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Page: of 627
NEVADA GAZETTE OCTOBER 13 & 14, 1865 497
BADGER MINE.—The Grass Valley Union has reliable information of the sale of a one-tenth
interest of the Badger claim for the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, equal to twenty-five thousand
dollars for the whole claim. The company have a well-defined ledge of from fifteen inches to two feet in
thickness, and the rock looks well.
ANOTHER BOARDER.—A Chinaman, whose name we have not learned, came down from
Columbia Hill yesterday, having an order from Justice Ayres to the Sheriff for his board and lodging in
the county jail for one hundred days. John will therefore have no occasion to trouble himself for his daily
bread until Spring, when he doubtless expects an improvement in the times.
REVIVAL.—We learn that a revival has been going on at the African Methodist Church, in this
place, for the past week or two. Rev. Mr. Dryden preached there on Tuesday evening last, and was to have
preached again last evening. Quite a number have been brought to a realizing sense of the sinfulness of
their former ways, and resolved to lead an upright, christian life hereafter, while others are in a hopeful
condition.
STAGE ROUTE SOLD.—We learn that the California Stage Company have sold to William
Hamilton the route from Colfax to North San Juan. This is without doubt the best and most profitable
stage route in the State—carrying all the passengers to and from Grass Valley, Nevada and the upper
portion of the county; also much of the travel from Sierra. The transfer will be made next Monday—the
[16th] instant.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1865
AWFUL CALAMITY.
Dispatches were received here yesterday morning, announcing that the boiler of the steamer
Yosemite had exploded, killing and wounding a large number of passengers. No particulars were
received, however, until the arrival of the Sacramento stage, which brought up two or three copies of the
Sacramento Union containing some particulars of the catastrophe. The steamer was on her down trip, and
the explosion occurred at Rio Vista, at six o’clock Thursday evening, just as she was leaving the wharf.
Fifteen white passengers were killed and thirty-eight or forty injured by scalds and bruises. In addition
these twenty-five Chinamen are believed to have been lost. They were in the hold of the steamer, and it
had been impossible to clear away the wreck so as to get at them when the Chrysopolis, on her up trip,
took off the killed and wounded whites. As the boiler exploded, all the upper cabin, pilot house, and every
thing forward of the smokestack was thrown into wreck, creating a scene of death and disaster which is
described as of the most horrible character. Fortunately, none of the ladies on board were injured. A list
of killed and wounded passengers, so far as was known, is given in the Union, but we do not recognize
among the names any from this county. Among the wounded we notice the name of G. W. Seaton, Senator
elect from Amador, who is not expected to recover. . . .
The cause of the explosion is not given in the Union’s account, but a gentleman who arrived in
Nevada, who was a passenger on the Chrysopolis, says it was caused by a defective plate in the boiler,
which was blown out. . . . Captain Poole and Creigh, the clerk, were slightly injured, and Barrephyte, the
chief engineer, was badly scalded. . . .
Since the above account was made up, we have conversed with Mr. Goldsmith, who was a passenger
coming up on the Chrysopolis. He says that a large number of wounded passengers were left on the
Yosemite, who were too badly hurt to be removed, and that not less than a hundred were killed or will die