Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-11-05


Two Hundred Lives Lost.
Special Telegram to the Commercial
CAIRo, October 2S.-The officers of
the Submarine No 13 and Olive
Branch report the steamer StonewaIl,
heavily laden, from ST. Louis to New
Orleans, entirely destroyed by fire last
night, at Tea-table Bar, eighty miles
above Cairo. The best information
saws three hundred aud twenty per-
sons were on board, crew and passen-
gers. of whom only forty are believed
to be saved. Ali her officers, except
Pilot Ed. Fulkerson, Engineer Fraz-
ier; and the carpenter, are lost. Capt.
Dowty, of Red River, is lost Only
six ladies were reported on the boat,
three of whom were saved.
Mr.. Schultz, formerly of Maysville,
Kentucky, saved the niece Of Captain
Scott.
The engineer saw passenger going
aft with a candle. and ordered him to
extinRuish it, but he would not do so.
Before the engineer could send word
to the officers, the passengers rushed
forward hunting buckets, but giving
no alarm. Suspeeting danger, the en-
eineer rushed aft and saw the flames
burst out in the deek-Ioom, among
the hay. The alarm was given. aud
the boat headed for the shore, but she
grounded one hundred yards from the
bank.
terward, landed, and found only four
persons, who said forty were saved,
and had been taken to a farmhouse.
The Submsrine No. 13 and Olive
Branch could see no persons on the
bank, and we're not hailed.
CAIRO, October .28-The steamer
Stonewall was totally destroyed by
fire at z o'clock last night, fourteen
miles below Grand Tower. There was
fearful loss of life-vaTiously estima-
ted at from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred.
Mr.. a. Shultz, of New Orleans, one
one of the survivors, came down in the
Olive Branch, and gives the following
particulars:
He says the fire broke out while the
passengers were at supper, and was
caused by a deck passenger placing
lighted candle on bale of hay.
Mr.. Schulz sought the hurricane
deck to avoid the crowd, and remained
till the fire drove him to a desperte
leap to the boiler deck, and thence in
to the water. He seized young lady
at the moment OF jumping into the
water. and swan safely to land with
her and returned to rescue others, but
being seized BY two drowning men was
dragged under and lost consciousness,
until rescued by party IN skItf. He
thinks the young lady saved was the
niece of Captain Scott
Tan0FfE are
CAPTAINS Scott and Dowty; Mr.. Phelps
Dilot: first and second clerks, and a
81. Louis merchants named Phelps
George Fulton was the only engineer
The lowest estimate of loss Of life
we have heard is one hundred and
fifty. Mr.. Schurlz states there were
very many Iaborers bound for Arkan-
sas to work on railroads. This fact
would lead to the belief that the estl-
mated loss of life is not greatly exag-
gerated.
CAIRo. Ill, Oct. 28.-CIem. Notte,
clerk of the steamer Cairo, just arriv-
cd. furnishes the following list of saw
ed. SO far as known: Ed. Fulkerson,
pilot: G.. w. Fulton. first engineer;
John III. Lyon, second engineer; car
-penter, name unknown; Philip Fris-
bree, boy; N. M. Mosberg, L. L Sloan.
Niche Marx, Mike Bresner, j. Sisone,
ID. Jones Boone, of New Orleansi w;
s. Cooke, of Virginia; V. Cook, OF
Texas; NJ. O. Swing p. Herrin. I. 5.
Stevens, j. Conway, George EdiDg-
burg. Lewis Peret, George Peret, Nick
Perit, B. Pere and wife, N. III MoshiD,
J., Swan, Sames Schwarz, Herman
lana, j. Connors, James Griffin, John
Pearce, Dennis Moriarty, DIR. A. w.
Washburn, DR.. s. B. Iurell, Andrew
Schultz and LII. Carol