Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-10

the head of Island 16. No break was visible.
The night was clear and moonlit. In ten m
utes she was landed at the shore, with Z 'ptlin
Rusk on the roof and every officer at his Ost.
Mort. Burnham and yo. Pursel were her piin's.
the former being at the wheel; John Holmes
and son, engineers. They all did their duty.
staying at their posts until the lines were made
fast, and were calm and elf-possessed. be
passengers, as was 10 be expected, suffered
from fright, but Mr.. Heuer kept the more I'M
ruly ones in order, driving back numbers who
rushed to the side of the boat and wanted to
certain destruction. One man wanted TO jump
in with his two children, but was compelled
to return TO the interior of the boat by Mr..
Heuer. The boats books and papers were
saved The officers effects were rescued. The
passengers were so fortunate under the cir;
| cumstances, saving all their clothing and
baggage, and being well cared for, that they
were in remarkably fine spirits: Crew and
passengers tnok passage on the MinneQla tc
/ Cairo and elsewhere. Mr.. and Mrs. HeueI
| came on to Cairo on the steamer Mary Miller.
| The Turner had 400 tons Of freight, 50 tons o.
which was saved. She was drawing four and
a half feet Of water. She had 80 cabin and lOl
deck passengers. and had put of 70 cabin and
| 100 deck passengers at Memphis not long pre-
yious to the accident. Let us rejoice Not
one human being hurt; yet, what terrible
affair the Turner disaster might have been.
Captain Weaver. her commander, writes to
Cincinnati that the John Kyle, when she left
New Orleans for Cairo, and collided with the
brig opposite that city. had on board 1000 tons
and rs mules, and was drawing five and half
feet forward and five feet aft. Her hull is
being repaired with side-dock, and she will
go to Mound City. where her cabin and upper
works will DO repaired. Her cargo was only
slightly damaged, the repairs to her hull being
made without removing her freight.
The Directors of the Memphis and St. Louis
Packet Company, at a meeting held at St.
Louis on Friday. elected John A. Scudder,
President; Girard B. Allen, Vice President;
W. D. Love, Secretary; and John P. Kaiser,
Superintendent.
Information has been received at Cairo that
the towboat Shark. which ran aground at Lib
erty some two weeks since, had sunk, owing
to the sand washing out from under portion
of her hull. She was owned by the Mississippi
Valley transportation Company, is valued Il
$40, 200. and insured for s24 ,OO0-supposed to
be chiefly in Pittsburg Offices. The Shark was
built at Pittsburg, January. 1882. Her length
on deck was l6S feet; beam, 3215 feet; depth.
5 feet; floor, eS1a feet; cylinders, % inches
diameter and feet stroke; water wheel, "a
feet diameter, buckets 81 feet long. She cost
OflBluhliy 0iosvVVs
The Vieksburg Herald Of recent date gives
the following account Of the narrow escape of
the Dexter from destruction by Ere while on
her recent trip down;
We learn that bold attempt was made yes
terday morning about II o'clock 20 FIRE the
steamer Dexter, A bale Of cotton was set on
FIRE BY parcel Of thieves. who had previous
~ gone through several Of the passengers,
relieving them Of money, watches and other
valuables. As soon as the FIRE was discovered
the boat was headed for the shore and the fire
extinguished. Mr., T. A. Smith,, a horse
drover from Cincinnati, was robbed Of a
watch and chain, valued at $500. 1t is pre-
sumed that the there's set IRE to the cotton in
order TO get up an excitement and carry on
wholesale robbery.
Wood costs from 81 to So per cord at the yards
on the lower Mississippi. Coal Is not to be
had.
On Wednesday last. Mr.. Buck. from the
committee on Appropriations, introduced a
bi in the House to appropriate the additional
sum Of S2O0,0O for the improvement Of the
Louisville and Portland canal. The bill will
come mp for action to-day. Representative
Stevenson offered bill in the House the same
day, requiring the modification Of the New
port and Cincinnati bridge to conform with
the recommendation Of the board Of engi-
neers.