The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-04-21
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STEA ENPI OSION

Steamboat RedStone bio,bn np-tmeniy TO forty
Hres iost-many mounded--boat entircly aes.
troyed-baggnge, bO0ks and papers a toici loss
-inc;dents, &c.
On Saturday, II NJ the opposition Cincin-
natl and Madison packet ReGstnne, left Madi-
son tor Cincinnatl, on trial Of speed, with a
bout twenty cabin passengers. The number on
deck is not known. The officers and
numbered about twenty persons. Sac landed
at Carr"llon and took on number OF passen-
gers and then pushed out and started on. Upon
arriving at SCOTS landing, four miles above
Carroton, at the foot of Craig $ bar she was
call in for passenger, the Rev. Perry A.
Scott, Baptist minister formerly stltioned III
Covingtnn and recently in Warsaw, KY. Mr.
Scott Lad been on visit to his parents and
thee sisters accompanied him tn the landing to
witness his departure as the sequel proved nts
he presence of his God The Redst ne sllov
ed out hundred yards. Strong wind was blow
ng in shore, and il with difficulty that sh,.
cond back her way out. At the see nd revo-
lotion she naa, to start forward, her three boil
ers exploded at the same time, wi h a tremeH-
dous nous, shatierng and tearing the boat it,
orally to atoms. She sunk in less than three
minutes. in twenty feet wafer. The ladies'
cabin and aft part of The at, from the main
deck up, in its shattered condition, took f.e, and
burned down to the wa er's edge. l., the explo
sion her chimneys were blown nearly across the
flyer. Between q and 40 persons, it is thou III
ere instantly killed, and many seriously injur
| ed.
The river was covered with email pieces o
timber, bedding, wearing applrel, &c :, &c.
while the tr es in the imtn, date vicinity, On the
Kentucky shore, covered with cl1Ihnw
btddiug &c The sccAc, ; il presented itself
is indesc liable. Eleven were blown shoe
.l,
The lst engineer, bert Barry, and striker
or 3i engine, r,--!Intci, rs n, were fouEt
near together, in an opeu field, over one hundrc,
yards from the river. An opening near the tol
If large oak trer, ov'r one hundred feet hg,
was made by the engineer VIII" pas ed thr 'ugh
stripping han ,ntirrlv Of his cl5 5thing, ana tear
,n5 large pieces of flesh from his body. Z
piece of one OF the boilers, We Ching near fit
teen hundred p uld%, was found distance a
one hundred yards from The place OF DIS strr
and other pieces at various distances, so.ne a
iGja yards off.
Tao two engineers were entirely naked, S
mangled and torn hat III y were sc Ircely rocog
nizable. The second engineer, Lewis Barry
was found IN corntirld, all manged aud tor
to piec S. Mr. Go bic, editor OF the Law rrnct
burgh Register, and Myers, foreman in hi
office, were found al distance Of about Xt
yards from the boa, badly scaldcd, bum
and mutllaicd, that .hey were hardy known
Capt Pa was blown Into the river, breakin
a eg, racturing a knee, Blu ming his face, al!
otherwise injuring him 81 badly, that his rec",
cry is considered d ,ubtul. The pilots. Charl
, Jackson, If Ris NJ Sun, lad , and Sidney Lan4
ley, of Aurora, Uhe la ter at the whe, ~ ",
seriously niur, d internally the former il
SAID, may recover The clerk, MIR. Sopa
was standing near The office door when the c,
pl ST n took place. lie was thrown into III
air distance of nearly two hundred feet. an
fell into the EVER, but recev,d d no serious inj,
ry He swan ashore, and seeing fellow b.
inr struggling in the water, plunged in TO h
{ assistance and succeeded in rescung bin. L!
pers II proved to be Capt. Pate. There WEI
:. two lady passengers on board 'hry and IL
r chambrrinaid were in the ladies cabin at u
? time oflhe disaster, and were nninjur' d AIT
the boa, to X fire, one Of the ladies' sprang in
# the river, and was rescued by a gentleman fro
the shore A skif wns sent to the relief OF u
remaining two, who were saved the moment Il
flames were about to envelope them. At tt
e time the deck was in flames, and 1t was impo
3; sbe to rescue those who were in that part
ID the boat the number thus destroyed has n
as been ,scertaned Several spfang into tie ri,
- ard were drowned.
k, Thomas Bates, the bar-keeper found hims
.ir about 100 yards distant on part of The huf
cane roof He was badly scalded and injur