Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-07
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81 bi.,es. GALLIPoLIs, O., Jan. A..
| The stern-wheel steamer Harry Dean
Ileft here this morning at 10 o'clock,
having on hoard about twenty-five pass
eugerss including four ladies and three
lor four children among the number. She
had proceeded nearly two miles, when a
lterriific, explosion was heard hy the citi-
zens Of Gallipolis, and the Harry Dean
Illad become 4 total wreck. and was
floating helplessly upon the water. She
I,drifted around the, bend Of, the river,
and to the Virginia shore. The boat
had on board 400 barrels of oil, which
soon ignited, and vast colums Of smoke
were soon followed by. explosions and
flames. siit "a: h9ssfsil1 .tas9.ssif 90 hltis
The scene around the wreck was
shocking nithe extreme. Several Of the
sufferers LAY scorched, blackened and
burned upon the burning, mass. with
sufficient consciousness to be aware of a
still greater calamity. their total ami
Ihilation by fire. Many were struggling
in the river and endeayoring to reach a
lspar or piece Of the wreck to aid them.
When the boat first reached the shore. a
line from the bow was made fast on the
bank, but from some cause became loos-
ened, and she swung around bow down
stream. when a line was fastened from
her wheel to the bank. ... - - ''t 55
MI. Beare, passenger on board from
Gallipolis, states that he was near the
doctor at the time OF the explosion, and,
hearing the engineer ring the fire bell,
ne glanced at the steam guage and saw
that she had one hundred and fifteen
pounds .of steam. Immediately after
the explosion came. The force Of the
explosion was upward, tearing of the
front part of the cabin standing.
Every hour. adds to the list of killed
or missing. From the absence of all au-
| thentic information as to the number of
people on the boat it is impossible, to
know how many are injured. The fol-
lowing is believed to be correct as far as
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Major j. W. Ryder, Of the firm of
Ryder e. Caswell, near Guyandotte, kill
ed and body lost !. Captain George w.
Norton, OF Ironton, killed and body lost ;
Captain X. N. Biggs, of Ashland, Ken
lucky, killed and body lost; Mr.. Hora-
tioi Booth, clerk Of the boat, and son,
both slightly wounded; Captain D. F.
Sayre, severely wounded Pilot John
Levissy, Harry Bays and Engineer
Chamberlain, slightly wounded; Cap
tain Burch Cpilot). severely, but not
fatally, wounded; Mr.. Burns, of Par
kersburg, badly burned; John Haines,
fireman, fatally. arms broken and body
badly burned; Mr.. Muncy, barber, seri-
ously and probably fatally j ohm Ryan,
of Washington county, Ohio, leg broken
and badly burned j. j. Brown, former
lily, Of the Thirty sixth Ohio regiment,
arms broken and otherwise injured; a
cabin boy, name unknown, fatally; Mr..
Buchanan, deck hand, burned to death
Two deck hands, names unknown, were
also burned to death. The second stew.
ard and cook are missing, in addition to
four more, and are supposed to have been
lost. Two men were thrown from the
boat into the river, but, clinging to pieces
of the wreck, escaped, unharmed, to the
shore. A number were injured slightly,
who are not reported. o9 80
All the books and papers of the boat
were lost. The boat was ladened with
oil, salt, potatoes and apples heavy
freight trip. The major part Of the crew
and a number of the wounded went up
the river OH the steamer Edinburgh a
short time after the explosion. At this
late hour a dense smoke is still rising
from the wreck, which is in charge Of
mate Knox. sis
Captain Hiram Burch, of Marietta,
the pilot on watch at the time, although
seriously wounded, kept his post at the
Wheel and held the boat until she struck
the Virginia shore. ss, ase- 5-5 5.s.s.i
The Harry Dean was formerly known
as the Ohio Valley. She was built at
Cincinnati, by Captain Chapin, in Oc-
tober, 1868, and during the war was one
of the feet of Government gunboats.
After doing considerableservice, she was
rebuilt att Cincinnati, and run in the
Dean Line to Memphis as regular
packet, her name being charged at that
time. She afterwards Piled between
Arkansas land White rivers and New
Orleans. After the loss of the Marietta