[Newspaper]
Publication: The Covington Journal
Covington, KY, United States
vol. 1 (n.s.), no. 7, p. 3, col. 3
Terrible Disaster.
On Wednesday last, the regular Maysville packet, Magnolia, with about one hundred passengers on board, when about nine miles above Cincinnati, exploded her boilers, scattering death and destruction in every direction. About fifty lives are supposed to have been lost.
Capt. J. H. Prather, the commander of the ill-fated steamer, a resident of this city, was killed. Rev. Mr. Stone, of Maysville, who preached in this city two or three Sundays ago, is among the missing. Among the injured were Mr. Brad Shinkle, of this city, and A. T. Cox, Esq., editor of the Flemingsburg Democrat.
