The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-10-16


SrEAMD)AT Explosion AND Loss OF LIFE.
The following particulars of the explosion
Of the steamboat Kate Kearney, near Canton,
on the Mississippi, are from the St. Louis
Republican of the 22d uIt:
The steamer Monongabela arrived yester.
day morning. Her officers confirm the re-
port Of the explosion, and when they passed
she was lying to shore, short distance be,
low Canton, where the accident took place.
The Monongahela rounded TO, ran alongside,
and Captain Ball proffered any assistance in
his power, but the dead and wounded had
been taken fro n the boat, and her officers
had concluded 10 remain where they were
until the steamer Die Vernon could take
them in tow to this city.
The particulars Of the accident, rs stated
10 the officers and passengers If the Monon>
guhela, ale as follows: The Monongahela
| passed Canton on her upward trip between
, ten and eleven O'Clock on Thursday morning,
D aud in less than an hour afterwards the Kate
3 keatney came up, aud landed just long e.
nOugh 10 put passenger or few packages
Of freight ashore. After few mirules' de-
4 tention not TO exceed Eve, she backed cut
from the landing, 0nd al the second or third
revolution The starboard fue of her larboard
boiler collapsed, and blowing out forward
Killed and scalded fourteen or fifteen of the
crew assembled on the bow of The boat.
= Five are known 10 have been killed almos
u inslanily-four white men and one negro
and nine others were more or less injured
one or Two dangerously. The exact number
= has not beJn ascertained when The Mopon,
! gahela left, and the probability is that it will
: never be. The injured as well as the dying
Z and tho dend, had been removed to the town
= aud up 10 the hour of leaving, but eighteen
out Of o crew Of thirty Two could be assem-
bled; The remainder we're either killed, mis-.
sing or scalded. As reported by telegraph
the acciden! happened just as The boat wa:
@ backing out from the landing, Had the ex-
0 ploson happened wtlie lying at tho wharf
F. The loss OF life would have been very great
i as the shore was lined with persons 10 see
her start. Several were drencbcd with mud
y and steam, and one OF two knocked down
r but no one on shore seriously hurt A pile
> OF lumber on the WHAT and Immediately in
. irange with The collapsed boiler, is said to
have preserved the lives of many, as it dead
ened The force Of the shock, and acted as a
shield 10 Sd Of persons Immediately be
yonJ.
The starboard 1ue Of the larboard boiler
alone gave way, and all the steam and scad.
ing vapor blew out forward. Many Of the
/ injured, aud numbers who wero unburl, in-
sanity jumped overheard. and at one time
there were more lhau thirty persons in the
water, some Of whom swan to shore, but the
larger porIon were picked up b. means oI
sk,fs. The shock subsidized, and even before
lbe stream cleared away, boats we're procur-
Ell and manned by citizens Of Canton, mud 10
less than twenty minutes every person visi'
BILE had been taken from tho water. The
scRldod were taken diiec1y inio tho town,
where evory attention was bestowed, and
Everything done to relieve their suferinss
-Four unfortunate beings were already beyond
The reach Of human aid, and one poor fellow
was found IN the scuttlc, with one leg mash.
q 10 atoms. His suferngs, il was thought,
n, ia not last long. Five, as we have before
hi. q, are certainly dead, aud nine others
I,h,. or less hurt bul Of this number wo
bavs .. yea been unable 10 ascertain n soil.
iary uaa1,
Inc IosA and iDjury Is confined entirely
10 the cfcw, and, US on similar occasions,
.ibese fellows ,save no names, The officers
lof The Kate Kearnsy were unable 10 give
tho names or precise number lost and Injured,
md 20 lbls matter mus. sland until Ibe boat
ltniycs in port.