The true Democrat., 1855-07-24
The Lexington Explosion.
 Full Particulars.

The Louisville papers, of the 2d inst, have full particulars of the dreadful explosion on board the steamboat Lexington, Capt. Throop brief notices of which we have already had. It appears the Lexington was on her way from St. Louis to Louisville, having about eighty persons on board, including passengers and crew, and that while under way in the Ohio river, about o'clock on the morning of the 3Oth ut., when near the town of Rome, Ind, 100 miles below Louisville, all the boilers ex- ploded killing anI wounding nearly one half of the people on board. The Louisville Cou- rier says: The upper works of the boat, forward of her water wheels, were blown to fragments, throw ing the sleeping passengers and the crew about like "chatf before the wind," many of them falling in the river, and others alighting among the fragments of the burning boat and red hot furnaces on the lower deck, as the boat almost on the instant of the explosion, caught fire, thus exposing the survivors of the wreck to the horrors of either being burnt alive or drown ed At this juncture the boat careened and commenced sinking, when wood boat was caught and that, together with skiffs, and the steamers J. c. Fremont and D. A. Given, which came up, saved many lives.
 The J. c. Fremont, with eight of the survi- vois, all wounded, reached this port on Satur- day evening. The D. A. Given staid by the wreck some time, and arrived here yesterday morning with good many of the wounded and passengers who were saved
 Capt. Wood had his boat turned into regu- lar hospital at once, and was most assiduous in his care and attention to the wounded.
 Capt. Throop, who was terribly burnt went back to St. Louis, accompanied by his mate, John Johnson, first engineer, MT. Davidson the clerk and number of the crew, on the Balti- more. The boat turned bottom upward, and
 sunk near Stephensport. The second mate was standing near the forward pitts at the time
 of the explosion, and the first thing he knew he caught the captain in his arms. The latter
 was OF the hurricane deck the moment before. f Several of the passengers who were saved, in- ) cluding Capt. T. White, who arrived on the Given, knew nothing of the disaster till they found themselves in the river in their night dress, among the floating portions ot the wreck. f How they were saved, or in what manner they reached the shore, was equally mystery.
 The second engineer, Willis, who was on
 watch was killed, and his assistant saved. The second clerk and assistant bar keeper were kill
 eo' ana two ilremen, names not known, burnt to death Tn their hunks. Two passengers who got on at Smithland, were killed. One of them
 was gentleman about thirty years of ace. me- dium size, with brown hair and dark sandy goatee. Mir. Wiley Johnson, of Madison
 had his leg broken and received several con- tusions. He was taken to Madison. A Ger man deck hand and a colored man who lived ) back of New Albany, died on the D. A. Given. All the ladies, children and passengers in the
 after part of the boat were saved unhurt. One or two dead bodies and portions of the wreck ] were met by the Rainbow, thirty five miles be-
 low the scene of the disaster.
 The Lexington lacked only a few days of : being five years old. She had been packet