Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-05

New YORK, August 29-The steamer
Riverdale, which has been plying daily |
throughout the summer between New
York and Haverstraw, stopping to land
passengers by the way at Peekskill,
Sing Sing, Nyack, Yonkers, and Tarry-
town, left the pier at the foot OF Har-
rison Street a few minutes after P. NJ.
yesterday. So far as can be ascertained
there was the usual complement of pas
sengers on board -variously stated at
from fifty to 120. The steamboat put
we'll out into the middle of the river
on leaving the pier, and then headed up
stream. All went well until about op-
posite Eleventh Street, when q deep,
muffled roar was heard, followed by
crashing of timbers, and the whole of the
center of the upper deck was thrown into
the air in shattered fragments, which were
shrouded in dense columns Of steam aud
smoke. The Riverdale Immediately
keeled over on her sta1board
side, and as she did so those
on the river and the shore saw flames
burst out just above the water line.
starboard side of the main deck, and it
gradually grew deeper toward the bow
as it slowly settled. The frightened
passengers crowded together IN the
after part of the boat. A few bad al
ready jumped overheard, and as the
vessel sunk lower and lower it seemed
doubtful whether n toothold would re-
main above water for any one until the
boats and tugs which at once put out
from either shore reached The wreck.
Meanwhile the vessel had been drifting
slowly up the liver, aud when the G. 81.
Marshall first tug 70 get alongside
came up she was nearly opposite Four
teenth Street. Tho Marshall immedi.
ately began taking the passengers, who
were crowding in the stern, while other
boats picked up those living aud dead
who were floating in the water. Barely
had the last man been taken off when
the small remaining woodwork above the
water began to disappear more quickly,
and just opposite Sixteenth Street, with a
sudden plunge, the boat was gone.
The spot was Immediately surrounded by
feet of small row. boats, which pushed
their way through the floating mass in
the dismal search for the bodies of those
who had perished in the explosion o.
been too badly injured to escape from
the wreck before she sank. Tugs, too
kept arriving every minute, and moved
about assisting in the search. OF these,
the Zophar Mills succeeded in extri
eating three persons, but it there re-
NAMED any inside the Riverdale beyond
these they were out OF reach and out oi
sight, and their fate must remain mys.
terry until the wreck shall be raised OF
until divers can exo'cr5 her where she
lies.
Following are the names OF the dead,
injurt and missing:
Dead-Thomas Griggs, age SO, of No, COZ
! Water Street; Mrs. Louisa Sissons, aged 68, O.
Tarrytown; George sissons, husband of Mrs
Sissons; Thomas J. Sauls.
{ 1njured-A. Boyd, of No. SO Carmine Street
scalded; James Clark, of No. 86 Goerck Street
scalded; George Dimes, a fireman, scalded
Dennis Egan, of No. 3G9 Twelfth Street; Petel
Tanning, of the Riverdale. burned on the fact
and hands; Thomas Farrell, of Yonkers, scald
ed; Howell Gardner, of Brooklyn, E. D
scalded; William b. Hennessy, No. 1877 Varic
Street, burned john Kelly, deckhand, scalded
Is'ael Lazarus, of ~ Mott Street, scalded
join Moran. scalded; residence unknown
: Henry Mosher, of Peekskiil, knocked over
: board; Nelson MCGEE, pilot, scalded; jane
Tobiu, Of Yonkers badly ecalded; John Saliar
8 of Haverstraw, thigh crushed.
NlissiDg-Mrs. LoDgstreet, Mr.. Archibald
( Mr.. McConnelly, Mrs. Emily Mordaff, OF Haver
! straw: Mrs. Langfare and daughter and Abran
Tomrkins and three ladies. of Tarrytown; "
". F. Lippey, Palisades Mountain House, W
". A. Harris. superintendent of the Bel
Railway, Miss Annie Kirkword aud Moses D
I Getty, OF Yonkers; Mr.. Rose ana Mr.. and Mrs
Elliot, Sing Sing, and Miss Fannie O'Connor
. ! of Hastings.