New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-12
THE EXPLOSION OF THE KEYSTONE

The Cincinnati GG-dfe gives the foiowin9 parucuais
relative 20 the explosion of the Redstone the ID inst
Three boilers exploded at the same instant All the
pper work Of the boat forward of the ladies' cabin was
blown 10 atoms-the hull swung round with the current
and Immediately sunk az the bow IN 20 feet water while
the stern rested ON the bottom the shore. There
were On board at the time about passengers o.
whom il Is thought thirty five must have been killed
Among the killed Rev Mr.. Scott, Mr. Goble editor
of the L2rrcace5ar9 Press and Mr. Myers foreman IN
the same Office The hrstand second engineers and all
the hremen killed instantly,
Mr. Soper, the first clerk was standing near the or
fee and says the first intiaon Of the danger he had
was being lifted up full 100 feet and falling into the river
and swan ashore; moment after he heard a cry OF
distress in the river few feet distant; he swan out
and rescued drowning person. This was the Captain,
Pate) who he'd Of his legs broken The second
clerk accidentally left at Madison The pilots were
badly injured. Capt Wright brought Mr.. Langley one
of them I'D to Aurora he had both of his legs broken
The other could not be moved and Is probable that
he will not recover
The awful force of the explosion be conceived
from the fact that large piece OF one of the boilers
was blown half rnile lacking or yards, from the
wreck Eleven bodies were blown into cornteld at
some distance from the water. Among then those OF
the first and third engineers.
The people of Carroton and the vicinity hurried 10
the scene and % dead and wounded bodies were nnle
diately borne small farmhouse on top OF the NH
which rises back from the river, and which was con-
yerted into hospital The inmates OF this house gave
up their rooms bedding and everything in their posses
sion TO the suffering The here beggars all de-
scrption The mangled and CHASTITY corpses by the side
of the wounded and dying with inadequate medical aid
and means for the of the aterthe floors OF the
rooms covered deep with blood this, and the view of
the scattered wreck and the awestickcn multitude on
the shore below made up Of horror before which
the intensest paintings Of Sue and Dickens pale and
grow dim.
The river for some distance below Carrolton was
strewn with the fragments of the boat, furniture and
clothing. Small pieces of bedding and clothing were
found at the distance of very nearly half mile back
from the river while the trees along the shore were
Uttered with the fragments OF the same and OF the
wreck
Tie Cincinnati Commercial of the 9Th gives the follow
ing list of killed and wounded which it presumes is
nearly correct:
KnLEp-Lewis Berry, Brownyille, Pa First Engineer;
Joseph w. Berry, Brownvile, Pa - David, Second
Engineer; T. p Durbn Lawrenceburgh; NJ Smith, Peters
burgh Rev. Henry A. Scott SCOTS Landing; five cabin
boys known and two others about the boat
BADLY WoUNDED-Thomas w. Pate Captain; Sidney
Longy, Pilots Charles NJ Jackson, Pilot; Samuel Fritz,
fstrook Geo. Breck pastry cook; Henry Boze six fire
men and four deck hands
SLIGHTLY WoUNDED-Geo Colsrd mate; John Wilson,
carpenter and three four other hands not known
tNHURT-Geo. Stirgel steward Thomas Bates, barkeep-
er; O. NJ Soper first cook.
Nor FouND-JaInes T.. Cable, Mr.. Chnsman, Lawrence
bugh Wilson Langheny and four or five Others or MORE
names unknown