EXPLOSION OF THE TUSCALOOSA.

The steamer Tuscaloosa left the wharf at Mobile, Ala., about 5 o’clock on Thursday evenS ing, January 29th, 1847, on her way to Tuscaloosa city, the capital of Alabama; and when she had proceeded ten miles up the river two of her boilers burned, by which accident a number of her passengers and crew were killed arid wounded, The explosion completely tore up the boiler-deck, and shattered the after-part of the boat below deck considerably. Immediately after the explosion, the steamer drifted nenr the shore and grounded, her stern projecting to­wards the centre of the river. A line was made fast on shore, and an attempt was made, by pulling in the stern, to effect a lauding for the passengers, but the boat was fixed too firmly in the bed of the river to be moved in this manner. The ladies were then lowered by a rope to the lower deck, and from thence were sent ashore in the yawl. All of them escaped unhurt.

Those of the male passengers who were uninjured saved themselves, and many of the wounded likewise, by constructing a raft of loose planks, on which they reached the shore in safety; but when they arrived at the banks they found it impossible to obtain a dry footing, as the river bad overflowed its customary bounds to the depth of several inches, which, as the weather was exceedingly cold, made the landing (if it might be called so) very uncomfort­able. In this state of things the male passengers climbed trees, where they remained spec­tators of tIme burning wreck for about three hours, when the steamer James Hewitt hove in sight, and on coming near the wreck, sent her yawl to the assistance of the survivors, who were all taken on board and conveyed hack to Mobile. The dead body of Lieut. lags, one of tIme passengers of the Tuscaloosa, was also taken up by the James Hewitt.

LIST OF KILLED-Wm. Tanneyb ill, C. Childs, and P. F. Beasley, of Eutaw; W. R. Has­sell, rif Greenborough; B. Psrtier, second clerk; Thomas Clark, first mate; Arthur McCoy, second engineer; Abraham Flynn, volunteer for the U. S. Army in Mexico, from Green Co., Ala., and several colored deck hands.

BADLY WOUNDED-Capt. E. P Oliver, not expected to recover; George Kirk, first clerk, and acting Captain of the Tuscaloosa; Col. Wm. Armistead, and Capt. Asa White, of Eutaw. The last named gentleman was very badly scalded.

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(source: Lloyd's Steamboat Directory from 1856)