Show Mrs Henry Banks Acconnt NDWOKLEANS O2t > 4 A number of survivors ofhe Corona disaster reached the city to day Mrs Henry Blanks says I was standing with my sister and youngest child i my arms In the rear of the boats cabin when the explosion occurred oc-curred The chambermaid came running to us with a life preserver which we fastened on William Fleming the pastry man then uspa came amri to us 1 told usth to get up on the hurricane roof until he could get a life boat down which he aid in a hurry We then got Into the yawl and hardly had we been seated when the boat was swamped throwing us all ito the river With my three yearold child t one arm I held on to the wreckage until one ot the St Louis boats came and saved us Of my sister Mrs Huff m r Uul who is a widow I saw no mare titter our boat capsized captain Sweeney stated that the whole thing came on so suddenly that he hardly had time to see anything Captain Blanks who was sitting in the barber chair was hurled through the cabin ge instantly killed Others in the cabin were struck by flying fjmbers among whom was Shrimp Hanna who Was sitting near the clerks olllce The explosion seemed toga downward and the full foree was In the rear part of the boat Those that were not killed outright by flying tImber wertrpinned down and scalded to death Captain Sweeney said that when the explosion took place he was on the forecastle and there escaped the heavy timbers which were flying around He was picked up by the yawl of the City of St Louis |