Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-12

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LATER.
CAIRO, April 1.-THE steamer Gee
anus from Red river To st. Louis, wheI
near Brooks Point, thirty miles above
Cairo. at four O'Clock this morning, eX.
ploded a boiler, blowing her works al
I most entirely away, Immediately aftel
which the wreck took fire, burning &c
the waters edge. Pilot Thompson, Of
the steamer John Lumsden, lying a few
miles below, on seeing the light from
the burning wreck, manned a yawl and
pfoceeded up the river to ascertain the
cause. He found a small party of sur
vivOrs on the head of the island, but
passed on TO relieve those on the wreck.
Ten or twelve were clinging to the
/ wheel, but the wheel dropped before he
reached them and all but four were lost.
He found a deck passenger, name un-
known near the shore, badly scalded,
who died before arrival at Cairo.
The steamer Belle st Louis, bound
up, took On nearly all of the
survivor. Thompson rescued Pilot
Harris. who subsequently, went 10 st.
Louis on the Marble City. The latter
stases that Virgins. their Red river
pilot, was drowned. Harry Tripp, the
ULlOL Oh haEtAf EdN5 NaBNoAA AAlNANA oIN
others were buried in the debris and he
heard them calling despairingly for help,
but the fire had gained such q headway
that they could not bereaehed, and were
burned. Fisher, the carpenter Of the ILL
fatad steamer, reached here on the
ShreVe. He was not seriously hurt. He
states that the second engiReer, Alex
ander Kennedy, was terribly scalded,
and quite helpless and blind. Fisher
put him on a stage plank with Others.
The stage O capsized, drowning seye-
nal, including Kennedy. George Keith
lev, the first engineer, is supposed
to have been lost. Henry NJ. Wors-
ham. first clerk, has not been seen
/ since the explosion. He expected TO go
through from Cairo by rail, but was seen
on the boat after leaving here. Charles
WoFsham, the second clerk, Jules
DempewOlf the steward, and Charles
Murray, cabin boy, were found dead,
! floating In the river, all with life pre-
servers on, and brought here by the
steamer Shreve. It Is supposed that
| they were chilled to death. There were
five lady passengers, all supposed lost,
The bodies of four hdies were seen float
ing past Watson's Landing. They Were
i UOl I~ENONEItNs HI1AlCA AAAAh0 NAAa AaN
pilot, Harris, and himself were the only
employees Of the boat that were saved
though the Belle st. Louis may have
picked up some. The officers OF tne
Shrsgs state that there were about thif-
" cabin and thirty-iye deck-passengers,
making, with the crew, nearly one hun
dred souls, about eighty OF whom are
/ supposed to be lost. The greater por-
ton of the survivors being on the Belle
ST. Louis, no names Of the passengers,
nor any reiisble estimate OF the
lost can be obtained except from
her. Fisher describes the effects
Of the explosion a. terrific beyond con-
ceptiOn, the whole upper works being
lifted bodily and falling on b boat a
in the water completely shattered. he
saved himself by securing q plank and
floating until rescued by the yaEl OF the
LumsdeB. He was In bed al the time
Of the explosion, and though covered
With debris was only slightly bruised:
Later-The steamer Grand Tower mas
just arrived and reports the first engineer
and mate saved, also Ebirty-two other
persons on the Belle ST. Louis, The
second engineer Eas saved, 0ut died
OF injuries.
81. LOFTS, February 1.-THE Demo
crdfs Cairo spectral relative 10 the ex-
plosiOn of the steamer Qceanus, says
that Fisher, the carpenter, describes the
scene as very terrible and heartrending.
The river around the wreck was covered
with debris, baggage, b~edelothing,
beds, etc, much Of burning.
The cabin and about half Of the
deck had doated of and was burning;
the captain was in the midst Of the fire
screaming for help, and mea and wo-
men in the water were throwing up their
hands and sinking 10 rise no more. Six
or eight persons were on the fOrecastle
and Fisher got out the stage-plank. All
except himself got upon il, but as soOna as
il struck water the plank eareened and
an on ID persisted. The steamer Lums-
den saved John Meeker, Chas. Teasdort
and John Martin. Niggins, the
Red river pilot, and fr1ppL are both
dead. Captain WOrsham, first clerk,
Captain Reader, the commander, the
steward, &. +. HUFF, q passenger, OF Gov
ington, and many Others are missing.
1t Is thought that from sixty to seventy
naraons were leaf.