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Domestic News
June 3, 1861
The Shreveport Weekly News
Shreveport, Caddo County, Louisiana
What is this article about?
Steamer Kentucky's mud receiver exploded near Columbus, Arkansas, on a Sunday morning, killing 22 people and injuring 5 due to steam and boiling water flooding the cabin.
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Explosion of the Kentucky,
The following full particulars of this sad catastrophe, we clip from a Vicksburg exchange:
Sunday morning about daylight, just as she was leaving the landing at Columbus, Ark., the mud receiver of the steamer Kentucky exploded, tearing a hole in the cabin floor about four feet long and three feet wide, filling the cabin with steam, killing 22 persons and injuring five. When the explosion took place, a jet of boiling water was thrown up, pouring into the cabin, and flooding everything. The first impulse of the passengers was to open their state room doors, consequently they inhaled the steam and perished. Had they run out upon the guards they would probably all have been saved. Mr. Richardson of Brandon, was the only male cabin passenger saved, and a letter from him, giving a list of the killed and wounded will be found below.
Some passengers were literally cooked to death, and left the bottoms of their feet in the cabin, others left the skin of their hands and feet on the posts they climbed down by the lower deck.
The boiler had been recently tested and stood a hydrostatic pressure of 200 lbs to the square inch. No blame whatever can be attached to the officers of the boat.
The following is a list of the killed:
--Eddings, negro trader, from Tennessee; S. Storm, Lake Bolivar Miss., Benj. Little, Shelbyville, Tenn., P McGuire, Bolivar county, Miss.;----Little, Shelbyville, Tenn; Thomas M Evans, Pecan grove; Charley Evans, Jackson, Miss.; W B Lamb, Cloverport, Ky; Jas Cable, Egg's Point; J G Ebing, Fayette, Tenn; M Daley, Greenville, Miss; Dr. Talbot, do; M Loening, Rodney, Miss; Thos S Redd, Spithwith's Landing, Miss; Jas Petty, first clerk Memphis; Byron M Cuin, second clerk, Vicksburg Henry Wickledge, barkeeper; Mrs Levine, chambermaid Eugeno Brogan, porter;---Smith cabin boy; two negro boys belonging to Capt Lee--Total 22.
The following persons were injured:
Wm H Rice, Jackson, Miss., badly scalded; Thos Fitzgerald, Memphis, slightly scalded; J B Saundusky, Bridgeport, Va., slightly; Sol Harris, cabin boy, slightly; Wm Watson, cabin boy, badly.--Total scalded 5.
Several others are dead, and some slightly scalded, but we were not able to learn their names.
The following full particulars of this sad catastrophe, we clip from a Vicksburg exchange:
Sunday morning about daylight, just as she was leaving the landing at Columbus, Ark., the mud receiver of the steamer Kentucky exploded, tearing a hole in the cabin floor about four feet long and three feet wide, filling the cabin with steam, killing 22 persons and injuring five. When the explosion took place, a jet of boiling water was thrown up, pouring into the cabin, and flooding everything. The first impulse of the passengers was to open their state room doors, consequently they inhaled the steam and perished. Had they run out upon the guards they would probably all have been saved. Mr. Richardson of Brandon, was the only male cabin passenger saved, and a letter from him, giving a list of the killed and wounded will be found below.
Some passengers were literally cooked to death, and left the bottoms of their feet in the cabin, others left the skin of their hands and feet on the posts they climbed down by the lower deck.
The boiler had been recently tested and stood a hydrostatic pressure of 200 lbs to the square inch. No blame whatever can be attached to the officers of the boat.
The following is a list of the killed:
--Eddings, negro trader, from Tennessee; S. Storm, Lake Bolivar Miss., Benj. Little, Shelbyville, Tenn., P McGuire, Bolivar county, Miss.;----Little, Shelbyville, Tenn; Thomas M Evans, Pecan grove; Charley Evans, Jackson, Miss.; W B Lamb, Cloverport, Ky; Jas Cable, Egg's Point; J G Ebing, Fayette, Tenn; M Daley, Greenville, Miss; Dr. Talbot, do; M Loening, Rodney, Miss; Thos S Redd, Spithwith's Landing, Miss; Jas Petty, first clerk Memphis; Byron M Cuin, second clerk, Vicksburg Henry Wickledge, barkeeper; Mrs Levine, chambermaid Eugeno Brogan, porter;---Smith cabin boy; two negro boys belonging to Capt Lee--Total 22.
The following persons were injured:
Wm H Rice, Jackson, Miss., badly scalded; Thos Fitzgerald, Memphis, slightly scalded; J B Saundusky, Bridgeport, Va., slightly; Sol Harris, cabin boy, slightly; Wm Watson, cabin boy, badly.--Total scalded 5.
Several others are dead, and some slightly scalded, but we were not able to learn their names.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Shipping
Accident
What keywords are associated?
Steamer Explosion
Kentucky
Columbus Arkansas
Boiler Explosion
River Disaster
Passenger Deaths
What entities or persons were involved?
Eddings
S. Storm
Benj. Little
P Mcguire
Little
Thomas M Evans
Charley Evans
W B Lamb
Jas Cable
J G Ebing
M Daley
Dr. Talbot
M Loening
Thos S Redd
Jas Petty
Byron M Cuin
Henry Wickledge
Mrs Levine
Eugeno Brogan
Smith
Two Negro Boys Belonging To Capt Lee
Wm H Rice
Thos Fitzgerald
J B Saundusky
Sol Harris
Wm Watson
Mr. Richardson
Capt Lee
Where did it happen?
Columbus, Ark.
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Columbus, Ark.
Event Date
Sunday Morning About Daylight
Key Persons
Eddings
S. Storm
Benj. Little
P Mcguire
Little
Thomas M Evans
Charley Evans
W B Lamb
Jas Cable
J G Ebing
M Daley
Dr. Talbot
M Loening
Thos S Redd
Jas Petty
Byron M Cuin
Henry Wickledge
Mrs Levine
Eugeno Brogan
Smith
Two Negro Boys Belonging To Capt Lee
Wm H Rice
Thos Fitzgerald
J B Saundusky
Sol Harris
Wm Watson
Mr. Richardson
Capt Lee
Outcome
22 killed, 5 injured by scalding; several others dead but unnamed; vessel damaged but no blame on officers.
Event Details
The mud receiver of the steamer Kentucky exploded just as it was leaving the landing at Columbus, Ark., tearing a hole in the cabin floor, filling it with steam and boiling water, leading to deaths from inhalation and scalding.