Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-22
The Steamboat Disaster.

EDWAKD IKOST.
The Steamboat Disaster.
We have the following additional details of
the recent steamboat disaster:
Only seventeen persons arc known to be
saved, including the clerk, steward, aDd por-
ter.
From $50 to 400 persons are said to have
been on board, the Green Yagors and Rifles,
and several fire companies of Milwaukee, who
were on visit to this city.
AT the time of this accident, the schooner
was sailing at the rate of eleven miles an
hour.
The steam-tug Mcqueen left this morning
for the scene of the disaster
The names of the saved as far as known,
are as follows H. G. Cary, Clerk; Fred,
Rice, Steward; Edward Wcstlake, Porter
Robert Gore; Thomas Cummings; Michael
Corner; John Il. Hobart, of Milwaukee;
Tim O'Bryan; w. A. Daoucs; Wildman
Mills, of Ohio; Lyman Updike, of Waupan
Ill. lngraham. member of the Canadian Par
lament.
The son of the proprietor of the London
News was on board, and is supposed to be
lost
The books and papers of the steamer are
all lost.
After the collision, the steamer foated
south to Winctka, where she sunk
SECOND DISPATCH
CHICAGO, Sept. 0.-Thc clerk of the
steamer Lady Elgin makes the following state
ment:
We left Chicago at 80 minutes past IL, for
Lake Superior. Among the passengers were
the Union Guard, to Milwaukee, composing
part of some 250 excursionists from that city.
At half-past 2 o'clock in the morning the
schooner Augusta, of Oswego, coided with
the Elgin, when about ten miles from shore.
She struck the steamer amidship at the gang
way, on the larboard side The two vessels
separated instantly, and the Augusta driftcd
by in the darkness At the time of the COLI
sion, music and dancing were going on in the
cabin; but in an instant after the crash, all
was still, and in half an hour the steamer
sunk. passed through the cabins The la
dies were pale, but silent, and no cry or shrek
was heard-no sound but the rush of steam
or the surge of the neavy sea. Whether or
not they were fully aware of the danger, or
whether their appalling situation made them
speechless, cannot tell. A boat was lowered
at once, with the design of going round upon
the larboard side to examine the leak. There
were two oars belonging to the boat, but justs
at that moment some person possessed him
self of one of them and we were poweress to
manage the boat We succeeded once in
reaching the wheel, but quickly driftea away,
and were thrown on the beach ut -Winetka
Two boats were left ON the steamer. One
of them contained thirteen persons, who were
saved The other bore eight persons, but on
ly four of them reached shore alive, the four
Others being drowned at the beach.
Before we left the steamer, the engine had
ceased to work, the fires having been extin-
guished. The force and direction of the wind
was such that boats and fragments of the
wreck were driven up the Lake and would
reach the shore in the vicinity of Winetka. =
AS | stood upon the beach, bopelessly looking
back upon the route we had drifted, could
see, In the grey of the morning, objects float
ing upon the water, and sometimes / thought
human beings, struggling with the waves
III. G. CLAEYs.
The telegraph gives the names of forty.nine
persons saved from the wrecked steamer Lady
Elgin, which was run into and sunk on Lake
Michigan on Friday last. Among the lost is
Mr. Herbert, member of the British, Par
Lament.
No Southerncrs, except Mr.. I4umsden and
family are known to have been on board
1t is estimated that the total number of
passengers aboard the Lady Elgin at the time
OF the disaster, was 3S5. Ninety-eight of
whom were rescued ts
Nearly one hundred reached within so
yards of the shore when they were drowned I
Ninety-one bodies have been recovered.
PAPA, can't / go to the zoolog3rcal rooms
TO see the comomile 6ght the ry-noa;r.ee
hoss p Sartin, my son, hut don't get your
trowsers torn. Strange, my dear, what
taste that boy has got for nat'ral his'ry. No
longer than yesterday he had eight tomcats
hanging by their tails to the clothes line"
a WESTERN editor wishes 10 Induce far
sner to Subscribe to his paper, but his obiec-
tion was that i was not an agricultural sheet. |
The editor deslared it was, and, in proof, ex.
hibited an article on "Sowing Wild Oats"