The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-02
Terrible Steamboat Disaster.
The Silver Spray Blown Up
q and Burned
over twenty Lives Lost.
List Of the Lost and Injured.
MEArn1s, August1.

q MEAr1ns, August1.
Another terrible steamboat disaster 90.
CURED at Pacific Place, thirty miles above
here, at 1e o'clock last night, Tho stcrhI
wheeler Silver Spray, from New Orleans
for Cincinnati, with barge in tow, cxplod:
cd her boilers, killing and Wounding q
number Of her crew and passenger She
then took fire. III. Singleton, tie second
clerk, states that just as tho watch Wa
called, the explosion took place. In amQf
menI theTboatE waa wrapped i'd flgmes'
and nothing was left f0E the sufferer ba
to plunge into the riyer Rad swim SOM
three hundred yards to tIiS nearest sh6s
Owing TO the darkness pgthe Jfeht Y W.
impossible TO render Instance 70 the
wounded. As the books and" principal
officers were lost It Is impossible to obtain
A full list Of the lost. Tho following, how.
ever. are known 10 be lost Capt a. n.
Jordan, Cincinnati; Thadeus Wirthltng,
1st Clerk, Newport, KY; Ash Taylor, "a
Mate, Long Reach, o.; Wm; BalIe, "a
Stewart, Cincinnati; Boyd Smith, (colorea)
Berthmaker, New Richmond; A. Carnes,'
Cd Cook, Pittsburgh, and a 'colored
Chambermald name unknown; Charle
Jordan, Steersman, son Of the Cap
tain. died soon after being rescued!
Fatally iniured-Ed. Long, Book.keeper,
Cincinnati; Dick Cage, (cOlOredl, Cook,
New Richmond, Ohio; colored porter,
name unknown; George Williams, col.
ored deck hand, ST, Louis. Severely
wounded-A. II. Singleton, second clerk,
Newport, KY, scaldGd body and limbs;
James Corcoran, mate; Richard Nichols,
Eph, Marshall, colOred deck hand, Gin
cinnati. Slightly sCalded-U. s. Haynes
and I, NJ. MCGill, c0lored deck hands,
Louisville; Ed. Patterson, pilot, Newport
Ky. Saved-Zim. Ashford, engineer,
Newport; Washington Meredith, second
cugineer, Pittsburgh; Henry Shelby, c9l,
orcd pantryman, Detroit; George Sander
son, colored texas. tender, CINCINNATI Jno.
Clap, steesman, Cincinnati; James Leg.
lev, Cincinnati; John Parker, New Or
leans: Bingham West, colorcd, New
Albany; Charlie Smith, ,colored Louisville;
the three latter werc deck hands, and the
following deck passengers John Fly.
masser,, Heinrich Meyer, o German
wife and child names unknown. ( J X
Some two hours ailer the Gxplo-
sion tho steamer City OF Cairo
hoAe in sight and went TO the relief
OF the sufferers; all who were rescued
were taken on board anil brought here!
As soon as the news Of the disaster was
received the citizens hurried to the
wharf, and everything possible was done
for tho wounded, who by order Of Mayor
johnson were taken on arrival to
the city hospital where every atten;;
ton Is being shown them. The saved
lost all their clothing and baggage but
were partially supplied BY the officers,
crew and pASsengers Of tie City OF Cairo
OF whose conduct they speUk in-tne warm
est terms. The Cairo was bound for st.
Louis but turned bRCk after using every
effort 10 recover the bodies lost The
Spray lloatCd down about two miles and
lodged on bar where she and her barge
burned to the waters edge. She was
seven years old and belonged To Captain
s. Patterson, Of Newport who had stop
ped of for the trip. leaving Captain Jor.
dan in charge. The boat Ind near 800
crales of Qurcnsware, thirty cabin and
seven deck passengers, nnd nineteen deck
hands and rOuStabOuls. 1t Is believed by
Mr.. Singleton that 90 lives were lost.
Further particulars Of the Silver Spray
disaster hnvc have been received. II Is
now ascertuined that there were IOrty.livC
persons on the boat. OfthcsItwcnty$dG
have been found, two Of whom. have since
died. Out Of nineteen dGckhands only
seven were saved, five Of whom were SC.
verCly wounded,