New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-17

We copy the following further aota;
from the Memphis ApnsnL Of Friaar.

We copy the following further aats;,.
! from the Memphis 4ppeaL Of Friday:
! On Wednesday morning. Just beFora t.,
| o'clock, the steamer st. Marys, owned h..
Captains WOODBURY. and Robinson. ~
commanded by the former, while Oh beS
way up the river from this port with a
cargo of over 300 bales of cotton, $50 balea
OF rags fifty tons of scrap iron, and a mis-.
/ cellaIeOus freight of perhaps thirty tens
sunk at the head of BranGywiue bar, thirty,
five miles above here, in the following mar
ner: She had gone into wood yard abonk
mile below Charley Morris place To gas
/ wood, but finding none, started ont sTa}n
! and headed directly up stream, and e. ttiRg
! into an eddy her stern was carried ganid}g
| toward the Arkansas. shore until she struck
! q log or huge snag, Just aft the wheel
| house, or perhaps between tie wheel.
! house and STERN that. knocked \
! large hole in her hull and caused her to Flj
| rapidly. AS soon as the extent Of the IN
| jury was known, Captain Wo0dbQrR di
| rected the pilot at the wheel, Joe MeCal-
| Tough, to head her tor the nearest bar, some
900 yards distant, and toward the Tennes-
see shore, which he did, and rau her boy.
as he thought, hard upon the SAND. At this
time the boats officers aud crew. not know
ing the extent of the injury, busted &kgEn-
selves in getting the life boat and yaw3
ready, and lowered the former, putting in
1t several passengers, but owing to the eE~
element, forgot the oars, which Were sub
sequently found and placed in it, Them the
beat had settled down ia tho water 30 with
in six inches Of the boiler deck, and mr.
Morgan, second clerk, and the mate, James
Howard, We're about to lower the LIFE boat
when the St. Marys again began 10
float and tioated down the river Distance
of nearly two miles, the cotton and rags al
well as other light freight on board buoy
iy,cr 1,r,, "A !,
deeper, until she reached the head of Bran
DIVINE bar, whore she grounded, aud n0w
lies with the water almost touching elgg
cabin floor, or twelve feet above her bower
deck, making eighteen feet in all, and lies
nearly straight. After she had struck thu
bar, Messrs. Morgan and Howard hearing
cries for help coming from under the cabin
floor guard, at once searched for their origin
and found that one Of her deck passengers
was directly under the guard mentioned,
with his head against the cabin fi10r, and
had just enough space left to keep him 1r0Fg
drowning. Taking the situation at a seq
Ond's glance, Mr.. Howard Immediately pre-
cured an axe, and cutting hole through
the floor, rescued the almost exhausted pa4-
senger from watery grave, and then
turned their attention to The removal t2
the bar and shore of such passengers as de-
sired to leave the boat This was dore
quickly, and soon the City OF Chester, or
her way up, came alongside, and toOk Off
the remainder of her passengers destined
up stream, and also took to the shore taosG
who for safety had been placed upon khs
bar. The John f. Tolle coming down later.
air. Morgan took passage on her, and came
to this city, arriving at about ten O'CLOCK
yesterday morning, and related the facts az
above stated. lie thinks the st Mary cam
be raised without much difficulty, bat a
great portion of her cotton-G25 balcR,
SIN " y 10
rally damaged, but it is covered by iR-
Surance in Eastern companies The 81
Mary was valued at about $780, 600, and gsss
insured IN five companies at Cincinnati
for $4,000. This was her first trFq
for the season in the new line. ana
her loss will be deeply regretted by
all. AS far as known there vera
no lives lost and but one person, IA colore3
iremen, named Williams, is missing. EEa.
it is thought, was left here when the b0gE
backed out, as he had shipped from hera
and was not seen when the boat left. Cap
tain w. 7. Walker, upon learning of the
disaster, at once teiegraphed TO Captain
reese Dugan, OF the wreCkcr L. E.. Eekez5
at Helena, to come and go to the ST. Maryg,
and received q reply that the Ecllert would
be up at daylight this morning, and proceed
at once TO the relief of the St AaFFa. We
trust she may have ~ good fortune in rRis-
ing her as she did the Katie CAPTAIN
" oodburn viii enter protest here OF AZ
Cairo.
The engineer OF the Katie started dovr
to New Orleans on the Emile La Barge, bus
urned back from ,Yioksburg upon The Ja-
'eIpt OF telegram from Captain CannGr-
1he NJ Mary was owned at Cincinnati
md her insurance value was $40 600. Ehs
vas insured for $4,000 in the following
Cincinnati companies: American, Wastesa
md Union, each, $1,000; the Eureka, $500;
he t&rmers', Burnett, and Firemena, each,
$500.