The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-03-20

Hotel, that there were at that place
several who were on board at the time
OF the catastrophe. Their names were
Captain John Law, Of Aberdeen, Ohio.
slightly injured; William Burton, bar!
keeper of the Magnolia, also slightly
bruised and burned; Thomas CurrarI,
of Dover, Kentucky, was badly scaId.
ed; George L. Glllis, of CovinRton,
Kentucky, was uninjured;a a Mrs. Fite.
of Higginsport, Brown county, Ohio
was safe; a deckhand, name unknown,
was unhurt and about the city some-
where. The above named were passen-
gers, and had stopped at the Metro
politan. At the time of our visit most
of them had retired to rest.
We learned at the hotels that many
OF those saved had been taken to the
houses OF their friends in various parts
of this city and Covington.
AT the Spencer House we found Mr..
"A. @. HULL a manufacturer at Pitts
burgh. he was in his stateroom, asleep,
at the time of the explosion. AS he
walked he sprung to the door, saw the
situation at once, and jumping over
board, ,clung to the hull until picked up
by one OF lthe skiffs. Mr.. n. had hard
~ recovered from some slight bruises
he received on the Indianapolis & Gin
cinnati Railroad, when the train he
was on was thrown from the track at
Whitewater bridge on Tuesday morn.
ing by the storm. Mr.. Hull, on his
trip up the river from Evansville, was,
as we learnedS on boat which took
fire. He escaped with slight injury
from the disaster of yesterday, being
but little bruised.
At the Metropolitan we learned from
an eyewitness, that the dead bodies of
Mr.. d. II. Murphy and Benjamin Broad
head, both of Ripley, had been sent up
the river on the Mary Ament. These
bodies had been left at Columbia,
Three OF the injured, viz: Stephen
Shorter, and Green Johnson, both col
ored; and Charles Lewis, white, were,
upon their arrival here, conveyed to the
Commercial Hospital. Shorter had the
whole of his face smashed in, and his
his breast and back were frightfully
scalded. He was taken to the Hospital
about five o'clock, aud died at seven.
Green Johnson, colored man, aged
twenty-three years, was terribly scald.
ed all over the body and, as he laid
naked In his bed, presented a most
frtghtful appearance. The physicians
in attendance gave it us their opinion
that he could not live through the
night. There was probably not ten
square inches OF the skin left on his
body.
Charles Lewis (white) who was a
passenger on board OF the ill-fated
6L9HtACAg Wa9 L6444b4y 6Sh4ueu ABOUT IQe
head and face, and had a hole knocked
in the back of his head. At 8 O'Clock
last night he was in delirious state,
and his recovery is considered ex-
tremely doubtful.
A German named Myers Ochs, who
was on his way to MaysVille, for the
collection of some outstanding debts,
was frightfully cut about the head, and
died short time after being taken to
his residence.
Immediately after the explosion of
the boilers, the wreck took fire and
hoated down the river. When opposite
CreiGhton's mill, at the upper end of
Columbia, three kegs of powder, which
had been stored in the hold, exploded,
and in few seconds afterwards, ali
that was once lett OF the once magnifi-
cent steamer Magnolia, snnk to the
bottom of the Ohio river.
AT present nothing is known regard
ing the cause OF the disaster, but as an
| Investigation will shortly be made, the
full facts will be developed.
MIR. Joseph Beatty, n merchant doing
business on second street, was among
the lost.
We learn further of the Magnolia
disaster, that H. c. Clark, of Adams
Express company, who remained at
California, was wounded on the head,
and one OF his legs was broken below
the knee. He is lying in a very dan
gerous condition.
l: MCGOWAN, from New Richmond, is
also In California, in dangerous con-
dition; his head. arms and hands are
badly scalded.