The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-04-21
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.
TaErUGDoATnAveN DESTROYED

| ht'Il O'CLOCK 1881 plsOt NV 1UBO"A|
I Raven. with heavy 'IoW," was put.
| tios OUT from Stustt's Leading. aftss
having been lad up day or t"o nm
dersoiDq r. pairs to tbs'b5ierN, and TAX
Ing new Plate. Captain San Dc
WSlf vas al the wheel, 10 the absence
Of the plot Asa Woodward and with
him Dorr DeWolf. The clerk Tic first
engineer, joseph Martin. was al his pos,
with plenly o. water in his boilers, foil
cocks and lao pounds Of steam 90, as be
r.po,ts. Wien lie noticed that one Of the
boiler. wa. leaking a. the new plate =
He pays word to the captain and advised
that thc boat should be put in again
4 Accordingly rhs bosf'wss rounded to end
was close 10 shore whent the leaking boil.
; er and one or Two others Of the fouFex
ploiad, liliny the upper works OF the
boat from her undsfpinning and letting
them down. cabin aud pilot bou'e III a
mass par,i.Ily gu the boiler deck and
/. partly. on a coal barge.
Mr. Martin was standing forward OF
the latbpad cylinder when he was
blown several feet away. somewhat seal
dpf. ,borued and bruised in the right
side bur not seriously injured.
| Captain DeWolf was hurled into a
barge and The other BeWolf found him
sell landed on the lower deck.
What became Of dozen others we
can show, but what is the fate Of some
Others, we con not say ns yet.
now TaEspoAT WAS ,xAENED.
.The,followiugi- ns we have been able
to obtain Of those Who were on the boat
last pignr: Captain. Sam. DeWolfi Pilot
A.a Woodaord; ma:e,J Ayrshire; clerk
Dorr DeWOl!; carpenter and watchmsn,
EIis Ayrshire; frst engineer. Joseph
Martin; second engineer, George AbIes
Deck buuds-Ma4ison Circle, Stewart
i.Lravin, SAN and John F inley, Bot
/ Hicks Bob Bailey, Elias Bones, Joshuu
Salpresj and two others
Firemon Reuben Sausser, John
Christie, Henry Brown and Thomas
While.
TEE SAVED.
IT isimpossbIs to give a full list o
| tho lost or saved. for not all could be
ascerlained at the lale hoGr OF tho nigh
al which our reporters huuiedup Ihes'
sfocts,
The following however, are known 20
be saved: Captain DeWof, Clerk, De,
Wolf, ,MareJ Ayleshi,e"First Engineer
Joseph Mario, Madison Circle am
'rhomss White, deck hands and Lew
S user, steward end Robert Decker
cook.
Wheu TIVE ferry boat came alongside
those who had not already mdde their
escape OF bssn drowned or crushed
TO dsalh, were rescued By her.
Madison Girch (walts) wss badly cul
about the face. md hseyes we're burned
He was taken 10 ,ths Hospital The
First Engineer WAS burned about the
heal. but escaped luckily. The Mate,
Ayrshire. wsstestibly banned about the
face. He was taken 10 the Broadway
Hotsl, as was, also, Captain DsWolf
x,RE sAvEp-REr,Rrs FROM the nos
PITFALLS.
SINCE the above vas was written VT
have obtained tha followiog list Of pr.
sons found and taken to the Good Sa
4 marian Hosp tai:
Robert Decker. the cook resident
Of Mijdlepoh Ohio. who had just pass
cd through spell Of serious illness, wa
asleep in his birth at the time Of the ac
cidsnt, and wa. forced through the up,
per deck, and seriously injured internal
! is, tina, his life is despsired OF.
Reub,u SaIser one Of the frcmen, wa
very badly scaded abOu' the body ont
limbs,
John Christy deck hand was'badIJ
burned about the head. face ami hands
George AhIes, tho seconl engineer
had his collSr bone fractured, his r'gh
arm di.located, aud sustained other in
iuries by scalding. and by being crushed
BY fallen timbsrs. that likely to prove
very serious. If not 'falaI
Elias Bowen, deck hand, and'R resi-
Geut ofJackson Comfy, Wes' Virginia,
wussetioasly s,Aldyd about the head
shoulders. sud hands.
See Salses, he s:sTata, wac slightly
scaldrd about the head aud 90 the Isf
side Of the face.
Samuel Finley. a deck hand, wal
slightly bruised and ScsIded about The
fore and on thc hands. = Cincinnati Com
mercidl. Saturday.
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