458 EXPLOSION OF THE ^TNA. 
interior of the boat was rendered a complete wreck, the im- 
mensely heavy iron-work having been broken into fragments, 
and the heavy timbers and lighter work of the two after-cabins 
literally shivered to pieces. But this is of little consequence 
in comparison with the awful destruction which attended the 
melancholy event, and which has spread a cloud of gloom 
over the city, deeper, if possible, than was witnessed in the la- 
mented case of the Albion. 
The whole number of persons on board was 34, viz. six 
passengers by the Philadelphia coach, named on the way-bill, 
Pearce, Arnell, Braden, Heacock, Eckfelt, and Mrs. Strout : 
five from Amboy, Messrs. Davis, Morrison and Baker, and 
two others, names not known ; six taken on board at Elizabeth- 
town Point, names not known, among them one or two wo- 
men ; one woman and a girl taken on board at the Blazing 
Star Ferry, New-Jersey, and the officers and crew and ser- 
vants of the boat, consisting of fifteen. 
Killed in the cabin by the explosion, Mrs. Job Furman, 
Mrs. Abm. Merserole, her daughter, Caroline Furman, daugh- 
ter of the late Waters Furman, and a sister of Mrs. Furman, 
all of one family, who had been to Elizabethtown to aftend 
the funeral of a near relative. [Those were all interred 
from one house. Their remains were attended to the grave 
by thousands of sympathizing friends.l Miss Mary Bates, 
daughter of Captain Andrew Bates, living in Provost-street, 
was also killed. She was in charge of Miss Ann Dough- 
erty, a native of Auburn, New- York, and who, together with 
Mrs. Taylor, (wife of John Taylor, of New-Jersey,) were 
taken to the hospital, where they died in the most frightful 
agony before morning. The steward, Victor Grasse, a French- 
man, jumped overboard from the forward cabin window, 
and was drowned. Another person, name unknown, also 
jumped out of the forward cabin, and was drowned. Mr. 
Charles C. Hollingshead, of Princeton, New-Jersey, who Avas 
in the forward cabin, jumped overboard through a window, 
and was saved by seizing a bench that was thrown over, and 
afterward picked up by the ^Etna's boat. After the boat had 
been towed up, the body of a man was found among the ruins, 
whose name cannot be ascertained, but whose shirt is marked 
•' M. P." He had fine black broadcloth pantaloons, a new 
Marseilles vest, and a blue broadcloth coat, about half worni, 
with yellow gilt buttons. He had neither money nor papers 
about him, excepting a memorandum to call on Mr. Wiley 
the bookseller, in relation to some books, which, on a refer- 
