Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-23
THRILLING TRAGEDY.
Mutiny on the Mississippi IRiVer-The
Mutinccrs Attempt to Murder the
Captain, but are kiiIcd-Their
Bodies Thrown Observation-Disclosures
Of SUSPECTED Parties.
From the Memphis Appeal, April y.

Oh Suspected H'aEuess
From the Memphis Appeal, April q.
Some days since the police of this city
arrested two men giving fictitious names,
on charge of completely in a murder
rumorcd to have been committed at or
near Cottonwood Point, on the river,
some 100 miles above town. Nothing ap-
pearing against them they were released
after few hours detention. The follow
ing particulars of the affair, of which the
rumor had only reached us, came to our
possession yesterday, which show that a
most extraordinary and bloody affair
really did occur at the aforesaid point, and
| the murders-if such they be-did come
ashore at Memphis, and were probably
the parties arrested by the police:
About week ago, lumber-ratt, be-
longing to Col. Mathews, of Vicksburg,
| left Cairo. 1t was in command or charge
of a man named Mcintyre. His crew
were five in number, and consisted or
Michael Mcclure, his partner, Dennis
Dowd,- Wilson, Ferguson and a negro,
| name unknown.
Mcclure and his partner had some hard
words Immediately after leaving Cairo,
| and when the raft was some four or tlye
miles above Cottonwood Point, they
agreed to go on shore and fight the mat
| ter out, asking Wilson to row them ashore
for that purpose. After getting on shore,
however, they concluded not to fight, and
both wanted to go for Wilson. He, not
having any cause of quarrel, begged OFT
and rowed the troublesome couple back
to the raft.
That evening Mcclure and DoWd be-
came very bOisterOus, but no one thought
them dangerous, and at eight o'clock Cap
tain Mcintyre, Wilson and Ferguson re-
tired to bed, leaving the negro and them
on deck. They had scarcely composed
themselves to rest when they saw Nc
CURE and DOwd comcin, the former beal :.
| ing an AK, and the latter a long KNIFE.
Ferguson, as soon as he saw them, rolled
| back in his bunk, against the weather
boarding, which gave way, and he fell
| outside. The two armed dcsperadOes inn
mediatcly made for Wilson and Mcintyre,
but as luck would have it Mcclure STUN
| blcd before reaching the bunk of the lat
ter and dropped his ak. Before he could
| recover il The intended victim sprang up,
1 lNSONSh ~ NAAS I ,
| and Selling it, buried it in McGuire's own
| skull.
Seeing Dennis about TO use his knife on
Wilson, Mcintyre drew the axe from the
| skull of Mcclure and struck him down,
| killing him almost instantly.
The bodies of the wOuld-he murderers
were unceremoniously thrown into the
river, and when the raft arrived at this
city, Mcintyre and Wilson, who, though
they felt perfectly justifable in what they
had done, dreading the tedious process of
law, jumped the craft and came ashore.
The negro and the other man carried the
raft down to Vicksburg, where it was dc.
livcred to its owner, Col. Mathews, Fer
guson detailing TO him the horrible affair
as related above.
The authorities promptly arrested him.
and now hold him. The police of thii
city are on the lookout for the re arrest Of
Mcintyre and Wilson, who, it is sup
posed, are still in town. Further devel
opments may be looked for to-day.