The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-09
Dreadful accident on Board the Steamer
Bay State.
DEATH OF two " TIE SUFFERERS.

DEATH OF TWO VI TAE SOFRBSKRS.
Her Boaler Broken By shs Failing oftss Crs"k
.Tsa Pssse.s Badly scaaseS-soms In
Bangor OF Dying arrival OF she ss00nocd
ann Ualnjased in New York.
dreadful ACCIDENT occurred board ina steamer bAy
ssats commanded BY Captain W n BrswnA whsa on
her psssass from FAN River TO ths CITY, aosut half
pact three O'Clock ye.tsrdsy morning
The heat left Fall River at O'Clock Wednesday
evening with nearly or hundred and sixty pAssssgsr,
Who had t.hsn their departure from Boston By ths five
O'Clock tain When the boat between Bridge ,oet
aro Aassn and of Black Rock sx mss this side II
the Torn or her crank pin broke, and the csSk fell
the boiler ~tb tremendous crash. The cons~qasncs
that At the revolution the head OF the cyiiudsr
kps ei,d off and the sscapes With great force
Moet Of the pssSer gsr in the state roons Ssd
they had remained there would probably have been
ued Ash Of the bseak'Dg maohioery
and three OF the sscspisg steam they
naturally much ALARMED ard into ths saloons
ascertain tho anc seek ZONE means OF sscA <
Hence a Dunc+r scsjdsd more or lSss severely,
sth oueh fortul ately instantly killed Many
Of tn ore e0ough to crses out
Of TIE wind. aod cngios co every PArt OF tue
boat in the sroaest confederation anxiety aud disss
Captain Bro displayed great cooloess and prs-aoce
thought p,evtnec cAlsmt, from ooiog more extso
stye and fatal signal rockets OF distress ursd
of by his and short time tbs srighved
passepesrs bad pleasure CT seeing that he stsser
Connecticut Csp'sis Willie cone Ia sight. and ali
vsr~ py board AID sooveet to thi, city,
where they arrived eleven O'Clock yesterday morn
ing.
LIST OF THE wOUNDRD.
-Four ladies' Isis ,er.) Of tho o.me Of De Vote the
daughters of Nj W u. Devote, Of Ch,csgo llioois.
IN. you, ladies terriols scaded They taken
tie New York City Hopts Ard fe,rs woe entert .ned
to.. ,be IL jur,es ~oa prove II all Of
them Their psu es Aoa Euz. D7Wofs assi sixteeo
Charlotte Dewofs seeo fourteen Mary Dswolfs aged tsa
and Maria D.wls AGED sight Their rcsid are oh'shy
spor ,hs face the upper po'ior Of he cae.t ard tn
Inn = They were immediately placed under the care OF Dr.
hrby who has attentive 20 hts tntsresues
paden.s Trer her. Oh escaped injury u IN atten
dance upon them at the hospital At four "ct"rA yea-
terday Dr. n rb, con idered the Gao OF Maria
az being very bad but entertained slight hope, of her
ultimate recovery
Miss Charlotte Stow of Dartmouth, Mass. THIS lady
was also tai En- Ct Hospital Mass Srow Ia scad-
I'd badly the and less severely on the 'acs but
the rest of her p.rsor is uDiDjured.
Mr. T. Warren Of Dartmouth, Mass was sesltsd 80 as
to endanser life de was also conve,s to the City Hos
and ID feared internally although bis medical attendant
had not expressed decided opinion last evsaing to
his chance o. recovery
br. Wilson, Of Water street, New York, was slignuy
soAldsd. Removed hone
Miss Dosemus, OF New York. whs was In the company
of Mr. wiltn was also slightly scAldsd.
Miss Basen Of Fall River had hands terribly scald
3D. This lady WAS taken to the Aston Hose, New
York.
Mr.. j. Abbott of Boston had hi, two hands scAldsd
to destroy the eutIe skin Of each far his
wrists He Il at the Aston House, under the Of
Dr. Bssmis OF hsdford MASS who was a pas.
ssDasr and escaped from injury.
Two or three ladies. whose names w have not vet
learned, sghty scald.d about thu fA,e neck.
Injuries very triang.
Dr. Beemis, Mr. J N Hastings OF Msdford. Mass;
heesrs W c. Stone, 7 Blanchard, F Stone, JOSEPH
Richardson. N C. Ma sh, Samuel Grinnsl, and S P.
Gilbert all of Boton safe the Aston House. with
other gentlemen
The Bay State LEFT living at New Haven.
The steamer State Of IAns which left this city fr
Fan River yesteld morning with tsenty Eve thirty
pAsser gers finding that the Bay State disabled PIT
back, and took her place In tho line last evening".
Some Of the passengers thus delayed much irr'ta
ted bat the majority yielded to the force Of circumz
vi, bout murmuripg
ing occasion Is very highly spoken Of By all the parties
upon tho steamer at the time Of the lament.b oe-
His profess onAl aid tendersd Ia the most
prompt during the remainder of the journey
and also given after the arrival soanded in New
York.
1t win be from the proce dngs reported oeio~
that the pssse DO not attach blame to tue officers
OF the Be, State The accident to have
voidAble, ard when it occurred they did sl in ther
power alleviate the distress Of ery person in their
charge.
AT meeting of the passengers of the steamer Bav
State her late passage from Fall River held board
the STEAMER Connecticut Thu, day, Sept 1853 s. W
ThomIs op Esq OF New York appointed CD .rmAn;
jonathan Bhss, ESQ. Of Gainesville Alabama, G
Wheeler, Esq Ct Boston ard j. Z Fiber E.q. u
Bosroo, appointed commit to draft Resolutions
and Edwin Wl.on chosen IS secretary.
The committee retired and after short absence 10.
turned 9Th the following report
view Of tbs unfortunate disaster which happened this
pp hoard 70. s s s s a,
you'd herewith their s'inss Of tu CAPT
1s and bis sr. the ssas.
'u S s s *. .s a. Iii, .u..o,
due to Captain Bro~o Of Bay stst. 60 Mr. stckne
ssvocn spd kindpes. which they .eversy naoastedoa
sss. 'iyss oceAsoD arc alo 20 saptsn wii.as ana NJ.
and re. ,ss y.h they sid for thsi kind and
gene ous pAthy With the amfcttd
Fesoiveo, That Ut. T. Beemis OF Medfr I'd MAss and
DR. Howe Of Phi adepha, are entitled to NEST
gratitude for their rns devotion TO the unhappy
fereTs
Resolved molten That the Of the COMMITTEES be
adopted ard that che Proceedings OF meeting De pub
i''0'' IN VIC ~" w THOMPSON. Chairman.
In behalf of two hundred and nfty passengers.
WrLaoN sesy.
We Informed BY Dr. Beems that the ladies' whose
he did not know but Who had been sghtly s.ah
3D. not much injured and It is probable they
TO heir respective houses and hotels At an advanced
hour last mig hit reporter could not learn any oci
account Of the accident upon ipqung at the Office Of the
company At pier No 3North River bat 1t considers ed
that the above statement embraced all the facts Of the
cAe
FURTHER PARr1euLARs-Tw0 OF THE SUFFERERS
DEAD.
Last evening We Waited the New York Hospital, and
received the following Information relative TO the suffer
ers