The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-25

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By the Western UnIon Line.
Once Northwest cor. Of Main and Monroe lt1
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.
Blowing Up OF the Steamer Georg'
8 tl-... : C. Wolfe. ',,t
, Twelve Persons Killed and FifIeeI
Wounded.
, franklin, Peabody and Etna, ol
Wheeling, lose $500 Each ?
: MRMrH1s, August 2S.-The following
dispatch has Just been received by the
Associated Press. Further particulars as
soon as possible. ..'.F.
HELENA, ARK, August 2S.
The steamer George q. Wolfe blowed
up at 81 Francis Island, about 2 o'clock
Yesterday afternoon. Twelve persons
were lost and about fifteen wounded. The
officers were all saved except the second
engineer, who was on watch at the
time Of the explosion. He Is missing.
The lady pass engeB were all saved. MIR.
Nelson, q passenger iroIR Shreveport TO
Memphis was drowned. Mr.. Dawson,
wife and two children, deck dasSengers
ior Tupello, Miss, were all killed. The
cabin was blown to pieces, but the hull
can be saved. Dan Sullivan, Of Memphis,
was on board, but was saved.
[Signed] GEORGE MALONE,
Captain Of the G.. A. Cheek.
SECOND DIsPATcH.
MRMPms, August ga telegram from
Helena, dated ID O'Clock, says: The pas.
sengers and crow of the steamer Wolfe
are still on ST. Francis Island, waiting Tor
an up.rlVer boat. No further particulars
can be obtained. The spot where the
steamer blew up Is known to river men
as the Graveyard, being somewhere near
where the Pennsylvania and 81. Nicholas
blew up and the L. 7. McGll burned
The Wolfe was from Shreveport for 81.
Louis. Captain Henry s. Carter was the
commander and Joseph Il. Widen clerk.
THIRD DISPATCH.
MEMPHIS, August 2S.-Nothing further
has been received from the steamer
Wolfe, and it Is not probable that any
thing definite or list Of the lost and saved
can 6e obtained bei0re tomorrow, Rs the
survivors are waiting an upward bound
boat, and the next one due, the Julia, has
not passed HOlena yet, ~ o T: n.
ST. LOUIS, August 23.-The insurance
on the steamer George @. Wolfe is as fol:
lows: Franklin, Peabody and lEtna, Of
Wheeling, $4,000 each; the National and
Enterprise, Of Cincinnati, $4,000 each;,
Eureka, oI Cincinnati, $780, CONNER
cial, Of CinoinnAti,' $1,000. ,lap' ~
FOURTH DISPATCH.
MEMru1s, August 24.4-The steamer
Julia arrived here to-day, about II o'clock
bringing most Of the survivors Of the Ill
lated steamer George Wolfe, among
them Captain Henry S. Carter, her COM
mander, who was considerably bruised
about the head and had his left leg badly
bruised. Capt Carter states that short
time before the explosion he had gone 10
his room to take nap, leaving the mate
on the watch, and the first he knew Of
the accident he felt himself lifted into the
air with a severe shock and he fell with
the debris on the lower deck. As soon
as he could extriCatc himself, he glanced
around and saw that the forward part OF
the cabin and the texas had been blown
aft 10 the boilers, and that some OF the
llmbers had taken fire. Lis hrst thought
was TO extipguish the flames, which, with
the aid Of few others and the heavy
rain which was falling al the time, he
succeeded In doing. In tho meantime
the men who had been slightly injured,
seeing that the wreck had drilled near
To the shore, jumped out with q hand
line and made her fast, when 1t WIS found
the boat had been but little injured eX-
cent US already stated. AS soon as the
fire was exIinCuishcd everything possible
was done to relieve the sufferers. The
captain states he had only ten or twelve
cabin passengers, only one Of whom WIS
lost, q MIR. Nelson, piHnO-luner from New
York, aged about sixty. Owing 10 the
condition Of Capt. Widen, clerk, who was
severely burned about the cheSt and
throat, it was impossible 10 obtain list
OF passengers from him, and the books
were all lost.
Miss Rebecca Coin, oil Jefferson, Texas,
who was accompanied by her cousin, W.
Solomonsky, of Paris, Texas, states that
she was on the forward guard Of the
boat, and owing 10 the severity OF the
storm which was raging, remarked LETS
90 into the cabin" and just as she rose
the explosion occurred and she was blown
into the river. Seeing man near her
she grasped him BY the neck, when he
told her 10 catch his left arm or she
would drown both, which she did, and
soon spar came floating by which ho
seized, and they held to II, floating down
the river for long distance, until the
barber OF the boat came 10 their assist.
ance with q pole, which her preserVGr
caught, and, still holding onto tho spar,
they were safely landed on shore. Miss
Co6n was severely bruised. She could
not learn tho name Of the man who saved
her but he was one Of o party OF four
belonging TO the ans.Atlantic Circus,
The passengers speak In the highest
terms Of the conduct Of the officers, especi.
I ally Of Captain Carter and the steward.
Notwithstanding that tho former was
severely injured, he was most active in
the work Of relieving others and extin-
gushing the fire.
The following Is a list Of the lost as far
as wcertaIRed: Peter Hupler, I'd engi.
neer; Mr.. Nelson, N. Y; Mr.. Dawson,
wife and two children, Shreveport; J. II.
White, OF Michigan, belonging TO the
Trans.AO Oantic Circus, and seven colored
rousters, four Of whom were found and
buried.
The following are wounded, and all re-
side in ST. Louis except whom otherwise