The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-06

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clerks and highly, accomplished gen.
tlemen, Frank o. Smith and Arthur
Field. The Dexter's cabin is fur
nished with almost oriental magnifi-
cence. Persons going South should
avail themselves of this opportunity.
For MEMPHIs.-The elegant steam
er Empire will also go to Memphis
to-day. Capt. Yves. Whitlow COM
mands, and Harry Walker and Nick
Pennington are her clerks, two pop
uIar and obliging gentlemen.
GIeanIngs from our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI-The Commercial of
Friday says:
The Mary Mcdonald caught fire in
the hold. opposite College Point, in
the Lower Mississippi, when steam
was turned into the hold, damaging
her cargo for New Orleans; insured
principally in St. Louis and Cincin-
natl Offices She is fine sidewheel
steamer, built at St. Louis, less than
two years since, by Capt. David Sill
vers, Thos. Shields and Capt. Gun
s0llis, from the Iowa's machinery,
for the Missouri River trade.
Three fourths of the little Red
Rover has been sold to parties up
Salt River, for $1,000. The Rover
enters the trade between New Albany
and Salt River, running up to Pitts
Point, and thence up the Rolling
Fork as high as she can reach.
LOUISVILLE. - The Courier of
Friday says:
On the falls last evening there
were seven feet two inches steamboat
water down the Indiana chute, and
fully six feet in the middle chute,
for ascending boats, and slowly fall
ing.
OF the future prospects the Courier
says:
IF the river should rise two feet
more, all the piers in the channel
would be covered, and no boatman
dare attempt the passage of the falls,
and navigation will be effectually cut
off beyond this city, as the canal will
be impossible.
The following is the Courier's ac-
count of the wrecking of the T. d.
Horner:
The I. ID. Horner was in the chan
mel descending the middle chute, and
when about half the passage was
achieved "a haze, or mist settled over the
water, making objects somewhat in
distinct, and almost on the instant the
boat with her broadside struck the
middle channel pier on the right, or
starboard side, and crushed through
her guard and hull down to the main
keelson, making a complete wreck of
the boat, and impaling her upon the
stone pier. The force Of the collision
was so great that the chimneys top
/ pied over, the upper works careened,
and the boilers fell into the hold of
the boat, and the burning Goals in the
furnaces set the boat on fire, creating
the utmost alarm and confusion. In
were knocked overheard and drowned.
Their names were Geo. Halderbann
and j ohm Sinclair, both of this city,
the latter leaving a daughter, and the
other a wife and several children.
Capt. Varble was at the wheel Of
the boat, and was severely Injured,
and his left hand sprained by the
violence of the shock, which tore the
wheel spoke from his hand As soon
as the boat caught fire, he, together
with his crew, sprung to the deck,
and with the snow that covered the
deck put out the flames. The boat
sunk at once, happily In shoal water,
or but few could have been saved,
and she now lies shattered wreck in
six feet water, with three feet water
over the main deck on the lower side.
FCapt. I. l.. Shallcross. the agent of
the underwriters, went over to the
wreck last evening, and after a brief
investigation thinks she will prove a
total loss, and that the hull is literally
cut Ia two, and crushed. IF the river
falls the engines can be saved, unless
the swift current should carry the
boat off into deep water.
The bridge pier which sunk the T.
D. Horner Is one of the piers that
were in the course of construction in
mid river, this one forming one side
of the middle channel, and was des-
ignated as the channel pier of the
middle chute. At the time of the dis
aster the top of this pier was barely
on a leve! VIII the surface Of the riv-
/ e., ans could not be seen at all Is
location, however, was pretty well de-
fined by the surging and seething wa
ters that rushed over and around it,
| aud If the atmosphere had been per-
/ fectly clear Capt Varble possibly
could have avoided it. He is, howev-
er, universally admitted to be the
most skillful pilot that ever steered a
boat over the falls, and in this case it
! is his own boat that is lost, and a very