Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-31
A Large Proportion Of them
Women and Children
Stoves Circus, with Six Cages Of
Animals, Burned.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 30.-The
Cincinnati and New Orleans packet
/ Golden City, en- route from New Or
leans to Cincinnati, burned at her
wharf this morning, at 4:30 o'clock.
Between
THIRTY AND FIFTY LIVES LOST,
principally women and children.
CHICAGO, March 30.-Private dis.
patches received here regarding the
burning of the steamer Golden City,
at Memphis, say there were twenty
lives lost.
MEMPHIS, March 30.-The steame,
Golden City, of the Southern Trans
portation Company's line, when ap-
proaching the wharf this morning
at 4:30, was discovered to be on fire
The discovery was made by the sec
ond engineer, Albert Kelly, who inn
mediately notified Captain Bryce
Purcell, ST., the pilot on watch. The
boats bow was at once headed for
the shore, and in four minutes AFTER
wards she touched the wharf at the
foot of Beale street, where a coal
feet is moored. A line was hastily
thrown and made fast to one of the
coal barges, but the current being
swift, it soon parted, and the
burning steamer foated on down the
river,
A MASS OF FLAMES,
with many of her passengers and
crew on board, who were unable to
reach shore, and were lost.
The Golden City left New Orleans
last Saturday en- route to Cincinnati.
She carried crew of about sixty.
She had on board forty cabin pas
sengers, fifteen of whom were ladies,
and there were nine children. Her
cargo consisted of 800 tons, among
which was lot of jute. The fire is
said to have originated in this COM
bu>tible material.
THE LOST.
Among those known to have been
lost are DR.. Monahan and wife, OF
Cincinnati; Miss Lula Craig, OF
Cincinnati; W. II. Howe, wife and
two children, Ollie Wood and wife,
of Henderson, KY; Mrs Anna Smith.
of Massachusetts; Miss Campbell.
Mrs Helen Percevill, Mrs L.E.Lounz
and three children The books Of
the steamer were lost, so it is impos
slble to get complete list of the
lost and saved.
SACRIFICED HIS LIFE.
All the officers of the steamer ex
cept the second engineer, Robert
Kelley, escaped. After he gave tn,
alarm of fire, he remained at his pos
of duty until cut off by the flames
the fire having spread with lightning
rapidity, and thus he sacrificed hi
life to save others.
THE SAVED.
The saved, so far as known, are
Capt. s. G. McIntire, first clerk, N
f. McIntire; second clerk, Jane
Worthlin; third clerk, Frank Stern
mate, Doc. Bondurant; pilots, Bryc
Purcell, ST., Marion Purcell, ant
Joseph Purcell, jr.; first engineer
Mike Kelly; Miss Iona Maston
of Howesville, Kentucky; Will
Mckinley, of Howesville, Kentucky
James Myers, New Orleans; Chas
Ross, jr., E. c. Underwood, 81
Louis; H. B. Howell, Philadelphia
Robert E. Elbrick, treasurer @
Stoves circus; John e. Trewalle
business agent; Burriel Stowe
brother of the proprietor; Fran
Stowe, James Swift, John Fiber
John Mullare, j. G. Knupel, job
G. Glenroy, James Bloomfield, an
Jno. Burk. These last were a
members of Stoves circus. w. T
Jewett, Point Pleasant, West Viz
ginia; Geo. W. Green. New Rich
mond, Ohio; o. B. Veatch, Vans
vile; John R. H. Chittenden, Cor
risville, Ky; W. 81. Caruthers, J. T
Jordan, Ripley, Tennessee. Nearl
all of the cabin and deck crew
the steamer saved themselves.
STOVES CIRCUS LOST.
| Stoves circus was taken aboar
at Vidalia, La, and six cages of an
mails and birds, together with tL
ticket and band wagons, tents an
horses, were lost. Martin Purcell
one of the pilots, was in the clerk
Office when the alarm first sonnde
and he rushed through the cabil
bursting in the state-room doors an
awakening the passengers. So ral