The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-13
Terrible Disaster on Lake Michigan
RnrninK OF tire Steamer Sen BIRD
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Cg,SAsos April a.--fhe sidewheel steamer
pea sira. belonging to Goodrlehss line. which
,eIt Mtlwaukie last night, was burned off
Maokegan this morning. The vessel and cargo
are q total loss. o. o.
The steamer Sea Bird belonged to the Two
wi aa'eTs, Maintowoc and Chicago line Of steam.
ers She had made four trims this season
and was on her fifth when she met with the
.erri II, disaster reported this morning. When
Oh Waukegan, about half past six o'clock this
lnorning, ffe was seen issuing from a pile OF
miscellaneous freight stored around the after
guards outside of the ladies' cabin, and In ten
inmates time the entire stern Of the boat was
wrapped i'll flames From the statement o.,
one OF the persons rescued It appears that all
on board became demoraliZed, even the off
GERS, and no effort. was made to lower the
small boats. The only survivors, as far as
known, are 9. a. Chamberlain and Edwin
hannebury, passengers from Sheooygan. The
latter makes the following statement:
There were In all abou. one hundred persons
on board, including eight or ten ladies and Sc
ven or eight children. / saw smoke arising
from the main deck; below" the ladies' cabin
was lot OF tubs and straw lying near, and
and the crew and passengers rushed from their
rooms There was great confusion; the fire
spread so rapidly as to convince me that it had
oeen burning long time. Within five mi
nutes the after-part of the boat was In flames
l do not think that all the ladies had time to
get out OF their state. rooms and some of them
ana their children must have been burned
AN eHort was made BY a portion of the crew
10 reach the small boats, but they failed
Chamberlain states that about 81 he was
looking over the side OF the steamer, and saw
4 porter come out of the ladies' cabin with a
scuttie OF coal and ashes, and going to the
ouiwarKs, near where quantity of miscella-
neous freight was stored, he threw the con-
tents overheard. In about quarter of an
hour he heard the alarm of fire, and saw flames
issuing from this pile of freight. 1t seemed
TO be not more than ten minutes before the
whole after-part of the steamer was in flames
In his opinion, when the porter threw the
Goals overheard the wind blew some back into
the freight. He heard no explosion, and
thinks if the fire had caught from the boiler
exploding, it would have been discovered
sooner.
Captain Yates, of the schooner Cordeia,
states that when off Waukegan he saw a
burning steamer; was distant from her four
or five miles; bore down to her, and succeeded
in rescuing two passengers, one of whom was
in the water and the other on the steamer
think it not probable that any others We're
saved; learned from one Of the survivors that
after the steamer took fire the helm was dashed
hard aport, causing her to whirl around and
around as long as the engine worked. The
Cordelia did not leave the wreck until she
burned to the waters edge.
The following are the names of those on
board, as far as ascertaned;
G.. b. Davidson, Robert Scott, George Me.
man, Thomas Carpenter, Peter Sullivan, G..
A. Cess, L. Lincoln, Edwin Neighbor, H
Comstock Rome, N. Y; George w. Emery,
and S. g. Watkins, clerk.
OtfcerS.--Captain, John Louis first mate,
Richard Hocklin ); first engineer, Thomas
Honchen; clerk, James Hodges; steward,
John Morrison.
Grs,o M. Morrisey, NJ. Malone, John Glen
non, Jason and James Rourke, and J. Burns,
cook and assistant; H. Simpson and J. Bren-
man, cabin boys.
The following embarked at Sheboygan H.
E. E. Sharpe John O'Brien, T. Stein, D. G.
Daggett Edwin Hunnoburg, L. Packard, DIR.
L. Book, Edward Proomskall, Henry Ullrich
Glenubuth, A. 9. Chamberlain, and Mrs. S.
Perry, of Detroit; M. Gallagher, of Xenia,
Ohio; Mr.. Rieper and wife, and J. NJ. Leo
| nard, Of Chicago; F. Lester, wife, and chill
dren, and two travelling agents, names un-
known.