Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-05-06
EXPLOSION!
STEAMER WAYNE LOST.

ploded on Sunday morning, the Zotn ut'
about halt-past IL o'clock. She was on
her downward trip from Toledo and San.
dusky, and was al the time of the explo.
sion some 8 miles from the shore, just be.
low Vermillion. 81 passengers and
crew Of 80 are known to have been on
board, 80 ofthe passengers and 10 of the
crew are saved or likely to recover. Lost
and missing 35, at least.
The Sandusky Mirror gives the follow
ing lists ofthe killed, wounded and saved.
PASSENGERS KNOWN TO BE kILLED.-
Myron Titus, Dayton, O.; 0. W. Hart
near Perrysburgh. O., formerly of Lever
Sandusky; John Ellis wife pnd child, Mt.
Hope, Mich; J. w. Do,y, Warsaw, Iii.
PASSENGERS DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED.
j. H. Jofin. Chl.tenden Co., VI; Rob.
ert Shay, Dayton, o.
BADLY BUT NOT DANeERoUsLy)W WoUNb.
ED.-John s. Cray, Louisville, KY; c.,
G. Lawrence, Angelica, N. Y; A w.
Gray. Saltwater, N. Y; son of John E.
lis, Mt. Hope, Mich.
SLIGHTLY ScALDED--John Bradley,
Cleveland; Mathew Falkner, Sheffield,
Mass; Henry McDonagh, Trenton, Mich.
PAssENeERs SAvED.--D. A. Eddy,
Cleveland; C. MolIen, do; H. B. Petting-
er, do; Balcomb. do; J. C Waggoner, d. =
Chas. J. Smith, Hinsdale, Mich; Daniel
E. Van Horne, Alton ILL.,; John Wesl,
Oxford, O.; Caroline Kimball and child,
Springfield, O.; John Ellis, Mt. Hope,
Mich; H. w. Guam, wife and two chil.
dren, Toledo, o.; q passenger from st.
Louis; Edwin Kellogg, wife and two chA.
dren, Lafayette; Fitch, Peru, Huron Co.,
O.; Mrs Smith, from below Cleveland, re-
turning from her fathers in Huron Co.;
Edward Kavenngh, Troy, N. Y.
Eleven ofihe crew lost, viz:
]. ]. Emore and E. Burchard, Engi.
neers; Henry Sturgess, Steward, from Mt.
Clemens, Mich; Franklin Freeman, Of
Detroit, A. H. Mead. bar-keeper,, Wiley
Robinson, John Williamson, and Henry
Kelley, cooks; two walters and Alexander
Cartwright, deck.hand, missing"
The Cleveland Herald learns from Mr..
Eddy, Of Cleveland passenger on board,
s',hat the explosion took place at one o.
clock, on Sunday morning, dividing the
hurricane deck in two parts. The life
boat was jammed between the wbeel-housa
and cabin, and was got out with difficulty,
and when launched, half filled, and foated
off with 10 one in it. The Capt. gave
those about him some directions, sprong
into the water, reached the boat, and with
five others made for shore in search Of as-
sstance. t,-f
This Mr.. Eddy thinks was his most ju-
| dicious course.
Tho mate with some dozen others in the
F yawl, espied vessel in the distance, made
for i, and at last succeeded in reaching the
, schr. El,nira, which Immediately CON.
, menced beating down 10 the wreck, which
she reached about half past seven, A. NJ.
and took off the uninjured, ,scalded and dead
from the deck.
When the hull went down, the o ,bin
e feated in Two pieces, the smaller remain
t ing attached to the mast by the shrouds, and
D The latter to the stern, by The tiller Kpes.
, On the first wns Messrs. Mollen and. Pee
finger, md some or 8 others on the lat
1 ter Mr. Eddy, l3 others uninjured, 2 badly
b scalded, and dead The cabin Aoated
= but the doors, panels, &c. being carried
: away ii rose as close TO the top or hurri-
(cane deck MS bedding. chairs. &c, would
j allow, leaving the deck about foot above
!, water. On this deck the survivors and the
: dead remained during six long hours,
while Ibis frni support heaved with every
undulation of the lake, shaping itself TO the
l waves. -Four women and two children
were on the wreck and they bore up nobly.
Those on the forward portion were most
r exposed to the action Of the water, and
e were nearly frozen.
The water where the hull sunk was on.
= ly about 25 feet deep, which was exceed.
ingly fortunate, as in deep water the deck
would have been pulled under, unless the
. shrouds and iiller ropes had parted-a
h thing by no means probable.
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer. OF the 30th
/ ult., gives the following painful incidents
Y of the explosion:
@There was a gentleman on the wreck
? who was going east to bury his wife and
child, having 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 bJdy in it, and with
his two little ones, got on board with the
vain hope of possibly reaching shore. Sew
eral times the coffin sunk or capsized, and
! he with child grasped under each arm
with most desperate struggle, would re-
gain his frail support until at last he lost his
boy and was compelled to abandon to the
son the body of his wife and child.
A still more diseonsolate case was wit
messed in the person of middle-aged man
f sitting on the sky light of the upper deck
after the wreck, holding little girl in his
3 lap with wet blanket wrapped around
her, himself chilled and trembling with the
I cold. Mr.. Eddy, who seemed to be the
j only one in a condition to afford relief, was
} passing by, when he was accosted by the
a responding man, thus: care you The cap
tain?" @No," /" said Mr.. E." am nothing
but passenger" edo you know where
/. my wife and the rest of my children area
4, l have not seen them since the explosion.
Mr.. E. informed him that he had not seen
them, but comforted him by saying he hoped
4 they had been picked up and were safe.
i The wretched man soon learned that all he
had left him of a once happy family, was