The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1857-06-20
BURNING or THE LOUISIANA.
DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE.


fol stennihos, disasters, and of ships burn.
ing At sen but unit! Sunday morning ls.,
we had never been n witness OF such a
calamity aud nay God preserve us from
the sigh. of such another scene
About one o'clock las, Sunday morning
our citizens were aroused by the alarm of
FIRE, when /, was dI.coy, ed that the | :
Mail steamship. Louisiana, from Nata-
gorda Bay with freight aud passengers,
sbou, three miles at sea. abreast aud
South OF the city, was on hse.
She lett Powder horn aboe, = o'clock
or Saturday. and had on board, II Is thought
about l0s souls, abou, 80 Of wbpm are
supposed to have persisted. 80 We're
saved.
The FIRE WAS seen from the s,aamsh p
Galveston. also on her way from Mata-
gorda Ba, to this port, about three hours
behind the Loui.ara, bat 1t Was thought to
DO on shore aud the officers Of The Gal.
weston were fits, appri1ed Of the catastro
phe, on hearing the cries of those n the
water. left behiud boy he wreck As 1t tlpat-
ed to the east ward.
Deaf, anil Bodic, Recovered Phil y
Niliholse, Alabama. old man Joel uncle
Joel Hamilton. Gonzales VI G. Mills.
Clinton, Louisiana Col Hen cambridge.
t. ). A., Elizabeth ttavers. chamb.tm d /,
Mrs Tschaeke, New Branniels German
lsly aud supposed grand child, > yr;
Another German lady, unknown; Henry
-- Potter.
Missing und Ceriasaly lest l., J
Brown, bar keeper, Negro man ot t,eve'
lend OF i.aysea, lrsn1 Ischaeke aud
three children. New Bunuf-l-; Young
Nhlhouse. Alabama; " + Dixon. Alex
andra. Virginia Mrs. Mitchell, tlbi,o,
Texas, or New otieAns Benny d
EU,r, 10 years old, IudlAuuia; Il
&. Bfenhau. Columbia Mssoufi --..
Temps. iii, soldier wth Col Btnhrdge;
Lacy Jones aud lady Aaron Clark ; I.
\. Nance, lUdiauola, John Thompson, -
Engineer Edward McNauus. ~ steward /,
Onr neg'o man belonging TO Oscar faush
Three cooks.
Sared Capt Henry Shepard, Cons
mauder, thss II Hughes. clerk. >. ID.
Clark, lst mate; Andrew smith, : I m ie :
John Driseoli, cabin boy, Richard fnu,
l., Engineer Michael Iloviey, aud H., al
Cowley fremeu Samuel Walkef. pan
tryman; Christian Sohsrph, pss yman /;
james Brown. atehmau, John ilo"s"S,
fireman; A. D. Cleveland, lady. ehli,
servant girl. Lavacs; John l.. Wheeled,
lndianols Dsnie l>ulivan, Lavacs, 7. :.
Miller, New York Moses ". Garrison :;
G.. ". Grover, Galveston, Negro boy ct
Nilhouse, Ala, ". K. Friend. Clinton,
Dewitt Co, Negro woman and man n
Mr. Friend Ross Kennedy, Texas, Nr.
Elizabeth lIsft, Corpus Christi; Miss. \
T.. frlsbie, Phelps, Ou'ario Co. y. \ (,
Dr.. John l.. Esty. Charlottesville Nugu,A (,
Mss Iacharke, / years her alaer
mother, and 3 chldien lost; Smy'he
Akaaudna. Va d. Young Euly Va,
Slaughter " Ficklin. Charlottesville. Va !,
+ DR.. Atnold Columbia Missouri; John
sanford, Iexsns, Texas Samuel Nhi.,
i.consin; VI We'd, t,olisd Frank '.
B d Stucken. reder'ckshnfg, fexas Joseph
Hill, lndisnols; II +. truger, Wan I.
" Woodward, James I. Mons, stephen
MONS, John Eel, Geo, sm,th, "
O sullivan, +. Thompson, Henry Dg's'f.
4 II Smth. l. Ls,leychun", Joha Nc
Mann. John Csn,pbell. Johu Owen.
Total saved, 81
To. names OF all that were rescued by
the Galveston, were sot taken on the boat
owing we suppose 10 the .temeHt and
confession on basfd AID the sueut1n give
en- t. the more necessary wolb oi relieving
their physical aaj peean',fy wants. y
soon a. the boat touched the whsH. mauN ui
a Il
tered through the city. and the names ct
any large proportion OF them could only
he s.eettsinrd by ntnch labor sni inqn"Y
We have gwen all We could thus oLta.n,
bat presume gate number arc OMITTED
aud never VIII be reported
Those that we're saved werc thrown
among u without dollar and S'mosi IA.
k.J and in many cases with nothing bat a
shir, Mayor John Henry hfooH, bele's'
iop that he would but express the t'ei'ns :
OF every citizen ol na.yeston, appointed
N,..rs J SotIey, James G.. Had Hni
James VI Brown. committee to PROV IT,
and furnish them with all necessary elo'h'
,np at the expense oi the citv' Ito ss'
had all the dead bodies, uot otherwise pr'
uded for. deeoutiy inferred. goo much
nr,ise cannot be awarded to those co1'
cerned 10 rcscuing aud caring l'r The LIVING
and burying the dead, the oih'er 81 'he
boats, aud The ch,z,ns OF Galveston.
Two of the passengers OF the Louisiana
Mesr. Nilpr and Gattison, observed two
OF the German deck passengers smoking
their pipes over the aslehway a. ! O'clock
at night Tne Mr.~eet Hay WAS directly
under the hatchwsy. and these gentiensu
remarked to each other tbs dagger oil sueh
csr.leancss The ffe broke out two boaf'
sfier. - Christian i!rara'c,
Sam Houston. the renegade Demoef"
and Southern Know Nothing caiei, hA'
announced himself candidate Tor Gov
amor OF Texa. In DONG So, he i' hn'
enie,iog upon the last scene OF his Pel'i'es
oh.eaules The true hearted Demoefaol
Of Ir.s. val not be lurcd from their ale
risaoe 70 principle 10y the lafe OF
name which has los, much Of It's borrowed
f.d,encs Mfabesu u Lamar long s'nee
"p,a-d thai hon. hiie.
And hung cas- 'A'N an those f'.iaAh' '""S
Tn, name Of Houston is no laagef tai
i.m,nic IN Texas Daaehad tLo) Hfs
,sler.
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