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SION OF THB GLBNCOB AT ST. LOUIS,

from the 81. Louis Intelgencer, Of the 9th inst.
The steamer Glencoe, Capt. John Lee, from
New Orleans, with heavy cargo and large
number OF passengers, reached this port be- |
tween seven and eight o'clock on Saturday
night, aud whilst attempting to effect landing
near the foot 0 Chesnut street, blew mp with
dreadful report, scattering the entire forward
part and upper works Of the boat to the four |
winds Of heaven, and dealing death and des.
truction to the surrounding objects. The steam !
ers Georgia, Cataract, Western World, Aleck
Scott, aud one or to others were lying at this
part OF the levee, and the Glencoelwas endeavor.
ing to effect landing under the stern Of the
Georgia, with the Cataract on her lsfboard
bow, when three, perhaps all, OF her boilers ex-
ploded with dealening crash rendering the
forward part Of the boat a frightful wreck,
greatly injuring the Georgia, almost entirely
demolishing the cabin Of the Cataract, and
hurting between forty and sixty human beings
into eternity.
The explosion was indeed terrific, and was
distinctly heard even TO the suburbs Of the city,
and for several squares around the shock was
sensibly felt Heavy timbers, fragments ofthe
boilers, machinery, chimneys, upper works Of
the boat aud human beings were hurled with
fearful violence many feet in the air, and fell
upon the surrounding boats and adjacent parts Of
the levee and as far back as Commercial street.
AT the time Of the Gleneoes landing q large
number Of citizens, hotel and steamboat run
ners, cabmen and others, were, as usual upon
the arrival ofa boat. hurrying aboard, and the
foTecastle and boiler deck we're crowded with
these, as well as the passengers belonging to the
boat.
The shock Of the explosion drove the i'll .fated
steamer fairly out in the stream, and almost in
stantly after, she caught fire from the furnaces,
and commenced floating down, presenting the
most horrible spectacle we ever beheld. The
entire forward part Of the boat, from the wheel
house nearly down TO her water line was gone,
and the after part one mass Of timbers, freight
and human beings, heaped together in wild con-
fusion. The flames burned fercely, aud rapid
ly spread to all parts Of the boat. From shore
men, woman and children were seen running
from one part Of the burning steamer to anOth-
er, in hope Of escaping the dreadful death that
threatened them and the bodies Of several pill
ed ameng the timbers, some only wounded
writhing in agony and crying for assistance,
we're plainly deserted.
These, as we'll as all others, badly wounded,
or killed outright and left ON the ill-fated boat,
were devoured by the flames. As the Glencoe
continued to drift down, number Of persons
threw themselves into the water, several Of
whom reached shore, while quite number Of
Others Ia the stern, managed to get into the
steamers yawl, aud were saved. Several other
yawls and skiffs visited the burning wreck and
took off Others, while many were picked up in
the water. The whole number saved in this
and other ways is set down at between sixty and
seventy. At the foot Of Spruce street the wreck
lodged for moment, swung round and passed
down to nearly opposite the foot Of Poplar street.
in the head Of the slough, where it again lOdg-
ed, burned to the watel s edge, and sunk with
the bow resting on shore, carrying down with
it the freight in the hold, and the ashes and
bones Of those killed and burned on board. In
drifting down, the burning steamer set fire to
the wood boats at the levee, some eight or ten
Of which were destroyed, and the flames spread
ing to the wood on shore, rank after raLk was
consumed before the fire could be arrested
! Between five and six hundred cords Of wood,
and eight or nine wood boats were thus de-
stroyed.
Returning from the burning wreck Of the
Glencoe, the scene on the levee where the ex-
plosion occurred, beggars description. We
nave uElLhpE lltiB bpdCOf AuuBu AOso iuGltnu-
ton, to enter into all the horrible details Of
= this heart.rending calamity. Some twelve or
thirteen bodies, or parts Of bodies had been
; picked up on the levee, and adjacent boats and
taken to the office Of the Board Of Health, on
Chestnut street, and all the seriously wounded
sent to the Hospital. Many others who were
less injured, were running ont on the levee
with their faces blackened, and their clothes
wet and tatterred, crying for help. Five dead
bodies we're taken from the Cataract, all Of
which were blown from the Glencoe. These
consisted Of Que woman, supposed to be Mrs.
Schenile, a deck passenger, who embarked
with her family at Memphis; Captain Lees lit
tie sou, aged ten years; one man, and one
boy aud girl, neither Of whom were identified.
With one exception, the bodies taken from the
Cataract were dreadfnlly mangled. the limbs
in some instances being torn from the trunk,
heads mashed and so horribly multilated as to
defy recognition only from the garments. The
woman mentioned, was found stretched across
a marble top table, nearly every bone in her
body broken, and her limbs so badly mangled
as to barely hang together.
The body of Mr.. John Denny, first clerk Of
the Glencoe, was found on the hurrican roof Of
the Western World, slightly mutilated, but
quite dead. The body Of little girl, with the
legs blown off, was recovered from the waters
edge; and the leg Of man, severed at the
thigh, with portion Of the pants and drawers
and fine Calf-skin boot on, was picked up near
the side walk.
Captain Lee, his lady and one child left the
boat few moments before the explosion, and
thus fortunately escaped almost certain desruc-
tiOn.
Of those on deck it is utterly impossible to
state how many were lost; but we presume half
Of them, Or nearly SO, we're killed outright and
burned or drowned.
In addition 10 those mentioned, numbers
who were hurt, some seriously, left the ground
instantly, and their names we're not ascertain
ed. OF the fourteen patients at the Sisters
Hospital last night, bat four or five at the far
thest, it was thought could possibly recover
We visited their ward last night, and were pain
fully impressed with this fact from their ap-
pearance and evident misery. 1t was in trdth
painful sight. Two or three appeared then in
the last agOnies Of death.
We think we may safely set down the killed
and missing by this fearful explosion at sixty,
and the wounded at thirty five, many Of whom
will not survive their injuries, and nearly all Of
: whom were either officers, passengers, OF hands
on the Glencoe.
J The boilers we are told, were built in 1889
--thiyteea years agO--for the American Eagle.
, That boat wore out, Or met with some mishap,
aud the boilers and a portion, Il not all the
machinery was transferred to the GlencOe.--
The boat, we understand, is insured III the
} Union office Of this city, and the Charleston,
s. G., agency, for 81 500. but as the policies
have an especial clause exeTnpting the insa-
rance from liability IN case Of loss BY explosion.
the owners, it ispresnmed, win recover nothing,
BoLTs INJURED. .--Ine Cataract. t.--This boat
was dreadfully torn aud injured BY the explo-
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