In Frank Moore's Rebellion Record, Volume 5, pg. 227, an account that was published in the Missouri Democrat, dated 19 June, was sent from Memphis by W.L.F. In it he states that:
"Almost all who were badly scalded have since died. Thirty-five of them died on the way up on the Conestoga and the Musselman, and were buried near Island Sixty-seven. Eight men were dead when the boats arrived at memphis, and the entire number of the Mound City's dead is not far from one hundred and twenty-five."