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Show BOILER BIIIST. Futal Explosion on the Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. Memphis. Tenn., i. At 9 20 this morning the tow ooat Wamer, (rom New Orleans to St. Louts, with fice model bargee and the trading bo.it, Kobyon in low, exploded her boilcri?, when opposite the city. The pilot 1 house and roof wrre b own to a great height and fell back upon the wreck, i while the air we filled with splinters ; and fragments. The wreck took fire instantly and smoke and steam hid : the boat liom the crowd which soon 1 lined the blufo and it was thought j all on board had perished. The tug I Desoto and two or three skitts wer Ifoon at the wreck and s lece-ded iu eaving the following, John W. Poe, clerk, (-lightly bruised, Jacob Cox, piint , b.ui ly bru ised , he and IV hn iug been blown into toe a:r and laliine back on the wreck; Captain iieo. DiWr-on, slight y wounded; Napoleon Drvioney cm in the bead and arm, not dangerously; danger-ously; John Sullivan, second cook, badly cut in the arm and scalded; Clara , chambermaid, badly bruised; Barney Casaiday, mate, blown througb the roof and badly hurt; Chris Auschultz, first engineer, slightly; Nicholas Gobb, steward. slightly scalded; Dixon Kennett, pilot, and William Radcliff, Becond engineer, who were asleep at the time, i were lost and one fireman waa literally liter-ally blown into fragments. The boat had a total crw of twenty-five, but owing to the confusion it iB impossible to tell exactly bow many were lost. In five minutes alter the explosion all the wreck except the roof had sunk out of sight, and the tow of the barges was on fire, but the tug Desoto extinguished ex-tinguished the fire and landed the barges on the Arkansas shore. All the officers and crew were residents of St. Louis. St. Louis, 1, The tow boat Warner, that exploded at Memphis this morning, morn-ing, waa owned by the Babbage tranB portation company; valued at$10,000 |