Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1869 — Loss of the Steamer Stonewall. [ARTICLE]

Loss of the Steamer Stonewall.

steamer Stonewall wm burnt ri® the Murimrippi below St Louis, fi* Thursday evening last There prere sosne two hundred tad fifty jMTSMMm* based, ®f whom about £wo budnod were foot Some were bunt, but the greater part perished * the water, either by drowning or from the intensity of the cold. The steamer had but one small yawl boat on board. It was capable of earrying only from seven to ten persons ashore at a tune. It is reported that there were no life preservers on the steamer, and no way prepared, in ease of accident, to save the lives of any.— The captain and most of tfio crew •re among the lost We wish toeall attention to these frets: 71m navigation of our rivers ■sd great lakes which lie along the bardew oft different States, is clearr«<®late the commerce, navigation “P 0 * th eae great publte *• |jj"* pasoengers and as far Rwa aefr boats and safe maehinto tnnfrk a proper number of small boots, and have one of the create control each boot m case of incident. Compel every ship owner to keep a full supply of life preservers •ww * vaci 0 to mra from end how to ass them if aaedM» m the Stonewall, fflftTr dembustihio freight, have it from sparks of fro from mato& and all the light, op eh|» heard, and taMpri them to do whatever eftae may be Moomory for safely. Here is a good field for our conCtofi ■Psolnw'dl w* hope he and others will Cake hold f>t the matter. Let theyjj ba ao

Maw or inauffiutency in the taw. We I tamwhMMeM who wfll tea to it that the taws on this as on other matters will be enforced. Every man travels some. In the comm of hi. lifo or hm ftieud. wh» do, and it is for the inferest of sD that ofososs bo appointed at ovary port with full power and authority to act in all cases of this tort, and to adopt a system of measures, under the sanction of Congress, to insure safety of transportation to life and property. There was a great loss of property on the Stonewall, but tbe low of life is so appalling that the property is hardly to be thought of la connexion with it.