Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-17
EsIy EfS fSE M.
w ednesday, May Is, 1850.
ARRIVED

CANADA. Parker, st. Louis.
ATLANTA. johnson. Dubuque.
DESNAKK Robinson, Dubuque.
CAMBRIDGE, -, st. Paul.
| DEPARTED.
CANADA, Parker, St. Paul.
ANLASTA, johnson, st. Louis.
/ DESMARK, Robinson, ST. Louis
CAMBAIDGE. -, st. Louis.
The Kate Cassell will be the reglar Mail Packet
| for Mon,rose this morning.
| Tine popular steamer Grey Eagle, is expected up
this morning on her way to st. Paul.
The fast-running steamer Itasca, will depart for
ST. Louis this morning.
| SYrpMEYsT.-l,5 500 bn. oats and wheat 200
sacks corn, and 10 head cattle.
The Cambridge left this port heavily loaded
yesterday.
The River is rising slowly at this point, with
abut 5 feet in the channel.
| The Illinois River is falling slowly with abou,
4 feet in the channel.
| The Missouri River is reported to be still fall
| ing.
Business on the levee yesterday was quite live
| ly, and produce merchants must have done good
business.
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two children yesterday, and would probably have
been drowned if it had been for the assistance
rendered them by Mr.. Randell.
The St. Louis Republican says: "The Silver
Star,an Evansville and Paducah Packet was burned
at tho Curlew Mines on Friday evening. She
was bound for Paducah, with big passenger trip,
expecting to make pleasure trip to Cairo. but
with little freight, excepting twenty-eight bales
Of hay She was rounding In at the Curlew Mines
to deliver her mail, when the hay (Which was
stowel aft Of the doctor) was discovered to be on
fire. The boat was headed for the shore, and the
pilot stuck 20 his post until the tiller ropes and
the engine ropes were burned of. The eng ineer
was trying the water in the boilers when the fire
broke out, and it blazed up so rapidly that he was
driven from his post, and the boat, not being
guided by her engines, was caught under the coal
dip at the Curl ow Mines, and her bow on which
he passengers were collected swung out into tho
river, SO that all obliged to jump overheard.
Part of them seized hold of coal boats at
hand part were saved by skifs, and part by the
Charley Bowen, which was just behind the Star.
1t is supposed that five persons were lost, incud-
ing one deck passenger, one cabin passenger and
a fireman The chambermaid was badly I'M jured,
but will probably receiver.
The Silver Star was Of the swiitest and
neatcst stern-whee eel coats on the river. Sae was
owned by Given, Watts Co., and Jorden Flour
noy, of Paducah was valued at slo,0O1 and was
insured for e0oO.
Capt Fowler believes that the fire caused
by an ncendiary, and that turpentins was put on
the hay An Irishman threw overheard barrel
of whiskey and attempted to swim ashore with
it, but it turned over. and he was drowned.
The steamer X. +. Sass sunk in crossing at the
foot of Clark's bar, striking suag in the middle
Of the channel, where nothing OF the kind had
ever been suspected. she was drawing ga feet
of water, and the snag struck her at the two feet
mark, caring off her whole bottom, and she sank
in two minutes. The Ed. Walsh WIS three miles
below her the time, and ran up to her. The first
mate of the Walsh saw I'd nine passengers In her
yawl and the second mate saved eleven passen-
gers 1t is supposed thet forty or fifty deck pas
sepgers were loss. The Walsh went up 10 the
cabin of the Sass, which foated of, and took from
it one hundred AMI fifteen passengers. She also
sent her yawl and sounding boat to the ofhccrs to
assist in saving something from the wreck
s., 600 in money belonging to the passengers, ali
| of which was claimed