Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-01
/ The Inflated Steamer
Missouri.
Statement of Money and
Valuables Found.

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We had conversation with Sylvester
Ward, porter of the i'll fated Steamer
Missouri, last night, from whom we
gather the following particulars:
Capt. Hurd was in the texas with his
wife.sand youngest son, Lou. Hurd, at
the time of the explosion. The wife
was killed instantly, and the Captain
is badly bruised and slightly scalded. Ar-
thur Hurd, second Clerk, was injured
slightly in the arm and scalded, though
b mot badly. Henry Hurd, Pilot, had bis
right leg broken below the knee aud
badly fractured. Lou. Hurd, the
Z younger son, was slightly injured in the
back, but not seriously. Jas. D. Malin,
first clerk, was slightly wounded. The
chief engineer, James Phillips, was lost,
and a striker and greaser, whose
X nanes our informant did not know,
were also lost. The day watchman
and the carpenter, whose names the
porter did not know, were lost, and VIM.
Brooks, porter, and Samuel Evans, night
watchman, both colored, were also lost
e Col Graham, was badly injured His
injuries appeared to be inward, and his
recovery was regarded as very doubtful.
Two Federal officers, whose names were
not learned, were among the missing
Andrew Flemings, one of the pilots,
i was but slightly injured. Both bar
keepers were saved unhurt. The stew
ard, and all his crew, except Brooks
and Evans, were saved.
The porter thinks that some SO or 60
lai were saved, and near loo lost All the
deck hands and deck passengers we're
4 lost, not one being saved that he could
learn Of His statement about the time
and place, corroborAtes the statements
heretofore published. nna aa8x
n His statement in regard to the action
taken by the officers of the Dictator,
does not show up their. humanity in the
most Aattering light, by any means, but
we forbear making comments, with the
hope that further developments will
prove to the contrary.
.ssxs He stated that Henry Hurd was ta-
kan out through the hurricane deck,
and thinks that many others might have
been rescued had the Dictator remained
long enough to make the proper exer
ton or rendered the assistance that
ought to have been expected. He did not
- think that the Dictator remained along
side of the wreck more than fifteen or
twenty minutes, and if this be true, there
5 Ia surely great room for censuring the
ofhcsrs for neglect Of duty aud inhu.
nianitiy, as it was evident that NO dan.
ger would be incurred by remaining
longer, or by towing the wreck ashore,
or 10 shallow water. On the contrary
it was left to drift at least six miles
to where it isiow.
The Captain and his little son was
rescued from the wreck by the steward
John Shumock, colored man, whose
presence Of mind did not seem to for
sake him, even in that moment of de.
struction and disaster. Even after be
lis.s had saved the insensible Captain and his
little son, he rushed back to the wreck
which was about to 60 in pieces, anC
IN made desperate efforts to save the bod.
of the Captains wife, while others wer'
loud in admonitions not to attempt 8
hazardous an undertaking. a
There can be little doubt of the Iosl
ai of as least one hundred lives, and from
$40 the best and most reliable information
that can be got, we arrive at this conclu
sion. The heart sickens to contem plat
s such destruction of human life in 81
short spaceof time.
We understood that it was the inte
ton to take the Captain s wife, who va
sel identified By the steward and porter, t
Louisville on the Rose Hite, which lei
last night, bat we did not learn whethe
it was done or not The porter, wh
gave us the above facts, was badl
~ stunned and little bruised, bat aide
in rescuing the Captain and his littl
son.
STATEMENT.
The following is q statement of Il
II 81 money and articles found in the safe
a. the steamer Missouri, when opened
the presence oEthe undersigned, ia
3lst, 1866 9Thsta0 bra
GreeubAcks and bank notes..... IS 4ol 90
fractional currency .............. 449 65-S, $50
Large wallet ma ked James A.
Matsn, Clerk, containing
estH hNg erten back aud blk notes.. 81 ,2e4 90
Check on New Y0rk..-...... 125 00-1 ,3s9
Total amount snpposed TO belong TO
III koS
FnyeIoues marked and lontaining ANTS
as follows; -Tl
Lawrence schroeder 81 so <.
= ss striker ...... ...-.-.----l y 50
l. NJ. Rogers. ..,....-- n "
frank GoldN aite..- .-.--.s....-s- ~ %
] Cox, ,Sfriker............-....-.........s u W
Enrd pflof 100 W