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NEVADA GAZETTE OCTOBER 16 & 17, 1865 499
any arrangements for concerts in this place, but probably she will appear here on the evening succeeding
her concerts in Grass Valley.
QUARTZ DISCOVERY.—Mr. E. Pratt and others have discovered an immensely rich quartz ledge,
on a hill near Dead Man’s Flat, about a mile north of Rough & Ready. It is supposed to be a continuation
of the Legal Tender lead. The rock is exceedingly rich, showing free gold in abundance. If this ledge does
not prove a fruitful one there is nothing reliable in prospects.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A man named Emerson was seriously injured at Newtown, on Saturday.
While cutting blocks for a flume, he struck the bit of the ax on his shin, cutting a terrible gash the whole
width of the ax. It is thought the bone was not injured. There being no physician there, and the men being
too faint-hearted to undertake the operation, Mrs. Schardin dressed the wound and sewed up the gash.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1865
NUMBER OF VICTIMS.—It is probable that the number of lives sacrificed by the late steamboat
disaster will not be less than a hundred. Some sixty-two or sixty-three are known to be dead, and several
others who were on the steamer are missing, and it is probable that other deaths will occur among
the wounded. It is also known that a number were blown into the river, whose bodies have not been
recovered, although a difference of opinion exists among those who were on board and escaped injury, as
to the number blown overboard. According to the statements of the officers, it appears there were about
two hundred and fifteen persons on board, including passengers, officers and crew; and some twenty-five
or thirty of these have not been accounted for among the killed and wounded, and those who escaped
without injury. According to some statements, there were fifteen or twenty Chinamen thrown into the river
and drowned, in addition to the thirty-one found in the hold of the steamer.
DR. BATES, who came up on the Chrysopolis Thursday night, informs us that he saw fifty-four
bodies, the victims of the Yosemite disaster, and he is of the opinion that almost a hundred lives were lost
in all.
AMONG the wounded by the Yosemite explosion is a Frenchman named Louis Desire Louzet
Demourent, who has recently resided in Grass Valley. He is at the Courthouse hospital in Sacramento, and
will probably be able to leave his bed in two or three days.
SOME MONEY.—A report reached here from Marysville, yesterday, that the sum of $150,000
had been taken from the bodies of the dead Chinamen, found in the hold of the Yosemite. It is said that a
number of them were agents of the wealthy Chinese companies at San Francisco, to whom the most of the
money probably belonged.
EARTHQUAKES.—Dr. Trask has kept a record of the earthquakes that have occurred in
California since 1850. Last year he published a pamphlet on the subject, giving some account of the
more remarkable earthquakes that have occurred in the State, including the great shock of 1812, which
prostrated the Mission of San Juan Capistrano, killing some forty or fifty persons. It appears from Dr.
Trask’s record that one hundred and ten shocks were felt in the State from 1850 up to the beginning of
1864. Only one occurred in 1861.