Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-04
GEORGE 4. CLARJL

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GEORGE h CLARJL,
Inspector of IuIls.
To Captain sam Houston, Supervise AZ In
spector, Louisville, Kentucky.
STEAMBOAT CASUALTIES FOR 1870.
January, steamer Lizzie Gill; sunk
near the mouth OF White river; supposed
cause overlooking. Belonged TO st.
Louis district.
January 28th, steamer American; sunk
in Arkansas river; boat total loss; no
lives lost. Belonged to Memphis distEict.
March 23d, steamer Guidon; sunk in
Arkansas river; boat total loss; no lives
lost. Belonged TO Memphis district.
March 3ist, steamer Van Buren,; sunk in
Arkansas river; boat total loss; no lives
lost. Belonged to Memphis district.
July 9th, steamer Fairy Queen; sunk in
Black river; boat total loss; no lives lost.
Belonged to Memphis district.
July 31st, steamer DahAAble; bur ned ct
Columbus, KY; boat a total loss; no lives
lost. Belonged to Memphis district.
December 10th, steamer W. A. Csld-
well; sunk in Arkansas cutoff; boat total
lOssj no lives lost. Belonged 70 Memphis
district.
February 10th, steamer Maggie Hays;
exploded her boilers at Island 66; six
lives were lost the boat was a total loss.
Belonged at Pittsburg.
February 18th, steamer Euma No. g.;
struck a snag and sunk at Island 50; the
boat in sinking turned over, so that the
cabin stoves upset, setting ire to that
portion Of the boat that was not under
water, thereby driving the crew and pas
sengers into the water; some forty lives
were lost; boat total loss. Belonged az
Cincinnati.
March Z, tug Nettie Jones: run down
and sunk in the hsrbor Of Memphis; two
lives we're lost; boat q total loss. Be
longed to Memphis.
March IA, tug Jennie sutton; sunk at
Island 80, by coIiding with the STEAMER
Gsllatin; boa a total loss; no lives lost.
Belonged to Memphis.
March 6, steamer Rspidsn No. L. sunk
in Tennessee river; boat total loss; no
lives lost. Belonged TO Memphis.
March 4, steamer KentOn; sunk three
miles above Helena; boat total loss. no
lives lost. Belonged so Pittsburg.
July 81, steamer Silver Spray; expIO-
ded her EOilers st Pacific Place, forty
miles SJv Memphis, killing nine and
wOunding thirteen persons; boat a total
loss.
II will be seen that in the Memphis dis
trict, extending from Cairo to the mouth
Of the Arkansas river, including the Ar
kansas, White, St. Francis, Obion.
Hstchie and Forked Deer rivers, that
there have been nine steamers sunk and
but two lives Wers lost, that have been
reported. One boat has sunk and two,sx-
ploded in the limits Of the Memphis dis
trict that were owned, registered and in
spected in other districts. Forty steam
ers ave been dOcked and repaired on the
Memphis dry-dOcks during tue year 1870,
and thirty-ssven steamers have bad their
boilers repaired, and three entire new
boats have been built at the port of Mem
phis during the year 1871.
THE BAY HoRsE-This is remarkably
fine animal, kept on the corner of Monroe
and Second streets, Memphis, by a jolly
son of the land of cakes" named, for
short, Duncan MacLean. The finest of
Scotch and Irish WHISTLES, 'alf-snd-alf,
ale, porter, beer, and, to crown all, pure
old Sam Clay whisky, are dispensed AZ the
bar. Call and see.