Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-10
now Ia FEELS no BE BLOBS
UP-AN ERIrOR's EXPERIENCE.


Most Of our readers will doubtless re-
member the exploaiOn Of the steamer Mag
nOlis, on the Ohio river, soneten miles
from Cincinnati, in March last Mentloe
was made al the time OF the supposed Iatai
injariea received By Chss, b. LeSIs Em
Quad" Of the Lansing Democrat, RhO was
on his way 10 accept situation On the
Msysyille (Ky.1 Bulletin. Being now, az
terra lapse Of more than three months, par
italy able to resume his duties, he thus
writes up an account OF his accident Tor
the JacksOaiGna .s.. ..1aaI -eslaeif
When / bought my ticket, ! asked the
clerk if the Magnolia was considered a
safe boat. He looked at ma with half
sneering and half plying expression, and
replied by inqniring If had ever Travelled
much. - rs..J .4l ~ q. ta.
sven, no-not above the average
Then you'll learn something bye aud
bye" he continued. H.a4 f-1
did. Was seated in the cabin between
an ex-COlOnel in Georgia regiment and
Cincinnati pork dealer, and We we're all
talking over the impeachment matter.
My fellow passengers soon became heated
and angry. They were cuFsing Congress
and the President across my head each
one ~ he fell-and was looking for muss.
Their angry talk soon collected crowd.
/ had just got mp from my chair to keep
clear Of the coming fraeas, when i
heard yell Of agony, and before you could
have counted three up through the cabin,
almoal under our feet, came huge, Jagged
mass olirOn. go aa..
For an instant thereafter was concious
Of every thing going on. | saw the cabin
roof lifted mp, heard the angry hiss OF
steam, the crashing Of timbers, and a cry
FROM tie injured and frightened passenges
that will never be forgotten. Then | was
lifted from my feet I felt an intense pain in
thebaelS Of MY head, and biting, singing
sensation over nay entire body. Sixties.
days afterwards awoke 10 the Commerciai
Hospital at Cincinnati. ] knew that J
was badly hort, but could not remember
how or when ] was injured. ''f'
As afterwards ascertainsd, was blown
out Of the cabin into the river. Whep
the explosion occurred, the steamer was
Just rounding the bend above California,
hugging pretty close 10 the Ohio shore to
avoid the heavy current. must have Ia
ken a jump of az least two hundred feet,
as / was picked up close TO the bank. The
survivors were conveyed down TO the city
on a tug, aud here comes the only joke
can discover in the whole affair. s.i
From some cause or other, my face Was
turned TO as deep a black as negro ever
wore, aud | was accordingly treated "a one.
A dead cart was sent down from the hos
pital, and side by side with two wounded
darkeys, lying on mattress, was carried
up. The mistake was not discovered until
the snfgeons commenced shaving the hair
of 20 get at my broken skull. Was sup
posed for the first two days TO be deck
hand, bat a telegram from my wife to the
editor Of the Inquire, who came aud hun
ted me up, soon set the matter right. .
On awakening In the hospital ] inquired
how badly | was hurt. The only answer
received was to keep still" Considering
that | could move neither hand nor foot,
regarded this advice as entirely thrown
away. But it did not take me long TO find
ont that first, there WAS an uncomfortable
"air hole" in the back part of my head ;
second, the sight entirely gone from my
left optic, and the skin peeled of my face
and ears third, that | had been steamed
or rather cooked, from head 10 heel, in
Gliding both arms, and lastly, that the
doctors had just pulled me through a Sc
we're attack of pneumonia. Remained IN
the hospital twenty mine days, and then
concluded to go home. Had not yet been
able to leave my bed, but accompanied by
my broIher-in-law, C. II. Rulson, Esp,
who had nursed me from the third day j
made the journey.
Getting home-my friends had all been
looking TO see me come In a cothn--my
wounds had all filled up with proud
flesh" This Of course had to be burned
out, driving me crazy for night and day,
aud compelling me to use a solution Of blue
vitriol twice a day for forty days. So yon
can form a slight idea of the pain and SUI
fering, aud how much eye locaP can en-
dure without becoming dead matter"
Now, after a lapse Of almost one hun
dred days, | find myself once more about,
but condemned to wear the savage marks
of the steam-6end to my grave. bald
spot where the iron missile crashed my
skull, "piebald" eye, face that resembles
beet, and over the arms, body aud limbs,
are scars that resemble great slices Of fresh
beef laid upon the skin. But after all, j
am yet alive and getting ready TO once
more pursue the 'itemizing" business,
which you know is vastly better than being
hshed out OF the Ohio some torpid day +,
with no coroner handy for an inquest