Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-04-10
LATE STEAMBOAT DISASTER ON THE OHIO.

We extract from the Cincinnati Gazette the suboined
particulars attending late steamboat explosion the
ONO ryer, OF which we have had brief account by
Telegraph:
GREAT Loss LrE.-The steamer Redstone lately com-
menced running between Cincinnati and Madison indie
pendent boat She left Madison on Satur
day. IL o'clock NJ and the only landing she made before
the explosion Carrolton She passed on TO SCOTS
landing Crags bar three miles above Carroon on the
Kentucky side to take passenger Rev. Perry A. Scott
While the backing from this landing and
when about hundred feet from the landing fearful
ploson occurred at the second revolution engine
Three boilers exploded the instant All the upper
work of the boat forward Of the ladies' cabin blown
atoms the hull swung round with the current and
y sunk at the bow in twenty feet while the rested
the bottom the shore. There board at the
time about Sxyfv passengers Of whom II Is thought thirty
five must have been killed There but lady passen
board both of whom and the cabin maid saved
and but slightly injured Among the killed the Rev. Mr.
Scott (who had been visit to his parents who with his
sisters having lust parted with him. were standing on the
shore and him blown fragments Mr. Goble editor Of
the Lawrenceburg Press and Mr. Myers foreman in the
ONCE The fret engineer and second engineer and all the
hremen were killed instantly Mr. Soper the first clerk
standing the Office and says the first ntmaton Of the
% ne naa was being lifted up u wv zee, ana
cry Of distress in the river few feet distant he swan out
and rescued drowning person This the captain Pate
who had Of his legs broken The second clerk acct
dentay left at Madison. The pilots badly injured
The awful force Of the explosion be conceived from the
fact that large piece Of Of the boilers vas blown hay
mile lacking FIVE six yards from the wreck Eleven bodies
blown into cornfed distance from tho water
among them those of the first and third engineers
The people of Carroton and the vicinity hurried 10 the
scene, and dead and wounded bodies imme
daey borne TO small farmhouse which converted into
an hospital The inmates Of this house gave their rooms
bedding and every thing in their the suffering
The scene here beggars all description The manged and
CHASTITY copses by the side of the wounded and dying with
inadequate medical aid and for the OF the latter
the floor Of the covered deep with blood this and the
view Of the scattered wreck and the multitude
the shore below made up Of horror before which the
ntenses paintings Of Sue and Dickens pale and grow DIM
The river for distance below Csrroon with
the Fragments Of the boat machinery furniture and clothing
tsnce Of very nearly half mile back from the river while the
trees along the shore Uttered with the fragments Of the
same and Of the wreck
The Hoosfer State which along after the
tophe rendered every assistance and took board fifteen
the wounded OF whom but could help themselves and
brought them this city where the majority have either
MONIES or friends One two taken TO the hospital
Inc hedsonc was not racing at the time with any other
possible efiNssR hH End Madison