, the melancholy par
tculars of which we gather from the Bee and
Picayune,
AS the steamer Marquette, Capt. Z. A. Tur-
pin, bound to Cincinnati, was leaving the Lee
vee at the foot Of Gravier street. both of her BOZ
lers bursted, with tremendous report, tearing
intofragments her boiler deck and cabin as far
aft as the wheel house, on the larbord side, and
throwing her chimney into the river, and blow
ing into the air her boilers and every thing
| above them, and killing and woundng between
SO and 40 OF the passengers and crew. I'M
rAedIately after the explosion, the boat sunk to
her guards at the bow, and over the floor of
the ladies' cabin at the stern.
AT the moment of the explosion, Capt Tur-
pin had just given the word to go-ahead, and
was walking aft on the hurricane deck to see
that her stern was clear, when after one or two
revolutions OF the wheels ho was thrown about
II feet in the air, and fell on the deck about
the same distance aft, escaping with a slight
bruise on the leg. The pilot at the wheel, Mr..
Ostander, was blown, it is stated over 100 feet
in the air, and fell upon the deck of the steam
er Yazoo City, lying alongside, at the I4evoe,
dislocating one of his hip joints.
The number Of persons standing on the boil
eli deck is varously estimated at from 10 to
10, among whom we're several cabin passen-
gers-they were all blown to the height of $50
or 200 feet in the air, some with their limbs
rent asunder, and all Of them falling into the
river, without exhibiting any signs of life, and
sinking to the bottem instantly. The clerk and
bar-kecper were in their looms, which were
blown observation-disclosures bodies have not vet
been discovered.
The number Of deck passengers and of the
crew killed, wounded and missing, is, as near
as we can ascertain, between IS and So. The
scene presented on the lower deck was of tho
most heart-rending description. In one place
laid body with head severed from it; anoth-
er with both legs torn off above the knees some
with fiighful wounds and gashes upon their
heads and limbs-others without scarcely par
ticle Of skin upon their bodies, from the effects
of the steam and scalding water.
| A lad Of some ID years Of age, was thrown
upon the Levee with both legs broken and bad
ly scalded A deck hand, by the name of Jas
Coleman. was also thrown upon the Levee with
both legs blown off, and expired in few mi
nutes,
As soon as practicable, boats were taken a.
long side of the wreck and the surviving pas
sengers brought on shore, and the wounded suf
fererS sent tn the Cha rity Hnsnithl
The following, as far as we could learn, is a
list of those dead, missing and wounded:
DEAD.
Samuel Hays, first engineer, (ded upon ar
rival at the Hospital.
James Coleman, deck hand, (both legs blown
off,
white man, (name unknown whose head
was completely severed from his body.
A man, (name unknown) who died on his
way to the Hospital.
A deck hand, name unknown.
MISSING:
J, F, Dee, clerk, and John Orrck, bar-keep-
er, both from Greensborough, Ala.
- Pawell, pilot, and
- Hazard, second engineer.
scALDED AND WOUNDED
William B. Daniels, of Massachusetts, very
badly scaded.
John Hazet, Providence, Or. ~ leg broken
and badly scalded.
John N. Lee, of N. York, badly scaded,
John l.. Dernans, ribs broken and badly
scalded.
Andrew Troy, (carpenter,) New Orleans,
WIZ dhd wv FIoy was "OuiuGu OH
the head though not dangerously, his wife
wounded in the arm and slightly scalded, and
both the children badly scalded.
Christopher Gueydan, of France, slightly
scalded.
Francois Laglaise, of France, wounded in
the head-not dangerously.
BERNARD Osborne, (boy,) of Indiana, badly
scalded
John Grayham, (boy,) leg broken and badly
scalded-dangerous.
John Milton, of New Albany, Indiana, bad
ly scalded.
VIM. Ramsay, of Alabama, wounded on the
head and slightly scalded.
Neal Harkins, of Ireland, severely hurt on
the shoulder.
Hannibal, third engineer, (slave of Captain
Turpin,) severely scalded.
Three persons, whose names are unknown,
were badly scalded.
The above wounded were conveyed to the
Charity Hosptal-the greater portion of them
are not expected to recover.
Mrs. McCord, Miss Lydia Page, Miss Sarah
Smith and Mrs. Harriet Cook, all of Mobile;
and Mrs. Elmra Lacy, OF Cincinnati, cabin
passengers, escaped uninjured.
The Marquette was two boiler boat, and
had been running during the past winter from
Mobile up the Alabama river, in the cotton
trade. She was about a year old and her boil
ers were supplied with Evans Patent Safety
Valves" Her owners, Capt, Turpin and Capt.
Thomas Adams, state that she is not injured in
her hull.
The only freight on board was few barrels
Of tar and casks of liquor.
The wreck, which, from its buoyancy float
ed, was lowed across to the ship yard last
evening, by the steamers South Western and
Geneva.
The Coroner, last evening, held an inquest,
at the yard of the Baronne-st. Prison, upon
the bodies of James Coleman and man,
(name unknown,) two Of the victims of this
disastrous accident.