The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-16
River Dsspatches

CINcINEATI, September I5.-1he steamer
Phantom. an Evansville and Cairo packet
on her down trip. exploded her boilers az
| the foot OF Cum berland Island, At 10 A. d.
| near Paducah, Ky. Geo. Nicholson, first
clerk, and i've or SIX others were killed
and many wounded. The boat and cargo
are total loss. The Phantom was buut
September, 1864; she was III tons custom
| house and Us tons capacity. valued this
/ year at SO 0oO; was built at Madison, Ind,
| by MeSsrs. Irwin ard otueTs; she ranked
Glass c. was siern-Wheei, and has been
| running from Evansville to Florence, Ala-
| bama, as tennessee River packet. Tie
| past season she has run from Evansville
/ 10 Paducah. The owners OF the Phantom
/ tried to place several thousand dol airs IN.
| surance on her last week. but did not sue
coed. It is believed there was no insur-
ance on her She left Evansville Tuesday
| and Friday evenings for Cairo, aud was
| in command Of II. T.. Dexter and George
Nicholson, dTst clerk.
CIScINHATI, September 15.-Port List.--
| Arrived Packets. Departed: Minneoia.
| for Memphis; ChaImer, for EvansvilIe.
River falling; % feet in the channel,
and 70 feet under the bridge.
MIENEAPoIIs. Eepten4 Der ia remark
able rise IN the Mississippi River has &C.
cured. owing to the long continued and
unusually heavy rains a boom above the
dams broke yesterday morning, ana half
a million feet or logs ran over the falls.
So eeping off the light flush boards Of the
temporary horse DAM which holds the
volume OF the Mississippi back from thB
works. The dam Is unlnjured. The Min
nesota River, emptying below here into
the Mississippi, Is reported as up eight
feet, and Is 900 tons OF hay are swamped
out. The rain storm has continued for
four days. and has done great damage-in
81. Crolx County clone IL is estimated at
$50 900.
LOUISVILLE, Sept I5-Port List-The
Edinburg, FOR the Arkansas River, did not
get or until this morning. Sallie and
Mary Davage, from st. Louis to Pittsburgh;
Is stationary, V it'll eight feet and i've
Inches water in the canal six feet and i've
inches on the falls, and i've feet and ave
inches over the rCcks. The weather -
clear and pleasant.
LOUISVILLE, September 10, Pr the
steamer Phantom exploded hSI DOtleIs,
Paducab. XIV, al half past nine this morn
ing, and sunk In I'VE Ieeg Malgr. .1SDISe
Nicholson, first clerk, Nhl. 0IatI liner Daf--
keeper, and four others were kllleu, aud
about fifteen wounded 1hfee VIII PROP
ably die. The wounded were wei treated.
The Phantom left evansville yesterday,
with the Clara Scott, an opposition boat,
and the passengers report that they We're
racing. fhe Phantom was owned in Pa
ducalI, and was chartered by Capt. Dexter.
who was in command. She was valued al
81 600. No insurance. She was running in
the place OF the Cumberland, which ex-
ploded six weeks ago.
NASHVILLE, Sept. l5.--Weather fsir and
pleasant. Mercury t22 at I pm. River fall
Ing, with 20 inches on Harpeth Shoals.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 15.-9:3o P. NJ weather
c. ear and pleasant. The Arkansas ~ ia ai
ing with about three Get wafer 70 Little
Rock. Departed-Pauline Carroll 10 III.
Louis; Continental 10 New OfIeahsi OAlu-
well, Arkansas River.
NV ORT,vApyz, Sept. b. rriyed-Great
Republic from 81 bouis' -S '-'--7 y" - "a
from IoufAYlIle.
r.o4-rs sept IS Port List-ArriVed-
81, 81 = cord. from Mound CITY; Illinois,
rom PEORIA Andy J99hn 9aa rom Keo-
Auks.a for ~ Paul; Magenta, for New Or
SS..la. CIV OF Cairo, for Memphis; Clara
5 1 ~ esas city; n lex Wall, for Lexington:
III TyJherfv No 4, for Wheeling River sta
ffonary. but there is another swell In the I
1Dper Mississippi and a rise In the Mis- /
sofJrf which Will cause another advance I
here soon. Weather clear and pleasant /
Mercury 759 at 3 PM.
CAIRO. September I5.-Port List-Belle |
st Louis st. Louis to Memphis, 10 p. NJ f;
Fanny Brandeis, Evansville packet, AM