The New Hampshire Gazette

St. Louis, Oct. 2. Dreadful Calamity.—The steamboat Fairy Queen arrived at this port last evening, brings most melancholy intelligence from the steamboat Banner. —This boat burst her boiler near a place called the Devil's Island, on Tuesday last, by which accident five persons lost their lives, and thirteen others were wounded.

The bow of the boat, a letter states, was very much shattered—every thing torn away—the boiler deck gone, and the boiler which burst overboard. It was with difficulty that the boat was kept from sinking, and equally hard to keep her from burning up. She was at last got ashore, and a short time afterwards the Fairy Queen came up, rendered her all the assistance in her power, took on board all the passengers, landed the wounded at Cape Girardeau and brought the others to this port. We understand that the Banner stopped her engine for a moment only, to repair some part of it; she again started, and the fatal accident happened.