Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-05-05
Particulars of the St. Nicholas Disaster.
LIST OF THE LOST, INJURED
And SAVED.
Correspondence of the Republican.

CArRo, April 25th 1859.
Being an eyewitness. it becomes my
duty to relate the particulars Of the explo-
sion and burning Of the steamer St. Nicho-
las, which occurred on the Oath inst, 10
o'clock, P. NJ, at the foot Of St. Francis Is
land, about 70 miles below Memphis:
Immediately after the explosion she took
fire and burned to the waters edge. For.
tunately we were in sight of her with the
Susquehanna, on our way up, at the time Of
the accident, not more than two miles dis
tant. Capt o. C. Williamson Immediately
ordered the men TO the yawl TO the relief of
the sufferers, who were seen floating in the
river and clinging to the ropes and rudder
of the wreck. There were several sklffs
and the yawl Of the St. Nicholas picking up
the people. Those saved were brought
aboard of our boat. We were compelled
to remain some distance from the wreck,
owing to The fact Of the wind blowing in
our direction. Ladies were seen clinging
10 the burning wreck; men, cattle and hogs
swimming IN every direction.
Capt. McMullen was in the pilot house
at the time of the accident. A piece of the
deck fell on one Of his feet. Several who
saw him tried to extricate him, bit in vain.
Jas. Wood, first cook, of Allegheny City,
Pa, was caught between the wheel house
and hull, and burned to death, in sight Of
our men, who made every exertion to save
him. Miss Ella Kennedy, of Brunswick,
Mo-, cousin of Mr.. Gleim, the clerk, was
saved by fortunately catching ring bolt in
the hull, and holding 10 the same until res
cued by our men. She was slightly burned.
There were but seven ladies', SO far as we
could ascertain, in the ladies' cabin, six Of
whom were lost.
Three of the sufferers, deck hands, died
this morning just before reaching Mem
phis. We left the hull afoat.
Annexed are the names Of the rescued,
&c., so far as we could learn.
Yours respectfully,
MART. r. FISHER,
Clerk of steamer Susquehanna.
scALDEp AND BURNED.
Ben. V. Cline, first clerk, badly.
G. H. II. Gillum, second clerk, slightly.
Miss Ellen Kennedy, Brunswick, Mo-,
slightly. ,.
John McAlpin, barkeeper, slightly.
J. S. Aouf, passenger, WarrentOn, Mis-
sissippi, badly.
Jacob Langbirn, Pittsburgh. badly.
Baldwin B. Steward, Stanton, Va, badly.
Thomas Carter, flanagan, Schuylkill,
CO., Pa, badly.
Rose St. John, colored, badly.
VIM. Pennybacker, watchman, badly.
o. H. Reynolds, Sioux City, do
Geo. Mengle, since dead.
Andy Stick, fatally.
John Smubeck, since dead.
D. COpps, Pennington, ILL.,, badly.
Jas. Wolf, New York city, slightly.
Jas. P. Mckee, colchester, Pa, slightly
Christ. Mansimer, second cook, st. Louis.
Gus Helsly, mess-room tender, ST. Louis.
Daniel Herstsr, second ste eward, Cincin-
natl.
James Chilson, second paDtryman, St.
Louis.
Andy Woods, third cook, Allegheny city,
Pa. q.
Geo. w. Chrysup, cabin passenger, Pitts
field, Ill.
R. ]. Casey, texas tender, Davenport,
Iowa.
Geo. H. Guild, striker engineer, Alton,
Illinois. ri .,
Lewis sohafer, fireman, St. Louis.
Simon Mahony, fireman, St. Louis.
John H. Jackson, carpenter St. Louis.
John Baize, first mate, st. Louis.
James Reed, Pilot, St. Louis.
Jehn r. Butler, cabin passenger, Decatur
county, Ga.
Thomas l.. Maxwell, cabin passenger,
Decatur county, Ga.
Ed. r. Ferris, cabin passenger, St. Paul
Min. 50 -
Joe Hamilton, (cOIored,) porter, St.
Joseph. -
Joseph Race, fireman, New Orleans.
Andy Men!el, fireman, New Orleans.