The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-07
TIE ONO RIVER DISASTER.
Further Particulars Of the Steam
boat Collision.
LIZ 1t OF Those Lost sand
sawed. i
STATEMENT OF ONE OF THE PASSENGERS.

CINCINNATI, Dec. q, 1865.
Further particulars OF the steamboat collision On
Friday night show = larger loss Of life than ~
nrst supposed Immediately after the collision the
OEited States was enveioped 10 nsneA which In
staatly commune asec TO the America. Both steam
es were compiler ely destroyed In incredibly short
SPACE VI time About seventy-iive cabin passengers
were the Up tied States more than half OF whofn
we're host.
The reports OF the efncers are very connictinR'
bat ~ mean az can be learned fory-Gve pas
sengeas including eighteen ladies' and III aa'uioon'
scpen Of tkie officers and cabin crew were iost-
while Ousy four cat ~ twenty Two eeeA hanos
are known to DC saved. The accident ~ atIrputea
10 nsaJEes in the whistles. The United States was
butt fat Cincinnati cost S23oOOo, ana was insured
for /&lOO COO The America WAS pu'it IN 1857 anu
lcoks ss24o,ooo; insured Tor slSaooo pnnc'paiv IN
Clnoanati.
srhs ,,asscuccrs on the United States known TO be
esyml arc NJ seickler and wife, OF Fremont, Ohio;
J,,pes Price and brother, OF Louisville; Lee Kann
xr1 DR. Leslie, OF Cncmnsti and h. Nelson, Of Ale
sshsDy CITY Pa. Master Pearce was saved, but his
mother and brother were lost Captain Joseph
Nooamrnant, of Cincinnati, bnrned about the neck;
Robert Nelson. ~ Newport, KY, slightly injured:
q. H. Green and lady, sol. Harris, of Louisville:
George A. Middleton, OF Cincinnati; w. W. RawIey.
OF Clncinnatti william chamberlain. of Cncinnatti
Nashville; n. Fisher OF New York: s. X. Clark or
Memphis, also saved
The following are missing. but are supposed TO
have been saved:--y. Crawford and LADY, Mr.. Iugge
and wife, Mr. HuJdle wife and daughter; q. y.
Morris. H. Siessinger MIR. Otter }. Maddox, and r.
Hartnlan.
those lost tho United States are:-Mrs. r. A.
Jones and daughter Eva, OF Waypesvlle, OHIO, and
FJjah Foot (coored).
The list OF the passengers Of the United States cab
not becorrecty given owing the oss OF clerks
Register. Rev Mr.. rarvin and Rev. Mr. Risey, OF
Now York, are missing; also Mrs. Harriet Warning
OF New Albany, and young lady in her employ: Mr..
Rglcy, John F. Burns, J. N. Lewdower, NJ. J. LoOk.
NV. Garvin, L. z. Johnson, Arg. George W. Griffin,
r-- Heidelberg, Miss Mary IL Johnson, Steele Bright
%. r. sappington j. ii. Vance, NJ. Eifews, Mr. HAM
ners. VIM Briggs, Charles RINK, Mr.. Pope and Mr..
Taegan are supposed 10 Ne sayed.
The officers lost are Iosn Fenne). steward; Rich
Ard Marshal, second steward: James Johns third
clerk; James Feunei, barkeepcr, and nan tcolored,
barber mr.. HAYS, OF Nashville, was severely
bruised. OF ten frernen the United states only
tIIreo were saved. Ole Ban WAS among the pas
SengerS saved.
Vice President Smith Of the indianapolis and Gin.
cinnati Railroad. rendered the mail company spe.
csl train for the use o. The wounded and unfortu-
mate. Tne mail company has been organized thirty
years and only two accidents have happened IN that
time.
The wife of Gn,i1odore Thompson and @ lady
travelling With he. IRE l0st. Mrs. Hays, q Nash
yilIe is missing. John Morse. Of 0wenville Ohio, is
aest Harry brunswick, billiard manufacturer. Of
thts city, u misslng Il.
: The yaxl OF The United States was swung NJ on
stern davits when the deck hands made rush for
II upsetng u and throwing AL hands into the river
Many Of them drowned. There ninety
six passengers the America, only one or whom il
known 70 be lost.
The wreck of the America lies against the bank on
fhe Indiana shore and the United States Hes eight
feet OF water about hundred feet above.
Mr.. John u. Weber, of the nrm OF Oliver, Carpef-
Cor Co., Of New York, who was board the
steamer America, has arrived here safe and vel.
Tive Resideats or Concord, ". H., Among rho
rs0st.
CokcoEp, y. H., Dec. A, 1863:
George uuicbns lnd wife. respected residents o.
this city, lost III the disaster Of the steamer
uurtcd states. They wero en- route 70 New orlears
INC sad negligence has cast gloom over our citi-
Kens
Recovery OF some OF the Bodies.