The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-08-27
TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT. DISASTER.
The Steamer Acasfa Sna gKed.-Scventy.
nve Passen gers, Including Mrs. Robert
Dale Owen and sIrs. Capt. Kttcha rdson.
DrO

The Steamer Acasfn SnaE xcd.-Scventy-
Dale owen ana .Irs. Capt. richardson,
From the Memphis Bulletin, August 22.l
On Wednesday the steamboat Acacia, commanded by
Captain Malvern, lei. this port for Helena: Her
regiments at Helena. There six ladies', stated
DO all the wives Of officers, among them. There
about seventy five tons freight aboard most Of II
sisted Of suffers goods. At twelve O'Clock the pilot
taken by v. Macouley, the other pilot. Tho night
MT clear, what the Pilots call "gray there
starlight, but not bright Al hafIast ociock-on
Thursday morning Of coursc-as the boa, passing
Grand Cut on which ia sixty miles below this city, she
struck snag, SO that the end OF the snag caught plank
in tho hull, twenty feet from the bow ripping or from
end to end
The water Of course rushed into the hold with extreme
rnpdity and in i've minutes from the time'of striking,
the boat kselod and completely capszed Tho "sky
light" as the raised portion OF tho hurricane deck is
called parted from the rest and with the "exas"
pilot house and the state connected with noated
The hull completely capszed and in doing gldcd from
the shoai where the accident took place, and sunk
deep Hater. SO Rapidly did all this take place, the
sbock-thc rush u water into the hull below
the rolling overheard Of the chmneys abovs-ths irving
OF parting tnbcrs the hurricane deck separated from
the cabin and this ut time when nearly every tenant VI
tho Inflated boz was In deep sleep that there OPP
hurricane deck heard agonzng cries. hearending exca
nations and vain calls FOR help from those below Then
they and the rest wero all struggling In the that
surgod wildly round the spot where the capszed boat
swallowed up.
passengers estfIatcu
seventy ivo persons persisted. One white woman and
coorcd charnbermaid saved; i've ladies
red down when tho boor deck broke from the hull and
the hurricane deck from that, Such Of the survivors as
have nothing Of the ladies. They probably,
In their wild fright made some attempt at dress from the
suggestions OF instructive modesty, and tn, Sc few
were fatal The captain, clerk and crew with the
exception perhaps OF some Of the deck hands and the
negro cock got safely TO land Tho survivors speak with
VI the conduct OF the engineer Tom BALDWIN,
WHO stood faithfully his post until the water had
e.cd tho rorkng parts Of tho engine.
moment
Ing; ho rushed from his room, shouted out some hasty
Instructions 10 the other pilot at the wheel when no
found The boa, Feeling over and tho chimneys falling He
slid along the deck until he caught by the sleeve by
the guy OF OF the hmneys. So held he carried
into the and far down. appears to him,
he carried beneath the surface with tie sinking iron,
when his struggles tore the sleeve from the guy and he
reached the and conrvcd to get upon the hurr
deck this deck others managed TO crawl.
dragged by those already there others seized floating
boxes bales and broken pieces Of wreck and were thus
supported above the water The pilot and others
got ashore ut Mrs Dr. Kcnts landing That lady showed
them hospitbe kindness some tmo after the accident
the W. II. D despatch boat came dswn and picked up
number OF the survivors and tock Thorn 10 Helena or
course We know not who they woro. The Conway, on
"skyhght' hurricane deck floating twenty-five
mites below the spot Of the wreck, and I've
persons c;ngng 10 II whom she took on; others
ros cuod from the water From seventy Ave eighty il
is not doubted, sunk beneath the waters.
The Acacia was the old W. II. Langley, which used 10
to White river and ether side streams and for
time run with the Kate Frcsbee, In Captain ShrIey's
and unat Tor service she was owned by Captain Price
and valued at thousand dollars. Among those
board the America was Captain john Bcizler, ABIDE
nothing Of his fate.
1hc only names have been able to obtain arc tho
following which signed 10 q series or resolutions
which they passed cuoslzng the humanity OF the OH
GERS Of tho Conway and expressing gratitude for their
generous efforts To their lives, and Kindness
they taken board Their are John Brown,
John larson, Charles Ross Jchu Sivcn, Jonn e. usr By
ron leone, N. Lews, N. Rnger, W. Wool 7. Heidel.
bcfger, J. r. Smith, Eighth Indiana; Robert A. Brown,
Eighth Ind ANA Isaac A. sharp Eighth lndiana Lehman
A. White Eighth Indiana; William stiegemcer, John Bur.
CESS, w. II. Ashweil.
certify that the above Is correct.
L. RiNGl4tR, Assistant Surgeon,
Fifty .oighth regiment Ohio Volunteers.
THE VERY LATEST.
MsMPnE, August "a, 1862.
Nolist of passengers by the Acacia has yet boon
ceivcd. Mrs Robt. Tale Owen and Mrs Richardson,
vito OF Captain Richardson, Of the Fifty third Ohio
| lest.
1t row asccrtained that not more than thirty persons
pcrjshed.