The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-12
Lit Proves a Fatal Name for a
River Steamer.
She Is Blown to Atoms and Many
Lives are Lost.
Full Details of Tuesdays Terrible
and Fatal Disaster.

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signed as yet for the exp osiOn last even
ing of the boiler of the river steamer La
Mascottc, which caused such a great loss
of life The boat is said to have been
steaming along under 80 pounds of
steam, the usual AMOUNT when
the explosion suddenly occurred,
blowing the fire il. every direction. The
utmost confusion prevailed, the pilot TAX
ing advantage of her Roadway, turned her
tows I'd the shore, but the flames caused
him to abandon his post before the stage
plank could be lowered and the current
! turned the boats bow out into the river.
Her stern hung close to the bank
which offered a means of escape for
those who were at that end of the boat.
The stage plank was lowered and msny
were placed on it, mostly women and
children, who would have been saved had
not the smoke stack fell squarely across it.
and all who were not killed by it, were
drowned. The boat drifted two hundred
yards out into the river and across to the
Illinois shore, where she sunk.
The wreck of the La Mascotte
resulted from the collapse of one
of the boiler Aues. The explosion
,pent its force directly backward into the
tabOuts suffered from being scalded by the
escaping steam. Eleven Of the latter were
so horribly burned that huge scales of flesh
peeled from their bodies. Six of them
died their names are
G o. Haywood, Nashville, Tenn.
Marshall Haden, Walnut Hills.
Jack Finnegan, st. Louis.
Thomas Lody, st. Louis.
VIM. Jones, st. Louis.
j. Henry Gordsn, Evansville
The following deck hand were so Sc
riously burned that their lives are despair
ed of {:
VIM. Davis and Albert Rice, Cape Gil
rardeau.
Levi Chatham, Paducah, KY.
VIM. Spartsell, Evansville.
Dallas Webster, Evansville.
The others who are known to have been
drowned are:
Mrs. VIM. Wheeling and her three young
daughters, of Cape Girardeau.
Judge VIM. Hogan, of Cape Girardeau.
young man; name unknown.
Mrs. Amelia Kruger, Cape Girardeau.
j. Rey Perkins, Evansville, first clerk of
the La Mascotte.
Miss Julia Robesche, of Cape Girar-
deau.
The head engineer of the La Mascotte
and Mac. Speerer, a deck hand, and two
Lew ID. Adams, second mate
A lady and two children, supposed to be
Mrs. Burns and her daughters, of Mexico,
Mo.
ID. s. Davidson.
1t is thought some were drowned or
killed whose bodies have not been recov-
red.
Te!egraphs late tonight from Cape Girar-
ieau say nothing new has developed to-
lay in regard to the explosion of the La
uascOtte, and no other bodies have been
ound as yet. One of the missing, John
MILLER, reached here this morning in a
kiff from Nicely Landing, and says that
apt. Ebaugh positively refused to allow
lim to come down here on the Eagle
his morning so as to get here before his
rife and children were buried. Captain
1baugh's excuse was that it was against
ne law. Captain w. II. Cropster, of the
ght house boat, Ivy, arrived here this
forming and offered the boats assistance
2 rescuing the dead from the wreck,
lille his offer was highly appreciated by
ne people in contrast to Capt Ebaugh's
purse 1T was not accepted as a number of
Iitfs were already on the ground and
Ding everything that could be done.
rom interviews with rescued passengers
seems there is no hope for missing
assengers being found alive.
ne wreck is now lying just below Will
rd's Landing, little of her Rowland
veral feet OF her wheel showing. Skifs
turning from the scene of the wreck
is evening report no indication of any
'dies; notwithstanding this fact
ey have searched both shores Deputy
9roner Poar is holding an inquest over
the bodies so far recovered and has had
e crews of the LaMascotte and Eagle tes-
wing. Captain Ebaugh claims he did all
his power to save persons at the
eek. The inquest will probably
concluded tomorrow. Captain Thomp-
n has entered a protest on the loss of his
at.
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