New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-14

this time the heroic gentleman jumped into the
river, and by main strength saved her from a
watery grave.
| Yesterday afternoon Mr.. G. II. Skillin, of Am
sterdam, came to Bristol to see his dying sister,
Mrs Bowers with hope of reaching her be-
fore she died; but the poor woman had expired,
and was removed to Albany before her broken
hearted brother reached the scene of the disas-
ter. The poor fellow was overpowered with grief
Another of the sufferers, who is probably dead
ere this reaches our readers, is Woods Baker,
Esq, of the U. S. Coast Survey, residing at
| Princeton, N. j. When we left the village, last
night, Mr.. Baker was dying, and yet retained
his senses. He made will, divising his prop
erty to his wife and two children, and told those
around him he was confident he should not sur
vive and hoped coon to be out of his misery
Yesterday, while the jury were examining the
exploded boiler and the after cabin, one of them
| picked up what proved to be the skin from the
wrist and hand, with the nails attached, that
| had peeled from the limb of some unfortunate
sufferer.
! CORoNER's INQUEST.
| On Saturday, Coroner Merclean held an in
quest over the bodies of Frederick Merrell,
Francis Dunn, Peter Fauchs, John Bower Rob-
ert Ferrell, Jacob Kocher, Dennis Saboy James
Brown, and one unknown man, when Captain
| Farnham, of the Reindeer, gave the following
| testimony
| The Reindeer came alongside of the dock at
Bristol, in the county of Ulster, town of SAUCER
ties, at l. o'clock, P. NJ; both pilots were on
duty when she came alongside of the dock; Mr.
Seaman was at the wheel; the second pilot was
| on the after part of the top deck as / was at
the gangway and passengers had come on board
of the boat, and the hands were pulling in the
plank, the fire box connection, or connector of
the flues, exploded; the chief engineer was on
duty, and the tender on board the boat his
place of residence is at Poughkeepsie.
| know deceased to be Frederick Morrell l
! last saw him in the bar before the explosion
the bar is about forty feet from the engineer s
room at the time of explosion the deceased was
| at dinner below; | did not see deceased after
the explosion in the boat, the next time | saw
him he way lying dead at the storehouse of
Blgelow, Kellogg g. Co.. there was no racing
between the Reindeer and any other boat at this
time J she had not had any extraordinary rate
OF speed before landing at this dock s'I don't
know how much steam she had on;" cannot say
what fireman was on duty at the time; tive were
not racing with the cars; as a general thing
'chen not racing, ace roufd reach the dock be-
fore o'cloch; [ can only identify Frederick
Morrell and Francis Dunn as the persons killed
| by this explosion
John Rowlett, the engineer, testified, that Mt
the time Of the explosion the boiler had on thir-
ty inches of steam shehas certificate to carry
forty five inches of steam; cannot tell the
cause of the explosion the back connection of
the fiue box exploded; knew the deceased Fred
erlck Morrell; he came to his death by this
explosion; have not examined the exploded
part OF the machinery; do not know upon what
part of the boat the most part of the passengers
were at the time of the explosion; this connec.
ton which exploded is on the part of the boiler,
about halfway between decks, and is called
"the connection Of the return flues;" she had
on at the same time twenty pounds of steam to
| the square inch, and had not blown off any
steam at this landing.
Capt Farnham was here recalled, and said !:
| am practical engineer; the engine and boil
e1's pere undernly immediate superintendance
at the time of their construction ; the steamer
ras, also; I have examined the boilers and
machinery since their explosion, and hare par
ticulariy eran'ined the exploded part the
cause Of explosion, IN my opinion, is the de-
feet Of the iron of the connection, because the
thickness of the iron and the manner with which
it was braced, was sufficient to contain pres
sure of fifty pounds of steam to the square inch
in my opinion; and there being less amount
| of steam than fifty pounds on, | attribute the
explosion to the defect of the iron this connec
tion is about thirty feet from the safety valve
The cause Of most of the injury to the pas
sengers was in consequence of the water run
nirg down from the connection into the fires
time, the steam passed through into the cabin
where the passengers were dining. We usual,
| carry from twenty-five to thirty five pounds o
steam. The engine and boilers underwent re-
pairs last spring; no repairs were done to this
exploded part OF the machinery said machinery
has been ia use two years; it is customary tc
open the doors of the furnaces at the time of
landing, so as to stop the draft of the furnace,
and so that steam will not be generated while
landing; the reason why the part exploded was
not repaired, was because there was no indica-
ton of any defect
AT this stage Of the investigation the Coroner
and jury proceeded on board the Reindeer, and,
with the Captain, inspected the shattered boiler,
the demolished machinery, and all parts of the
| boat
| The jury subsequently rendered verdict
that the connection of the return tiues, ut
tached to the forward part of the boiler, on said
steamer, accidentally burst, and that such ac-
cident is not attributable to any negligence OF
carelessness on the part of the officers of the
boat, and that such sutfocation and scalding
by which the death Of the aforesaid persons was
produced, was in consequence of such accidental
| bursting, as aforesaid"
| In addition to the above, eight of the Rein
deer's passengers took the stage to Catskill, and
thirty seven hired other conyeyances, and left
Bristol for various places along the line of tht
Hudson river. In order to show about the mum
Der Of passengers that were on board of the
steamer Reindeer, at the time of the explosion
we give the following recapitulation of the killed
wounded and saved:
Killed and died of scalds, 26; scalded, q
passengers saved, 16S. Total, 2l5.
AN ACCURATE LIST OF THE DEAD UP TO LATE
HOUR.
James Brown, No 81 Renwick street, New
York; Frederick Morrell, Poughkeepsie; Fras.
Dunn, fireman on board the Reindeer Peter
Fouche, John Bowers, Robert Farrell, Jacob
Kocher, Solomon Savoy, (colored,) walters on
board the Reindeer Mrs Daniel Bowers, No.
9l6 Broadway, Albany; Norman p William
son, (son of Rev. George R Williamson,) Sara
toga county; John &. Rumbolt, attache Of
Spanish Consul, NewYork d. F. Holdridge, No
"A Eagle street, Albany; Thomas j. Barnes
Hugh Rileigh, Misses Samuella and Margaretts
Andrews, aged seventeen and nineteen, Rich
mond, Va; IL. Beach Cox, second engineer o.
the Reindeer; James Brown, deck hand, ditto
Miss Estelle Loop, aged twelve, daughter OF Johr
Loop, New York; Garwood Benway, steward Of
the Reindeer, Pine Plains, Newly ork John Sa.
voy, (colored,) waiter on the Reindeer; Ger
man waiter on the Reindeer, name unknown
Dennis Seboy, waiter, Rhinebeck Mrs Sarah
| N. Lockwood, Albany; A. W. Whipple, college
Suddenly Cambridge, Mass. Rev. George R
Williamson, Saratoga county.
LIST OF THE REMAINING sCALDED PASSENGERS
David N. Bowers, very dangerous, taken
home) Albany; Woods Baker, Princeton, New