Show further particulars regarding the 41 sophie mclane explosion the steamer goliah returned frocil from Suisun tile the scene of tile the late sophie sophic mclane explosion this morning up to tile the time of the alic Goli alvs departure three men folger the pilot charles yates the second engineer and william lawler the porter had died front from the effects of their injuries ii jur jes nolson nelson donth sonth the watchman mcglellan McG lelIan a fireman and a boy are missing but whether blown overboard and drowned or whether their bodies are arc buried in the rubbish on oil board alie hull is unknown the Tho parties injured are captain hulburt goo geo R dingley Ding lcy john haskell john ast ilin ihn and john trainer mr ora crit gic the keeper of a public house near suisun had liis his leg dislocated in two places thomas oliver of suisun and a amr mr blum were seriously wounded capt was thrown lip in th 0 air fieten or t twenty t yards ards and I 1 full fell in the water I 1 his i injuries are said to to have resulted froni from the fall one alth of thes boilers was blown completely to atoms nothing being left of it on board the boat except the crown sheet about four feet square which lies in ill the bottom or of the hull liall tho the boat is a complete wreck tile the lower part of the lull hull lying in ill the mud and but a portion of the wheel holise and P rt of the forecastle remaining owing 0 to tile the shallowness of the water the goliah was wa s to approach hearer than within a mile of the wreck but from ex amina laminations ami nations made of the remains of 01 tile the steamer it was deemed expedient I 1 to wait file flow now of the tide for the purpose of pl pulling illing heron heroff the flats As she no now V I 1 ays y the tide ebbs and flows in her and the chances of resurrects resurrecting ng lier her i to any practical pur purpose elc except pit perhaps to save the rna machinery chinery and other boiler on board I 1 are arc very dubious the sophie mclane hod had two high prem stife boilers I 1 e eighteen i gh to on feet long and anve rive feet irl dian leter teter made of xo 1 0 J H stamped american iron of an inch in thickness j and of tile very best quality boilers were tested june 4 1864 at one hundred and twenty pounds hydraulic pi pressure lessure and she was avas allowed to carry eighty pounds of steam pressure to the square inch the boilers were examined reexamined re exa mined the day before she left hero here and were found to be in excellent order although I 1 no test W was 1 made of them the ex is ia accounted f for r by steamboat men who knew the condi condition condilia tia 1 of her boilers on the supposition that the water had probably y been let out of the boiler bobier tile the iii night lit before and a f lire ire had been built i in 11 the in the morning while tho boilers were empey thoy they then became heated and while hot tw the water was started into them of course when a lip was i inevitable D evit it isa aid that one of the hands had just commenced pumping g at tile the ta tufye i uw which if true wound td tend to support this theory the mi Misi i ippi steamboat won believe in the old adago tro nalea never come singly fingl 11 ind ii ig ie proverbial them that twe acol bood to come tog together ethor when amdx an explosion occurs in bhoge waters th the a engineers engineer n asay aay lookout look out for fior two more fa and then after the other two have pati paused sed they rest in I 1 ll 11 f fancied security for a t time me if there is any tiling thing in this notion we have had tile last of steamboat explosions for a time and can call say with tim the old woman who believed she was to bo be killed by falling down downstairs stairs upon meeting 1 with an accident of that character 0 one DO day dai and receiving receiving no injury injury exclaimed thank god its over ovar with ill 1 tile the wounded arc aed vell atvell provided for and carefully attended to by the human citizens of suisun and surrounding country who have been unremitting in in their endeavors to alleviate their stiffe s sanf an francisco ran cisco bulletin 0 oct yi H |