Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-26
NEW ORLEANS.
LOSS OF MFR AT THE LATE
STEAMBOAT FIRE EXAG.
and, GERATED.
MenSasfsE People sAfe-BaggaEe Lost
Further Particulars.

cpeelAA otneHt. Louis republican,
NEw 0RLEAxs, April 23.-The loss by
ire Of the steamers John Kyle, Expor-
ter and Charles Bodmann this evening
has already been reported, but the loss
OF life mentioned in other dispatches is
greatly exaggerated. Up to this hour,
midnight, the list of those known to be
lost is as follows: Mrs. Bette Musgrove,
of Pittsburg; Joe Case, engineer Of the
Bodnsnn, and Ellen Gray, chambermaid
of the Exporter. The ERE originated in
| the blacksmith shop of the John Kyle, at
four o'clock, and in FIVE minutes the
| entire boat was enveloped in flames.
The strong eddy carried her, after being
cut loose, out into the river and 1p fully
two hundred feet, when she struck the
Bodmann, setting about two hundred
bales of hay on that boat lower deck on
fire. Thence the flames swept to the
Exporter, dying just above, and the three
boats, enveloped as it were in one sheet
o frhame, began to drift slowly out into
the stream, unaided by the half-dozen
tug-boats which had arrived and which
might easily have saved all of the boats
but for the fful
C0wARDIeE OF THEIR CREgs.
The boats drifted q short distance
down stream, when the high wind separ.
ated them, the Kyle floating down the
river some two miles, barely missing the
United States steamer Kansas. The
wind carried the Exporter and Bodmann
over to the Algiers side. where they
burned to the waters edge, and the
Kyle burned until her deck framework
gave way and her hull sank.
THE JOHN KYLE
was loading for St. Louis, and was 10
have left tomorrow, her principal
freight item being 400 barrels of oil,
which began burning soon after she got
into the river, and the oil running out
covered the river for yards around with
a sheet Of flame. The fire cut off Hutch.
inson's escape, and TO get to the lower
deck he had to swing himself down a
rope through a portion of the flames,
burning his hand slightly. The clerk,
VIM. Brown, in his e~ndeavors to save the
passengers and crew, was burned badly
but not seriously about the head and
hands, but is doing well, together with
Mrs. Hutchinson with her two children,
Mrs. Metcalf, Miss M%etcalf, Miss Hank
and Miss Dennis, all Of St Louis,
THE EXPORTER
expected to leave tomorrow, and was
over half loaded. ALI of her passengers
were saved but Mrs. Musgrove, who was
seen to jump into the river and a second
afterward a negro rouster jumped on
top and stunned her, when she was seen
to sink. Among the Exporter excur.
sionists were the following, all but a few
Of whom fortunately were out visiting
the city: The Pittsburg excursiouists
were Captain James Reese, ST.; Mrs.
Reese and two daughters Florence and
Clementine), Mrs. James, Mrs. O. H.
Allerton, Lizzie Harland, Mrs. Thomas
Reese. From New Harmony, Indiana,
there were the following: Mrs. Richard
Ford, Mrs. John Pulley, Mrs. John Cor
bin, Mrs. Vandergrift, Mrs. Collins, Miss
Alice 4. Robson, Mrs. Balton, Miss
Eliza Liehtenberger, Miss Kate Draus-
field and Miss Emma Vawter; all of
these are at the City Hotel. Mr.. and
Mrs. Reese are nearly overcome with
grief at the loss Of their daughter, Mrs.
Musgrove.
Captain Conley was slightly burned,
as also was James Rees, jr., and clerk
| James Darragh. Among others who
came on the boat and are safe are Wash
Floyd, Mr.. Bowling and Cliff Worsham,
Of Memphis; Colonel Brown, Pitt8burg;
pilots Tenley and Carroll, steward Smith
and a brass band from Louisville.
The Bodmann's excurionists were
nearly all cut in the city, a number of
them being up at Csrrollton tonight.
They are on the steamer Louisville
The list IS as ..c!!!i6ws: Captain shinkle
and wife, slightly burned; ALI Stein,
clerk, slightly burned on head; Eugene
Sbinkle, clerk; pilots Purnell and Owens,
engineer Ferrard, strikers Fitzpatrick
and Butler, both mates, watehmeu, car
penter, bar. keeper and steward, Mrs.
Captain W. P. Walker, George Hafer,
Mrs. Thomas Peter, Mrs. Graves, Mrs.
E. NJ. and Miss Florence Hunt, Mrs.
W. 81. Hoverer, Mrs. Ward Of Eng
land, Mrs. Charles Owens, Mrs.
Smith of Milford, Ohio, Miss While
more, Mrs. Ed Benham, daughter and
son; Master Willie Peter, DR.. Allen and
wife, Wheeling; Mrs. Tarr and Miss
Benseghaus, Wheeling; Mrs. Hoffman,
Cumberland, Md. Mr.. and Mrs. Stahl,
Memphis; F. d. Parker, Cairo; Captain
Nal Paduck, Lieut.. Guthrie, 18th U. S.
Infantry; all Of whom, except the three
last named, lost all their baggage and
| effects, as did those Of the other boats.
In fact, nothing was saved from the
boats. Captain Stein had the books I'M
der his arm, but was compelled to drop
them TO save his life. The Bodmann
I had about 1900 sacks and 200 bales Of
: hay burned. She was insured for $23,.
; 600 in the Kenton Company Of Coving.
ton, Ky.
. The widest excitement prevailed on
. shore when the boats had got out in the
stream. Over 5000 persons gathered on
the levee to see them burn, and could
distinctly see those who jumped over
q board.
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. The carriages in New York that have
u coats'of arms aud liveried coachmen and