Steamer A N Johnson
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 31 December 1847, page 3
We learn from the Clerk of the Daniel Boone, that
the steamer A N Johnson, on her first trip from this place to
Wheeling, exploded about 10 miles above Maysville and then burnt to the waters
edge. The accident occurred on Wednesday and Mr. McCrackan has obligingly
furnished us with a correct list of the wounded and saved, which we annex.
One of the boilers was thrown about 200 years from the boat into a cornfield and one half of another, 250 yards ahead of the boat on shore. There were supposed to be about 95 cabin and 65 deck passengers on board at the time of the explosion.
All the ladies and children in the cabin were saved. Of 27 head of horses, 6 were saved. The Daniel Boone left 37 of the passengers at Maysville and brought 8 to this place. Five of the wounded left at Maysville were not expected to live. Sixty or eighty are supposed to be missing.
Some of the men took a skiff went to Maysville and got the Daniel Boone to proceed to the place of the disaster, where the wounded were dressed, then proceeded to Maysville. At the time of the explosion, the A N Johnson had landed to put off some passengers. As the books of the boat were all lost, it is not probable the entire loss of life and property will be ascertained.
Among a local man; Alfred Burrow, 2d Stewart, Newport Ky. badly scalded.