Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-02
steamer Barned and uany Lives Los,

'cnineF heu ana Jtany Lives LOST
NEw ORLEANS September 38th-The Pic
acyune's Vlcksburg special gays: This morn
lag at 3 O'Clock FIRE b,oke cut on the steam.
er r. E. Lee, while on trip to this CITY,
about thirty miles below here, resulting 10
the total destruction of the boat, with terrible
loss OF life. The following is list Of persons
known to be lost: Cabin passengers-Mr.
Pointer, Msysvills, KY: Mrs Mcclellan,
New Orleans Miss Adams, music acher, en-
the way to Baton Rouge; an infant of Mrs
1earis, OF sIcksburp, and two colore1 wo-
men. Also the following: Frank Jones,
fireman Ophelia Jones and Martha Webb,
second and third chambermsids; Thomas
Fisher, Joe Murrill, Scott Cox. Thomas Col.
inns and irwin Duncan. cabin boys; Samuel
Brown, roustabout Mr.. Cardo, carpenter;
Wm. Mestmaker, second engineer all the
COOKS and help except the pastry cook. TIE
books of the boat and the U nited States mail
are lost, together with the cargo, 500 bales of
cotton.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
A later dispatch says: The Lee had lust
bsen overhauled and newly painted, and was
on her first trip this season. She left Vicks-
burg yesterday evening for New Orleans with
800 bales OF cotton and a good list of passsn-
gers. While opposite Point Pleasant. at 3
o'cloik in the morning, she was discovered on
fire, and was immediately headed for the
Louisiana shore and landed at Yucatan
p!antation. thirty-fve miles below Vicka.
burg La FIVE minutes she was completely
ervepped 10 flames, and tgenty-one persons
are Believed to have been lost. including
May of the crew. The steamboat J. nj
Wine passed the wreck at 6 NJ, and took
chs REMAINING passengers and crew 70 Vicks-
burg L. 9. Rawlings aud Robert Smith,
pilst, were both burned and otherwise hurt.
The ire is supposed 20 have originated in the
aafatt O. q q A. \
t5ae e was impofsois for passengers or offl-
cersso save anything except what they had
on at the time. Captain Cannon states ii at
the steamer was owned by the estate OF his
father. j w. Cannon, ss.si her c,mnautier.
CAPTAIN William Bell. She was valued al
500 COO. end insured for $50, 600, mostly ir
local companies. The crew was composed
almost entirely Of men who have been OF the
river twenty or thirty years. TIE boat. be-
sides her supply pumps, had new FIRE pump
with fcurteen-inch cylinder and 700 fest Of
ho-a. There were always three watchmen on
deck.
NAMES or THE SAVED
The following passengers were saved:
Thomas j. Spain, Tersaw, Alabama C. III.
Chapman, OF steamer Naomi G.. O'Rourke.
New Orleans; j. NJ. Farnum, ST. Louis
My. Abrams, Chicago: Henry Mason, Mon
rof, Louisiana; j. G. Slot, New York II.
W. Neefus, New York; j. M. FIedman.
Wick ioure J. y. Berger, Easton, Pennsyl
vanis w. w. Irish, Carlyle, Illinois: John
A. Ludwigsop, New Orleans M. Ssatls
Ficksburg; a lady with eight children, name
unknown. The Lee left New Orleans last
Tuesday on her first trip for FIVE months.
NOBLE PILOT.
The sared owe their lives to the admirable
csurage of pilot John Stout. He stood AT
the wheel and gave hops to all by his firm.
ness, and as the steamer rounded the point at
Yucatan Landing, the flames fast enyelopiop
him, the brave man in the pilot-house, despite
the fire around him, with almost the last bopa
OF escape gone. remained at his pos. until he
gave the word to the engineer that the boat
had made the shore. Not until this was done
did he for one minute take bis hand from the
! wheel. de made his escape by the hurricane
root, down the hog chain to the lower deck,
snd from there ashore. Some think the fire
fhe work OF AT iccendiary. While others BE-.
lievs it was acc tai -Igineer Perkins
nrsS saw names " I'm the pastry ROOM
In which thar lamps at the time
ian states that no
nps or --=-...-,. lie material was ever
opt in the kitchen panty or pastry room
de thinks the fire of incendiaY os.9in. En-
/ ginser Perkins instantly after discovering Ioe
hre notified toe pilot aud the boat was headed
tor the mississippi side, and plunged with
such force against the bank as to become
firmly fastened. The passengers who were
nos cut oil from the bow escaped to the shore
Inc casualties occurred among those having
oefsas art. Some. Of them, however, were
rescue. ter jumping overheard.
WHAT THE SURVIVORS SAY.
whenever the survivors are seen on TIE
street. immediately large crowd gathers
around to learn whatever they know of the
sad occurrences. Numbers are seen with their
heads and arms bound up, some in consilera.
ole PAIN, weIis Others are not so badly hurt.
MIR. Olice Bsll, second clerk of the Leo
stated: 81 never saw ANYTHING bnrn ~
a1is&. Tss at 81 the ting. and uhs,
heard the alarm, knowing that niy partner
VINO sleeps soundiy, and othar officers ware
"a TIE texas, and in great danger. rushed mn
20 awsEen them. The fire. followei re sn
tait thss by the time I had them eli IN nv
partner had his hair singed in getting dow
STAIRS from the hurricane roof and T 10.
; UstG I 70 Climb over the rail The boat hs5
5,nr,o,'. a Iresh,y painted, and she went Ike
- Mr., Bel, one of the passenger,
o,i,;, vas ,his'VieSed. said think the Ere
h, ia ,ne pastry room If the cox
a. use. done see," said Mr.. Rail :" ~
the tre was doing there SO early as A. nnae
were not called before o'cioek y M Ne
Da1el Ssarles, with presence of m;o1 anS
perry devotion, grasped her slssn,inp in.
IAN and. arranging tie life-preseryer in her
80. roon spout her person, jumped b,Idiv
iheo tne water. BY the olisarranpe rosnt y
neI ifeserVer she was throRn nnon bar ha.h
Gnu iGse ner grasp upon her cI,iid. Canta;n
Sanrceii and surviving off ,ers All Isava bs.a
ny 0ehignts train for New Orleans h -v;II
pPHas out the Ed Richardson In nlsca IS an
Lee on Tuesday. ~ piaoe Oh the