Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-06-19
EXpLosIONo or THE PENNSYLVANIA.
ONE HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED AHu MISSING.

MEMPHIS. jane l4.-Ths steasnboa
F'ennsylyaaia s.sp'ojed her bpiier o
Sunday morning. at 6 o'clock, at sh'I
Island, seventy miles bs!ow Memphis
and burned 10 the waters edge Their
} Wers about three hundred and fifty pas
sengars on board. If whou 1t Is believed
lone hundred are killed Of missing.
TIE Diana, Imperial, and E'rlsUee tool
If IL they could fud i'll tile water o
on shore.
Lost. following are the name:
Of the lost as fttr a. .scerta!ned:
Father DeIcfos, Mrs. Wilt and d"ugEr
ter, Foster Hurst. n. AID J: Bn,stscI'eri
aud Deals Coscurat,, st. New Or|eans.
.ea1rea1, MS. ~Fonruier. Of he F'euc'l
Opera, sisters l3Ar,liae and Mary Elem.
# '&Ie New Orleans Convent, aud c,
MeGs,ar5hy, Of New ORLEANS.
za;ured.--H. FISHER, Jrhn Bloomfield
j. Il. CatnpbsJI, Frank Jones, 4. I}*'z,
JoIlu Mauny, and Francis Pratt, Of New
Oris; ms; also, Itauch audi, Villa, Of the
IfEtlGi! oFttA.
Tile captain, second and third clerks
and ch;af engineer were sv:ed, The boat
is owned il pu'Aburo.
MEMpu1s, June Il, II o'clock NJ
.Sancd.-A, t.. Horton, Ex-Governor OF
Texas, wife and son; 4. Mcleod, fOx-
ford. Miss & II. Hair, Tallahassee, Fla !;
CIias. Seweft, Texas ". 4. Buuwe!l aud
- lie, North Carolina.
MsMrHls. June l4=-Tle following
hare Among tue dead Emanuel De 0sn-
erel, Fativr Delcr,,s, ard q chi! Of
Francois Fteslet. Xavier kauct,, of the
French opera, is nol expected 10 survive
his injuries. Among those slightly wotH-
Aeu are Fra c'is FIcEet aui Louis Lila.
al! oi New Orleans. Johu Mitchell and
Frank Gowtn, of Mobile, are atnulx the
wounded. The above are uI tie adtttii-
DUAL names that couI,l be obtained by
your reporter. There are Il number Of
dead and dying whose names ara un~
k~listsyn. M
TIE Imperial first arrive at the wreck
and took . large nulni,er Of pas<"ngefs
70 New Orleans, The diana touks large
nunnber Of tie pennsv!vanIa's I5aSse1s.
gers to Louisville. She passed here
Sunday night nj II o'clock. 4 large
meeting ct Tue citizens Of Memphis WAS
held to-day. az witch over Que ,hou~-I
AID doE|ar~ was instantly raised fur lie
oeiie[ Of tie needy sufferers, hrul u COM
liietee was appointed to c~4:iIect further
aid. Pearson Morrison, Joseph S;nous
1t BY. Robert Chapman and Gtotge
Sands, SII II New@Orleans, are au5s1slg |
the wounded. Xavier RaucIs. 81 tit-
French Opera Troupe, has sspnce died OF
Lie Injuries he sustained. several. o,hers |
not expected 10 survive the uight.-
A little German boy, hams not kuogi,
deg. THIS evening. |
FunTi4Ea Observation-Disclosures |
jun@ 15.-ln tie explosion ou board |
P~efsnsyivatsia, the cabin, as far back
As the pantry, was at once blown away.
The ragister. and boal't books andI
~e1e Ill LOST.
1t Is stated that the nurnEer Of c:1,jn /
passengers saved is eigiLy-iiee, and Of!
!eck passengers one hundred and twxp~
*. Most Of them were were taken; from,
! iiatboal, fastened at the iower end nf
Ship Island, by The Iaperal, aid abnu. |
were taken from it@byz skitf-, and
Conveyed 10 po'nts above tile waite 90
he Is,atid.
Ihe Hathoat was in asjnkins condition.
md It "aa only with great 1 %tiruI1y thai
hose on boardzwere kept ablv. watrr.
. One gentleman, Mr. pjIan,, of Calves
on was az his way to visit lis dauui,tar, !
1t Columbia, Tennessee, where sIl. was
t school. He Had purchased for her. in
E's CITY, many, beautiful pres~ntx-but
what news t will b. for that pon
:Irl TO learn tuat her father was blown
@ atoms. l.
A m"ther, with her child, q dauei,,er
b"ut ~se'entee's who was Pronounced -:
he beauty OF the bnat, was cuhnp!eteIy F.,
~ 'ttN t%lttS on. anu S0ttlAtfDWI j.;
tho Bow Of the boat, where size. |
nth her eyes c"Iup'et@ly out, groped i
r'nnd for her child. AiIasG The flames :
ut her I'll, aud although the mate Of ,
steancr gaiIaf'tIy attempted to save {
she perlsI'ed in the flames. Tile
aughter was never seen. /,
ons gentleman, who had Just gotteu
n board at Helena, became very much /
at tie clerk. because he did uota
I'VE f:'nt~a sLatr-room forward The Wheel: Nc
how thank{nl was Ire, when he found
ut The very room lle wanted was blown
away. n.y. ~
The German deck passengers. in the !"
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