Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-30
From the Louisville journal. Nov. 20
TERRIBLE DISASTER,
THE STEAMER PACIFIC BURNED.
Death of Capt. William Lamb.

a telegraph dispatch WAS received in
this city yesterday from Mr.. Robert
barclay, freight clerk of the steamer
Pucfc conveying the sad intelligence
of the destruction Of that steamer by
fire, at Uniontown, Ky, at half past Z
o'clock on Sunday evening, the death
Of Capt. William Lamb, her comman-
der, and the loss Of a valuable cargo
Little is known as to the details Of
the terrible disaster, and we will be
left in doubt in reference thereto until
the arrival of the steamer Il. ii. Fair
child to-day, by which boat number
Of the passengers and the crew are re-
turning to this city. The Pacific left
here on Saturday evening, on the first
trip Of the season, with fair passen-
ger list and IA valuable cargo Of freight,
the latter consisting Of tobacco, provis-
ions and stock. The cargo consisted in
part OF the following consignments:-
Eighty-1our hhds tobacco, shipped by
Messrs. Long Il Wagyoner, fifty hhds
tobacco by MIR. Nash; $40 sheep, by
Chas. Dorsey; ~ beef cattle, by f.
Weisman; ~ beef cattle, by Mr.
Thomas of Shelby county, 43 mules,
10y Mr.. Dunn; S horses, by gentle
man from Indiana; 300 bris pork, by
Mitchell u Armstrong; 100 bris flour, hy
james Kennedy; about ID tons pork
Bacon and lard, by Guthrie, White 4
Co., and about 20 IONS bacon, pork and
-four, by \. L. ShotweiI 4 Son; together
with other shipments not rememocreI,
summing up il cargo valued at 500, 900.
The Pacific Was in her third season,
and was owned by Messrs. Sherry, Bell
Il Co., Capt. Bragdon, and Capt. Will.
p. Halliday. She Was valued at the
time Of the disaster at $50, 1000, and Was
insured for S40,O00-ior 10000 in the
local offices here, 5000 in the Dele
ware Insurance Co., and the New AL
bany agencies of Cincinnati Offices
She had just been repaired at Mound
City ILL.,, ut an expense of 5000, and
was one of our most elegant and popu-
lar New Orleans packets. The offers
and crew are residents Of this city, and
there will be feeling of intense anx-
iety on the part Of their friends here
until their worst fears shall have been
relieved by the arrival of the FairehId
Capt. Sherry indulges the hope that
no other lives than that of Capt. Lamb
were lost by this fearful disaster. Rev
Francis Whittal, of this city, who had
party of friends on board, consisting
of Miss Fairfax, Miss Stockton, and
two married ladies' of that name, re.
ceived dispatch from them announcing
their safety. Alexander Campbell, Jr.
Of Kethany, Va, with his wife, foul
children, and sister, were on board
and they too are known to have ESCAPED
without sinjury. ..
Great as the destruction of property
has been by this fearful disaster, the
sacrifice is forgotten in the remembrance
of the sad fate of the gallant comman.
der, Capt Wm. Lamb, whose life, We
can we'll imagine, was freely offered W
in the noble and generous effort to save
he lives and treasure Of those who hac
placed themselves under his charge -
He leaves Il wife and four children ii
this city, the youngest an interesting
little girl. Capt. Lamb Was veteran
commander, skilled in all the mysterie.
and hazards Of river life, devoted to hi.
profession, untiring in his energy
warm hearted, generous, and brave.