The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-29
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STIIOUIs, October ga private
dispatch To- the. Memphis Packet
Company at. Sc. Louis, says: The
steamer Stonewall was burned this
morning, near Neely's Landing, on
the Mississippi, about forty-fve miles
above Cairo. Forty passengers and
three Of afle JcreW were saved. kEE9
The StoDewall left here on Tues
day, for New Orleans, with one hun
dred and sixty cabin and deck pas
sengerss aud froms'the dispatch. re-
ceived, it is Inferred that all those
above The tiumber nehti6ned therein
have been lost, r. Farther particulars
are expected hourly. .sa8oa aoda
STlLoWss October 28g- Mr. Phelps,
planter of Shreveport. Louisiana,
has arrived from the wreck of the
Stonewall, and furnishes the follow
ing brief particulars of the terrible
disaster to that boat! The boat caught
fire at half mast six o clock Wednes-
day evening, at point little below
NeeIy's p Landings one hundred and
twenty FIVE miles below st. Louis,
from a candle which the deck pas
seBgsrs had near some hay, while
playing carr AThe steamer was run
on a gravel bar. the pilot supposing
that the passengers could wade ashore
on the bar. Unfortunately, at the
end of, the bar there was a slough,
and here it was that the larger num-
ber we're drowned. 9 Fhe 5boatRas run
on the bar but two feet, and the shall
lowest point about her had five or six
feetQfyater2 The boat had 50 much
hay aboard that she burned like tin
der, and all efforts to put itaout were
unavailing.
The Belle Memphis came up at
.half-pastB nine O'Clock, three hours
after the accident, and rendered all
the Assistance possible. Out Of two
hundred. and ffty-three passengers
and crew, ohly thirty are known to be
saved. The last seen of Capt. Scott,
he was floating down the stream on a
log. The people at Neely's saw the
light and hastaned to assist. One
man rescued sixteen persons with a
skif.9 Had it not been for their help,
all would have been lost. a gentle
man from Paducah, Kentucky, swan
ashore with a lady, and at her en-
treaty, returned to save her child. In
swimming ashore. he was graspcd by
a. drowning man, and would, have
been himself drowned had he not
shook him off. One man was taken
from the wreck SO badly burned that
he died as soon as he reached the
shore.
Capt. Doudy. Of, Shreveport, La,
was Saved. There were thirty
cabin passengers, four guests, one hun
dred and fifty deck, passengers and
sixty crew. Quite number of ladies
were on board, all probably lost ex-
cept one. Fulkerson, the pilot. and
the carpenter, were the only ones OF
the crew saved. a.a, 1a9 =. ei1,s 81
The .Stonewall was owned by Capt.
55John Shaw and Dennis Long, the
| latter of louisville, and was valued at
$45, 900, and insured as follows in
Pittsburgh Offices: Eureka, $1,000
rBoatmen's, So ,OO0i Citizens. $1,000;
N Mon olnolg z ggahela, %, 600 Allegheny, s., :
600; Merchantsi and Manufacturers ,
$50 900. She had about S00W tons
fresiieht, siih including 270 cattle, horses
and mules. which were insured.
Captain Shaw had stopped off this
trip, and Capt. Tom Scott was in com;
tmanid.1 The other officers were as fol-
lows: Milton @. Elbert, first clerk
-Wm.- II. Check, second clerk; Josh.
Lester AMI DR.. Hoover bar keepers /;
Ed. Fulkerson and frank Murray,
pilots Wise Beebe, matei Geo, FFul-
ton, engineer; John Lyons, assista ut
! Z I George ". Fulton, the Chief En-,
gineer of the Stonewall, arrived here
| on the Belle Memphis and Agiyes
some further particulars. Sixteen
persons. were saved by elipging to a
i stage plank, and sixteen more swan
ashores 9These are ali out Of between
25O and 260 souls on board, of whose
-EspesitfVe safety there Is any certainty.
One man, named Brennan was picked
up and brought ashore, but he died
seen after The only officers of the
kboat known to be saved are George
w. Fulton, Chief Engineer, Edward
Fulkersen, pilot, and E. 2. Watson,
carpenter. Monroe Vandervert, the
striker and Charles Williams and
,lJohn. Churchman, deck hands, are
also among the saved. OF the three
I ladies' on board, only one, MRS. 9Gregg,
who was going to New Orleans with
her family, to meet her husband, was
saved. Ed8aLs .GNI, -.
Captain Scott was last seen t1oat1ng
on .a5spar Men on shore rode seven
miles down stream on horseback IN
hopes of finding him, but he was not
fnIlnr aa-zz-1.sazzlzls 81
Tlegcene7on hoard was heart reud-
4 ing gin the extreme The flames
4 spread with wonderful rapidity. un-
der the ACTION of a strong wind, and
the passengers, ia wild terror, crowd
ed the forecastle0 Until they were
i forced overheard ain mass and
4 drowned each other in their desper-