, 1864-06-13
AWFUL CATASTROPHE
BURNING OF 4 uUBsOH R1VRR
ETHAmROAT.
From Thirty to Forty Drowned.

..' trtQW kAe ~ Il IlMte+ d1nd
ihc Sew York and Hudson llne, left Hudson night
telolc As'st Acr Es1I hour, with heavy freight
kod IN uIIfyal number OF passengera. when d
isT nLss ,a eedH Ronont lare broke out o. the
htin Geek. Tha:h WAs slowed With bales Of hay,
eno increased wfh Euch amaxiog 1aFidlty, enre4-
oR;Es 50 large so.iace at once thst Its csuss was
d'a,Eut 70 trace. 1swas TOO dissant from She Afe-
ISon 70 nkre auelt ncreffom. One account IL
toat IT cone nom tbs hEp-roo and another sup
poees 1t was eccastonedh hy the careless smoking
4 1ef5 Jew minutes shovea the imDossfb,l,t, n,
extiERufehigE It The boat VIII therefore headed
lor shore with the utmost speed, md was favoy-
ably Msshsd TWO miles shove Hrde Pask-H3
newspaper, was passenger eu the BetIebIrc. and
g1yeF uf ibis statement ofthe catastrophe: ~
He bad been N tie geatlenen's berth cabin, as
asleep 4 chair. He was partly conscious Of
eomn,etton. and Of men runnIny up stairs, when
b. srssf End te9s as y: sss,P l,nS x seks
given below. tbs was not far from len o'clock.
o. ssoen. a faanG 4 ] y 'pe 9nssiass ss
odt Of their rooms IN dire confueion. Capt Pow
r. e: ~ ts5in tas5a e So slsa; iorTs 70 5he
him. The engines we're working with great epeed,
xnd the boa, headed for shore ret the aanues were
dining th!eugh The boat with such incredible a.
nsled to Jump ffom the boat before 1t st1u:k the
pestef 1o Jump INTO tho water at2s the wheel th1n
+ tI:e lowcr csbia, which hs hsd lsa. and be.
lieving aomo upst still BE- sleeping there,
be descended and ahtaeked out that he
men there, whe asked him U there was any
way TO escape The amoke had become SO dense
be could not 6ee any more len thoir berths. Ind
tuhocated. Going TO tho stern be found ihres
men, ladY sud tMo chiidrna, aad the two co1ored
cbsnbermaidt.. Then thc bow struck, and the
fut deep @stsr AZ. a strong breeze was blowing.
and the Laidale part OF sha boat, from The huU to
The hurricane deck, vas Wrapped In flames, roar
under. the terrific draft, Nt Child climbed up
ttnochion to the upper guards. and saw the only
way to get forward was b climbing over the wheel
bejow list they could do he same bit hey did nos
htart.: The entise space between the wheels vss
nasa o! Ere. Persona were then leapang overheard
nnd wadinG to the Eho1r. which WAS about ten roda
deep! Right ahead Of the stsrboatd vhecl-house
tvs !ncn were trying 70 make woman Jump
lcnSy lbs "wo6ld atsy and bum pbS beioSra eo sse he
would jump into tha. ho11id water" IL they
LEFT her, our informant Beiztd and threw her
e ta net sq ~ ta ino soe
and there appeared to be come struggling. A
dcScn TO tEenty men were on deck At the bow
when VI. chi!d iett tho boat, md they seemed
teiand, right Rbeam Of the vessel, to see HhAt
Ind become Of those be Ieft ssteiu. 4 woman
Has In The w6ter there, ho2d1Rc on to 3 haw5ey,
down HhIch &ra& running blazing butteY, MELTED |
from the caaks On deck. She kept changing her
hard TO hold on to the blazing hAWBer, dipping
the other hand IN the wster, TIL they were doubt
iese 50 burned that she could not use them longer
then tel OF and drowned Capt Powers, Mr.
tn1Id AID anoibef 11an swan ont and tded to
lsaca nef, but the heat WAS 20 intense they were
opngta 70 return. It was sa.d that this lady was
Mr. Dhiiock. OF New York. and the two children |
soss WIN bet were heEs. Tho two colored cham
cetHaos we're also lost One 1Ittle boy rot
ashore who wss nearly frantic thst h3s Erand-
moiher must bb lett 10 perish Ia her statefoou1.
f@Ee Eecond waiter and another ws{ter nevred
John j. jackson were lost -
4 M:e. Mills and child were not 10 b. tonnd 1,ba
INT bocT picked up In tho water was thnt II iIf
tie boy. four yeafe old, unknown. This Ist Of pss-
GcngeTs RaE not eaved. The clerk said there Was
not far from 1eo OF whom about onc-ionrih we7e
woMtu. Not oref hncen women were eecn On |
shose- The Captain and officers were saif.pox-
sesta] And energetic In Ill that they did: bur Nj
Child is quite positive thas no sufficient alarm ras
euuced In the ladies' befth cabin. at on the naln
dctk nor IL the tnene CABIN, 1t Ii probable that
esreT25 Al least persisted In thelr berths OF were he
vLdf.Ed by the snoke ard Lost in the pstsares.
Not boat was lowered aw1y. or tbs few uufoItu-
nate9 st the escru might hsve BEEN rescued,
Erou1lt tina they abandoned Ill effort to. mt
ont tie FIRE until Tho verseI struck It Was ten on A..
teen rfcu1es. Tho engines continued working for
cys.liautea after she ran aground, and 8he steam
wss z,Httug ou from all the yalyes that tho bsllefs
sloufd not burst.