Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-24
Terrible Steamboat Ca1astrophe-PartIcu

Terrible Steamboat CatastrOphe-PartIcu~
lars Of the Explosion Of the Mud Valve
OF the Steamer Kentucky Eleven
Men Killed and Sixteen Badly Wounded.
The catastrophe to the steamer kentucky
has already been briefly mentioned by tele-
graph, and the particulars are given in
Tuesdays Memphis papers:
The steamer Kentieky, Captain Lee, of the
regular Memphis and Vicksburg packet line,
on her way up from Vicksburg on Sunday
morning, about half past four o'clock, when
opposite Columbia, Arkansas exploded her
mud receiver, which gave way on the top,
close to the starbOard eide, where, il is said,
the iron was net more than the sixteenth Of
an inch thick. Immediately on the explo-
sion the widest confusion, as we may we'll
imagine, reigned on board.
The explosion was upward, and the cabin
floor over the boiler was ripped up by the
force of the steam and water for a distance
of forty feet, and from three to nine feet wide,
while the hre bricks we're hurled into the
cabin. The boat had Just rounded out from
ColupA ia, and Captain Lee, who was in his
room at the time Of the explosion, having
just retired, was soon on deck but not be-
fore he had inhaled the steam, from which he
complained considerably when our inform
ant left, but without any serious apprehen-
sions of its proving fatal. The third clerk,
Mr.. Rice, and the mail agent, Mr.. A. NJ.
Stoddart, being up at the time, were on the
forward deck, and escaped uRhurt.
The surviving officers of the kentucky,
and DR.. Talbot, himself badly scalded about
the feet as well as the resident physicians
and the citizens of Columbia, rendered all
the relief in their power to the unfortunate
victims of the catastrophe. About an hour
after the accident, DR.. Talbot procured the
services Of a hay'boat, which dropped along
side of the Kentucky, and Benjamin Little
and brother, s. ]. Eddings, Thos. s. Redd,
NJ. Daily and James Able were placed
aboard, and in charge of DR.. Talbot, con-
Veyedto Greenville, where it was confidently
expected they would receive every possible
attention.
About nine o'clock of the sane morning,
the steamer Prince Of Wales, Captain LODI
wick, came by, taking on board all who de-
sired to come up the river, and kindly prof
fering every attention which could be given
the sufferers, making considerable sacrifice
of time in the delivery Of, the sufferers at their
respective destinations, for which all pecu-
mary Iecompense was generously refused.
For the above particulars, as we'll as the list
ofkilled or wounded TO be found below, we
are mainly indebted to Mr.. Richards, of
Huntsville, Alabama, who escaped uninjured
by jumping out of the back door of his state
room, and sliding down on to the lower
0eck. W OF the Inc were put on at
this point, Of whom there can be but little
hope. The following is a list of the killed
and wounded: .r r.
S. Storm, Lake Boliver, died on Prince Of
Wales; W. B. Lamb, O~loverport, Ky, died
on Prince of Wales; Thomas s. Redd, Skip
with Landing; Nj. Leaning, registered Vicks-
burg to Napoleon; Charlie Evans, Jackson,
Miss; James Petty, first Clerk; b. N. Quine,
second Clerk; Henry Weilago, bar-keeper;
colored, free, cabin-boy, Eugene Brogwani
colored, John Smith, cabin-boy; colored,
James Lee, jr., belonging TO Captain Lee.
WOUNDED.
Benz. Little, S~helbyyills, Tenn, badly
scalded, will die; NJ. Little, brother of Ben.
jamin,) badly scalded, will die s. G. Ed
ings, Fayetteville, Tenn, badly scalded, will
die Mrs. LaVine, chambermaid, badly
scalded Thos. N. Evans, Pecan Grove, La.
badly scalded; W. II. lice, alias Jas. Ray
jackson, Miss badly scSldedi Patrick
Mcclure, BoliVer County, Miss, badly
scalded; Thes. Fitzgerald, Memphis, Tenn.
badly scalded; James Able, Eggs Point
Miss, badly scalded; M. Daley, GreenEille
Miss slightly scalded DR.. Talbert, Green
vile, Miss, slightly scalded; j.. B. San
dusky, Bridgeport Va, slightly sealded
free eolored cabin boy, VIM. Watson, viii
die; free colored porter, Sol, slightly scalded
negro boy of Captain Lees scalded seeonI
: engineer, badly scalded. Many others Wer
more or less scalded.