Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-06-15
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Great Steamboat Disasters
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST

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! MEMPHIS, JUNE IA The steamboat PlnnsgI
gaRia exploded her boilers Sunday morning, at
o'clock, al Shin Island, 10 miles below Memphis
and burned 20 the waters edge. There were about
$50 passengers On board Of hich It is believed oue
hundred are killed missing. The steamers Biana
\ faDsriaL and FSisbse, took al they could find on
the wafer or shore. The boat is owned in Pttsburg
The passengers lost lar as known are:
Joseph Pilan, Of Texas; Mrs Witt and daughter
and Mrs. Fulton, Of St. Louis, E Gleason, Of New
| York; Il. B. Nichols, Of Texas; Mr.. Sackey. al
Mississippi; Dir. Inter John Sinkhorn. James
BoWles, James Burns, and VIM Woodford. Of Louis
vile; Lewis J. Black E. Genoras. and an English
man, nom Cuba who has a sister near Burlington.
illinois. Passengers injured are, Henry Clements
q ~. Louis; the third clerk. Scaded, William
Willis, Of New Jesey; Matt Kelly, of St. Lou
Is; samuel Marks, Of Pennsylvania; Charles Stone
OF Nashville; Dan'l. Keefe, Of Keokuk. and Sam'l
Woods second clerk. Slightly scalded; Andrew Lind
say, OF Cincinnati; VIM Woods and George Bolay-
er, Of PittsbOrg; Isaac Wisler, of Stark county.
Ohio; RObt. BrOsherton, of Columbus Ohio James
Mccormick and Capt R Backer, Of New York /;
Charles AshbrOoks, Of St. Louis Capt. J. W. Fair
field, Of Boston; Henry Shultz and Matthew Com
mafeire, Of ST Louis.
The following is the fate of the officers Of the
Pennsylvania:
Capt. Ksiatelter, uninjursd; IA. Woods second
clerk, slightly injured Henry Clements, Of st.
LOuia, third clerk, severely scaded; James Dorris
chief engineer, escaped Francis Doris second
engineer, dead; AbDer Martin, first mate, dan
gerOusly injured. The second mate, name IN
known, badly scalded WIN. jackson, of Licking
ton, bar-keeper, slightly scalded; Pilot Brown is
missing, and Pilot Henry Eiler saved, both Of st.
Louis.
The boat was on her way from New Orleans to st.
Louis, and was owned by Capt. Kleinfelter, and
George Black Co., and the two engineers. She is
uninsured
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b. A. Sneed, Of Virginia; J. P. Woeten, of Ky,
A. L. Bartlett, wife and child, Of New York A
Marks and wife, W. G. Mepham, wife and child of
It. Louis; r. r. Young, of Louisville, and Mr.
Thompson, railroad man Of New York
LOUISVILLE, June 14--Tbe levee on the Mis-
sissippi side at Cairo has broken and the whole
town is overfoWed and deserted. The buildings
are floating of.
NEW ORLEANS, June 14-CottOn, sales of g.
500 bales, unchanged. Sugar steady; Mixed Corn
So, yellow 20; Wheat and Pork stagnant; Whisky
opened at 10 and closed at Il.
MEMIHIs, June 14-When the accident Oc
Cured 10 the Pennsylvania, the Imperial first
rived and took large number Of her passengers TO
New Orleans.
The Diana passed here at IL o'clock last night,
with large number of them for Louisville. There
are q number of dead and dying whose names are
unknown. meeting Of citizens was leld here to-
day; over q thousand dollars was instantly raised,
and committees appointed to collect further aid for
the sufferers. Rauch, Of the French opera troupe,
who was among the wounded, died to-day. Several
others are not expected to live little German
boy, name unknown, died this afternoon.
LEAVENWORTH, June 24.-General Harvey and
staff move forward to-day The report that Captain
Marcy's train was cut off is unfOunded
ST. LOUIS, June Il. Every building in Cairo is
avnactad 10 wash away.
One thousand feet Of the Illinois Central Railroad
is gone.
Mound City is threatened with an overflow. The
water is still rising
All the upper streams are pouring out floods The
river rose % in As hours ending six o'clock last
evening and is about A feet below the highest
mark Of 1874.
The Upper Mississippi is still rising at Dubuque.
The head waters of the Illinois swelling again.
The Missouri was falling at BOOnville Saturday. but
IN additional rise was coming from above.
LOUISVILLE, June IA The river is slowly re-
,sding, with Is feet water on the falls.