Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-04-20
Explosion at Pittsburgh.

O"t seieStaPnic dispatches nave announced the
explosion ola steamboat at Pittsburgh. The jour
'at gives the following particulars
.SrEAM FERRY Boar GEN. Scorr ExrLopEp.-
iheEEngineer kiited-Seperdlothcr dang erousiy
tnJmed.-'fhe steam ferry boat Gen. Scott, which
runsirom uie Point to the Lower Ferry Landing,
boilers.
Jacob Hadley, engineer, was instantly Killed
He was young man &c years of age, was former
ly in the employ of a. II. Holmes Il o.. in their
Shovel Factory. a He leaves vile and one child.
The Scott was years old.
Hadey had been in the empoy.of Messrs Jones
since last fall with the exception of weeks.
A coroner's jury having been called. the fol
lowing testimony was ELECTED:
w. Barnes, sworn-The Sc )tt had made Trim
| and came back and had laid at the sho.e about s
minutes; there were passengers oil board; have
seen these eight passengers since. When the ex-
pios,on took place was standing in front of the
toll house; ran down and saw the engineer lying
on the shore quite dead. Question-Have you no.
| tieed the engineer pushing the boat? 1 have, and
cautioned HIM but yesterday not to dot. What
drew my attention was h s having extra weight
on the valve; the weight might have been five
pounds extra.
Capt. Patterson, swo III have noticed the fet-
ry boats racing, both the Scott and Pawnee, with
the Walk,r. l never was on board when the boats
were racing. remarked to:the man that some of
the boats would blow up owing to SO much racing,
and was afraid different times in crossing at the
way they carried steam. Yesterday evening
I'll,
man come up aud try the water, and found plenty.
do not know whether it was a competent engi-
| neer, on The Scntt.
William Leslie, sworn-His testimony " a about
! the same as the last witness; he saw three men
in the river making for the shore; they were all
taken out. -.
MI. Jones, sworn-Notlng worthy of note was
eiIcited; pad Hadley the same wages as other en-.
slneers; always cautioned him TO carry low steam:
allowed no drinking by any OF the crew; last fall
thought discovered defect in the better head:
called on ME- Reese and had new head nut in
'niS was 10 ny ar. Reese, whowas present.
X. Caskey, sworn-About74 o'clock lcrossed
on the Terry boat, Allegheny /; two other persons
were with me; as we passed along, we saw n wa.
goa loau OF nay going on board the Scott; we Lad
, ,ioe rioceeuea lat, when we heard an explosion;
TWO reports louder than cannon. We look ed
nack and saw fragments flying in ell directions; by
the Time the smoke cleared away, we saw Two wo.
men standing on board, aud two men in the rlyer,
| making for shore; before we reached them ono ~
| Inc men had rea ched the raft; we helped to ke
the man outi his leg was broken. We saw two
other persons that had been blown ashore OF, yns
| the engineer
J.-CIatt, swcrn-I was up town al the time IL
happened, don't know much about this engineer:
he had run ferry boats before; don't know that he
carried extra steam; don't know that he was n
utlnklng man; never saw him the worse for liou, r.
nave seen INN run with the Walker.
The Jury odjourned to meet at the Mayors Of
! flee al p. NJ, on Saturday
Inc Boat was total wreck. The following is
list OF the killed and injured.
Ihe Engineer, Jacob Hadley, was Instantly
killed. Injured: Johnston Phillips, young maj
was struck with piece OF iron on the head, anl
slightly injured. Mr.: Daugherty Cor Laugherty1
wa, was on board with load OF hay; the wagon aud
bay were blown into the river: one ho,s. was an
stantiy ki;le', and the other. although blown tito
tue river. swan ashore uniniuIed. Mr.. Daupher-
" dld not escape so easily, he was blow into the
river and had his leg broken in two places; he is
| not considered in danger.
MI. J. Kinney and wife were on board. The
vile, vile escaped uninjured. Mr.. Kinney was badly
injured; he was blown into the river, but was
red in the head. '''A-
young man named Byers Davis of Tempe
ranceyille had q wrist and leg broken; he was
conveyed home md is doing well.
4; a daughtero OF AIR. Aaron Frew, ofTemperance-
jury. ~
One of The boilers was blown about 800 feet.
The other was supposed 10 have gone al least Jlou.
BILE the distance.