The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-06-14
STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION IN ORE
CON

T,oenty Fire Ices lost Toenty Fire ,eoundcd.
An extra from the office of the Oregon Spec
tator, published at Oregon City, dated April Sth
received in this city Yesterday, from Thos. Pope,
Esq contains the following.
1.-THE Willamette Fall Co.'S new steamer
Gazette, left her wharf this morning at 81
o'clock, and had just landed at Canemah at Is
minutes before Z, when a terrible explosion OF
hor boilers blew her into atoms, killing 20 per-
sons and woundng many others.
"Probably more heart rending scene has ne
yer occurred on the Pacific coast AS
the smoke cleared away little, hundreds of citi-
zens, who ready to assist the dying
gathered on the wreck, and the work oil aid com
meGced
''Fragments of bodies were found scattered in
every direction some were blown into the ri
yer, others on to the shore; but the greater part
of the killed found, were lying about the deck
iorW ard, among all kinds of fractured machine-
ry and freight. A more horrible sight can hard
ly be imagined MIR. David, Page Chief
Superintendent of the Company, had his head
literally dashed to pieces, and could not have
been recognized by other means than his clothes.
MaDJ others We're as badly mutilated"
In the list o. killed, we notice the name of Is
MIR. 'rgan, from Des Moines county, Iowa.
Oregon from this county.
VIII CAN BE DONE WITH SEvEN-EIGHTs
| OF AN AcRE.--A cores pondent of the Louis
vile Journal writes follows
Gentlemen:-A little more than a month
age, the following article appeared in one or
more of our city papers,
! sProduct,oa Of seren-aghts of an .acre Of
Land have just ssven eIghts of OF
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small but comfortable dwelling house, carriage
house, smoke house, wood house, and barn, a
w cd yard barn yard, and lane, FIVE rods long,
| from thence to the road also, front yard, four
| by SIX rods. BY this time, perhaps, the reader
| is about ready TO say, well, that about occupies
| you seven eIghts of an But also have a
| garden upon the same seven Fights Of an acre,
| from which raised the summer past, all the
onions, squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes,
sweet potatoes sweet corn, asparagus, pie plant,
| beets, muskmelons, beans, peas, and cabbages
| that were wanted for ny family use "a family
| OF six persons besides working men) during the
| time of using garden sauce. And, after the
maturity of the crop, gathered for fall and
winter use, half bushe onions, seven bushels
potatoes, half bushel sweet corn, and fifty nine
cabbage heads.
| have small nursery also upon this seven
Fights ut acre, consisting of over 1000 trees,
mostly of fine size for transplanting, comprising
apple, peach, pear, plum, cherry, ounce, and
grape trees During the time OF leasling, we
! have had raspberries, and currants, almost with
out measure-bushels of each. Cherries,
peaches, pums, pears, grapes, and apples have
/ been used as Tree water how many | cannot
| tell | have sold from the same seven Fights
of an acre, trees 10 the amount Of S,7I 0S. Fruit
for cash:-cherries, So %; peaches, Sl3 SO;
pears, So 80; oIums, 81 so; ounces, 81; and
erapes, So 75-AIaking in the aggregate, Sllo
| - have put 30 bushels Of choice winter
! apples in cellar and to finish off the list,
| have cut from 400 TO 500 pounds of COED hay.
This is correct statement of seven Fights
of an acre of land in Ritchtield, Summit County
| OHIO.
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