The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-06
Burning Of the Steamer Pat. Rogers.
twenty-five Lives Lost,

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Twenty-Five Lives Lost.
CINCINNATI, August 6-The operate
o. Aurora, Ind, reports the steamer Pat
Rogers burned this forenoon one mile be.
low Aurora, and about % lives lost.
Particulars Of the disaster TO the steam
er Fat. Rodgers arc coming In slowly
about 8 O'Clock this morning several bales
OF cotton which formed part of the cargo
caught fire, It Is supposed from spark
from the chlmDeys, and The boat burned
TO the waters edge. The boat and cargo,
the latter consisting Of cattle, sheep, aud
hogs, is Q totalsloss. The passenger re-
gtster and all the books are lost. The
boat was valued at 100000. insured il
Cincinnati for $9s. 900, Louisville $4,000
The value Of the cargo 10 not ascerlained
THR NAMES OF THR LosTl
as far as ascertained are J. r. Stuart and
Mrs. Smith, Of Madison, Ind; W.C.
Brown, ol Cincinnati, Son OF Il. w. Brown.
OF the Union Line Transportation Com
psny; Chas, II. DittmaD, the pilot Sherry
Snyder and Jacob Light, and the crew.
The following named passengers arc
also missing, and supposed to be1rowned
10 the steamer Rogers disaster: Charles
Reese, engineer; James Miner, Muntz
Barber, and several lady passengers,
whose names are unknown. Mrs. Tuttle
and child, Harrison, were drowned. Those
known 10 have been saved are: D. 8.
Jones and Vim. Hall, Of Rising Sun, Ind;
henry Faust, P. w. White, q. B.
Plato, George O. Buchanan, Miss L. j.
Williams, OF Louisville; Mrs. Eastman
and Miss Sturgis, ot Hanover, Ind (; A. NJ
Peerine, OF Nashville.
ENGINEERS ACCOUNT.
Mr.. Holmes, engineer Of the steamer
Pat Rogers, burned ct Aurora, arrived al
Cincinnati on the noon train and was In.
terviewGG by Cincinnati reporter. He
gives the following account Of the burn
ing: II was just about 8 o'clock when
Just opposite Longery Greek that flows
into the Ohio River two miles below
Aurora, that | noticed o bright light
among some bales Of cotton In the after
part Of the boat. Ihastened to the spot
and found the cotton TO be burning
rapidly and beyond any possibility OF i'm.
mediately exlinguishiDg it. l hastened
to the hurricane deck and gave the alarm
to the pilot that tho boat was burning,
and told him 10 run ashore. The pilot at
once turned the boats head to the shore
and Immediately she became unmanage-
able. The pilot states that he could turn
the wheel, but that the steamer would
not answer to her helm. He thinks that
the tiller rope had been cut from this fact.
It is thought that the FIRE was the work
Of an incendiary.
Another theory Is that one Of the deck
passengers while smoking dropped sparks
rom his pipe into some cotton, when the
boat became unmansgeable and drilted
on sandbar and there grounded. The
flames instead OF spreading along the
lower deck at once shot up 10 the cabin
and pilot house, and then swept across the
hurricane deck. The passengers were all
aroused and the boats lowered, and many
were carried to the shore; but others 10
their fright jumped into the water, and
those who were not drowned reached
sale landing place after drifting long time
with the cnrrent. There were nearly q
hundred people on board, but what pro-
portion oil this number were actually lost
is not known at this time, as many re-
ported missing have been seen by some
on shore alter the disaster.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
CINCINNATI, August 5.-The lost, miss.
ing, and casualties by the burning Of the
Pat. Rogers to-day, sum up at 0 o'clock
tonight as follows: Missing-Mr. Mad.
den, New Orleahs; Chas. Pittman, New.
ton, Ky; j. r. Stewart, Madison, Ind,
boat builder; Mrs Gustle, Madison; Shir.
ley Snider, Jacob Light, VIM. Browne,
and Mrs. Tuttle and child, Cincinnati,
Saved-E. o. Ely, Oswego, N. Y; WIS.
Kinsley, Oneida, N. Y; VIM. Allison,
Cincinnati; Miss Emma Ramden, Louis.
Vile, KY, (badly burned abont the head);
W. s. Dalton, New York; John W. Mil.
Ter, Louisville; VIM. Bradlaw, Ports
mouth, Ohio; Z. Graves, Shelby, Ky; J.
Il. Gilman, Lexington, Ky; George
Masmire, Chicago; Mike Graham,
Madison; A. G. Crane, Msysville, KY;
Fred Schultz, Carroliton, Ky, deck. hand;
I. s. Wallace, Cincinnati; +. Myers, Gov.
iDgtoD; b. Il. PAttnger, New Haven; Ky;
F. Stone, North Carolina. Burned-Alex.
D. Quincy, New Port, KY, deck.hs
face burned; Lewis Noble and Sam
Staplcton, Vevay, Ind Henry Frost, Ky;
D. III. White. Louisville, Ky; G. s. New.
ell, Springfield, Mass; George @. Buch-
anon, Louisville, Ky; Mrs. q. II. Orch,
Aurora, Ind; Mrs. W. F. Eastman, Mis-
sissippi; Rachael Sturgess, Hanover, Miss;
L. J. Williams, Louisville, Ky; A. Nj.
Perine, Nashville; DR.. II. II. TurpiD,
W Washington City; Mr. Tuttle, Cincinnati;
Theodore Buwell, Patriot, Indiana; W.
Q. Jewett, Cincinnati; George W.
Baker, Cincinnati; r J. Moore, Rose.
wood, Ind. Known 10 be lost-Miss
Lizzie Corner and Jacob Corner, Mad.
ison; Miss Erehenrock; one German lady
unidentified; child taken out on mat.
tress, not identified; Charles Besinger,
striker; ]. r. Stewart, Madison. Charles
Dittmsn, pilot, Is thought to be drowned;
also Jacob Munzbacher and Rudolph
Drusken. Eleven passengers and five Of
the crew cannot be found.
Later accounts report that Professor
Plato and D. N. White, oil Louisville,
have both been found. Thirty.seven Of
the iorty.tive saved passengers came 10
Cincinnati. Some OF the most seriously
injured are cared for at Aurora, the
citizens Of that place doing all they can
for the distressed. Tomorrow the river
will be dragged to recover the bodies Of
the lost. The living occupy the attention
Of tho citizens to day. River pirates In
skitt are lowering about the wreck pick
ing up what they can TO night. Tho boat
burned near the shore, the flames envelop.
ing the shore side ol the vessel. The pas.
senDers who iumped over the sidea Irpre