New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-29


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Explosion Of the Steamboat St Nicholas.
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From the Memphis Appeal of Tuesday last we ex.
tract the following account of the disastrous explosion
Of the steamboat st. Nicholas by which large mum.
Der Of human beings were sent to their last account
The boilers of the steamer st. Nicholas. Cant.
McMullen, exploded at halfpast ten o'clock Sunday
night, at Island 60, about seven miles below the
scene OF the accident to the steamer PENNSYLVANIA.
and the boat burned to the waters edge Immediately
afterwards. By the accident between ffty and sixty
lives were lost and the boat and cargo were totally
destroyed.
Among those who are known to be lost are Captain
McMulen, the commander Of the st. Nicholas: Mrs.
Cline the estlmable wife Of the first clerk; the first
and second engineers thirteen of the deckhands and
fremen, number Of the cabin crew, aud many Of
the cabin and deck passengers-in all, about sixty
persons From Mr.. Mart R. Fisher, the clerk of the
steamer susquehanna; from Mr.. Gillem, the second
clerk of the st. Nicholas, and from MIR. Reid the pi
lot who was on watch at the time of the accident we
have learned the following particulars. We append
list of the killed and missing, the injured and the
saved:
Names of the KILLED and Missing. Capt. McMul.
len, Of the St. Nicholas Mrs. CLINE, clerks wife
Miss Dunnca, clerks cousin Mrs. Mcknight; Mrs
Crisp Mr.. Crisp one lady with babe, name IN.
known; VIM. Falkner, McGregors Landing, Iowa
gineer; VIM. Few, first engineer John Bond, cabin
boy; James Wood first cook, from Allegheny CITY,
Penn; barber, name unknown thirteen deck hands
and dremen, names unknown; pastry cook; two
maid, name unknown Miss Jackson, first chamber.
maid, St. Louis five slave women and owner, Mr..
Alexander, of Memphis one gentleman from Baton
Rouge, name unknown Edward Stephens, pilot, st.
Louis.
Badly Scalded-Ben. v. Cline, chief clerk of the
boat; John McAlpne, slightly, ST. Louis Mo-; ]. s.
Acu passenger, Warrington, Miss; Jacob Laughter,
passenger, Pittsbnrg Pa B. B. Stuart, Stanton Va;
Thomas Carter, Tamaqua, Schuykill county, Pa;
Miss Ella Kennedy, cousin Of B. Glime Brunswick,
Missouri Rose St. John, colored, chambermaid New
Orleans William Pennebaker, Waterman, st. Louis
Fred. Miller O. n. Reynolds Sioux city Geo. Mir.
gel, fireman; D Capps Pennington, H.; Andy
Scalded, but not Se,iousl,.-G. b. H. Gillem, the
second clerk, St. Louis Joseph Wolf passenger -
The steamer Susquehanna was but few miles be-
low at the time Of the explosion, and she was soon
alongside the wreck, and rendered all the assistance
that was possible in saving those WHO escaped injury
and in rescuing the sufferers. The susquehanna
brought the wounded sixteen in number-to this
city, nearly all OF whom with their friends, at pr-
vate residences at the hotels or id charge Of their
brethren OF the Sons of Malta But one sufferer was
sent to the hospital
In addition to the list Of the killed enumerated
above, we regret to chronicle the loss of Gideon j.
Pillow, Jr., the son of Gen. Pillow, of Tennessee
Young Mr.. Pillow embarked on the St. Nicholas at
this port Sunday evening, for his fathers plantation
near Helena, and as there is no account of his escape
there can be but little doubt that his life was lost In
the general disaster.
At the time Of the accident Capt. McMullen, Can't,
CLINE (the clerk) and Mr.. James Reid (the pilotl
were on watch. Capt. McMullen fell below, and his
leg was caught in some tmbers, and although efforts
were made to extricate him he was burned to DEATH
while his cries for help were distinctly heard by those
around him.
We are requested to state that watch and the sum
OF $780, which belong to Mr. L. 8. Acnff who is re.
posted with Messrs. j. J. Smith & Co., at the city
wharf boat, subject to his order.
Mr. Gillem, the second clerk was in his berth at the
time Of the accident, and says that his first sensation
was similar to that which attends the report of mis-
toll. When be awoke to consequences he was on his
mattress, floating in the river, hundred yards from
the boat He reached the shore without assistance.
Mr. Giem is badly scalded but will recover.
o bae that es viii ssFF a I but there
cousin Of Capt. Cline, is also badly scalded They
are both at the residence of Mr. s. h. Shock and are
attended by Drs Tucker and Keller.
It's remarkable coincidence that just before the
from Sioux city, Iowa, and a gentleman from War.
renton, Miss, were in the pilot house together, en-.
gagged in conversation in reference to the disaster
to the steamer Pennsylvania, Which occurred in tie
same locality The gentleman from Warrenton was
firm believer in the Cavanistic doctrine OF predes
tnation, qualifying the expression with the state
ment that he hoped he always ready to meet his
fate, whatever that fate might be. The particular
conversation had not closed, when the boat was
blown into thousand atoms, and none of the party
in the pilot house were saved but the pilot, Mr.
Reed.
During the passage from the wreck to this port,
four deaths occurred on board the Susauehapna and
the dead bodies were brought 10 this city for inter
ment.
Many of the sufferers lived in ST. Louis, including
the majority OF the crew. Such of them as were
the susquehannah to the Philadelphia and left for
St. Louis last evening. Among these were Mr.. Cline,
the second clerk; Mr.. Reid, tile pilot Mr.. Blaze,
the first mate ]; Mr.. John Pennebaker, the second
mate MIR. Wm Pennebaker, the Waterman /; Mr..
jackson, the carpenter, and the barkeeper and
steward.
Capt. Marshall, commander of the Philadelphia,
and Mr.. Tschud, the clerk deserve great credit for
the KIND attentions bestowed upon the sufferers.
There was report yesterday to the effect that Mr..
Robert johnson, OF Kentucky, was passenger by the
st. Nicholas from this city, and that he had been lost
in the general disaster. We are rejoiced to know
that the report erroneous as Mr. j. took massage
on the steamer Diana.
Mr.. Reid, the pilot on watch at the time of the
accident, informed us yesterday that at the time the
steam was little above the ordinary guage and that
he could distinctly hear it escape as he stood at the
wheel in the pilot house.
The majority of the sufferers now in this city are
badly injured and it is feared that some of them can.
not recover. There is great hope, however, that
Capt CLINE, and his cousin, Miss Kennedy, will be
restored to health,
Capt. Frank Hincks, of tile Daniel Boone, which
boat passed up few hours behind the Susquehanna,
saw the burnt wreck of the st. Nicholas short dis.
lance below Helena, and expressed the belief that it
was the hull of the whartbpat at Helena that had
been burned.
The officers of the steamer Oakland which boat
arrived there at an early hbur yesterday morning,
saw the light OF the burning steamer behind them
during the night but had no Suspicion that it was the
wreck of the st. Nicholas, which boat they had met
few hours before.
The attaches of Messrs. j. j. Smith e Co.'s wharf.
boat at this city, also saw The light from the wharf
boat, although the disaster occurred nearly seventy
miles below this city.
The st. Nicholas was regular packet between st.
Louis and New Orleans and this city, and was owned
by Capt. A. Reeder oil ST. Louis, and Capt B. V.
Cline, the clerk. She was built at Pittsburg seven
years ago the coming autumn. She had been reitted
recently at a heavy expense. She was worth, per-
haps, about 100000.
The following articles, Slipped at St. Louis com
posed the cargo: l50 bbls. flour, shipped by the
Planters Mills 1000 kegs lard, shipped by Henry,
Ames u Co.; 1855 pigs lead and 800 hbls. pork
shipped by G. P. Riley & CO.; 100 bills -four, shipped
by the Magnolia Mills; 1dO0 sacks oats, shipped by
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