Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-03-25
Shaking Of TIC John I. AyerE.

Sinking Of the John L, Avery.
We have received us many as twenty
d.iicrrn! accounts %! tho los Of the John
L. Avery om ,he Mississippi. They dif.
fer wldciy-somc putting the loss
ot lives at iOuy, fly una even Seventy,
and others Is low as i've. The Cinrjn
natl Times has the latest, and probably,
III ST c1rrcc, repnTi lr0m the i,saster. We
cap fron / sue OF TIC 20ll:
fhe officers If this tilficd steamer ar
Iived here On The steamer Duke. aud the
Jacob Strader. las, evening. and from Mr.
/ Guthrie, the first engineer, we have vi.
particulars 0f the terrible disaster. |; is
not true, as has been stated thar h b at
was overloaded, auu WIS Swumppd in
ia heavy gale This is due Cap. Roh>
inscn, who is one ui the mos, careful Of
steamboat commanders, AT the time the
boat struck, she had just rounded Black
Hawk point, about forty miles below Nat
chez. The wind was h!0wIng strong al
the time. but up stream, and the guards
we're from foot to eighteen inches out Of
Wdt"r.
| At the time Of the accident, Mr. Guth.
rle and the carpenter were standing lust
forward the boilers. They heard crash
like the teariug away of iImbers, and tae
boat made a sudden surge to one side -
The carpenter Immediately lifted the scut.
tie hatch and jumped into the hold, but
inding the waller pouring in. he made
haste TO get out again, at the same time
calling to the engineer that the boat was
sna. ged. MIR. Guthrie saw thai the boat
was going down, and hastened to The en-
glnes. but before he got there he was up
to his knees III water.
He told all to hasten to the upper deck,
and then stopped the engines. As he a,
ceDdetl the stairway the cabin, the VA
ter followed him; and when he reached
The cabin deck, the water there was up
to his knees. He ran into the cabin to
see if any of the passengera were there.
and found four gentlemen and two ladies',
far to the Stern, endeavoring TO open the
door. One of the ladies screamed to him
70 save her, when the boat careened,
throwing them all into deep water, and
i forcing him through the passage way on
10 the guard. He succeeded In getting
On the hurricane roof, where he found
nearly all the cabin passengers and The
officers Of the bo t.
At that moment the boat rieh'ed, the
! hull separated from tie cabin and sank in
sixty feet water. As the hull parted from
the upper toIks, the surs'ng Of the va
trrs forced the cabin floor against the hur.
rIcane roof completely wrecking all save
the decks, aud at The same time forcing
the six persons whom Mr.. Guthrie hac
Sc EN- IN the cabin, to the sky-ights, ans
they were assisted out safe by ,he cap'air
nd his two clerks.
One Of these laGies was rescued viii
much difficulty. She had child in he
arms, and after being relieved of it, sh'
said she had another child, and positivel,
refused TO be AIKEN to the sky>ligh, unit
she could fad her babe. She heeocd no
their assertions that the cabin was
wreck, and would have plunged into
wa,ery grave in pursuit Of her infant ha
she not been actually forced 10 a place {
safety.
: This had not been Two minutes fror
he ,,mn rl,o boa, had struck, and the seen
, then presented was terriDle Those VIII
had b en- on the lower deck, were noun
dering in tn. river in every diroc'ion-
! some struggling in vain with he iurb,
; len, waters, and others clinpnr to tn
fragments Of .te wreck. and os,ariu9 tn
SIS r.>to.aa screams .or help. For,
nateIy, the steamers Su,IAna aD" GiaHaa
y were III ght, AHA b, b caoe 70 the re-
u cue Of the h,pte,s passengers a1d crew
the rrmains of ,he cabin were to"cd in1
sn0Tn. nnd a nUln1eT Gt those N1atinI
the wafer were rescued by the yaW!s
the two steamers.
ihe number lost Is no. nor p'obah'
II never will be known f'I'y'lhree pa
seng"rs were IN tie cabin, and lara
number on Deck and the loss Of lite "
e amount to a! least si%ly .r seventy!
twenty -hve tl'emen, only nine are a
counted lor, and 1t IS colta'n ,ha' the Sc st,
"nd ma'e' the second steward, several