Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-11-12

the most uncomfortable most lacking
la judgment, and Guns, q ieutly the most
severely suffering. They rushed to the
sdga Of the vessel and seeing the flames
that Illuminated the heavens and z istsned
on the dark waters feeling the heat thai
scorched and burned hearing the explos-
ion that Numbered IRON the engine room
and machinery department, aud dumb
f0un'led and frightened by the noise aud
confusion as well a. blinded by the smoke,
they plangsd peli-mell into the waters.-
) me clung TO spars and bits Of wood, but
mo e touni nothing 10 hOd, swan % flo tied
for short time, aud then beuumbed by
the icy chillines, Of the waves, and blinded
BY the smoke, they sank 10 wsttry graves
Many mules and horses were on board aud
with the deck passengers, and poor dumb
creatures, who could expect them 20 dis
play more reason than human beings, they
rushed with the people aud jumped into ths
wafer with them, and over them. Some
few started aud swan Ashors, bnt must OF
them swan round the b at Ia circles, dr o. W.
Ing men, women and helpless Children
Ous mule jumped into a crowd OF people
struggling IN the water, aud by his fFantic
noss meu,s drowned six peopl,.
IN THE CABIN.
B-fbrs the news reached the cabin the
OK passengers we're wild tn sxcifemsi /.
The trst cry was hardly realized, but the
second carried too much C, ,nsictiun in the
~ildnsss Of It's notes tn be neglected or mis-
taksl, aud sli rushed for safety, s,me To
uahins ami stat rooms, and others aft and
10 deck. Tie caoils -ooh hiled with smoke
"A binding, suf eating smoke, a smoke
that would not be checked, but was the
forsrunn1r OF mprs dsathly flames. There
we're only three lady passengers in the cab
in one helplest old lady, a mother with
two youtg children, one q baby still ia
s~sddiing clothes, aud the third lady q wife
going to meet her husband, fon whom she
had loug been separated, in Louisiana. Out
Oh the boats edge, what were the cabin
pa~sengers to doS They we're only about
forty IN number, bat their plight was one
of peril. All around them the lurid A ,mes;
heBeatn then the dark welcoming them 10
anything but hospit4bs graves. Just un-
ier, tho frantic deck passengers, the mad
tened animals rushing 70 and fro, unc1n-
trolled, ulcontrOliable-all shriekiug, shout
ng, praying AID iupisring for life aud safe
". To jump the distance wss fearful, aud
he leap WAS certain to be to leap to
the grsve-to remain was death by burn
ng. Every one was frantic :. ffi'ers tried
IN vain To keep the crowd quiet, but the
danger was too inIuinent-tbe death too
certain. The little ebildren clung ia vain
20 the arms Of their m1thers; the iaaiiea
shriekrd and fai4t-d too lAts-the mrn
rushed to aud fr'., aud &c isa instiGt prevail
ID aud sgery enc shifted for himself a. best
he o. she e"uid. Had PEI Pile kept cooler
more would have bosa saved, but the blind
instinct or infAtu ttou 0f q NIB tn follow
leaders rhl d, aud the example Of tie deck
] nas fsiI a brrt Ia
s-ngers above. The flames were approach
inS them, and when p, many we're Jumping
inlo the water, why sbou i not all. Alas
the water vas chilly aud cold, aud the bar
was only a slight one aud a strong currunt
an on either side. Many jumped, stru'k
notion and had theic feet carried away
! firm under them by the swift and treacher
aus under currents; Others, blind with
r., nv and excitement, rushed tO Were the
crowd was ti' X NJ, aud jumped in among
the mules struggling and kicking, and
sni'.ug The stout aud hearty laboriug men,
~hosr presence Of mind had left them and
sho-e uuiy th"u<ht sSemssi to bz that safety
was only secured by al jumping gether
m OF 9 vast grand heap, 0n top, in between
and among each other. Thus a sure death
| was secured. With everybody the ques-
ton was Stouch and CO." impulse got the
better OF juds sment, aud reason and com
mon sense that would have rushed for lite
preservers and taken door 0ii Lem hinges,
tO'k back seat. Men list hnpe and In
fatuation seized every one. The fire was
by no means q liHzoreSg or lazy one the
flames neither tarried nor fingered, but
/ -prrad from bale 10 bale, fom hogsh~ ad to
hogshead, from huge piles Of hay TO slnm
brring sarks of oars, from cnmhusiible and
easily excited coal oil to lid and juicy
bacon, from cold and inanimate provisions
70 human life that a moment before was
buoyant With hope and brimfnl OF expecta
tiou. The h.m-s 70 led, and crept. and
licked their way along, now stealthily, now
rusbingly, now with smoke and snap OF
spaIk < aud cinder, and anDn bursting forth
in lurid derceness. Many were burned
and scalded, and not a fes never reached
the de, k to make even fruitless efforts for
safety. Over the side Of the boat the lam
bent Il Inies ran, down near the engine, over
the vince l. over the texas, and away mp
round the blackened smoke stack. The in
tense heat Of the pipe, and the explosion
| only added to the Consideration. Very
feW Who jumped into the water reached the
shure.
ADDIrI0SAL AND COMPLETE PARTICULARS Oh
TIRE TRAGEDY.
NsSLY's LASDING, Sunday night.
s / GuMItNs ONA0DtT olsts faH NNtht anu kohN
. A uohla laws work has been aeeo plished
| Eight st. Louis humanitarians-and every
citizen, man, woman and child, have done
: work for humanity to-day that will tioat in
) to history aud be recorded and remembered
, among the heroic efforts for the suffering
: aud afflicted as long as the name OF th'
Stouewall will be a houshold word, and th'
Z fatal nght Of the 9th of October will b.
4 known. From early dawn 70 slnset, witt
: drags and yawls, by promises aud persona
! exertious, have sixty lfaless remains beeI
4 rescued from their sleeping places. Tn
7 success exceeded all anticipation. Tn
Z bodies fouad thus far have been nearly al
deck passengers or members of the crew
J. and have been found near the wreck, wit
!, the exception Of dve bodies which wer
: found below the wreck, thus seeming TO Civ
proof to the theory that the deck passen
gers leaped overheard aad that the cabi
I, passengers aad officers OF the boat burne
to death Certain IL is that many on boar
= did burn 20 death, for the people on shor
saw human beings suveloPed in himei
h rushing in vain to the guards and boat
!, edge SO rapid were the hames, so crowde
,s the toat. so confused and panie-striekea a
:. on board, that however painful the th ugh
ar We are bound 20 believe that maay wei
IA burned TO ashes-bJnes, hesh, and clpthiu
n every remittance Of identity irrevocab
a and forever lost.
Gu the wreck to day was found the r
mains, few bones, a tiny skull, charre
ed blackened, aad erumolng to tinder, OF VIII
- appeared 60 be young child. Touchih
RI very touching. was the conduct OF a brJt
n er who came down 10 look flr a little sist
- only two years old, and who, mounting d
'm ruins, measured the tiny skull, weighil
nd AMI examined the bones, and then she
M his head mournfully amid an unbrOken