Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-01-12
Further Particulars Of The Loss
OF the Sieamer Fashion.

OIL tne Steamer faSillOR.
Fsum The New Orcin. riciynne of the aeh,
We have convcrscd with several
OF the officers Of the ill,lated boat,
and collected tho following particu.
lars from them respecting tho sad
event, We are especially indebted
to Henry llcllery, the bar, keeper,
for the facts which we give below,
MS briefly as possible.
The Fashion was owned by Mr..
\. S, Mansfield, and partially insnr-
cd, She was commanded BY Capt.
p, Pratt, Her clerks were Mcssfs.
f, i, Shaw, j. A. Dinwiddic aud +.
l., X, LudwigScn, She was on her
way to the city from Vicksburg,
with about leo cabin and " large
number Of deck passengers, her crew
and all told must have numbered
800 souls. She had over 2G00 bales
Of cotton on board, About 3 p. NJ,
Thursday, seven miles above Baton
Rouge, the cotton was discovered 10
be Oh fire about 10 feet forward Of
tEe side house on the larboard side;
every effort was made by the officers
to put it ont with water, using the
hose and buckets, also by throwing
the bales overheard, but the wind
blew the flames into the tier of bales,
and within five minutes the whole
side Of her was on fire, thus cutting
elf communication between the for
ward and after parts of the boat.
She was Immediately headed for
the shore; the pilot, Mr.. Thos. Mon
tague, never left his post until the
boat was landed, and we fear he was
lost by his devotion to his duty
Capt. p D. Pratt and the 2nd En-
gineer Mr. II. Hoffman, succeeded
in getting line fast to the shore -
Then, having secured the safety of
those forward, Capt. Pratt next took
the yawl from parties who had es-
capped in it to the shore, and went to
the stern Of the boat, and succeeded
in saving some twelve or fifteen pas
scngers-six of them ladies, who
were hanging to the stern andready
to jump overheard. Mr.. Tom HAST.
ings, iirst mate, assisted Capt. Pratt
in his efforts to save the lives Of the
passengers. Too much praise. cali
not be bestowed on Capt. Pratt, Mr..
Hastings, Mr.. Oliver Fairchild, first
engineer, who lost his life at his post,
Mr.. Harry IIellery, barkccper, and
Mr.. Ephram IIardesty, steward,
who no doubt lost his life in his ef-
forts to save others, for the last that
was seen Of him was on the after
guards throwing over shutters to
the passengers to keep them from
drowning Mr.. J. A, Dinwialdic,
second clerk, and Mr.. Hoscy, car
pentcr took the yawl and picked up
several childrep-somc OF them al.
ready trowned-and other passcn-
gers. After putting thcm on shore
they followed the wreck as it foatcd
down several miles, and came on to
Baton Rouge
The Bayou Sara packet Lafourcho,
Captain Baranco, was the first boat
passing. She was bound up, and
her crew picked up all they could,
treating them very kindly, and do
ing all in their power to relieve
them. The Viclssburg packet Ma
genta, Capt. 7. p. Icalhers, bound
down, come along and took eff those
coming to New Orleans from the In
fou"chc, treating them as we'll as it
was possible to do. She took fire
three times on her way down, bus
was saved from destruction by tho
vigilance OF her crew.
All The officers and crew of the
Fashion behaved well, and deserve
credit for their efforts TO save life.
AS far as we have been able 10
learn, the following persons arc sup
posed to be lost Mr.. +, IIardesty,
Mr.. Thos. Montague, pilot;
Mr.. o. Fairchild, first enginceT Mr..
r. CASTILLO, second mate. The first
eUiored, two cabin
boys, colorcd, 4 daughter Of Mrs.
Of Port Gibson, about seven
years Of age; two other children,
names not known, besides a large
Of the deck passengers. No
books or register, to give the names
Of the passengers, were saved. All
the rest of the cabin passengers,
are cUpposcd TO be safe.