Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-02-11
BURNING or TN, STEAMBOAT GEORGIA.

FROM THE NEW oRLHA Ms DELTA OF JANUARY o.
One Of thos terribly hesi trendng DISASTERS which pu
too often occur, and which ring aesoa,oh anu asep
row on many socia and do nestle Circle look place pe
tween the hours Of IL and l2 o'clock on Saturday night
last At the lake terminus Of sh Carroton and Pontchar
train Railroad. -
The steamboat Ge,rqa Cspt RoBERrs, arrived at the
railroad wharf at aboat II osoc she haa one
and eighty passengers board, anu was eay -
with cotton The bow-line had DsS anra1d +; dra,r
wharf and of the deck hnnds were eneageu ~
ing in the of the steamer WI zen tne nre mas us
covered bursting out with amazsA apo,y ham,;no :;
boilers Strange to say, the men ~ had hniS nf
the steamers stern dropped the Fp e tney nAs ~ ~.
and the body OF the vessel swung On again ivn wy
wharf. The flames spread with neontrohaoie iuiy'
and minute had scarcely elapsed bsE ne S .a sa
fagration prevailed in every portion oi ho ii-iasu
vessel.
The screeohes of afrighted msn wo n, and children
the fierce cracking of the fre-fend e loud pray OF
mules and the believing of oxen madden % by the neat
and smoke which surrounded them ming LED IN strange
and terrible discoriance Imagination ma form LOT u
self some faint picture of the scene but de rpon fal
The passengers were chiefly planters via their lann
lies and negroes, on their way to Texas me' ranuc
with terror
-"leaped overheard with dreadful YELL
As eager to anticipate their grave =
while some with superhuman might, flung hes children
from the hurricane deck to the wharf, and lea l after
them, mutated and saved perchlnce drown
ed Most Of the children who were THUS flung on the
wharf were less injured by bruises or soca-
tons. One woman who fell or jumped from ths cabin
floor to the main deck, caught the points the
horns OF infurated and torn most dreadM uy
But the hrowed her into the water and she ed
OF the negroes board Of the boat twenty least ere
lost Scarcely single family saved entire Afah, ~
who had rescued his wife and six children went bacf
a seventh and lost. A young man returned to IA
boat to look for female friend, but the flames yawIe
around him like hell and be numbered With g the
uureurning brave. father saved three Of hischil.
ren but his wife and six others left their asfesinth
funeral pyre of the Georgia. young husband lost hs
wife, and he sat apart the wharf if Indifferent
whatever else might befall him. child three months
old taken to the hotel but had relative claim
it, and knew whose child it was. A young ripn,
who lost his father and mother appeared to be
cerned about 900 which his father had left in the safe
of the boat than about the loss his parents But these
are mere incidents of the confagraton
The list Of passengers consumed, and, nclist
taken of those who saved the entire loss of life
cannot be correctly estimated. Mr.. Jackson and one
child of Barbour county, Alabama, lost his wife
aud eight children saved Mrs. Jolly and child
OF Randolph county, Georgia, lost; Mr. j.
saved. b. F. Loftin of Lenoir county, North Carolina,
was saved, but lost two negroes Rev. j. McCarter of
Clinton, Georgia, lost three negroes he and his wife
saved, though the latter badly injured DR.. j.
NJ Young, from Hancock county, Georgia, lost his
want boy his books, surgical Instruments and clothing
Mrs Davidson from Macon county, Alabama, lost
raj negroes. Dir. Graham, from Williamsburg, South
Carolina, lost two negroes and $500 in gold Thomas j.
McLanathan, of Bristol Connecticut is missing j. b.
Hubbard, of Bristol Connecticut saved but lost his
baggage, &c. ssts \.
The Georgia had 1890 bales Of cotton on board all of
which lost, together with two hundred bales which
the steamboat Helen, from Mobile. The railroad
house and about one hundred feet of the wharf
The loss Of property cannot have been less than
$780, 600