On the night of Saturday, June 2d, 1832, the steamboat Hornet, Captain Sullivan, while ascending the Ohio river on her way to Kanawha, and when about thirty-three miles above Maysville, Kentucky, encountered a sudden and violent gale blowing from the southwest, and immediately capsized. Exclusive of the persons belonging to the boat, there were forty-two people on board, viz: twelve cabin and thirty deck passengers, nearly half of whom were drowned. The Hornet righted soon after the disaster, and was towed to the nearest port, Concord, by the steamboat G uyandotte, Captain Davis Embree.
Of the twenty persons drowned by this accident, all the names which have been preserved are comprised in the following list:
Thomas Duvall, of Muskingum, Ohio; Messrs. Le Clerc and Perot, two French gentlemen of New Orleans; Mrs. Garrett, of Greenupsburgh, Kentucky; Mr. Blackstone, of Guyandotte; Wm. H. Colbert, of Kingston; and two colored women, slaves belonging to passengers.
Of the boats crew, Captain Sullivan, master; John Johnston, pilot, of Gallipolis; Edward Jones, a sailor, of Cincinnati; a chambermaid and a female cook, both colored.