Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-11-21
to the eyes of their astonished friends as sooty
in visage as a sweep, yet perfectly unhurt.
incidents of the Explosion.
Among the many narrowing incidents of
the explosion, we have room only for the fol-


Among the many narrowing incidents of
the explosion, We have room only for the fol-
lowing:
From the Delta Of s~unday.l
Early yesterday we visited the scene of the
disaster. A large crowd was assembled on the
levee. Not q vestige of the Louisiana was
visible, but the Storm and Bostona lay in the
same position they occupied when the explo-
sion occurred. There they were, the Storm a
perfect wreck, riddled and crushed from boilers
to the stern; the Bos tona, a costly and beauti-
full boat, also, with her pilot house knocked
off, and her wheel house badly crushed. Amid
the general wreck of the Storm, we were pain
fully impressed by the spectacle of a very beau
tiful little girl Of seven or eight years, who
stood near a gentleman, apparently her father,
sitting in the cabin of the Storm, with his head
in his hands, seemingly in deep grief The ex-
preston of dependence, affection and grief Of
the little girl, with the sorrowing attitude of
her father, surrounded as they were by so many
signs of disaster and desolation, made 4 picture
which we shailnot soon forget. We have since
learned that the gentleman was Mr.. Moody,
cleck of the Storm, whose wife was killed.
The little girl was his only child.
We think it would not be extravagant to es-
innate the killed and those who will die of their
wounds from the explosion at $50, and the
wounded at one hundred more, making a total
of25O persons, killed and injured by one steam
boat explosion.
The wharf. the barrels and sacks lying on
it. were still sprinkled with blood, and the de-
bris of mutilated bodies. A number of persons
were engaged in fishing up bodies. Six were
taken up whilst we were on the levee. In all,
eleven were taken out of the water yesterday.
NARROW EscAPEs.-A number of young
men, clerks, had gone aboard the Storm to ex-
anime her manifest. How thsy escaped, is a
miracle, for the Storm exhibits the most perfect
Kidding we have ever seen. If q hundred cam
non of the largest calibre had been playing on
her, they could not have cut her up more COM
pletely. Mr.. Simeon Tracy, who was standing
on some bales ofhay, on the bows of the Storm,
was knocked down by the body of a man,
which lay across him. He escaped without in
jury. The clerk of Mr.. Matthew Martin, who
was on the Louisiana, was thrown some dis
lance into the air, and landed in the river, on
the father side of the Storm. He swan ashore
and landed in safety, without serious injury.
NOBLE AcT.-Just as the Louisiana was sink
ing, a poor negro woman was seen hanging by
her dress to some of the wreck, and uttering
the most piteous cries for help. She held in
her arms a young child, which, with great
strength, She made out to throw into the arms
Of a man in the boat, who Immediately went
off with the child. The boat had sunk to the
waters edge, and the poor negress was strug-
Cling in the water, when a gentleman, on board
of the Bostona, whose name we regret we could
not learn, threw off his coat and hat and leap
ed into the water, and swan towards her. Ihe
poor woman, mad with fright, seized the gentle
man around the neck, and thus prevented him
using his arms-they sunk together. Some one
cried out, they are both gone. But presently
they came up, and the gentleman, holding the
negress in his lett arm, swan ashore. The poor
woman tainted, from exhaustion and fright
When she came to, she began to cry for her
child, and ran about like one possessed.
AFFECTING INCIDENTAL little girl, the
daughter of one of the steerage passengers,
was taken from the wreck, and being placed
on the levee, began to cry for her mother. Be-
ing shown some of the dead bodies, she recog-
nized that of her mother from the ring on her
finger, and threw herself, in deep grief, on the
mutilated remains. This little girl is.at the
house of a gentleman in this city. A generous
rivalry was enacted among our citizens, to ex-
tend to her all the protection and kindness in
their power.