The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-10-05

out on the steamer r. e. Lee, while on her
trip to this city, about thirty miles below
here, resulting in the total destruction of
the boat with a terrible loss of life.
The following is list of the persons
known to be lost: Cabin passengers-Mr.
Painter, of Marysville; Mrs. Mcclellan, OF
New Orleans; Miss Adams, music teach
er, on her way to Baton Rouge; also an in
FAINT of Mrs. Searle, of Vicksburg, and two
colored women.
Also the following: Frank Jones, fire
man; 0. Jones and Martha Webb, second
F. and third chambermaids; Thomas Fisher,
Joe Mnrrell. Scott Cox, Thomas Collins, r.
vine Duncan, cabin boys; Samuel Brown,
roustabout; Laredo, the carpenter; Will,
liam Westmaker, the second engineer, and
all the cooks and help, except the pastry
cook. The books of the boat and the
United States mails were lost, together
with cargo of 500 bales OF cotton.
The Lee had just been overhauled and
newly painted, and was on her first trip
this Season. She left Vicksburg yesterday
evening for New Orleans with 800 bales of
cotton and
GOOD LIST, CT PASSENGERS.
While opposite Point Pleasant, at3;3O a. M,
she was discovered to be on fire, and was
Immediately headed for the Louisiana
shore and landed at Yucatan plantation,
thirty-fiye miles below Vicksburg In q
few minutes she was completely enveloped
in flames. Twenty-one persons are believed
to have been lost, including many OF the
crew. The steamboat j. III. White passed
the wreck about a. m. and took the re-
manning passengers and crew to Vicksburg.
S. G. Rawlings and Robert Smith, the
pilots, we both burned and otherwise
hurt. The fire is supposed to have origi,,
mated in the pantry room. So rapidly did
the flames spread that it was Impossible for
the passengers or officers to
SAVE ANYTHING
but what they had on at the tine. Captain
w. S, Cannon states that the steamer was
owned by the estate of his father,
Captain John w. Cannon, and her
commander, Captain William Campbell.
5000, mostly in local companies. The
crew was composed almost entirely of men
who have been on the river twenty or thirty
years. The boat be sides her supply pumps
had new fire pump with 4'inch cylinder
and 700 feet of hose. There were always
three watchmen on deck.
The Lee was insured for $500 in the
Etna, of Hartford; $500 each in the Ma
tional, Enterprise and Merchants, OF Gin
cinnati, and for $4,000 in New Orleans
companies.
The following is list of the passengers
saved: Thomas J. spaid, OF Tensas Louis Louis,
lana; G. II. Chapman, OF the steamer
Naomi; J. Orduke, Of New Orleans; J. M.
Farnum, St. Louis; Major A. Brahams,
Chicago, Illinois; Henry Mason, Monroe;
York; ]. NJ. Friedman, Vicksburg,
fdb Pennsylvania "a B. W. gfrs%ST 1r has
Carlysle, Illinois; John II: Ludwigson, New
Orleans; Mrs. Seare, Vicksburg; lady
with eight children, name unknown.
The Lee left this city last Tuesday, on
her first trip tor five months.
IN MEMoRIAM.
The States says: The announcement Of
the destruction by fire of that grand old
Seamer, the Robert Z. Lee, will be heard
with universal sorrow: the champion Of the
Mississippi waters, the favorite OF all
the people from New Orleans to Vicks.
burg, and named after the greatest of
heroes and statesmen, her destruction just
at the beginning of the cotton season and
after having undergone thorough over
hauling will be serious blow to her own |
ers. as well as TO the trade in which the Lee
. has been so long and so faithfully engaged.
THE STORY.
VIcKsBURG, September 3O.-Whenever a
SURVIVOR was seen on the streets imme-
diately large crowd would gather |
round, eager TO learn whatever he
knew of the sad occurrence. A num-
Der were seen with heads or arms |
burned. some ofthem in considerable pain, |
while others were not SO badly hurt. Mr.. |
iOltice Dell, 90 Ond CLERK vi the Lee, Mno /
was up at the time the accident occurred
stated: 81 never saw anything burn SO
Quick | was off at the time, and when / |
heard the alarm, knowing that my partner, |
who sleeps soundly, and other officers were
in the Texas and in great danger,
rushed to awaken them. The fire followed |
me so fast that by the time / had them all
up my partner
HAD MS HAIR sINGED
In getting down stairs from the hurricane |
roof, and was forced to climb over the
rail. thought was gone at one time.
The boat did not have much cotton aboard. /
The boat was frcsh-painted. She burned
INST like gunpowder."
Mr.. Bell and passenger, who were in
tryiewed, seemed to think the fire or1gi-
rated in the pantry rooms OF the cook
buse, Though / don't see, said the for
ner. "what the fire was doing there that
eirlv, as the cooks are not called before
o'clock" Mrs. Dan Searle, with. heroic
p.esence Of mind and mOtherly devotion, /
gmsped her sleeping INFANT and arrang
Ing life-preserver In her stste-room
about her person, jumped boldly IN the
vner. BY disarrapgement Of the life pre-
sewer she was thrown upon her back and
she lost her grasp upon the child. Captain
Campbell and the surviving officers all
lesve bv to-nght's train for New Orleans, [
md will bring out the Ed Richardson IN
rlace Of the Lee pext Tuesday.
The Picayune special says: The Lee had
m leaving here about 415 bales Of cotton.
She took on some few more at landing
flow and about siKty-fve bales from a
snail cottOn-seed boat, % that when
inrDed she bad about 55l bales al told
nso. a cargo Of boots, shoes and dry goods.
rehipped BY the Y. A I. railroad, from
rpints north and easf Of hatcher. and other
pints below this city; 2.Oo0 FEET Of lumbar.
alargs quantity Of doors, blinds, sash. etc,
t,geiber with
o miscellaneous freight. She stopped 20
upod up about tweiye miles below here
81 l2s36 this morning and remained
SINE time The last landing
11r1e before The Ere vas ct Ashvood, about
twenty-five miles below the city, Al the
tire The alarm was given the boat vss
u1der uar She "a Immediately headed
Ia f;1s ~ ore ard struck the tank In very
siort time. uot more than three ~ four
mnufes. TO John Stout. the noble and
brfrr-bearted pilot wbo ras 81 the Z
rhel. -is due The lives Of
ffl.e saved. He stood 81 the wheel
nnl rare courage % al bT ahrmn--s never I
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