Alexandria Gazette

TERRIBLE DISASTER.
We are pained to record another sad disaster, attended with serious loss of life, in our waters. At about 12 o'clock yesterday, the towboat Phoenix, Capt. Annable, having in tow the ship Flavius, from Liverpool, burst three of her boilers, when just below Carrollton, scalding and otherwise injuring nearly every person on board. There were twenty-one persons on the Phoenix, of whom three men, named Charles Davis, an Irishman, John, a Portuguese, and George, an American, were instantly knocked overboard and drowned. John Clarke, the Pilot of the Phoenix, severely scalded, and not expected to live. James Skinner, Second Engineer, is also dangerously scalded, with but little hope of his recovery. In addition to the above, five firemen, names unknown, were scalded, one of whom died last evening. The Captain of the Flavius was slightly bruised by a plank hurled against him, but Captain Annable escaped unhurt. -N. O. Tropic.