The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1849-11-29
From The Y. o. Picsyune, l7ih.
The Explosion


Up to 2 o'clock, P. NJ yesterday. forty nine
bodies had been brought TO the Second Mu-
nicipaiity guard-hocsf, IN Barronne street.
No more had been brought as late at I O'Clock
hast evening. All the bodies, except thai O.!
DR.. Marsh. of Milwaukee, were inferred du-
ring the course oithe dav The Scene at the
guard house Of fine long row Of stark. distor
ted, blood stained bodies, with the piles oil
rough collins near them, can never be etiaced
from our memory.
1t is almost impossible to arrive ut anything
like the exact number OF sufferers by this
dreadful event. On comparing our list OF yes
terday morning and evening and of This NOR
ming, we may put it down at S killed. so
wounded and missing. These are known.
But il we take into consideration the number
Of dlers, skitlmen, boys. negroes strangers.
emigrantS Caliioruians. deck hands. &C. who
were scattered on and around the three boats.
in every direction, and who were Tor the most
part strangers to each other, Indifferent to ev-
cry ones fate but their own. five think how
many were blown into mere fragments, and
whose names will never be known. we c;tnEot
far err in estimating the total amount OF cus-
W ltics by this melancholy catastrophe at not
less than two hundred.
We learn that MIR. c. Reed, who was kill
on board the Storm had Il belt Il ou has per
sun containing 500 in geld. While the body
was lying on the levee man repre- seating
himself as responsible, and giving his mime
as Smith, took oil. One Of the friends OF the
deceased was standing by the time, hut he
htd been seriously injured himself. and was
so much bewiIdcrcd that he made no objection
TO Smith taking temporary possession Of it.
Neither Smith nor The money has since beer
heard OF. The money was in u belt OF rcd
webbing, bound wi Ii leather.
Among the negroes killed. is the well known
charcoal man. Y in,c White horse and merry
songs, were iamiliar 10 nearly adj our cilzrus
The calamity that spread lar and Widc
among our ielpw cii2:a;ls on Thursday eve
ming, by the tXpln>i0l o. board tie Louis
ana was sig,i;I for the hear,!ess u icve>
and rulians who anOu.td here atthiS SEASON O.
The year to engage - lhrir u,iarious busi
ness with more than u.nai an htcsty. Whdr
others who went TO The i.ver on i!ftt occasion
TO imit'rte the god Sam rItau b. binding HE
WOundS Of The victims who still had HE IN
them. or to put III practice the laws Of ilu-
ntHty by assisting 10 remove Tor the PurruS
OF receiving dGc.'ut curlsJIjn burial m TO ne
tot The klllc.i or lie Ii 5iuciis OF the huiAaA
tenn le thar l.H IroiuscIf scattered about
those wrct:hcd icilo.1S wee busy on ;nv!r
vi!ainOuS crrands to dcspoil both quictl aud
dead. RobbericS were COMMITTEES without
fear or shame. Goods were car.ird 81 I,on
the wr,.,k. and parcels picked up;unl "pgro.
priatcd rs il ia" population had been invited
to Il geh'.ral r tmblc. Ehe dHrkn,.so watch
so suoI came % threw a protecting vlI over
their wickcdncss and the whole night wits
Iemplu,'t ed by them il obtaining iluuGrr.
Some Il Them have been arrested, and vari-
Gus articles 81 properly have Uecn traced to
rcceiviag hnu~<, We invoke the urlu u the
law to luish them with thc utmost yor
when r;iugIt
The Mayor himself, il appears, received Il
proof of the activity of the thieves on that
occasion. While assisting. with some other
gentlemen, to i, entity the body ot' ii man XII
led by the explosion watch b longing to the
Deceased was handed to his Honor Tor safe
custody. and by hin deposited in I:is rou
pOcket. In an Instant ii hand from the crowd
dlved into the aperture revealed by tine wor
thy tuncrionary movements. seized The time
piece, and made oil with it unperceived. The
Mayor. surprise may be conceived when ii
few moments afterwards he frIt for the prop
ert,' just deposited with him: and aNcorain, Il
1t was godc.