Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-11-24
their astonished friends as sooly IN visage as

their astonisbed friends as sooiy IN visage as
sweep, yet perfectly unhur.
1t is impossible to give anything like precise
account OF the loss of lie on this sad OCCASION
Some estimate it at fifty persons, some hun.
bred, whilst others assert that not less than two
hundred men, women, and children were killed
or drowned Mayor Crossman, who was on that
part of the levee where the Louisiana Law, a lit.
tic before S o'clock, and Immediately proceeded
,hither when he heard the explosion, states that
from observation and diligent inquiry, at least
one hundred and fifty must have persisted by this
accident. The wharves were lined with spectators
The Storm, from Cincinnati was loaded with
passengers, and as the destructive fragments of
The Louisiana were scattered in every direction,
the havoc which was made among the crowds
cannot fall much below the figure in his Honor's
estimate. The effect of this disaster, unexampled
in any former steamboat explosion at New Or.
leans, was visible in every circle OF society here
last evening. Dismay was in every counenance,
and sympathy for the surviving friends Of those
who We're thus prematurely hurried into eternity,
and for those who had been muilatued, rent eve
ry heart Never, perhaps, was there boat
which, by the explosive force of that subtle and
4 terrible agent, steam, so soon reduced TO frag.
ments as the Louisiana-never one that in an
instant came nearer humiliation. We learn
that before proceeding on her way to St. Louis
this unfortunate boat was engaged to descend the
stream TO the Third Municipality, to take on
two hundred German emigrants. The Storm, it
is also stated, landed a considerable number OF
her passengers at Lafayette in coming down,
which circumstance, no doubt, was the cause Of
much saving OF life.
We appenda list of casualties as far as we have been
able TO ascertain.
KtLtEp.-R Dolwin, blown ashore. of Baton Rouge,
MI, Gmcr % mate of the louisiana Capt EdmonstOn;
st. Lons; A Bell, Pilot Mrs Moody and child; wife
and child of the clerk of steamer Storm Mr. Roach deck
hand on the Storm blown ashore; Mr. Knox steward on
the Storm; cabin boy, two men. blown from the Storm;
Sullivan, newsboy;t the cuachman Of the s.. Charles
Hotel; several negroes and deck hands oftne Boston,
MIssiSc --Dr T NJ Williams, Of Laourche; DIR Blon-
dine, Of Ponte Coupee; r NJ Maxim clerk Of Louisiana;
Gillespie of Vicksbnrg Merring Of Cincinnatti; Mr.
Wilson, olSL Louis; Mr. Edgar of Washington co Mi
Prescott and Craft, of Memphis; MIR. King, of the
firm Of Grey & Co., of St. LoniS Wolf newsboy;
Mr. Elliott oflhs city; NJ Morris of this city
WouSnEb Il Hart badly wounded, Of this city Mr.
Rey badyS Davis, Mobile slightly; Fretz brother Of
Capt Fretz formerly Of steamer Memphis; Capt Hos
kins, slightly Mason, pilot Of the Storm, do Mr. Hor
rel oftns city, badly injured; Mr. Price, clerk, slightly
the chambermsd, both Of the Bos,ona, slightly.
INJURED lS THE CHARITY HOsPIrAL.-HW Bick-
ham; ID Eckerle; II Livingstone Carlson H M'Kee
Fox; w WEIGH; Smith; John Evans; VIM. Burke
JOHN Laws; Charles, small negro boy; VIM. Tucker
Henry Tucker; James Matthews; Juan Montreal; VIM.
Nee Sandy, slave Of Adams; Sam. slave Of Captain
Cannon; James Welch; James Flynn; M cCarihy.
There are between twenty and thirty others whose
names we are unable to learn
AT Dr. SroSE'S HosPrTAL.--H. Rea N. Orleans
Thomas Harrison Missouri; Frederick A. Wood, N.
O.; s Corlsy, Ky.
Ar THE MARINE HosPTTAL, Circus SrREEr--C
Harrison, Mo-; George, negro; nego child
| Captain Cannon Of the Louisiana, at the time
Of the explosion, was on shore near the boat
talking with Mr. Stone. The Captains brother
was on board the boat, and is suppose to be lost.
Alady aud two children escaped from the wreck
ofthe boat ash was sinking.
Up TO 10 o'clock last night thirty bodies OF
persons whose names are unknown had been
brought to the Second Municipality walchhOuse,
: in Baronns street