The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger

Steamboat Disaster. -Another of those terrible disasters, which startle for a moment, and then pass off among the things cast into oblivion, happened on Tuesday last. The steamer Glide, Capt. Muse, left port on that morning for Red River, and when at the Valcour Aima plantation, about fifty miles above the city, her boilers exploded, causing the death of several persons, and seriously injuring fifty or sixty others. The scene at the Charity Hospital, when the wounded were brought in, is said to have been heart-rending. It is supposed the concussion of running aground caused the disaster. The strictest inquiry should be made into the cause of this deplorable accident, and if the catastrophe can be traced to imperfect, worn-out machinery, or negligent or incompetent management, those in fault should be held to the severest accountability. We give some particulars, taken from the daily papers: Among the passengers who were badly scalded was Brevet Major M. R. Marston, of the 1st U. S. Infantry. One passenger, named Hindman, saved his trunk, said to have contained a quantity of gold, and went up on the Blackford. Two of the family of ex-Gov. Wells were on board the Glide, a son and nephew, both slightly injured. The boiling water is described as running all over the boat, the crew and passengers meantime having to run through it, screaming with pain, and others dying in the hot fluid. The wreck of the Glide finally sunk at Joseph Leborgois's, left bank of the river, at the lower line of St. James parish. The safe is supposed to be in the wreck: and to have contained considerably over $20,000, of which $10,000 belonged to Mr. Hyman, a merchant somewhere on Red River, who escaped uninjured, and saved Dr. Chopin, of Cloutierville, by carrying him in his arms and sliding with him on a fender to the lower deck of the Glide, whence both were saved by the Powell. Mr. Hyman also saved considerable money which he had about his person.