DREADFUL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION AT RIo.-The
editor OF the Baltimore Patriot has been favored
with the following letter, dated
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DREADFUL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION AT RIo.-The
editor OF the Baltimore Patriot has been favored
with the following letter, dated


Rio DE JANEIRo, May %, 1874.


hasten to inform YOU OF melancholy accident
which happened in this place Saturday last
This CITY was thrown into great excitement on Sa-
turddy last, by an occurrence which has clothed
large number OF Its inhabitants In mourning, and
crea ed gloom over the whole city. On the op
posiie side Of the harbor, and distant about four
miles, is village which numbers about three thou
sand inhabitants, and where a number OF the mosl
respected inhabitants reside, Ms being more retired
than in The bustle Of Rio. Two small seamboa
ply every hour during The day between the two pla-
crs, so that the number of passengers is large,
pecially upon hoydays for recreation. Saturday
one Of these days, and at O'Clock in the al
the wharf OF the CITY, and the boat had just push
I'd from her moOrlngs when the boiler burst with
most awful explosion. A friend Ut mine, who was
present, represents the scene as The most heart rend
ing that the imagination can conceive. The boai
was complete wreck-aBd amidst the shreks OF
the wounded, the cries of the drowning, and the
CONFUSION OF the moment, the most cal0us hear
would have melted into tenderness The mutilat
ed remains were gathered as soon possible, and
removed TO a neIghborng hospital-some with the
loss of a llmb-some dreadfully scalded and upon
numbering them, II was found there were ttgnty-
six wounded in the house beside those removed TO
ed to have been kill d, and several persons are mis-
sing yet. Seven or eight have died since, and
am informed there are as many as twenty who are
prone unced lncurabe, and will probably llnger IN
agony for several days. The number OF wounded
who still living, far RS ascertaned, is about
sixty.fve. This is the first accident OF the kind
which has ever occurred here, and has caused great
excitement. All places Of public amusement were
closed, and have not since been opened. Had the
accident occurred one hour earlier, should proba-
bly, have been spared this narrative, and our fami.
ly circle reduced one in its number, as l am resid-
los on the opposite side and passed over in. the
o'clock boat. IL will take some time for the .cltl-
zens generally to recover from the shock-and
many, very many families. will, for years, iee ITS
awful effects IN the deprivation OF relatives and
tizen among either the killed or wounded, but seve-
raj EngIishmen are, and two very respected cti-
zsus have not since been heard Of Yesterday one
gentleman, Brazilian officer, was picked up in
SAID enough upon this melancholy topic.