Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-08-18

The Steamer Annie FaxOn
Blown Up Near AlmOta
Monday Morning.
EIGHT KILLED OUTRIGHT.
List Of the Killed and Injured
Incidents Of the Explosion.

LEWISTON, Aug. 14.-The steam
er, Annie Faxon, which left here
at 8 o'clock this morning, blew ur
about four miles below Almota
Some 'twenty-three or more, inclu.
ding passengers, were on board
Eight were killed outright, and all
Others badly wounded and scalded
except Brown, the engineer, who
was uninjured. All are expected to
die, except Harry Baughman and
Roger Morrissey. Capt. Baughman
was in Pierce City and has been
sent for. The boat was blown all
to pieces. The following list OF
casualties has been received:
THE KILLED.
Joe Bush, resident of Lewis
ton, where he has wife and four
children.
Tom Mcintosh, who was stand
ing by Captain Baughman in the
pilot house at the time of the ex-
plosion. His head was split open.
The bodies of the above two have
been recovered.
Mrs. Patton, the two-months'
bride of Purser Patton, undoubted-
ly lost, only her hat having been
recovered.
George Farwell, waiter on the
boat and instructor of the Lewis
ton juvenile band.
Paul Allen, deck hand, former
ly employed about the Hotel de
France at Lewiston.
Will; m Kidd, deck hand and
resident OF Lewiston.
j. Mcintosh, prospector, broth
er of the aforementioned Tom
Mcintosh.
Fireman Burke.
These bodies are all in the river
and not yet regained.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Sage Aiken, assistant engineer,
Lewiston.
jake Moritz, steward, badly
scalded.
William Mohl, a survivor of the
two recent tragedies on Snake riv-
er.
An unknown passenger, who
took the boat at Almota.
Z. Lawton, a passenger, thigh
bone broken.
Roger Morrissey, escaped with a
broken rib.
Captain Baughman is slightly
scalded.
The Chinese cook and two Chin
ese employees were wounded.
Purser Patton, Engineer Brown,
Night Watchman Dick Hall. John
Aiken, l. c. Sargeant, John Storm
and Jim Burke are reported COM
paratively uninjured.
The FaxOn was a hat-bottomed
boat, stern wheeler and three-deck-
er, 100 feet long by 16 feet beam.
She was making a landing at the
White bar, five miles below Almo-
ia, at 7:30 in the morning, when
the explosion occurred. She was
80 feet from the shore, and Harry
Baughman was blown through the
air that distance and landed on
the beach insensible. The cause of
the wreck is unknown, as the boil
er was cleaned out at Lewiston
Sunday and was apparently in
good order. Only four cords of
wood are used on the down trip,
and forty cords on the up trip, and
there must have been some serious
defect to cause an explosion under
such light pressure.
The survivors tell some harrow
ing tales of the suffering and strug-
Cling they saw in the water. The
injured were taken to Walla Wal
la. The inquest was to be held by
the coroner of Garfield county, in
whose jurisdiction the fatality .oc-
Cured.
On receipt of the news in Lewis
ton a boatload of people started
down the river to the scene of the
accident and rendered valuable as
sistance to the sufferers. 1t was
only last Thanksgiving day that
three Lewiston boys were drowned
in the treacherous Snake, and now
again the town is filled with fare
wells to the dying and the dead.