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Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and
Disasters on the Western Waters - 1856


  [252]                     EXPLOSION OF THE VIRGINIA
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        On Saturday, March 31, 1849, at 5 o'clock, P.M., the steamer
    VIRGINIA, plying as a daily packet between Wheeling, Va., and Steuben-
    ville, Ohio, was torn into pieces and sunk by the explosion of her
    boilers, at Rush Creek, ten miles above Wheeling.  Eight or ten lives
    were lost, and about fourteen persons were wounded.  The explosion took
    place when the boat was about to land a passenger, Mr. ROE, who was
    killed.  As almost the whole upper part of the boat was reduced to
    fragments, and the hull sank immediately, there can be no doubt that
    all of the crew and passengers who were missing, perished in the wreck.

        LIST OF KILLED. - Mr. ROE, Rush Creek; the chambermaid of the boat;
    WILLIAM EBERT, Wheeling, Va.; a colored fireman, and eight or ten
    others, names unknown.

        BADLY WOUNDED. - Mr. BOLES and lady, Steubenville, Ohio;
    Mr. COLLINS, the pilot, one leg broken and otherwise badly injured;
    HENRY COMMONS, Birmingham, Alleghany county, Pa.; JOHN TAYLOR, first
    engineer, Wheeling, Va.; W. BARKER, St. Louis; W. ALTHOUSE, Wheeling;
    the carpenter of the boat; JAMES ZINK, a boy, and A. SNYDER (both legs
    torn off,) Wheeling; and Mr. ATCHISON, Steubenville.

        SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. - Mrs. E. COEN, Wheeling; Capt. DAWSON,

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  [253]                     EXPLOSION OF THE VIRGINIA
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    Richetown; Mr. BEATY, Steubenville; and Mr. BURGESS and lady, West
    Springfield, Ill.
        Mr. ROE, the passenger who was going on shore at the time of the
    explosion, was on the plank, and was cut in three pieces by fragments
    of the boiler.

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