The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-13

New York to Charleston, striking the steamer
amidships and sinking her in five minutes.
Ferguson, the officer in charge, says that most
of the crew were on deck, but few of the
passengers could be seen. The latter had
hardly time to spring from their beds and re-
call their senses before the steamer went down,
and possibly some may not have been awakened
at ALL but it would have taken an extremely
sound sleeper to pass undisturbed through such
a shock as that. moment after the collision
a heavy cloud obscured the moon, and it became
so much darker that the crew of the Octavia
could only judge of the terror aboard the
Champion by the cries of women and children,
and the wild shouting and the wilder leaping
and running OF dozens of men. The rushing
sound of the water it forced itself in and
was weighing down the doomed vessel, when
ever it could be heard above the din upon the
deck, served to increase the awful excitement.
Just as the boat got alongside the Octavia there
was adespairing cry as if from below deck on
the doomed vessel, and the next instant, when
the rescued turned to lovk, the water had in
quilted the Champion.
THE obseques of General Joe Hooker, which
occurred at Cincinnati the 7th inst, were at
tended with much ceremony and ostentation.
The remains, encased in a handsome oak
casket, arrived at Cincinnati from New York
on the preceding day, and were Immediately
transferred to the Presbyterian Church on
Eighth street, where arrangements had been
made for their deposit over night. Prior to their
arrival, numerous meetings had been held by
the different organizations of the city with
view to perfecting the proper arrangements to
pay due respect to the honored dead. The pro-
cession formed at the church on Eighth street
at one O'Clock in the afternoon, consisting of
many prominent ex-officers of the war, old
veterans, military organizations, the officials of
the city, secret orders, etc., and after parading
the prominent streets of the city, the cortege
moved out Freeman street to Spring Grove
Cemetery. The casket in which were
the remains, incased in Theoretically
sealed zinc, which, of itself, weighed
four hundred pounds. gun carriage
was brought into requisition, as hearse was
not of sufficient strength to carry such weight.
Upon the wagon was a flag at half mast, as
were all those carried by the long procession.
A number of bands at intervals in the procession
kept up their sad requiems as the solemn column
moved along. The streets were packed on
| either side along the line of march by thou
sands ofpeople, perhaps many out of curiosity,
and yet many again out of respect who had
known the General at his home as citizen in
years gone by. From the time the line of
march was formed until the veteran was laid
| away to rest in the beautiful grounds of Spring
| Grove, the bells of the city kept up constant
tolling, and over the entire city, as if overhung
| by great pail, an expression of solemity
seemed to depict itself upon every countenance.
| Similar ceremonies to those at Cincinnati in
honor of the dead hero, were had in New York
| at the departure of the remains for the West.