The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-19
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT !
Steamboat Explosion
The Pat Cleburne's Boilers
Burst.

EvANsvILIf, =, May 1S The Journal
is just in rec ipt the following special
Shawneetown, Illinois: The steamer
Pat Cleyburne exploded her boilers at
IL o'clock last night, SIX miles below
Shawneetown, while landing alongside
of the Arkansas Belle The Belle was
tied to the bank and disabled by line of
coal flats fouled to her starboard wheel,
and could render no aSsistonce The
Cleyburne floated down about mile and
burned. Captain Fowler is lost. He was
caught in the tlmbers and was burned.
Dick Partridge. express agent, was lost;
Walter McElhenny, engineer, blown
into the river and badly hurt, but will
recover; ID. Moore, mail agent, blown
overheard, but was saved; John Mccain,
pilot, was at the wheel and fell through
to the boiler deck and WAS cut and
scalded; Alex. Porter, second clerk, feet
scaded and cut; Arthur Brown, freight
clerk, hands and face scalded and head
cut; all the cabin crew are supposed to be
safe; Urnback, musician, could not
eXtricate himself from the timbers and
was burned; Albert Smith, barber, hands
scalded; Charley Golfer, second mate,
is supposed to be lost. Passen-
gers &. w. Smith, of Evansville.
slightly scalded; &. w. Nicholas, of
Terre Haute, hands and feet scaIded;
John Harvey of Cincinnati, scalded and
face cut, but will recover. An unknown
passenger was blown to the roof Of the
Belle and killed. In the great confusion
and the officers beiEg all disabled / can
not learn what other passengers are lost.
The Belle is badly wrecked, her chimney
blown overheard and state rooms shat
tered. She WAS on fire in many places.
The passengers and crew worked faith
fully. The striker and engineer are badly
scalded. Chas. Smith, or Cincinnati, II
passenger had his leg broken. Captain
Howard was knocked down and slightly
hurt. There were, perhaps, ten persons
on the Belle who were injured Arthur
Peters and j. GILES, of Evansville, were
blown and fell down the front stairs, but
are uninjured.
The JourndL has received the follow
ing additional particulars ct the destruc-
tion OF the Cleburne near Shawneetown:
The steamer Pat Clcburne, while try
ing to land along the side of the Arkansas
Bell, three miles below here, last night at
IL o'clock, exploded her boilers and took
fire. buried 10 the waters edge and sunk
on the Cincinnati bar. the Belle was
wrecked and both her chmneys were
knocked down. The Cleburne's books
and papers were all lost. The follow
ing are known to be lost: Captain Dick
Fowler; Richard PARTRIDGE, Express
messenger; Charles Cotton, second mate
and Mattesan of the Paducah; Walter
Nc cEldowney, engineer, A man whose
name is unknown and who is
a large man, with short
ulack hair, high forehead, wiskers
on chin and mustache, supposed by some
to b. &. & Berry, of Louisville and by
othc,s to be Mr.. Harris, representing
Fin Lewis s. Co., of st. Louis; Ed
Jol lal; Sid Hump ry, first dirk,
Alexander Por,cr, second clerk,
Arthur Brown, third clcrk,are wouHded;
the first seriously, the second slightly and
the third badly. Geo. Weston, the see
ond engineer WAS badly burned; George
Smith, Waterman was fatally burned;
Major Moore, mail agent, slightly burned;
John McCune, pilot, badly hurt; John
Lawrence, porter, slightly burned; Jas.
Dav, violinlst. slightly burned; Charles
Smith, deck passenger, thigh broken in
two places; Frank Redder, stoker, fatal
ly burned; George w Nichols, Of Joliet,
Illinois, badly burned; Jordan Field, 5.
Cold, Bower, Neal, Hancock.