Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-05-25

EXPLOSION OF THE JENNY LIND.-The explo-
sion of the steamboat Jenny Lind, is the chief
feature of the news in the San Francisco papers.
From the San Francisco Herald Of the 10Th ult.
we extract the following paragraph;
The Jenny Lind was on her way from Alviso
to this city with about $50 passengers. AT ten
minutes past twelve-the boat being then about
four miles from the west shore of the Bay-a
violent tremor was felt thro'out the boat, like
the conclusion produced by the firing of a can
non, and in a second after, a tremendous report
was heard, and the whole vessel was enveloped
in dense cloud of scadng steam. plate on
the after head of the boiler had been blown out,
and the steam and boiling water gushed out with
great violence The bulkhead separating the
boiler from the cabin, which was aft, was SILVER
ed into thousand fragments by the force OF the
shock and each fragment became u missile of
death and destruction.
The cabin was closely confined room, about
Is by 90 feet, with small windows looking out
upon sort of gangway that interviewed between
it and the railiugs IL was just about dinner
ime-the table was spread and five minutes be-
fore, the ladies', children, and gentlemen in
charge of ladies' had been introduced into the
cabin, so that they might not be incommoded
bv the rush to dinner when the bell should ring );
They were about seating themselves at the ia
BILE some of the ladies were already seated.-
Just at this moment the explosion took place
the dense volume of steam rushedinto the cabin
and instantly pervaded it. All who were strick-
EN- down wilted as if by the heat They were
scalded frightfully, externally, and all inhaled
the fearful steam. Not one escaped; they were
all killed instantly, or have since died
Many of them had their clothes literally torn
from them; the skin was entirely burnt of their
faces and bodies The sight they presented
was horrible beyond description; they were not
simply scalded, but all were more or less man.
gled by the fragment of the boiler and bulk
head, and streams Of blood flowed from their
mutiated bodies. Some few Of the gentlemen
managed to grope their way out of the cabin
crying piteousy to those above to save their
wives and children When some of the passen-
gers who were unhurt rushed below, the sight
that presented itself staggered them, and some
became faint. They found the dead and the dy-
ing in confused mass on the floor, covered with
fragments of chairs tables, furniture and timber,
and horrible to relate, they were writing in
scalding water, which lay six inches deep on tho,
floor.
Poor little children were crying piteousy
for their mothers, who could hear, but blinded }
could not sec. Mothers were shrieking with
agony or calling upon some one to save their
children The picture even in recollection, is
most heart-reudng Such was the scene in the
cabin.
Those of the passengers who were standing
on the forward part of the upper deck were
nearly all saved. A few only were scalded and
those not dangerously. Those about midship,
right over the boiler, were entirely uninjured.-
But the most terrible destruction of life was on
the after part of the upper deck, just over the
cabin. Here large number OF passengers
were congregated. After the steam bad done
its work of destruction in the cabin, 1t burst
up the companion way and in an instant swept
those in its path TO the deck like grain before
the sickle. Not a man around stood fifty lay
PROSTATE, scalded, wounded, shrieking with ag-'
ony or moaning in the last moments Of life.