New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-06
Later from Texas.
.lrEAeEDY n SAN AaroNfo

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.!TEAGEDY IN SAN ANTONIO 1s
" By the steamship opelonsas, Capt. Ellis, at Ber,
wicks Bay, we have Galveston papers to Thursday
last The following from the News shows the exact
number Of persons lost by the burning OF thsa
Louisiana:
Mr.. G. H. Hughes, the purser, gives the follow
ing more correct list of the officers and crew Of the
louisiana and this he believes entirely full and COM
Officers and crew-Captain Henry Sheppard Mate
8. D.. Clark Second Mate, A. Smith Engineer, r.,
Finn Second Engineer. John Thompson Clerk, G..
Hughes Barkeeper, E. ]. Brown II seamen, deck.
boz, watchman, James Brown 3 cooks, stew
ards Stewardesa, Lydia Travis; l Pastrycook,,
Crlst Scharp; carpenter, Detson; pantFyman
cabin boys, extra deck hands.
Will be seen from the above list, that the officers
and crew made fortyone persons Mr. Hughes saws
ne had counted up the number Of passengers care
fully the night previous to the disaster and believes
ne tsra number was my e given before except that
counted as passengers, and these with the nine me-
groes, makes the number 81, in addition to the,
officers and crew. or 10s souls in all on board. or
sis number only ht5two have been sayedalive sofar
as is now known, namely, ID who made their escape
on the arboard quarter boat and landed on our beach
about sunrise, 80 who were rescued By the steamship
Galveston, BY the Revenue cutter, and 8 by the
pilot boat There Is no reasonable hore that any
other person of the los now alive 40 that the lns
amounts to Sc human beings 4 -
The San Antonio pspers of the af,tl nt ,,;r. ~.
,rt;c,,.r. 81 b,ood t,, ..- e.'s s.1o
p"'''s'o v J Sas'ay = .sl sl'as saWn, H, ARISING
from an a'tenpt 70 arrest number OF desperad0es.
The Texian says:
II il well known that for 4 ling time =. .1a -
the most desperate murders and rohher;es ho,se 20
stealing. house breakinp. etc. have hem cin ~ r,
san Antonio and the country around md isst n;obt r.
horrible murder was Committed few ries hsie.r
The wife of 81, de Ia Cara was killed in her on
house by some seven or eight assassus and he hons
then robbed of money and yaIuabIes. reward of
$500 was offered this morning for the apprehension
o. me mnraerers, and Snenn Henry, with poase,
Snnt 10 10 ncaa psoe =. .ne a
had collected in the city On the west side of lie river
many of them in darkened room, sort of resort
ior me y moment. Here the shooting commenced BE-
Ea1strn t;iad oa e ~
through the head by another At tiis awfnT innctnrs
Jim Taylor, than whom Drawer man never lived,
gave orders 70 some three OF bis comrades to follow
nindo r M tha a e prvAs sas
Bill Hart notorious character shot him tirnnoi t
breast and at the same moment gun was pointed at
Bill Hart by another person, when Taylor exclaimed
J he has shot me- let me shoot him, !, and fired. Both
| fell. Citizens commenced rushing in well armed, as
well as many OF the desperadoes and the shooting be-
came general. The gang Of rowdies broke from the
room by back door. Many of them who came up
after the melee commenced Immediately fed, finding
they were coming to close quarters.
By this time at least three hundred citizens had