Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-11-12
THE LATE MARINE DISASTER.
PARTICULARS OF THE BURNIG OF
THE STEAMER STONEwALL
ABOVE CAIRO
SCENEoF TIE BECATASrRoPHE FE Jar
FUL seen IS ON BOA9D.

The ST. Louis Dtmocrat gives the 70 INV
ing detail, of the dis@sirr Jp The Stone W I'll:
already mentioned by tel graph:
THE TRIP.
The Stone san left st. L Us Tuesday
night aG aDout ak O'Clock, aud having on
freight and passengers, to prevent the crew
fr..u. lsav,ua, she sailed tn the o'her side OF
lh, river, having loaded at the foot OF Elm
.trset. and set sail from the Elevator al
E.ss St. Louis on Wednesday morning n
three o'clock. She hrst landed at Chester,
luin.dr. where abe took in eight hundred
aarreis OF s,.af on "Wednesday forenoon,
betwsen ten and eleven o'eh'ek. Many o,
th,, deck pvsSeng.rs we're lAborers who had
howled tho night bno,e along the dog-eries
.e.f the levee and taken their iaat spree ou
earth. aud were bound for the Nav o.
deans. Ievees to die beneath weliecing sun,
or worse. 10 linger into eternity by tevers,
disease and pestil ncn. The boat next stop
ped a. Grand TOSsr aud took IN eight hun
dred or a thousand bushels Of coal, Sut 10
passengers, and her next stop was 10 have
been at Cape Grardeau, from which the
scene OF the catastrophe IS about 4 teen or
twenty miles.
TIE Seems.
Il beggArs description, words fail-im.
asination ID AZ fault. Two hundred and
blsEiBg fire behind them, and a death amid
tcy waters before them. II was abodt half
t,ust six In the evening In the cabin, the
supusr liable was LhrOnged. some had left,
md were smoking their evening cigars
others chatting near the stove. Few were
a, deck. Glr the aight vas dark and tne AR
chilly and piercing. Dosn on he desS %
m0ttev crowd OF hnndred IN hf'g ems
grants and working people ~ere gathered
naay had eaten their auppor o nrrs "7i ,
takina their last moutniai, when small
bl.xs not larger than your hand broke ou,
Al : pile Of hay, Ana a solitary deck hand
ran e,rw.rd anl cried, "Fir-, dfe p From
mouth to mouth the s0ulstfring cry rtn,
and In . momsat tho deck passrr gers we're
palulsd with fright ans desperate with ex'
eit.msnt. Hardly heard in the cabin, the
erst cry waz REGARDED as a ruse-psrhaps 4
row among tho deck passengerH. Some
wsrs little full of Equor-then in second
k%,nkling eaass the second cry, ayell, I
lnAd-ning. dsAfsniDg yell Of Fire nre
are % tnat pisrced the deck aud RAM
through tbs ears Of the supper eaters hk'
. death kasll. Now there could be no mis-
t.k,. IL WA no f0Olishness now. Ths
rvv sn-unt hle OF death, and every one frl
N, 40 the upper deck, TO the cabins ,fo
and an. people ran. Panic, fear and fren
AZ ruled the hour. There we're seventy
ave lie prsservsrs Ia the stAfe-rooms, bu
ealy ons man secured oae' There was
va~l. bat soma of the deck passenger
s.i.-d IL and. without oars, indiscriminate
h. lid In and pAddlod ashore with the
h...sds. From the small blaze on the Ia
80 the boiler deck the DIRE spread 10 th
- OH and tho whole ship was Ia blnz'
IN. bo.t was lJaded with bacon and oth'
-,,llaiti.s. and tho a dsInes, spreading VII
[--enl rsuidisy, sbou found the solid con
hnsslbl.s, and An iutenso heat was geaer
tsd.
An. .csns Was most iearfd'. One hundr'
.nd day pahsengers, mos u foreigners
r-s.h Irslian., d .g,s, Germans and Amvl
@--..,,a,, @ wtth Lhrir families, all In GO
n-ion rrnnd, trying TO save their lives.
IN. bo.r grounded twO hundred yards FRO
,Acr~. the ponderous engines thumped Al
.~,,rknd la vain. The passengers were raj
,,.nt and Wild. Elfirts were ma 10 To
- ,ha ho.s 10 tho donkey engine, bit q
srcwd would not all Il. S Sime tr'et
rhr,s out planks and stag'ngs, hut q
rrusd rushed 10 the edge e The deek an
An thsir eAgsrnsss 10 secure y tlon", pr
v,ntsd tho stAgings from being pat GU 4
shouesd "Gst eh tho staging and :
-,an whD cried the londest Was the ve
80 1hva w9s in the middle OF the atsgil
IRE D..or deck passengers knew oct What
40, Psnaless with their paeks' hks
.,,..r "A usrculAneun, elung 10 their
-,rldly rsmnAnG., and fiunt wstery
woa a asry grsvs baslds their h'thy ~
tr;.hn,,u. VIII sAsir p'eks and snovels,
- ,a .osk southern roads, their oid el
-, half tiilsd With tobacco, and thsir
s.,na no In a baadanas, we're 'hsre a
aark. haired Italians gong 70 inc san
South 10 expose their wares "a uio"'
making mart, DNgos, treeen su'e AH's,
Ing where their own language vs. So Z
-. there. Ths-s people Sera. Mo a
,o ~. he are, tho 6rst 10 catch the ifiSh