The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-31
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

MEMPHIS. March 30.-The following ii
corrected list of the lost by the burning
of the Golden City: DIR. Mcmahon and
wife, of jackson, Ohio; Mrs. Cary, of Fair
mont. Ohio; Miss Luel Cary, Martin Place
0. W. H. Stowe and wife, Ollie Wood ane
wife, of Henderson, Kentucky; Mrs. Anna
Smith, of Massachusetts; Mrs. Helen Perez
val, of Hawesville, Kentucky; Mrs L. E
Kounz and three children; Miss Campbell
Robert Kelley, Mary Boyd and Amanda
Atkinson, chambermaids; J. G. Crane
owning the side show with Stoves circus
three of the deck crew (colored) and a ne.
gro servant and w. III. Stowe.
Captain S. C. Mcintyre was asleep at
the time the fire originated, but heard the
alarm and came down stairs hastily and
tried to get into the cabin, but the fire and
smoke drove him back. Descending to
the deck, he made the burning boat fast to
q coal feet, and then aided the passengers
in getting off the steamer. He did every
thing in his power to save the passengers,
but his efforts were Enavailing, as the line
was soon parted.
John Ell. Trewall, agent of Stoves cir
Gus, was ON the lower deck, and seeing
Mr.. Butler, of Donaldsonville, La, with
his wife and four children on the boiler
deck, he shouted to him to throw him the
children. Mr.. Butler tossed him two. who
were caught and saved Trewall then as
sisted Mrs. Butler with an infant from tn e
upper deck, and helped her off the steamer,
while Mr.. Butler brought down stairs his
remaining child.
Willie Mckinley, young man of seven
tie en- years, gives graphic description of
the fire. He was in his state-room when
the alarm was given He says the flames
broke through the floor of the state-rooms
Three minutes after he ran back into the
ladies' cabin, where his grandmother, Mrs.
Percival, and his aunt, Miss Matson, WERE
and found the ladies, and calling to them
to follow him, he led the way through the
binding smoke to the front part of the
boat. They had not gone far when the
flames began bursting through the floor of
the cabin. He kept pressing on, and final
ly reached the front deck with his aunt;
his grandmother was nowhere to be seen,
evidently having succumbed to the smoke
He carried his aunt down stairs Just in
time to get on barge before the line part
ed
An inquest is in progress over the re.
mains of a woman found near the wreck
1t is thought to be hrs. Smith, of Massa-
chusetts.
Wash Smith, the colored captain Of the
watch, was committed to Jail this after
noon, charged with murder on account of
causing the fire through carelessness
A diver will search the wreck for bodies.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
and Captain Bod Wise, of the J. W. CAT,
have offered to convey the passengers and
crew to Cincinnati free of charge.
CINCINNATI. March 30.-The owners
and crew of the Golden City reside here.
She was valued at $40, 900 and insured fer
$50, 900. She was built in 1876, and was
one of the best equipped steamers plying
between Cincinnati and New Orleans. The
government inspectors say she was extra
ordinary well equipped, with every modern
appliance calculated to avert such calamity.
She was 276 feet long, forty feet beam, six
feet tour inches hold, and had e carrying
capacity of /, 800 tons.