The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-01

Fire-Twenty-six Persons Burned or
Drowned, and Many Others Injured.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. LA terrible disaster
occurred at Pacific Place, 80 miles above here,
at 10 o'clock last night. The stern-wheel
steamboat Silver Spray, from New Orleans for
Cincinnati, with a barge in tow, exploded her
boilers, killing and wounding a number of the
crew and passengers. The boat then took fire.
Mr.. Singleton, the second clerk, states that
Just as the watch was called an explosion took
place, and in a moment the boat was wrapped
in flames. Nothing was left for the survivors
but to plunge into the water and swim thirty
yards to the nearest shore.
Owing to the darkness of the night it was
impossible to render any assistance to the
wounded.
As the books are lost and the principal Off
GERS are among the missing, it is impossible to
obtain a full list of the lost. The following,
however, are known to be lost:-Captain A. N.
Jordan, of Cincinnati; Thaddeus Worthing, first
clerk, of Newport, KY; Ash Taylor, second
mate, of Long Reach, Ohio; w. Bailey, second
steward, of Cincinnati; Boyd Smith (colored),
berthmaker, of New Richmond, o.; ALI. Carnes,
second cook, of Pittsburg; colored chambermaid,
name unknown. Charlie Jordan, steersman,
son of the captain, died soon after being res
cued.
Fatally injured-Ed. Long, book-keeper, of
Cincinnati; Dick Cage (colored), cook, of New
Richmond; colored porter, name unknown;
George Williams (colored), deck hand, of st.
Louis.
Severely wounded-A. r. Singleton, second
clerk, Newport, KY, scalded in the body and
limbs; James Corcoran, mate; Richard Nichols,
Eph. Marshall, colored, deck hands, of Cincin-
natl, slightly scalded; N. s. Haynes, L. NJ. Gill,
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Newport, Ky.
Saved-J. NJ. Ashford, engineer, Newport;
Wash. Meredith, second engineer, Pittsburg;
Henry Shelby, celored, pantryman, De-
troit; George Sanderlin, oolored, texas
tender, Cincinnati; John Clay, steersman,
Cincinnati; Joseph Legley, Cincinnati, John
Parker, New Orleans; BENZ. West, colored,
New Albany; Charles Smith, colored, Louisville.
The three latter are deck hands, and the follow
ing deck passengers:-John Plymasser, John
Papel, Cincinnati; Henriettie Meyer, New
Orleans, and a German and his wife and child,
names unknown.
Two hours after the explosion the steamer
City of Cairo hove in sight and went to the re.
lief of the sufferers. All who were rescued were
taken on board and brought here. AS soon as
the news of the disaster was received the citi-
zens hurried to the wharf, and everything pos
sible was done for the wounded, who, by order
of Mayor Johnson, we're taken in ambulances
to the City Hospital, every attention being
shown them there.
The saved lost all their clothing and baggage,
but were partially supplied by the officers,
crew, and passengers of the City of Cairo, OF
whose conduct they speak in the warmest
terms.
The Cairo was bound to st. Louis, but turned
back after using every effort to recover the
bodies of the lost. The Spray foated down two
miles, and lodged on a bar, where she and the
barge burned to the waters edge. She was
seven years old, and belonged to Captain s.
Patterson, of Newport, who had stopped off fol-
the trip, leaving Captain Jordan in charge.
The boat had on board nearly three hundred
crates of queensware. There were three adults
and one child in the cabin and seven deck pas
sepgers, besides nineteen deck hands, rousta-
bouts. 1t is believed by Mr.. Singleton that
twenty-six lives were lost.