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FRIeHTFUL STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF
| LIFE.-At o'clock yesterday afternoon, a dreadful
accident occurred on board the steamship Palmetto,
as she was leaving the first wharf below South
street, on an excursion to Gray's Ferry A plate got
loose, and fell out of the bottom of the boiler Just
the furnace, and the hot water pouring out in
stantly generated dense volume Of steam and gas
from contact with the furnace. One of the iremen
young man about IS years Of age, named Lewis
Flynn, was instantly killed by inhang the steam
He in the fre-room at the time and was in the
act of trying the depth of water in the boiler The
seersman, hearing of the accident ran down into
the room and found him perfectly dead, but as the
steam was too dense for him to remain more than o
minute, he was obliged to leave him there
The chief engineer, William Fraey, had his face,
neck and hand awfully scalded He belongs to
Jersey city, N. j., where he has a wife and chill


dren The second engineer, Richard Taylor, was
also severely scalded about the neck, breast and
arms. One of his hands was badly torn by some
of the machinery. He is young man, and is also
from Jersey city He was taken to the hospital
Lewis Flynn, the young man who was killed, was
married only few months ago, and has left his wife
in New York. One Of the iremen whose name we
could not learn, was slightly scaded about the chin
but his injuries were nothing of moment. The Pal
metto is New York steamer, and formerly piled
| between that port and Charleston, S. C. She is
| commanded by Capt. Christian Sands, formerly Of
this port. The Palmetto was one of the three
steamers chartered by the United States government
for the use of the Philadelphia Sentinel .aug
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