New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

St. Louis, Mo., April 17, 1834

Dreadful Accident. By an arrival from Upper Mississippi, we learn that the Steamboat St. Louis, bound for Galena, collapsed one of her boilers on the 12th inst., by which twelve or fourteen persons were either killed or seriously wounded.—The accident happened while endeavoring to pass the Des Moines Rapids. We understand that the stern of the boat struck upon a rock and careened her over—the water in the boilers of course running to the lower side. In this situation the boat remained for twenty minutes or half an hour, when she righted, and the sudden return of the water into the boiler produced an instantaneous explosion. The names of the sufferers, as far as we have been enabled to gather them, are— Perkins, the engineer, killed; Miss Moore, blown overboard and lost; Mrs Moore and son, dangerously scalded, and three other children killed: Mrs Tucker, from Mill Creek, Illinois, badly scalded; Isaac Mars, dying when the account left; three Germans dangerously scalded, and three other persons slightly injured. The St. Louis was chartered for the trip from New Orleans to Galena.—Republican.