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Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 53, 4 March 1846, Page 4

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Steam.doat LxPtosiON.-An awful steamboat wploMon occurred at New Orleans; k 3 dee cnbed.by those who saw it immediately after tie S'e U f ß tTf r,t, I' Waß I—trending! pieces of the wrtck were thrown, with human bod.es, ,nto the air, and U i.nmenee L an ce S Hie boat was literally blowa to atoms, 'ft ?Tu i wd upper wotke from the w heel homee forwJS

uiv all g'inf, and when wv. saw tin) wreck, the aff 6t 3 enbin wus uniting, the Water being jj the suite rooms. 'I - ? H The number of persons stiiiUmjj on the boiU II deck is vmiously estimated nt from tea tj ■ mnon" whom were several ea>in pajsengm. ffl were ail bbwu to the height of 150 or 2JO.f eet jj jj the air, .some- with their limbs rent asunder, an ,i jj all of them (dllins Into the river, without' exhibl, ■ tine; any signs of life, and eiuking to the buttom ■ instantly. The clerk and bar keeper were in tlielf W rooms, which were bbwn overboard, and their ■ hoilies have not yet been louul. jj The numbi-r oi deck passengers and of the C re>v ij killed, wounded, and nns.inu;, is, a< near aa we caft jj ascertain, between twenty-five and. thirty. Tli c B scene present d on the lower deck was one of tlio ® most heartrending description. In one plu Ct . l ay a W body with the head severed from it; another witH S both legs torn < ff above the knees ; some (vi.j, m frightful wounds and gashes upon their heads and R limbs—others without scarcely a panicle of 6 kin tf upon their bodies, from the effects of the s,tea m I? and scalding water. A lad of some fifteen years H of age was thrown upon the Levee with both Ug a p? broken, and badly scalded. How many lives hav c %" been Lst by this sad accident b not known— -in'; deed it can never be accurately ascertained, a s fl several who were going as passengers had notregij. X tered their names, and it is feared that m my of X the dack passengers are lost. Tne ladies and chil. lf§ dren in the cabin were all saved, and escaped inju; §p ry, except a sm;ill girl, who, we learn, was scalded '^ but not mortally. ' |1