New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-01

1859.
EXPLOSION OF THE STEAMBOAT PRINCESS.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
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At about 10 o'clock on Sunday morning last the
steamboat Princess, Captain jackson, on her way to
this city from vicksburg, exploded when opposite
Conrads Point about eight miles below Baton Rouge.
The forward part Of the boat was blown to q com
plete wreck, and great number of persons were in
stantly killed others, as the boat drifted to the
shore, jumped overheard, some Of whom ere
drowned The mate and some of the men succeeded
in getting line ashore and made FAST and most Of
the passengers who were unipjured or had not been
killed outright got safely ashore. In the meant me
the wreck was rapidly being enveloped in flames,
and soon after foated away and was totally de-
stroyed. The loss of life by this disaster was very
great, but by no means so large as represented at
first, there not having been, we are informed,
than 200 passengers on board.
The ladies', Of whom but few were injured acted
with the utmost coolness, while performing the diff.
cut feat of getting ashore, and, but for that fact
the list of casualties would have been much larger
than it is Nothing in the clerks office was saved,
and consequently the loss Of life cannot be known
with certainty; it is variousy estimated at forty,
sixty, and by some as high as eighty. The clerk,
Mr.. James Izod, fell through the shattered floor of
the cabin, where he was so badly burned and scaded
that he cannot probably recover. Mr.. George Case,
assistant pilot of the Princess, was blown overheard
by the explosion and picked up from the river. He
arrived on the Empress yesterday evening, and is
said to be much bruised, but not seriously injured
The Empress and the Kate Dale brought down
number OF the sufferers yesterday evening, and some
Of them presented shocking spectacle. The EN-.
press had on board the first and second mates and
fifteen 6remen and deck hands of the Princess all
badly scaded or burned, and also the dead body of
deck hand named Sullivan. The Kate Dale brought
to the city the following persons from the Princess
Edward Quigg, barkeeper; A. Q. Carley, assistant
barkeeper Mr.. Kingston, painter, Common street,
N. O., and Henry Brown f. m. c., all died before
reaching the city. Mr.. Cockburn, Of the house of
Oakley, Hawkins & Co., badly scalded negro man
Smith, of Captain Ure, badly scalded negro man
of T. L. McGill, badly scalded deck hand,
name unknown, badly scalded Mrs. B. J. Butler, of
vicksburg, slightly hurt Mrs. Murphy of Natchez,
uninjured Mrs. Porter, of Black Hawk Point, unn.
jured Mr.. Bledsoe and son, OF Black Hawk Point,
unnjured.
The telegraph yesterday furnished the following
additional names of the lost and missing:
A son Of W. B. Stuart, of Fayette, Miss.
Mr.. Brandon, clerk eff the Court, Natchez.
Two brothers, OF the name of Marks, of Fayette,
Miss.
James Yale and W. L. Glover of Natchez.
Col. Cofey, of Grand Gulf.
DR.. Richards, of Pointe Coupee.
John NJ. Bell, of New Orleans.
H. w. SherbOurne, of Baton Rouge.
Charles Bannister, Representative from New Or
leans.
L. Huard, Representative from New Orleans.
lor Of Baton Rouge.
The assistant engineer Of the Princess was cut in
two and otherwise dreadfully mutiIated.
One OF the pilots of the Princess is among the lost
The following persons were badly scalded:
James Izod, clerk of the Princess.
L. H. Lurty, L. D. Brewer and W. B. Philips of
Bqyeu Eeasfs sa1a; a., w,oov an, po,o.,
| Jos. Clark, second clerk.
J. F. Scott, Of Tensas.
| Augustus de Lee, of Clinton.
| F. Surget of Natchez
| j. j. Hodges, of Franklin, Miss.
Mr.. Cockburn, connected with the house of Oakley
| Hawkins, of this city.
Mr.. Harbour Point Coupee; NJ vigne, ditto.
F. A. Cheatham, Baton Rouge.
George Evans, Natchez.
j. NJ. Carr, New Carthage. .
Philip Stephens, Baton Rouge.
H. B. Murphy, st. Louis.
Anderson, colored waiter.
c. NJ. Kingston, of New Orleans.
Sam. Waits, of Virginia.
Edward Qng, barkeeper of the Princess.
Mr.. Baxter, of Rapides
Judge Boyce and nephew; j. D. Corneaux aud Mr.
Murphy, of Baton Rouge; MIR. Alley, ditto.
BATON ROUGE, Feb 2s.-Messrs. Hodges and Muir.
ply, who were wounded, died of their injuries last
Mr.. Reeves is doing WELL with prospect of recov.
erng.
Mr.. Laville rested well, but both of his legs are
crushed.
Three of the wounded, whose names are unknown,
died last night.
Thefolowing persons are reported with legs broken
and varously injured otherwise:
L. V. Reeves Representative from Tensas.
F. G. Laville, Representative from New Orleans.
F. Davenport, of Natchez.
The following persons are hurt, but not seriously !:
Judge Farrar, Pointe Coupse Philip Brandon
Washington. Miss; Miss Lizzie Stone, Natchez F.
J. Surget, Natchez Mrs. Reeves, Tensas Mr.. De-
lany, Baton Rouge; Judge Burke, Baton Rouge; Mr.
Brewers servant.
The following persons who were injured have since
died:
J. W. Seymour, of Baton Rouge, and Mr.. Calhoun,
Of Kentucky.
The boat was crowded with ladies', who occupied
half of the gentlemen's cabin.
Those who were saved at all were generally but lit
| tie injured.
The boat and cargo are an utter loss. Nothing
| whatever was saved.
The steamers R. W. McRae, Natchez and Peerless,
bound up, took on board the remaining survivors,
most of whom were conveyed to Baton Rouge.
The Princess was one of the finest and swftest
packets on the river, and was favorite with the
travelling public. What amount of cargo she had we
did not learn, but it is said that she had on board
about 1900 bales cotton, and Capt. Dillon, of the
steamer Morning Light states that he passed floating
bales of burning cotton within thirty miles of the
city. For great distance below the scene of the
disaster the river and shores were strewn with smok.
ing fragments of the wreck.
Further particulars of this melancholy catastrophe
will be seen under the telegraphic head
| A QUAKER CoRNERED.-Old Jacob J. was sbrewd
Quaker merchant in Burlington New Jersey, and
| like all shrewd men, was often little too smart for
himself. An old Quaker lady of Bristol, Pennsyl.
vania just the river, bought some goods at ia.
cobs store, when he was absent and in crossing the
river her way home, she met him aboard the boat
and, as was usual with him upon such occasions, he
Immediately pitched into her bundle of goods and un.
tied it to see what she had been buying.
"Oh, now" says he, show much yard did you
give for that--and that--and that +" taking up the
| several pieces of goods.
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