Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-03
CONFIRMATION.
Five River and One Ocean Steamer RarHsd
at New 0Flsaas.
Loss $1,000, Insurance AbOHt $500
600 Marrow Escapes.
A .weirY Store EatsFed, the Safe Blown
Open Robbery Of Diamonds and
Watches Valued al $4,000.
Special to Memphis APPEAL.l


Special to Memphis APPEAL.l
NEW ORLEANS, January AT about
half past six O'Clock Sunday morning, 4
FIRE broke out on board the steamer Ma
genta, lying at the foot Of Common
/ street, which, in a few moments, envel-
oped the entire boat and communicated
to the Grand Era, Julia A. Rudolph,
! Thompson Dean and John Howard, re-
/ sulting in the total destruction of all but
the Howsrd-her bull, machinery and
boilers having been saved. The fire orig
mated in the cabin Of the Magenta, on
the larboard side, and so rapid was its
progress that she wss almost instantly
| ablazs from stem to stern. This boat was
owned by Captains Hicks, Neal and Sin
mott, and estimated to be worth about
| $50, 900; insured for about $4,000. She is
q total loss, having sunk af5er being
burned. She was to have taken the place
Of the r. Z. Lee, now in dock.
The Grand Era was owned by the Kouns
Bros, and was valued at SsO, 400. She was
built but a year. Insured in Western Of
fees for S98, 900.
The Rudolph had discharged her
cargo, and was to have left on
her return trip next Thursday. She
was owned by Captain H. c. McComas,
valued at about $50, 900, insured for half
that amount.
Next the Rudolph lay the great
Thompson Dean, and from the com
mencement of the fire desperate efforts
were made to get her from the wharf, but
all in vain. She took fire forward just as
she fioated of, and before they could
be arrested the flames were beyond con-
troll. The steamer drifted down the river
to the fats and burned to the waters
edge As there were many persons on
board of her when she left the wharf it
was feared loss of life would occur,
but up to this We are unable to learn Of
any. She was partially loaded for her
trip to st. Louis, her cargo consisting
of 1900 sacks of coffee, 800 hOgsheads Of
sugar, and a large lot ofcrOckery and hard
ware, valued at perhaps Sl25. 900, which
with tho steamer, will prove a total loss.
Insured in foreign companies TOR $50, 600.
Tho John Howard had just reached
our city on her first trip, having been re-
Gently built at Louisville, at a cost of $780,
600, by her owner and commander, Capt.
Perry, for this Arkansas river, and was
first class packet. Her cargo con
sisted of 1900 bales of cotton
and about four hundred tons of Western
produce. The latter will prove a total
loss. The cotton will be saved, but badly
damaged.
The W. ]. Lewis, Arkansas, KilgOur
and Mollio Able, lying above and below
the burning steamers, were saved by the
great exortions of their officers. The
Mollie Able suffered a very slight scorch-
ing.
The wharf was but little injured, and
no freight of consequence WIS damaged.
We understand that the cargo Of the
Howard was insured here
On last Saturday, about 5 o'clock
in the afternoon, when the steamship
DeSoto, Of the Merchants Line Of New
York steamers, which had left its
mooring, at the head Of st. Louis street,
for New York, mad reached a point some
twenty miles below the city, a volume
of smoke was observed coming from her
hold and ventilators. Measures usual in
such cases. promptly taken to arrest the
flames, were Of so little use that the ves-
sci was hastily headed for the shore She
was run aground on McCalps plats, where
she burnt to the waters edge. Both she
and The cargo were a total loss. The De-
Soto was built in 1869, and was owned by
Messrs. Livingston, Fox dE Co, of New
York. She is insured, we understand, in
New York for $4,000 This amount is
probably below her real value. By the
annexed manifest it will be seen that her
cargo, which was a complete loss, was a
valuable one, being rated at Sl25, 600: 7O7
bales of cotton, 14S hhds sugar, IOI7 bar
rels Of molasses, 942 sacks OF cotton seed,
1O4 bundles Of raw hides, AZ bales of hides
and skins, 767 dry hides, So bales and bags
Of wool, 66 bales Of moss, % bundles Of
cotton samples, and two cases Of mer-
chandise.
Some time during Saturday night the
jewelry store Of Mr.. NJ. SCOOTER, No. 5
Camp street, was burglsriously entered
by unknown thieves, who blew open one
of his large safes aud succeeded in get
ting away with lot of diamonds and ine
watches, valued at, it is thought, eighty
thousand dollars