Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-31

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and saved-ststements OF survivors,
isPsclAL BY rsLpsR.rH 10 rIz RscoEp-UsIosl
MEMPHIS, March S0th.-The steamer Golden
City, of the Southern Transportation Com
| pany, when approaching the wharf this morn-
ing at haf.psst o'clock, was discovered to
| be on fire by the second engineer, Robert
Kelly, who Immediately notified Captain
Purcell, the pilot on watch. The boat
| was headed for shore, and four minutes
| afterwards she touched the wharf at the
| foot Of Beale street, where a coal fleet
| is moored. A line was hastily thrown and
| made fast to enc of the eosl barges, but the
| current being swift, it coon parted, and tho
| burning steamer fioated on down the river, =
mass of flames, with many of the passengers
and crew aboard who we've unable to reach
the shore, and were lost
The Golden City left New Orleans Satur-
day, en- route to Cincinnati She carried
crew of about 60, had about 40 cabin paSsen.
| gers, Is of whom were ladies and cbildren
The cargo consisted of 500 tons, among which
| was o lot of jute, in which it is supposed the
| fire originated.
THE LOST AND SAVED.
Among those known to have been lost are
| DIR. Monahan and wife, jackson, o.; Mrs.
| Crary, Cincinnati; Miss Luella Crary,
| Cincinnati; w. II. Sterne, wife and
two children; Oliver Wood aad
wife, Henderson, Ky; Ms. Anna Smith,
Mississippi; Miss Campbell; Mrs. Helen
Psrcival; Mrs. L. E. Kounizs aud three
children. The books being lost, it is impossi-
BILE to gather complete list. All OF tho
crew are safe except Second Engineer Kelly.
He gave the alarm and remained ct his post
until cut off by the flames, which spread like
Neutrality-suspicious. his life TO save others
The saved thirty, as tar as known,
are Captain, S. {. Mcintyre; first clerk, W.
f. McIntyre second clerk, Jemes Worthlin I;
third clerk, Frank Stein; mate, Doc Boren.
cut pilots. Bruce Purcell, Sr., Marion Par-
cell, Joseph PARCEL. Jr.; first engineer. Mike
Kelly; Miss Ionia Maston, Hswesville, KY;
Willie McKinlie, New Orleans Chas. Ross.
J, &. Underwood, St. Bouis III. B. Howell,
Philadelphia; Robert f. Elbricht, treas
urer of Stows's circus; John 1rewaller.
business agent Burt Stowe, brother of the
proprietor; Frank Stowe, Jas. Swift John
Fibert, John Mullen, j. @. Kempel, John
G. Glenroy, James Bloomfield, James Burke
all members of Stoves circus; w. G.
Jewett, Point Pleasant, Va; Geo. w. Green.
New Richmond, o.; a. 3. Vesch, Evans
vile, KY; w. Ii. Uar1uthers, j. B. Jordan,
Ripley, Tenn.
Nearly all the cabin and deck crew of the
steamer saved themselves.
Stoves circus was taken aboard at Vedalia
La, and six cages of animals and birds, to-
gether with the ticket and band wagons, tents
and horses, were lest.
Marion Purcell was in the clerks Office
when the alarm was first sounded, and
he rushed through the cabin, bursting open
the stateroom doors and awakening the
passengers. So rapidly did the f,mss spread
that within five minutes after discovering tha
fire, which broke out amidships, the after
part of the steamer was Ill ablaze, and those
that were saved had to Ace in their night
clothes.
When the burning steamer touched tho
wharf the fire comm uuicated to the coal feet
and tug Oriole, which was also burned.
MEMPHIS, March S0sh.-As near as can 6e
ascertained, there were twenty three ladies
aboard the steamer, but two Of whom, so far
as known, are saved.
j. Ii. Cronk, connected with Stoves cir
Gus, is missing, and is supposed to be lost.
John De Vouse, his wife and thee children,
were saved, and are at the city hospital also
Senor Blak. De Vouse is slightly burned ON
the hands.
When the steamer 8oated eff from the
wharf, about twenty passengers and crew
jumped aboard barge which hoated down
stream, but they we're rescued by harbor
boat.
1t is now estimated that thirty.fve lives
were lest.
Billy Hodge, pilot on the Dean Adams,
saved the COOK, who jumped overheard as
the boat foated down stream.
All the passengers and crew were kindly
cared for.
STATEMENTS Oh SURVIVORS.
MEMPHIS, March 30Ih.-Pss Haley and
Mike O'Donnell, the two fiemen who we've
on watch, say that they saw the negro Cap
tain of the watch, named Wash, with hfs
lamp in hand, looking for some Of the deck
hands of the crew. 1t was from his lamp
that the fire caught. Jute wi.s stored ia this
center of the steamer, and as quick as q aash
it spread to either side of the steamer and MP
to the cabin. Haley ran upstairs to notify
the Head Engineer, but by the time he
reached the hurricane deck the flames had
mounted almost to the pilot head, and he
was driven bs OK by them. He then rang the
alarm bell, and seeing that the boat was ap-
preaching shore, ran down the forward stairs
and jumped on board the tug Oriole Just as
the Golden City struck her. Seeing that the
tug was sinking, he sprang aboard the
steamer again and made his way to the coal
barge. lying alongside.
Mike Malloy and Pat Kinney, fremep,
were saved; also, M. j. Whelan. Second
Mate. Whelan says that he jumped over
board from the stern of the steamer as she
foated down the stream. There were about
ten men on the fautail of the boat, who must
have been drowned, as when he leaped into
the river he saw three men go overheard and
drown; the others must have shared the same
fate.
Felix Lehman, who was q passenger, says
there was merry party aboard, and nearly
all the passengers remained up till midnight,
They had one or two gentlemen aboard who
played the piano. and they entertained the
passengers with music end singing. He was
awakened by having his state-room burst in,
and heard the cry Fire. Seiging his
clothes, he ran forward and reached the
barge Just in time, as the next minute the
vessel fioated down stream.
G. GIenroy, one of the saved, resides at
PHILADELPHIA, and has for two years been
keeper of the slimals of Stoves circus. He
states that lie was asleep under one OF the
cages of the animals, on the forward part of
the lower deck, when the cry OF fire was
given. He leaped forth and looked about,
but saw 20 fire. He then looked again, and
sew that the entire center Of the boat was u
mass CT flames. As soon as the boat touched
the coal Aset he jumped ashore. He saw the
officers of the steamer at work makisg the
hawsers fast aft. He then saw the lines giys
way and the steamer swing out and drift
uvWn. ne saw tne cage containing the hon
sink down in the middle as the flames envel-
oped it. He heard 10 cry from single beast
as the animals burned The six cages CON
tanned a lion, tiger, two leopards, an
Albino deer, monkeys and birds. Four
horses, also belonging to the circus, wers
aboard. Three were saved one, the eele-
brated trick horse, Selim, was lost.
NOTES OF THE DIsAsTFR
Three negro deck hands and q white deck
passenger were killed when the tug was struck
as they were caught between the end and tae
side of the tug Anna Boyd.
The colored chambermaid and her assistant
were both lost.
Will McIntyre, clerk of the boat, says that
the list of cabin passengers, as well as he can
remember, is correct.
Mrs. L. E. Kountz and three children, who
are Lost, was the wife of Captain Kountz,
well known steamboat owner.
Those mentioned as being in the hospital
are all injured by burns, but none seriously.
The passengers lost all their clothing.
Those that were saved had to flee for their
lives, without taking timo 30 save their ef-
fects.
The following Of the colored crew wera