Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-06
Still Later Dispatches.
Further Particulars
OF THE
STEAMBOAT DISASTER

Among the seriously injured were three
women, two of them sisters, who died after
being placed on the Antelope. The other,
Anne MCGEE, had a leg broken, and was
otherwise injured. The other sufferers were
men who but few hours before had been
stricken down in the enjoyment Of full and
vigorous health. They were, almost without
exception, badly scalded about the head, face
and hands, and many Of them over large por-
tons of the breast and body. A large num-
Der of citizens visited the levee while the
boat remained at the foot Of r street, many
OF them searching anxiously for relatives and
friends. At about half past nine o'clock the
Antelope was hauled of and towed up to her
landing at the foot Of K street. At that time
on the levee. An impromptu sanitary com.
mittee was organized, the Vernon House, on
] street, had been engaged and was opened
as an hospital; stretchers were hastily con-
structed and cots were forced into requisi-
ton on which the unfortunate victims
OF the disaster were removed to the Vernon
House by volunteer citizens, who manifested
a laudable desire to do everything possible
which humanity dictated. Several deaths
occurred after the boat landed, and Of the Al
or more badly injured, three-fourths will
probably die.
Il is impossible to tell as we write how
many lives have been lost, but it seems that
ut least seventy.five have been either killed
or fatally injured.
We learn from H. II. Stephens, Chief
Clerk, that there were l53 passengers on board
the Washoe on leaving San Francisco, and
several others came on board at Benieia and
Rio Vista.
The Antelope brought up the killed, in
iured and uninjured, about eighty, leaving
some five or six dead bodies and three or four
injured persons at'the locality Of the wreck.
The number blown overheard, or killed and
remaining In the lower cabin cannot, Of
course, be at present aseertained. The pas
senger list was lost, and cannot be referred
to. Passengers who escaped uninjured, de-
scribed the scene at the time of the catastro
phe AZ heertrending in the extreme. The
lights were, Of course, extinguished BY the
shock. The report Of the explosion was fol-
lowed By the fragments Of the boat and the
eroans and cries Of the wounded.
some called for help in one form and some
in another. Some asked for light and some
for water, and some desired to be thrown
overheard, and others jumped overheard !;
some who were enabled TO gain the shore
did so, and ran into the bushes in vain search
Of relief. 1t is said that Capt. Kidd and his
uninjured officers were prompt in extending
relief, but had, Of course, but few facilities at
hand. When the Antelope arrived, Capt.
Foster, Chief Clerk Van Pelt, and all the
officers and crew exerted all their power to
relieve the suffering, and insure them all the
comfort possible on their way to the city.
Below we give, so far as practicable, up to
the present time = list Of the dead and in
jured.
Statement Of H. H. Stevens, clerk--I had
just laid down in my berth about fifteen min.
utes Of 10 o'clock, in outside starboard for.
ward stats.room, Boat was going rapidly
Ny first impression was burst or whix Of
steam, sounding like tearing something.
immediately shutNmy mouth, and putting
my had over my nose rushed for the door,