Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-26
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.

EXPLOSION.
THE LOSS OF EIGHrEEN LIVES
A Mother Lost, Her Baby saved-A Terrible
Accident.-Other Recent Disasters
in the Far West.
The stern wheel steamer Pilot, which
blew up yesterday morning, has been run
ming for some years past. in opposition to
steamers of the San Francisco & North
Pacific railroad company. The explosion
occurred near Lakeville, mile above
Donahue Landing, on an arm of the bay
known as Petaluma creek. No details
could be obtained until nearly 3p. m.
Then a dispatch was received stating !:
d" All the forward part of the boat was
blown away, and the afterpart foated 800
yards and then grounded on tho west side
of the creek. Two persons were killed,
seven wounded and eleven are missing and
supposed to be drowned. Mrs. McNear is
missing but her baby was saved. The
wreck is almost inaccessible"
Officers of the steamer Donahue report
that when passing Donahue Landing they
noticed the Pilot coming down tho creek
in mid channel. A few minutes safterward
they saw no sign of the incoming steamer.
The rumor spread that . terrible disaster
had occurred, and that the chief engineer
of the Donahue is reported as having said
he saw an explosion or cloud of steam
and smoke Immediately following. The
Donahue drew too much water for naviga.
tion above her landing ltvee, and she did
not 60 to the wreck.
A message was sent to Petaluma direct.
ing relief train, with physicians and
nurses for the wounded, to be immedi-
ately dispatched to Lakeville. When the
relief train arrived the surgeons on board
found little to do, as Of all Of those known
and believed to be ON board, mono but the
captain and two others Gone the pilot)
could be found. They werc discovered in
the fields, seriously ipj jured.
Search was made in every direction near
the bank, and one after another, four more
were found. All were seriously injured,
some with an arm or leg broken. The
last reports received show that eight are
killed, seven wounded and ten missing,
most of the latter are probably dead. The
names of the passengers cannot bo def
nitely ascertained, as no names arc re-
corded at the points Of departure. Cne
family of twelve were on board bound for
Arizona.
The officers and crew of the vessel were
8. F. Graves, master Horace Bell, mate
Charles Farmer, pilot A. Hawes, steward
a cabin boy; N. Silva, engineer Thomas
Crawford, fireman Gwinn and Shedder,
deck hands; Peter McCable. -- Rich
mond, John Lamar and an unknown man
shipped yesterday. 1t is thought many of
the passengers, who escaped scalding and
mangling, we're drowned, as the boat sank
Immediately after tho explosion. Tho
explosion is attributed to defective boilers
Later dispatches state that Mr.. Mat
thews late of Sonoma mountain, on his
way 20 Arizona lost four children and
another will die. His wife is crazy. Mr..
Hegler, who had just purchased some prop.
erty, was killed. The most extraordinary
incident in connection with the disaster
was the finding of Mrs. George P. McNear
a passenger, about a mile and ! half from
the scene of the explosion. She was
standing in the mud, still alive, but un
conscious. 1t is presumed she struggled
through the mud and weeds for that dis
tance in search of relief. She was i'm
mediately removed to Lakeville, but died
a few minutes after arrival. She was q
niece of G. w. McNea:, grain merchant
of San Francisco.
Moro Recent Disasters
A freight train on the Beaver Cree!
railroad was wrecked on Thursday, 81
| Greenwood, KY, by misplaced switch
Richard Hays was killed and two coloret
men were badly injured.-A freight trail
on the Rock Island road dropped through
the bridge across Dupasc river. neal
Joliet, ILL.,, ON Thursday night. George
Mellon, brakeman, and two passengers
were injured.-Two freight trains collided
on the Vicksburg & Meridian railroad, neal
Jackson, Mis-, on Thursday night. En-
gineer Singleton and two negroes were
badly injured.-By tho explosion of :
boiler in BLY, Granberry's brick yard, Al
Bismarck, Dakota, on Friday, Josept
| Villette, a carpenter, and John Hasson,
a fireman, were blown to atoms arc
Daniel Lyons and Clements Vii.
lette were fatally injured. body O
an elderly man named Graham, a resident
of Hartford, Connecticut, was found float
ing in the river at Goodspec's landing
yesterday afternoon. 1t is supposed hi
was ono Of the victims Of the steamer
Granite State disaster.-Unusually heavy
rains in Mexico have washed away five
bridges on the Central railway. A trair
ran into the first washout, and tho engl
neer was killed. Traffic between LeOr
and Lagos will be suspended for severa
days.-Whilo two boys were playing
pegging" at Whittendon, Massachu
setts, on Thursday, the "cat" struck
Felix LAYERS, aged IA years, on the fore
head with such forco as to fracture his
skull, and ho died yesterday-The tow
boat Amos was wrecked and sunk by
collision with bridge in the Monongahela
river, near Pittsburgh last night, and
Thomas Hauser, deck hand, was
| drowned. men Were drowned at
Westbrook, Nova Scotia, on Thursday,
whilst hoisting the gates of driving
dam.
The Trail of Blood
A mob from Menefes county, Ken
lucky, headed by Sheriff Rings, attacked
the Jail at Mount Sterling, early yesterday
morning, for the purpose oflynching John
Barnett, under indictment for the assas-
sination of Vaughan Hilton, whom Bar.
net and his gang had previously driven
from the county. Three guards at the
Jail repulsed tho mob, terribly wounding
Rings with buckshot and breaking tho leg
of another man.
A trustworthy mah, just arrived from a
rancho in Sonora, says a courier from
headquarters. has brought news of an
engagement between General Crook aud a
large body of Indians, near Guacanope, in
the SIC ra Madres, last week, Gin which &c
hosties were killed aud the rest put to
flight, closely followed by the troops"
Three men, two convicted of murde,
and the third of felonious assault. were