New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-07-05
Explosion of the st. James
yHEL9.TI'HOLY LOSS or LIFE!
Judge Preston, s. M. Wolf, and Fifteen or
Twenty others Lost.

Ar We are again called upon record of those terrible
" disasters which frequently in vicinity and
A. bring desolaton to the homes Of large number
Ar, citizens. At early hour this morning, in
Am with the community, startled by the
Adj ing intelligence that the steamer St James which has
All been running Biloxi other watering places
Ad Lake had blown and burnt to the wters edge killing
Av and woundng Large number Of her passengers AS yet
ABB the accounts of the horrible disaster exceedingly
ADJ ficting and it is almost impossible arrive MT all the
Ada facts The distress and eycitemen oop.inu. t he yerv
~ great although the arrival of the Oregon late
All this morning relieved the minds of many friends who
n supposed to have been the ST. James
AID on her.
Aud The st, james left Bay St. Louis Sunday night in
Ad company with tha California having on board large
As number Of persons who had been spending the Fourth
Arm; that and other watering places 1t known that there
Aud about seventy and the of the
Abzi numbered thirty.
Arks Between two three O'Clock this morning when
u within about Is miles Of tho Pontchartran Railroad the
St James being short distance ahead of the California
49, she exploded both her boilers making acompete wreck of
the forward part Of the boat and killing and woundng
large number of the passengers and The sanchons
rn being torn away by the explosion the whole forward
Ano fell down upon the boilers and machinery whereby large
Alex number burned and scaded who not before
Azare hurt AT the time of the explosion nearly all the pas
lnogers asleep and the that followed beggars
ugudecription. Capt Clarke rushed of his stateroom
rnaand witt Samuel Henderson pilot took possession
yya They kept the crowd back, and permitted
yiadies who were and Robert Smith, steersmau
who had Ills arm broken to enter the boat Among the
in the boat Mrs Asher three chill.
fren The yawl drfted about and by the
Adams aonia when she up and all on board with the
kngadxcepon of one lady drowned Capt had
&ex s swo little with him. when requested to nut
an hem in the yaw he refused saying that the passengers
rmas artcuary the females be of first The
'Hho heroes, together with little of Mr. j. NJ Wolf
Vd VNmped overheard the California where they
picked up It's said that Mr. VOLTS endeavored
fR persuade his father to jump overheard would
nt 1T do it, and was lost The boy had the
Geo clothes with him stick and he dressed
byye'eiEurey when on board the California
Zau Cant Snsgn of the California which up in few
Adap minutes after the explosion, behaved most noby
Arm st James was in flames and the California caught
Armst several times from being so near her
Ama Capt E. however fast to the stern Of the burning
sceh boat ran out plank and took off all passengers
@ Capt Clarke was the last person leave the wreck
- I, when the California showed off, boy named John
bougny was seen running about the wreck with nothing
but the stumps of his left they having been blown
Adam Off, lie appeared to he insane found mpos-
Aol BILE to rescue him He left to perish in the flames
Andre Dr. Uhorn happened to be board the California and
Aug he together with DR. Permission who was saved from the
Afs St James, rendered most efficient assistance tn to
Aubel wounded.
mbel The steamer St. Charles just arrived Mt the Railroad
Albrp when the exnloson tool, nl,ce md ho Las, u,
~, for the scene of the disaster The California however
w. 49, bad done every thing that could be done
, The second clerk. Mr. Charles Reynolds from whom we
ibad otieo ouf inornatoh reanVe TO the unfortunate
affair that not than half the passengers had
sem registered their He estimates the killed
ust t about twenty but others think the estimate entirely
lrmai too small Among the killed, will be is Judge
nor Preston Of the Supreme Court of the State His
udel was directly the boilers and he retire
After the explosion the place where his berth
% observed to have been shattered in pieces No
" him could be discovered and the suppostion is that
,; was killed instantly.
aucl MI Richard Turner late commsary the 4th ward
BAN Second Municipality, killed also John
rhe Maoy and another member of Protection Company
ryen No. 49, Mr. Shed, of the u S Branch Mint
ayy Des who came board at Bay St. Louis supposed
roWi have been killed Capt Wright the principal of
ssI the badly caded and heard this evening
eeV that he will in all probability lose his eyesight Capt
fna Clarke master of the ST. struck on the head
lW7 with timber, and pretty badly bruised Oliver Ron
the second engineer who had charge the engines
time of explosion badly scalded The fourth engineer,
~ whose we have not learned, was lost.
This terrible casualty, which has hurled many souls
into eternity is attributed by different persons different
Some Of the passengers say the boilers
fectise As usual presume the true never will
be known 1t is positively stated however, that at the
time of the accident the uoa being pushed to her ut
most in order to beat the California to the Railroad We