New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-02
The Lost and Saved

following special dispatches:
u,,,p11,s August /, 9 A. M.-The steamer
| S;iIar Snray passed this point for Cincin-
na+; abmlt dark last night, and when about
tb;rtv-tiye miles above here, at point
carled Abels Landing, exploded her boilers
at midnight, just as the officers on duty
we're being relieved. She Immediately
canobt fire. and with her barge burned to
| the waters edge.
| Among the missing and those supposed
to be lost are Thaddeus Wirthlin, first
clerk; A. r. Taylor, second mate; pilot A.
NJ. Jourdan, the cOlOred chambermald,
eight deck hands, the second steward, two
cabin boys, one colored woman, the second
and third cooks, and four firemen; also, one
white man. the only cabin passenger on the
boat at the time the accident occurred.
The steamer City of Cairo turned back
from the wreck. and brought the following
| wounded to this city: Charles Jourdain,
died after reaching here; Ed. Long. the bar
keeper, badly, perhaps fatally first cook
| and porter, injured badly; Cochran hrst
mate, slightly; Richard Nagle, watchman,
slightly: Joseph Leale, steward, of Cincin-
matt, saved; William Fay, saved; I: n. Gill;
! deck hand. Louisville, hands burned; second
| clerk. A. R. Singleton, Newport. Kentucky,
| slightly: w. S. Haines, deck hand. Louis
| vile, slightly; and some ten colOred deck
hands, some badly.
When the Silver Spray exploded she was
| inst about to make the crossing from
Charles Marsh to Abel's Point, and was run
ming slow.
The City of Cairo picked up German in
the river ten miles below the wreck, then
nut out vawls and went from bank TO bank,
arriving at the spot where the wreck went
down at 2:3O o'clock.
The Silver Spray, with the barge and
~ ORLEANS.
| SECOND DISPATCH.
MEMPHIS, August 1.-The following is
correct list of the los: and saved by the
Silver Spray disaster:
Lost-F. H. Jourdan. pilot in command
of Cincinnati; Thad9eus Wirthling, first
clerk. Newport Kentucky: Ash K. Taylor,
second mate. Long Reach, Ohio; Charles
Jourdan, steersman, Cincinnati; BOYD
Smith. colored cabin boy, New Richmond
Ohio; William Bates, colored second stew,
ard Cincinnati: Alfred kearns, colored
second cook, Pittsburg; and :: colored
chambermaid. name unknown, Cincinnati.
Fatally yinjured-Edward Long, barkeeper
Cincinnati: Dick Cage, colored cook, New
Richmond, Ohio: a colored porter. name
unknown. Cincinnati; George Williams
deckhand colored, Louisville.
Slightly iniured-A. X. Singleton, secono
clerk, Newport, kentucky: Edward Patter
SOl- pilot. SIil'hi hiii.e'i O'>~" "
mate. Cincinnati.
More severely wounded than others
Richard Nichols, white deck hand. Clncln
natl w. S. Haines. white deck hand, Louis
Vile: r. w. Gill. white deck hand, Louis
Vile; William Fay. cook, Cincinnati
Laneal Henry Shelby. pantryman, ccEofed
Detroit: George Sanderlin, colored. Texa:
, tender. New Orleans; Joseph Legey. white
Cincinnati: John Clay. steersman, Cincin
, natl: b. H. Ashford, first engineer, New
} port: Wash Meredith, second engineer
, Pittsburg: John Parket. colorcd. decl
hand. New Orleans; Benjamin Worth
colored. deck hand. New Orleans Charle
Smith. colored, deck hand New Orleans.
2 Deck passengers saved-John Plywessen
5 Cincinnati: Heinrich Meyers. New Orleans
5 and a Swede, his wife and infant, names un
| known. .
The wounded were given every attention
| | by our Mayor. and citizens generally. as sool
as the news of the disaster became known
The conduct Of the officers and crew
the City OF Cairo is worthy OF the hlgnes
coluluendation. The first they learned o.
the disaster was from the Swede mentioned
above. whom they took from floating log
: ten miles below the scene OF the wreck
They then put out yawls and ran the steame
G from shore to shore, searching for thos
needing assistance. until they reached TN
t wreck, when they turned back, brlngln:
|
D care and attention in their power
:, Several of those slightly wounded ieav
l for their homes to-day. Others will follow
| tomorrow.
t All lost their clothing and everything els
, thew had, many escaping in. their nigh
clothes by jumping into the river
The following is the Associated Press dis
patch:
|
Silver. from New Orleans to Cincinnati, e,
ploded her boilers, thirty miles above tin
T. city. at twelve O'Clock last night. The boa
1 Immediately took fire and burned up.
, About twenty-six lives are known to b
= lost, including A. NJ. Jordan, captain; That
: deus Wirthling. clerk; Ash. Taylor, secon
! mate; Charley Jourdan; steersman, ,ci vii Mliilal
!; second cook: Boyd Smith, berth maker, an
!. 4 the colored chambermaid.
Fatally Wounded.-E. Long, barkeePel
e Dick Cage. cook; Colonel Porter; nam
Z unknown. and George Williams.
Severely Wounded.-A. r. Singleton, sec
> ond clerk: James Corcoran, mate, an
!. Richard Nicholas.
g SLIGHTLY Wounded-Edward Patterson
< pilot: William Fay, W. S. Haynes and
". Gill.
> The survivors swan ashore and wer
> picked I'D by the City of Cairo, whlc
turned back and brought them here. Ih
wounded were sent to the hospital.
The ooat was owned by Captain L.
Patterson, of Newport, and was valued
= $4,000.
!. There were only ten passengers on boar
{ the Silver Spray at the time OF the eXpl'
sion, most Of whom were saved, anon
e them Heinrich Meyer, of New Orleans.
t The following response to the Germa
symnatbisers in st. Louis has been receive
$ from the president of the German Parll;
Y ment:
/ Berlin. July 2l.-Your telegram OF til
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