Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-13
BYTELEGRAPH
CALAMITY
ON THE
STEAMER YOSEMITE
Between Forty and Fifty Per-
sons Killed and Wounded!

SACRAMENTO, oct. l3-lZ II. Inc
steamer Yosemite, which left here at two
o'clock yesterday, met with an awful ac-
cident, by the explosion of her boilers,
causing death and destruction among
many who were on board of the Inflated
steamer. The following statement wa
prepared by William w. Barnes, who
arrived or the upward-bound steamer,
which arrived at the scene of the calamity
some hours after the occurrence, and who
came to Sacramento early this morning:
OFFICE STEAMER CHRYsoPoLIs, Friday,
Oct. 1872 A. M.-Editors: 1 undertake a
painful duty in attempting to give you a
description of the terrible disaster on the
steamer Yosemite, which occurred at the
Rio Vista landing last evening. AS the
steamer was leaving the landing her boiler
exploded, throwing all the upper cabin,
pilot-house and everything forward
of the smoke stack into a total wreck,
making a scene of death and disaster most
horrible to look upon, and which I will
not attempt to describe. All I can hope
to do in this letter will be to give you as
correctly as possible the terrible record Of
the killed:
]. II. Myers, comedian, Of Maguire's
Opera House, killed. J.. S. Fallon,
Treasurer Of Maguire's Opera House,
killed. Major, machinist, of Maguire's
Opera House, killed. w. H. Stevenson,
manager, of Maguire's Opera House,
killed. Wasburgh, musician, slightly
scalded. J. H. Barnes, killed. Souther-
land, of Bank of British North America,
missing. Decker, of Central Pacific Rail-
road, missing. A. Lindauer, Of Virginia,
missing. McCreary, badly scalded. G..
l.. Smith, badly scalded. Pat. Hughes,
badly scalded. Dennis Dnscoll, deck
hand, badly scalded. ]. P. Dunn, leg
broken. Jennings, check taker, badly
scaldcd. d. Barnett, discharged soldier
from Grants army, badly scalded. Thos.
Collins, old resident of San Francisco,
badly scalded. Joseph Middleton, Of
Virginia, slightly scalded and injured.
Four Cinnamon badly scalded. Joe But
Ter, chief cook, slightly scalded. Peter
Burke, cook, badly scalded. George
Bowen, of Charleston, badly scalded. G.
w. Seaton, Senator elect from Amador,
arm, leg and shoulder broken, badly
scalded, and not expected to live, made
his will on the Chrysopolis. VIM. Will
kinson, deck boy, badly scalded and in
jured. S. NJ. Creigh, clerk Of the Yosem-
lite, slightly scalded. Capt. E. A. Poole,
Of the Yosemite, was thrown from the
boiler deck forward to end Of main deck,
with no serious injury. S. II. Esse, Of
Sacramento, cut in the face. A. Fund
hansen, of San Francisco, badly scalded,
and wrist broken. J. w. Haskin, late
Senator from Mono, blown into the river
and swan to the opposite shore, with a
slight confusion. G. w. Bowen, of Sac
ramento, badly scalded. L. l.. Hastings.
of McArran s. Kelly, slightly scalde-.
George l.. Smith, of Boston, badly scald-
ed. Chas. Lewis Smith had a check, No.
II, S9l 25 in coin, and a trunk key, in his
pocket, all of which are in charge OF the
steward. He had a brother-in-law in
California named Sheldon Burbank. G.
w. Bowen, very badly scalded, has a
mother, Sarah Bowen, living at Charles
town, Mass; has lived last two years i'll
Arizona. Mr.. S%weetapple, head cut
slightly, superintendent of a mill at Day
ton, Nevada. John Ramser, of Sacra-
mento, slightly scalded on the back of the
head. Jimmy Grifiths, slightly wounded.
Charles Wilkins, of Sacramento, slightly
scalded and bruised. VIM. Rogers, killed.
Three white men, names unknown, and
H. Wiskoski, of Virginia city, scalded.
T.. Jacobs, of Sacramento, foot broken.
Cooper, Messenger of Wells, Fargo & Co.,
who was in his Office, was blown nearly
to the opposite shore, and returned unin-
jured. Michael Clancy, badly scaldcd.
Patrick Crowell, coal passer, killed. Capt.
W. Campbell, of Gillig, Mott & Co.. badly
bruised. VIM. Sharon, President Branch
Bank of California at Virginia city, slight
conclusion. Capt. Ager, of San Fran
cisco, badly bruised. L. j.. Chase, known
at Yankee Jim's as king" leg broken
and scalded. Johnson, of Johnson, Bond
& Co., scalded and ankle slightly injured.
Robt. Barerphyte, chief engineer, badly
scalded.
In addition to this list, there was known
to have been twenty or twenty-five China
men in the hold of the steamer. Their fate
is as yet uncertain, as it was impossible to
clear away the wreck before the Chry-
sopolis took the Inflated passengers. 1t
is believed there are several of the missing
passengers under the ruins Of the cabin.
You will readily understand that in the
confusion arising from the disaster it IS
impossible that this can be a full account
as many must have been lost who have no
friends or acquaintance on board to tell
the tale.
The injury sustained by the Yosemite is
not as yet fully ascertained. The forward
cabin is entirely demolished, but the hull
is supposed to be uninjured. At the mo-
ment of the explosion the safety-valve was
blowing off steam under a pressure of
twenty. FIVE pounds. The Yosemite's GER
tiicate allows thirty-ive pounds.
The steamer had been detained from
five to seven minutes at the landing on
account of the quarterly settlement with
the postmaster, and had just commenced
to back from the landing. The only
plausible conjecture which has been given
as a Cause for the explosion was the rush
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