Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1906 — River Steamer Blows Up. [ARTICLE]

River Steamer Blows Up.

Vicksburg, Mlse., Dec. 20.—Twelve persons were killed ana n number injured when the steamer W. T. Scovll, plying: In the Vicksburg and Davis Bend trade, was destroyed by an explosion seventeen miles south of here at 11 o’clock In the morning. The names of white people killed are: John Quackenboss, captain of the Scovll, Vicksburg, Miss.; Wade Quackenboss, clerk, son of Captain Quackenboss; Lavell Verger, cotton seed salesman, Jackson, Miss; Joseph Smith, clerk, Yazoo City, Miss. Advertise in The Demoorat.