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i ne wnoicm i* increasing m Wew Urieani. From the Daily Xeict, [Erlra.]PARTIULARS OF TIIE EXPLOSION OF TUE STEADIER VIRGINIA.Steibknville, March 31st 1849. Messrs. May and Means—Dear Sirs:In compliance with your request, I furnish )ou w ith as corr ect n Htatument of facts as I could collect, relating to tho explosion of the Virginia” at Kush Kuo.Wo landed here pur Clipper No. 2,” at 8 o’clock1 Some of our wounded citizens hud passed us in tho Mount Vernon. Wo met our friends Drs. Wheeler and Woods of Wells burg and several medical gentleman from tho neighboring towns, ull busily engaged in performing acts of humanity and kindness.—Dr. Wheeler had just amputated the thigh of Oustcrhousc, and Dr. Woods had been engaged in sundry others, dressing nnd setting. What » horrible picture! In one of the bnck rooms ln two inen, Spencer and Leper, badly scalded and wounded and cither had a leg broken. Spencer died in two hours after our arrival. Ho was an Odd Fellow, and belonged, he told me, to a Lodge in Connecticut* He had 693 ubout him.In the stable lay the mangled body of a very large man, named Wm. Rowo, who was cut to pieces. His son Iny us stairs wounded in the bond and badly scalded. In the same room lay n man named Cummins, with a compound fracture of the right leg. Oustcrhouw appeared dying. All piteously moaning and in shocking distress. As every body knew everything, but nothing connected, wu repaired to tho bool register which was saved, to accurately ascertain the number uf persons on board at tho time of tho accident, but found the register imperfect, as the only names registered wcro tho following: D. llugent, unhurt.W. Rowe Sen’r., killed, badly mutilotcJ. Wells and Kelligi*r, missing.*J. R. Sturgeon, from St. Ciairivillc, dieJ soon after the explosion.
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Carroll Free Press
Carrollton, Ohio, US
Fri, Apr 06, 1849
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