The New Hampshire Gazette

Another Steam-Boat Disaster.—The Editors of the Buffalo Journal have transmitted to their New-York correspondents the following account of a terrible disaster which occurred there on the morning of the 17th ult.;—

The steam-boat William Peacock left this port at 9 o'clock, for Detroit, and when about four miles outside the light-house, a joint in the pipe, which conveys steam from the boilers to the cylinder, gave way, which instantly discharged the entire head of steam into a steerage cabin, which is upon deck. The apartment was thronged with steerage passengers, mostly women and children, and the scene which ensued is not to be described.

As the boat had just left port, the names of the passengers, generally, had not been entered: and no perfect list of the sufferers, therefore, can, at this time, be made. The following persons, or their families, are among the sufferers, viz:

Mr. Isaac Palmer, of Dover, Windham county, Vermont—four children scalded, two are already dead, the third dangerous, and the fourth slightly injured. Mr. William Johnson, of the same place—one child dead, wife and one child dangerous. Mr. John Parker, of York, Livingston county, N. Y.—three children dangerously scalded. Mr. E. Davitz, a Swiss Emigrant—wife and daughter dangerous, himself not dangerous. This is all we can learn of names, with certainty, though the disaster is known to be more extensive.

Two infant children were found dead, that have not yet been recognized, nor can their parents be found. Several passengers are confident that one man and one woman jumped overboard, the latter dreadfully scalded, and it is not improbable that the little sufferers were hers. We have delayed writing until the mail is about to be closed, that we might collect as many particulars as possible—well knowing the anxiety that would be felt by friends, and the great uncertainty that usually attaches to flying rumors of a disaster like this.