The New Hampshire Gazette And Republican Union

Explosion of the Troy.

An extra from the office of the Daily Republic, at Buffalo, dated on Sunday, at 3 o'clock, gives full particulars of a dreadful accident at Buffalo. It says:

The steamer Troy, from Sandusky and other ports Lake Erie, attempted, at half past two o'clock this afternoon, to enter our harbor, but being obliged to desist, by the strength of the ice, steered to Black Rock, to land her passengers.

When just entering Niagara river, off the head of Black Rock pier, her boiler exploded, with a terrible report, which must have been heard for miles, blowing a part of her upper machinery and sundry of her passengers, the most of whom were gathered upon her upper deck, overboard.

It is not possible to know how many are scalded of the passengers, as all who could help themselves left the boat as soon as she was moored along side the dock. Some came up to the city, and others sought the nearest shelter they could find, where they could get aid and assistance.

Of the number lost overboard, nothing certain can be ascertained. Gentlemen who witnessed the explosion from the shore, say that they saw a number in the water. The deck immediately over the boilers, was filled with passengers, and many must have fallen into the water. Only five that we can learn, were rescued.

The whole number of dead as ascertained, is,
Passengers, 5
Crew, 6
Total, 11
Some of the names of the dead are Dr. Rial Wright, of Syracuse; L. L. Post, first engineer; Andrew Martin; Thomas Gant, fireman; Wm. Worthington, deck hand; John Buckley, do. Three ladies were seen from the shore to drown, names not known.

The badly scalded were: Zuman Harris, Daniel Bourckly, George Leland, Daniel Kennedy, Patrick O'Herron, Thomas Evans, Michael Luman.

There are six at the Rock lying in houses under the charge of Dr. Stephenson, all of whom are badly scalded, and one or two of them fatally so.

A German from Syracuse, by the name of Sieland, had three sons with him on board the Troy. One of them was scalded to death, one killed, and the other is now lying in great pain, having been badly scalded on the face and hands.

How many others shared the fate of Mr. Wright will never be known, as there is no probability of recovering the bodies, the current being swift and filled with floating ice from the lake. The bodies with the ice will find their way over the falls.