Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-29
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE RIVRRDAIR SUNK, Her Boiler Explodes In
 North River.
 SHE GOES DOWN BOW FIRST Several Persons Drowned
 And Fatally ScaLded, THE LEVY OF ASSESSMENTS. Not a Denial of the Civil
 Service.
SHE GOES DOWN BOW FIRST
HE LEVY OF ASSESSMENTS.
NEW YORK.

An Explosion I'm North Rfver-A Steamer Goes DOvvn-AEu of Lives Lost.
 1 NEW YoRK, Aug. 2S.-The steamer River
 dale plying between this city and Hudson river ports as far as Hsverstraw exploded at
 3:30 this afternoon just after starting on her I up trip and while of the foot of Thirteenth
 street. The explosion of the boilers shatter- ed the hull of the boat which careened and
 went down bow first near the foot os ff- l teenth street. About twenty persons, in- ] cluding all in the cabin, were hurled into the air and came down In the water. Several of them were picked up by number of tugs which immediately put of to the scene of the disaster. How many were saved and how many were killed or drowned cannot yet be ascertained, but the latter will not probably exceed ten. Among them are said
 to be the Evangelist Gardner and
 Tarrytown lady named Mrs. Sisson.
 Captain Smith of the Riverdale reached the
 New York shore in boat within few min
 utes after the disaster happened. He said
 ''We were going along at 8 good rate of
 speed and were just about getting ready to
 make our landing at the foot of Twenty second street where take on most of our pas sengers, when the explosion occurred. The scene which ensued was something terrible.
 The people were compelled to jump for their lives About fifty were drowned. Of these only six were recovered, three by irowboats and three by the Zophar Mills. There were also many injured. had one hundred pas sengers on board when VIC left the dock-'' He then went back to the scene of the disas
 ter on the fire boat Havemeyer.
 At late hour to. night but four bodies had been recovered from the waters in the vicini- ity of the RiverdAe explosion. but it is their lives by being struck by flying frag-
 nents of the wreck or drawn nnder by the suction of the sinking boat But two of the four bodies found hava been identified. They are those of Mrs. Julian Sisson, aged sizty;eight' wife of 3 wealthy retired retire No. COG Water street in this city. It is feared that MT. Sisson is also among the lost as he was standing with his wife on the upper deck when the explosion occurred and has not since been seen. There were wild scenes of excitement along tho river front immediately after the disaster and many exaggerated ac- counts of the mber of victims obtained currency. Even the captain of the River dale seemed dazOd by the suddenness and horror of the scene, and placed his first estimate of the losses far above what they are now believed to be. The list of those known to be injured is as follows Howard Gardner, the evangelist, of Tarry- town; John Kelly, deck hand, arms broken; John Moran, deck hand, leg and side crushed; Thomas J. Saul, passenger, of Brooklyn, scalded; ". Fl. Jsnning, passen- ger, of Brooklyn, face and hand burned; John Salairth, mate, left thigh badly crushed; John Gifes, passenger, New York, badly scalded, condition extremely critical; George A. Dimes, fireman, badly scalded. All the above were taken to the New York hospital except Dimes, who was taken to St. Vincent's hospital; Boyd A., of No s3 Carmine street, scalded, taken to New York hospital; Clark James, of No s6 Goerck street, scalded, taken to Bellevue hospital Egan Dennis, of No. 369 Twelfth street, taken homo; Tanning Peter, of the Riverdale, burned on face and hands taken to Chambers street hospital; Farrell Thomas, of Yonkers scalded, taken to New York hospital; Hennessy, William H., of No. 127 Varick street. burned, taken to New York hospital; Lazarus Israel, of 72 Mott street, scalded, taken to New York hospital Mosher Henry, of Peekskill, knocked overheard, rescued and sent home; McGee Nelson, pilot, scalded taken home; TobSn James of Yonkers. badly scalded taken home. Among the many supposed to have met
 death and are reported as missing the follow ing names were obtained: MT. and Mrs. FL
 liott of Sing Sing, Archibald Longstreet of Hastings, Miss Fannie O'Connor of Hastings, Miss Annie Kirkwood of Yonkers.