The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-26
Blowing Up Of the Stu.

Blowing Up Of the Steamer o..
SAN Francisco, Nav o.
stern wheel steamer Pilot The
blew up this morning has been which
ming for some years past in onn run
tion to steamers from San Fr,ppp osl'
and the North Pacific railroad "casco
pany. The explosion occurred ,oan-
Lakevllle, n mile above Donaueaf
landing, in the arm of the bav LnnnuAe
as Petaluma creek. The fyst Ano"n
of the disaster was conveyed IN news
following dispatch: me
"DoNAHUE, May PA heavr
port was heard from the ste: re-
Pilot and a large escape of steam e"l1er
[ think she is blowing up. She loot.,
as though she is sunk" The see"n hs
dispatch came stating that twenty.
passengers were on board and # WY
believed several from San Franc; was
were among them. The excitemon,
throughout the city rapidly onioI
ened in intensity, Notwithstanding
every Geographic effort was m,s
forth no details could be obtained put Ia
til 3p. m. Then a dispatch was VI" u
ceived stating: "All the forward ne.
Of the boat was blown away; the At.
tor part floating 800 yards and tban
grounded on the west side of the creaI
Two persons were killed sevam
wounded, and eleven are miss;na
| supposed to be drowned. Mrs. NJ
Near is missing but her baby is saved
The wreck is almost inaccessihla
Officers of the steamer "D]onahnsr
reported that when passing Domains
landing they noticed the Pilot con.
ing down creek in mid channel A
few minutes afterward they saw No
sign of the incoming steamer. A
rumor spread that a terrible disastar
had occurred, and TIE chief on.
gineer of the DOnai,ue is rerorfed
as having see the explosion
and q cloud of steam and smoke i'm.
mediately following. The Donahue
drew too much water for Navigation
above her landing to leave. She did
not get a wreck message. 1t was
sent to Petaluma. A relief train
with physicians and nurses for thp
wounded will be Immediately dis.
patched to Lakeville. When the re-
lief train arrived the surgeons on
board found little to do, as of all Of
those known and believed to be on
board, none but the captain and two
others, one the pilot, could be found.
They were discovered in the field,
seriously injured, the captain the
least of the three.
Search was made in every direc.
ton, and one after another four more
were found more or less injured:
some with an arm or leg broken in
the fall; one but slightly injured.
having fallen in the long tule grass,
out of which he managed to scramble
on to higher and dryer ground. Had
he been more severity injured he
would have drowned by high tide.
The last reports received show that
eight are killed, seven wounded and
ten missing. Nest of the latter are
probably dead, but their bodies are
not yet found. The names OF the
passengers cannot be definitely asce:-
tanned, as no names r recorded at
points of departure. 1t is known,
however. that one family of twelve
was on board, bound for Arizona.
Officers and crew of vessel were: s.
F. Graves, master; Horace Bell,
mate; Charles Farmer, pilot; 0.
Halves, steward; n. Silva, cabin boy;
Thomas Crawford, engineer; Gwinn
and Shedder, firemen; Peter MEGA.
BILE, Richmond, John Lamon and
an unknown man who shipped yes.
terday, were deck hands. 1t is
thought many passengers who
escaped scalding and mangling We're
drowned as the boat sunk immedi-
ately after TIL explosion, The Pilot
was owned BY Captain Gould, form
erly master of the ship Conquerer.
purchased it a year ago together
with her trade and certain other
property for $1,000. The explosions
attributed to defective boilers.
Those who witnessed the explosion
from the steamer Donahue say that
it was almost funny to see the way
the smOkestack went up. 1t seemed,
as they say, to leave the vessel in adj
vance and shoot up into the air over
300 yards, coming down again within
a few feet of the vessel.
Later dispatches state that Math-
ews, late of Sonoma Mountain on his
way to Arizona, was lost with four
Another will die. His
wife is crazy. Hegler, who had just
purchased the property, was killed.
most extraordinary incident in
connection with the disaster was the
of Mrs. Geo. P. McNear,a
passenger, about a mile and Il half
from the scene of the explosion. She
was standing in the mud, still alive,
but unconscious. 1t is presumed she
through the mud and
weeds for that distance in search Of
relief. She was Immediately re-
moved to Lakeville but died in a few
minutes after arrival. She was a
niece of G. w. McNear, grain mer-
chant of this city.
a New Telegraph Go.
New YORK, May 25.-Certificates
incorporation of the Southwestern
and Telephone Go. have
oeen filed. The line of the new
company to run between Saratoga
and Albany New York, across tie
country southwesterly to Galveston,
md western Texas; also to pass
through Little Rock. Ark. The cap
tai stock is fixed at $4,000, eco, divi-
led in 1000 shares.
The Iron Workers Strike.
CHICAGO, May 25.-From inter
views with leading iron mel Of this