Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1850-05-17
Further from tie Wayne.
INCIDENTS OF THE EXPLOSION.

FROM the survivors We gather some fuTthsr
incidents Of the terrible disaster.
There was a gentleman on the wreck, who
was going east to bury his wife and child, hav-
ing their remains on board. The balance of
his family, two small children, were also
with him. Soon as the explosion took place,
he launched the coffin of his wife, with her
dead body in it, and with his two little ones,
got on it with the vain hope of his possibly
reaching shore. Several times the coffin sunk
or capszed, and he with a child grasped un-
der each arm with a most desperate struggle,
would regain his frail support until at last ne
lost his boy and was compelled TO abandon to
the sea, the body cf his wife and child.
still more disconsolate case was witness
ed in person Of middIe-aged man sitting
on the sky-Iight of the upper deck after the
wreck, holding little girl in his lap with
wet blanket wrapped around her, himself
chilled and trembling with the cOId. Mr.. Ed
DY, who seemed to be the only one in a con-
dition to afford relief, was passing by, when
he was accos;ed by the desponding man,
thus "Are you the captainl'' ''No," said
Mr. T., am but passenger. Do you know
where my wife and the rest of my children
are! have not seen them since the exPlo-
SION" Mr.. E. informed him that he had
not seen them, but comforted him by saying
he hoped they had been picked mp and were
safe. The wretched man socn learned that
all had left him of a once happy family, was
the one child he was then clasping to his
bosom. A wife and two children had been
lost.
A very trying and sorrowful sight was that
of poor negro, who had been scalded from
head to foot with steam. He, too, sat upon
the floating wreck, which his raw surface ex-
posed 10 a bleak wind. A wet blanket was
thrown around him, which greatly eased his
suferings; but when he undertook to walk
on board the yawl to get into the schooner, the
first step left the skin of his bare feet upon
the deck-he fell to his knees, and the flesh
literally peeled off from him. He was car
RED on board, and when the reaction took
place, died in most excruciating torture.
An elderly gentleman was found floating on
the water, dead. He had two pillows lashed
to him, which prevented his sinking, and ev-
identity died from chills.
The first engineer was an object of the dee
pest sympathy. After being rescued from
the chasm in the Boat. accustomed by the ex-
plosion. he was helped on to the upper deck,
and when first seen BY Dir. EDDY, though we'll
acquainted, was not recognized, SO swollen
his lips and so black his face. He and a
stranger, also badly scalded, sat together with
a counterpane drawn close around their heads
10 keep off the wind, groaning with every
breath: mattresses and blankets were provided
and they were wrapped up, but the Engineer
died on the Elmira, his flesh having been lit
orally cooked on his bones.
| Immediately after the explosion a female
was heard groaning in great anguish. clear OF
/ the extreme of the forward deck, where there
was so much food wood and water none dare
go to her relief. Her cries, heard above al