New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-05
Loss Of the Steamers Missouri an"
Miami Additional Particulars -
Rrighfful MoPt0lity.

A Louisville dispatch to The Cincinnati Com
eycal gives the following in regard to the recent loss
OF the large and fine steamer Missouri The dispatch
is dated Jan. 3l-5i p. m:
Additional and Trustworthy particulars OF the eS-
poson of the Missouri are dicGt TO obtain Capt j,
Hurd and three sons all safe, bat badly wounded
The Captains wife and child were asleep IN room IN
the texas at the time OF the explosion; me Saplat
and child were thrown through The roof and lodged on
the texas Wife lost. dispatch, to-day from Evans
VILE states that her body was recovered. The explo1
sion occurred just above the mouth oi Ireen i.veit
while the boat was under vav ascending the Kentucky
shore The Dictator was just ahead, on the Indiana
shore. The MssOuri's boilers went on Ike cap Oh
thunder The boat appeared TO spit open 70 ne wate
and sunk Immediately TO the cabin floor drltng down
10 the bar above Evansville The loss OF life Is e1ag'
gerated as there but few cabin passengers IN
Guiding ten or twelve who got on ooard 81 LVans'Ie.
The crew on watch at The time were all killed or
wounded The Dictator dropped back and went along
side and took off l20 including many Dady wonndeu5
Some estimate 10 lives lost, including Jas Philips OK
New.Abany. Chief Engineer. on watch az INC LINZ
Billy Malston and Joe Guthrie strikers All me col'
ored fremen Oh watch were lost. Also FRANK Soiur
waite Waterman: Wm BROOKS, cOlored porter SAM
mel Erwin eolored cabin Waterman, were lOst VIM
Peters of Owens borough, Kentucky passenger lost
with 80 barrels moasses and 81 bales gunnypags' n
Messenger from Lowell Massachusetts, and family con-
neced with the Freedmens Bureau, were saved Capt.
T. Wash Stewart Of New-Abany, Indiana, was saved.
Pilot Andy Fleming, saved Hamilton, beTEeeper m
hurt; jas. Watkins. first mate nnhurti b. +. buren,,
second mate wounded slightly; Henry Hurd pilot, leg
broken; Arthur Hurd. second clerk bruised and arm
broken.
The cabin register and books arc supposed to be
lost The boat was underway ct the tine. minute
before the explosion il was remarked to me engineer
that there was excitement passing the Dictator ater
he said he hadn't much steam, and was IN no hurry.
An erroneous impression prevails as 70 racing Inc
Missouri left NewOrleaDs ~ hours after the Dictator.
and had no thought of racing. The officers Of the Dic-
tator deserve thanks for their humanity IN sovinS
lives and rescuing the sufferers She brought all hero
free OF charge Capt Hurd is on tho St Charles, WIN
Others for Cincinnati. The Clerk, j. d. NaIin has
gone TO Cairo on the Lady Cay
A telegram from Memphis jan 81, 10 the same psper
mentioned above states, relative 20 the loss Of tha
Miami as follows: 49,
"The Mary FORSYTH arrived here last hight, with
-spt f. A. Levy of the Miami and part OF the crew
M board The number OF lost sNels 10 some $50 OF Sul
,erson. Fifty bodies have been picked up and buried
n the Mace of tho disaster. Some OF the wounded arc
low in the hospital Helena Arkansas, most OF whom
will die An eve witness states that nine or ten skee7
ons of persons burned death 10 bo seen near tho
boilers on the deck. Mr.. VIM. Lloyd, the steward, -
on the Forsyth. in dying condition. The porter, q
negro was blown TO atoms. The barber, colored Wiz
not recover The boats crew numbered thirty two5
only seven escaped alive. James Wolf and jacob
PoSns,te two cabin bows. are safe and In the city.
George Winberg second steward was lost. IL was
impossible 10 learn the number and names of bose lost
as tho boats papers were destroyed by Are. The hull
of ths boat was sunk at the place where she dred ~
the Arkansas River, after the explosion Nearly ak
the soldiers on board were lost instead OF only thirty
as at first reported. Tho horrible and heartrendins
features Of this calamity do not diminish upon diigent
INJURY Of other survivors bar on the contrary increase
in an alarming and horriiying degree"