Litchfield Enquirer

Steamboat explosion and loss of lives.—As the Canadian steamboat Lady of the Lake, Capt. Nickles, was leaving the Queen's wharf at Quebec, for Montreal, at 4 o'clock on the morning of Sunday the 7th inst. an explosion of one of the boilers took place; and the steam, forcing its way into a middle cabin, occupied by an emigrant family of three adults and five children, scalded them to such a degree that six of them died within 24 hours, and the survivors, (two infants, the one aged 2 years, and the other 7 weeks) were not expected to live.

The family were lately from Leith, Scotland, and consisted of Mr. William Ronaldson and Ellen his wife, each aged 29 years, Grace Purvis, a young servant woman aged 20 years, the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Ronaldson, one aged 6 years, another 4, and another 7 weeks, with an infant of the name of Moffat, aged 4 months.—The bodies were dreadfully scalded and could not be recognized. Mr. Ronaldson was a man of property, having a brother at Bytown on the Ottawa, and another at Philadelphia. N. Y. Courier.