The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-10
TIL E DISPATCH RI
WEDNESDAY MeRkIsd -. =. MARCH 10. les
BURNING or THE STEAMER
ELIZA BATTLE.
Names of the Dead.
INCIDENTS or THED1sAsTER

The Mobile Mercury, Of the I'd inst, fnrnIshe.
the following particulars Of melaucholy disaste,
which has heretofore been announced by tels
graph:
The Magnolia this ntornfnr-hrougb,
the melancholy intelligence that the Eliza Battle
was burnt above Kemp's Landing, ut z o'clock ON
Monday morning, with the loss Of abont f,rty
lives. The fire was discovered atthat hour by the
chambermaid. In the nursery Of the boat and its
origin 10 not accounted for but srmised To have
originated from sparks from the Warrior. which
had passed about half an hour previously. The
tiiier ropes were soon burned, but the pilot snc-
eeeded in running the boat into the woods about
three hundred yards above the landing when the
passengers took TO the water The loss of life was
entirely occasioned by drowning or freezing. We
subJoih list OF those known to have perished.
With the manner of their death 50 far a. ascer.
tanned:
sirs. B. Cromwell and child, sumpter county.
frozen.
Mrs. II. q. Turner and child, Washington coun-
ty, frozen.
Mr.. w. r. T. Smith, Green county. frozen.
Mr.. Caradine, Chickasaw county, frozen.
Mr.. Willis, Chcksssw county, frozen
Augustus Jones, Columbus, Miss, frozen.
Mr. Martin, Kentucky, frozen.
John Powell, barkeeper, frozen.
Or. 8. W. ClantoD, Warsaw, Ala, frozen.
Young man from Fairfield, name not known,
frozen.
Negro of Mr.. Turner, frozen.
4NeSFo MAN JacSson. D6fDer, fr0zeu.
barnett. cook. frozen.
Nancy, chambera,aid, belonging TO Capt. S. G.
Stone
Robert. cabin boy, belonging to Col. T. Buford
DICK, cabin boy, belonging to Judge r. C. Torrey.
jim, cabin boy, belonging to John Foster.
White boy, I'd cook, name unknown.
Sam. Peter and Jack, deck hands, belonging to
]. A. Mooring.
bill, deck hand, belonging to Z. G.. Mcmahon.
Allen, deck hand. belonging to John Bowen.
deck ham halo II D.,
Rev. Mr.. Newman, Louisville, Ky, frozen.
Nj. A. Galloway, Gainesville, Ala, never seen.
Three white deck hands, never seen.
r. Kirkland, died after getting ashore, Greene
county, Ala.
DR.. 5. fl. Jones, never seen, Greene County,
Alabama.
The bodies were not recovered of the follow
ing:
Dr. 8. II. Jones, 81. A. Galloway, Rev. Mr.. New
man, white boy, third cook,) Jack, (negro) Bill
(nesro) three white deck hands and chamber
maid.
Miss Robertson was saved on some cotton bales
by the assistant pilot, Thomas Bradley, whose no
BILE conduct is specially noticed: all accounts
agreeing that but for his aid she must have per-
ished Niss Turner was saved by Frank Stone, u
young man OF nineteen, son of Capt. Stone, who
then returned and saved her sister.
An infant of two months old was saved in re-
markable manner. When discovered, by Captain
Stone, it had only its night clothes on aud was
hlue with cold. blanket coat soaked with water
was nc hand, which the Captain laid upon u burn
ing cotton bale, and then wrapped the babe in
the steaRling covering. 1t is now '.aliye and
cherruping."
For fve hours, from the discovery of the fire
TIL seven O'Clock, when the Magnolia came to
their assistance, the passengers and employees OF
the boat who had escaped drowning we're perish
ing from cold.
some 1,3UO bales of cotton constituting the
cargo of the boat, were consumed.
Another account says:
There were from fifty TO sixty passengers on
board, and some 1900 to 1900 bales of cotton. OF
the passengers, thirty-three are known to have
been lost; all the cotton, with the exception Of
about 70 bales, was destroyed and the boat burned
to the waters edge. The fire occurred among the
cotton In the after part of the boat, under the
cabin strong north wind blowing at the time,
soon sent the flames throughout the soat, SO quick
indeed that the passengers had to seek their safe
ty In their night clothes. The heat WAS so great
that neither the yaw or life boat could be launch
cd.
kemps landing, where the disaster occurred, 10
near Gainesville. As u matter of course the peo-
pie in the vicinity rendered with aiacrity all the
relief they could
Frank stone, con of the captain acted heroically
and with consummate cvolness during the enpal-
ing catastrophe As soon as assistance arrived,
Captain stone gave orders to have the women and
children first cared for. lie was the last himself
to leave the burning boat.
The books and papers of the boat were wholly
destroyed, and with the exception of carpet bag
or two, the entire baggage passengers shared
the same fate
Co.. and was not, we are sorry to learn, insured at