Robt. Richardson, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Lora Peppers

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Wednesday, January 27, 1869
Page 2, Column 6

Another Victim of the Glide Steamer Explosion 
Mr. Robt. Richardson, a young man of Rapides parish who was on the ill-fated 
steamer Glide, which recently exploded her boiler about 50 miles above the 
city, and who was a nephew of ex-Gov. Wells, of this State, died yesterday at 
the St. Charles Hotel, from the effects of the injuries which he sustained by 
the disaster. He makes the sixteenth victim of the explosion of these who have 
died in this city. N.O. Bee.