Terrible Steamboat Accident --- Great Loss of Life.

Madison, Indiana, April 3. – This afternoon, about half-past 2 o’clock, as the steamboat “Redstone,” Capt. Tate, hence for Cincinnati, with about 70 persons on board, including crew, was backing out from Scott’s landing, about three miles above Carrollton, had her boilers burst with tremendous force, killing a large portion of those on board, and dreadfully scalding and mangling most of the rest. The boat being completely shattered, immediately sunk in deep water, and many of the passengers who might otherwise have been saved, were drowned. Of the crew, only the Captain and Clerk were saved, and the former was so severely injured that it is thought he cannot recover. The boat having sunk, it was with difficulty that the bodies of those on board could be recovered. Up to 1 o’clock this morning, fifteen dead bodies were obtained, most of them so horribly mutilated as to baffle all attempts at identification. The names of the unfortunates have not been ascertained.

The Steamboat Explosion near Madison. –
By the explosion on board the steamboat Redstone, near Madison, Ind., on Saturday, the Rev. PERRY A. SCOTT, formerly of Covington, Ky., was killed. He had just stepped on board, after parting with his sisters on the wharf, who saw him blown to fragments. MR. GLOBE, editor of the Lawrenceburg Press, and MR. MYERS, the first and second engineers, and all the firemen, were also killed. – Capt. Tate and Mr. Langley, a pilot, had their legs broken. A large piece of one of the boilers was blown half a mile, lacking five or six yards, from the wreck! Eleven bodies were blown into a corn field, at some distance form the water – among them, those of the first and third engineers. The boat, which was backing out at the time of the explosion, was made a complete wreck.

Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA 12 Apr 1852

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Mr. R. C. Seanland, who got on at that place, was on the forecastle, and seeing the danger, went to the stern of the herricane [sic] deck, and was by this timely forecast, saved.

Rev. PERRY A. SCOTT, who was on a visit to his parents, had just gone on board and his parents and sisters standing on shoe only to see him blown into eternity.

The Dixon Telegraph, Dixon, IL 24 Apr 1852