Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-07-03

No effort will be spared to relieve their
necessities and hasten them on to their desti-
nation. The universal opinion expressed by
all the passengers, is that Captain Laughton
and his officers did all that could be done,
and no blame can be attached to them, but
particular credit is due the pilot for the no.
BILE manner in which he maintained his post
until driven away by the flames.
The books of the boat not being saved,
we have made out a list of saved and lost, as
best we could. Enclosed please find the
| same. In haste,
MEsERoLE & MCLAREN.
Agents of Packet Co., Red Wing.
P. S.-The boat is burnt to the waters
| edge; no freight saved. Fears are enter
tanned that Others may have been lost, the
confusion was so great.
LIST OF THE Losr-John Tysen, German
boy, Mrs. Polly Porter, Miss Nancy Porter,
Charles Porter, boy, Lydia Porter. The
above Family were from Michigan, and bound
for Mankato, on the Minnesota river.
PASSENGERS SAvED.-LAD1Es' L1sT.-Mrs.
OrpheusiE iEverts and child, Mrs. G. W. Rich
ards, Miss Mary Thomas, Miss Isabella Riggs,
Mrs. Thomas DRAINING, Miss Mary Porter,
| Miss K. Roberts, Mrs. J. H. Davis, Mrs. T..
II. Murray, Mrs. L. A. Burson, Mrs. Living
ston, Miss Lavinia Berry, Mrs. E. M. Bearce,
Mrs. G. S. House, (Ovid, N. Y.,) Miss Lofty
j. Barcley, Mrs. Gideon Brouning, Catherine
Seaborn.
GENTLEMENs L1sT.-Dr. Everts, Indiana,
G. W. Richards, Indiana, Adam H. Todd,
New York, Mr.. B. p Law, G. s. Evans, D.
R. Clandenin, VIM. Bradley, Mr.. House,
Ovid, N. Y, L. F. Brown, Brooklyn, N. Y,
j. G. Stafford, Capt. Laughton and chill
dren, Albert Seaborn, G. Wheeler, John
Baptist Pleasure, Michael Reyley, Gideon
Browning, Alex. McBeth, j. W. Crosby, j.
B. Proctor, Wildred Buckell, Rev. J. M.
Preston.
OFFICERS and CREW SAvED-G. G. Blishe
first Clerk, Charles Mather, second Clerk,
Stephen Hanks, pilot, J. S. Hunt, L. L.. Pyatt,
VIM. Hamilton, Isaac Fairfax, Capt. G. P.
Sloan, Capt. G. T. Hinde, j. c. Nipple,
Thomas Curdy, mate, VIM. Dean, VIM. Grif.
fifth, E. Berry, Steward-and sister, All the
crew were saved.
FURTHER PARTICULARS We learned a
few additional particulars from passengers
on the Galena, who came up to this city on
the Milwaukee, besides the above. There
were about 70 passengers on the ill-fated
steamer, and all on board were wrapped in
profound slumber at the time of the break
ing out of the fire. One of the officers on
duty at the time first saw it, when it had made
almost no headway, and gave the alarm =
AS the thrilling cry of " Fire !" " Fire !" rang
through the boat, and reused the sleeping
passengers, terrible scene of alarm and fear
prevailed. Happily, however, the admirable
GOODNESS and discipline of the officers enabled
them to rescue all the passengers, except the
five above noted, without any other loss than
that of their baggage. 1t is to be regretted
that the mails were lost, as there were two
days mails on the Galena; but when human
life was in the balances against it, her officers
did nobly to see first to the safety of the
former, after which it was too late to rescue
the latter. 1t was but few minutes from
the time the fire was first discovered until
the Galena was total loss, and burned to
the waters edge. Altogether it was one OF
those scenes that no eyewitness can ever for
get.
The Galena entered the trade in the spring
of 1854, this being her sixth season. Yet
she was still staunch, feet, and popular
boat. She was first under command of Capt.
NJ. W. Lodwick; afterwards of Pres. Lod-
wick, and finally of Kennedy Lodwick. In
1857, Capt. W. II. Laughton assumed her
command, and held it--until the time of the
disaster. Last spring it will be membered,
she was the first boat" and won her wharf
age for the season free.
From the Red Wing Republican-Extra
BURNING OF THE GALENA.-This morning
at about one O'Clock, as the U. S. Mail Packet
Galena landed at our levee, fire broke out
about her smoke stacks, which soon spread,
and resulted in her total destruction. The
origin of the fire no one is able to ascertain,
though it is supposed it was communicated
to where it was first discovered from the fur
mace of the boiler below. None but an eve
witness can realise the scene.
The greatest terror seems to have seized
upon the passengers, and the utmost confu-
sion Immediately followed the alarm. Men,
women, and children rushed down the gang
way. and overheard from all sides of the boat,
many of them with nothing but their night
clothes about them. The rush was so great
that the stage planks could not be landed,
and but for the remarkable coolness and
prompt action upon the part of the officers
of the boat, more lives would have been lost.
A strong breeze was blowing down the
stream, which soon spread the flames to all
parts Of the cabin. The loss of the boat is
complete. Little or no baggage was saved,
and mails, with the exception of portion of
the latter designed for Red Wing, wholly
consumed. The passengers, many of them,
are in destitute condition, having lost their
all, even to their last garment. No effort will
be spared upon the part of our citizens to al
leviate their condition. Free expression of
the passengers is universal, that Capt. Laugh.
ton, and the officers of the boat, did all that
could be done to save the passengers, even at
great risk to themselves.
The loss of the boat is estimated at $780,
600; no insurance. The cargo was small,
and not particularly valuable; uninsured. A