New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

| A Democratic Candidate for Governor
Flood in Hatchie Rivcr-New Trial OF
nn Alleged Lyncher-s0u;h Carolina
Conspirators Plead Guiity-Freshet on
the Iierrimac-Red River and st. Louis
Steamboat Boiler Explosion-OnlyF Four
or Five Saved-Sixfy Passengers Lost
All the Officers Killed.
MEMPHIS, April 1l.-Genecal Frank
Cheatham announces himself as a candidate
for Governor on the Democratic ticket. sub.
ject to the nomination OF the convention.
The loss by the flood OF cord wood and
RATS in the Eatchie river is estimated at
$4,000
A jury was obtained to-day III the case of
POstOn. who was sentenced to be hung for
lynching young Schofiel1 last summer. but
obtained new trial by an appeal to the
Supreme Court.
CHARLESTON. S. c.. April lin the
United States Court to-day four prisoners
from York county, who were indicted last
term for conspiracy and murder, pleaded
guilty OF conspiracy, and the murder
charges were Withdrawn by the govern
ment.
CONCORD, n. H., April 1.-THE Nerri-
ma X river is rising from four TO FIVE inches
an hour, and extensive freshets are i.nmi-
nent. Reports from above on streams
tributary to the Merrimack state that the
late rain was very disastrous to property.
The covered railroad bridge on the Conto-
cook River railroad was swept away last
night. The ice is rapidly disappearing.
ST. LOUIS, April 1.-The steamer Gee
anus, from Red river TO St. Louis, when
near Brooks Point, twenty miles above
Cairo, at about four o'clock this morning,
exploded her boilers, tearing the boat to
pieces. All the officers are reported killed,
and many OF the passengers either scalded
to death or drowned. No names have vet
been received.
There were sixty-fve passengers on board,
and it Is said that but tour CT five were
saved.
CAIRO. April ll.-At four o'clock this
morning the steamer Oceanus, from Red
river to st. Louis, when near Brooks Point
thirty miles above Cairo, exploded her
boiler. blowing her upper works almost en-
tirely away, Immediately after which the
wreck took fire, and burned 10 the waters
edge. Mr.. Thompson, the pilot of the
steamer John Lumsden, which was lying a
few miles below, on seeing the light from
the burning wreck. manned yawl and
proceeded up the river to ascertain the
cause.
He found small party of surveyors on
the head of the island, but passed on to re.
lieve those en- the wreck. Ten or twelve
persons were clinging to the wheel, bat the
wheel dropped before he reached there, and
all but four were lost. He found deck
name unknown, scalded badly,
and who died before he reached Cairo.
The steamer Belle ST. Louis, bound up,
took nearly all the survivors. Mr.. Thomp-
son rescued the pilot of the Oceanus, Harris,
who subsequently left for st. Louis on the
Marble City. The latter states that Mr..
third river pilot, was drowned.
III ri, ho oil
Reader we're buried in the debris, and were
heard calling desperately for help, but the
fire had gained such Roadway that they
could not be reached, and were burned
MIR. Fisher, the carpenter of the ill-fated
steamer, who reached here on the H. NJ.
Shreve was not seriously hurt.
He states that the second engineer, Alex
ander Kennedy, terribly scalded, was help |
less and blind. Fisher put him On a stage |
sized, drowning several, including Ken |
nedy; Reithly, the first engineer, is sup |
posed to be lost Henry Worsham, the first |
clerk. has not been seen since the explosion. !
ne expected to go through from Cairo to |
81. LOUIS by rail, but was seen on the boat |
after she left here. Charles WOrsham, Sec |
ond clerk. jules Dempewolf, steward, and
Charley Murray, cabin boy, were found
dead floating in the river. all with life pre-
steamer Shreve. 1t is supposed they were
chilled to death.
There were five lady passengers, all of
whom are supposed to have been lost. The
bodies of four ladies were seen floating
past Watson,s Landing to-day, but were
not recovered.
Fisher thinks that the pilot Harris and
himself were the only employees of the boat
saved, though the Belle St. Louis may have
picked up some.
The officers of the Shreve state that there
We're about fifty cabin and thirty five deck
passengers on board the Oceanus making,
with the crew, near one hundred souls,
tDont eighty OF whom are supposed to have
Deen LOST, the greater portion of the sur
VlVors BENG on the Belle st. Louis No
iames Q. the passengers nor any reliable ac-
from this point.
Mr.. Fisher describes the effects of the ex-
,iosion as terrible beyond conception, the !
Whole upper works being lifted bodily. and /
alling on the deck of the boat and in the
yater completely shattered. He saved
imself by procuring plank and floating
Iutil rescued by the yawi Of tue Lumsden'