STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION,

LOSS OF LIFE.
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On Tuesday, about half past three o.
clock, the steam tow boat Paul jones,
Capt. Thomas Moffit, while on her pas
sage from llavre de Grace to Baltimore,
was blown up near North Point, by an
explosion Of her larboard boiler, and rem
dered perfect wreck; so much so that
she sunk, in eighteen feet water, in about
twenty minutes after the occurrence By
the explosion four persons lost their
lives, to wit: John Parsons, engineer; he
belonged TO Baltimore, and leaves a wife
and three children; George Gill, white
fireman; he belonged to Northumberland
county, Va; boy, about twelve years
Of age. whose name is said to be MiIlick,
from Bloomsburg, Pa, on the North west
branch of the Susquehanna, and black
man, fireman, whose name we could
not learn, belonging to this cit. .--BaIt.
Sun,