New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-29
H,ryING or qHE 84GUENAT.
NARROW ESCAPE or PASSENGERS
INDIFFERENCE OF THE CONPANl-A BOSTON MAN
STORY.

lBl TrLTGR>TI To THE TEiGUNE.l
BO>roN. Sept. 2S-A brief dispatch on Thurs
av announced the burning of the steamer Sagcnay on
Wednesday night on the II Lawrence Eiycr a Boston
man who ya- ou board tel. the following story OF lis
experience:
Tho steamer is one Of several which on cNcur-
sion trips from Quebec to the head Of navigation on the
Saglcnay River and return. ON Tuesday the u'p-wa~
BEGUN from Quebec with about ciehty passengers, i'm
clluy ci-h ten Boston people. The end of r route
was reached and a portion of the return trip made,
when the boat tied mp at Murray Bay,
near the junction Of The Slgucnay and s. Lawrence
Rivers ON Wc,luc day night Later native discovered
thi, the upper portion of the boat fire" IIc
aroused the men, who below at supper, and also
woke mn the plr-cr who had retired about five minutes
before and the passengers aroused the flames, at
that time covering the entire saloon deck All persons
forward of the engine able 10 pass easily ashore but
some LETT all their UilIablc7 behind, and others
were only half clad. There we've, however,
twcl,c passengers I'm the after part of
the steamer. Including several people from Boston and
three from Baltimore. who found their way completely
barred by the nIuc- which were rapidly spreading
whence thcy were compelled by the heat 10 descend to
the lower deck Here they found quantity oI lumber
and each of the party took plank To Use ~ cplc
.rrvcr Thcy shouted some from the wharf to
take them oir The deck above thcm Na- ihcir only
protection from the lrGs' winch every monchi were
omus nearer while the river beneath was Swiii ana
cold They could scc "rd near people on inr "tII' nu
none came ib illflI rI'I'l' Nl.'' " ''''','-
r horror ofhc situation added 10 hY the discovery
that the boat had been cat adt and they were going
down stream They Ncrc about 10 take thcr chances m
the water when they the purt"r coming aiicr mem
in boat in which they "'rc finally laN'h ashore
the deck failing In on the Pmcc whore
they had been standing less imam h'o minutes
after they had LEFT H.
# appeared that the captain bad ordered the blnt cut
ndriit To- save The Whuf, Wlich wa Government prop
crty. from dc.tnctiou. lhr P +rntr. found shelter ~
tho local hotel and Nh, nrehhorug dwellings, where i'\
,,rrc obliged to stay until FRIDAY morning Ihc company
a., tnat ttur had sent steamer from quebec Tor lhcm
bat % refused 10 pay any o t' "t, bIl- contracted or
t do AN, fn toward the rrtDf Of inc unI' luhdt' pc"
Die Who had lost money aud clothing
ON the steamer. ON arrival At Pnr"c' me
p1.acueorA found that not one 0I me l'rklHuif
,,bch fhrv lad sent inform Their friends ol icF
,,frty had been forwarded beyond that ety.
Gentleman from Sew YORK, who lp-i al ll' money
bc had with him. offered {" give valuable god Wat'h
and chain to the steamboat people a. security l"i u
small loan with which t0 reach oi huI lh'> '""l III
f,rr1,d hu that thcg moi doing lhii '"il "l p-l
nos. Ilc managed to reach Montreal, ana Ii"ih lhA
pou, he tclcgtaphcd home Tor itud-