Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-06
THE KE0KUK CALAMITY.
NAMES IND NUMBER OF THE LOST
STILL UNKNOWN.
List of the Passengers on Board-Partial
List of the Saved-Loss to the Bridge and
Steamboat Companies-Incidents Of the
Disaster, etc.

KEoKUK, Ia, Nov. 5.-The wreck of the
War Eagle, the elegant passenger packet that
struck the Keokuk and Hamilton bridge, last
night, was visited by hundreds of people to-
day. Capt. Hutchinson, general manager Of
the st. Louis e. ST. Paul packet line, is of the
opinion that the boat can be raised. The loss
to the bridge company will be fully Sl50,OO0;
no insurance. The War Eagle was valued at
$4,000, and insured for $4,000. One-third of
the cargo will be saved. No bodies
have been found yet. 1t is
known that one man, large, portly and well
dressed, jumped into the river and was
drowned, going down when skiff was within
few feet of him. A colored deck hand was
struck by piece of iron from the bridge,
and instantly killed, falling into the river.
His name is unknown.
THE DANGER OF TOPPLING.
Capt. Wood, who commanded the steamer,
relates that the passengers were afraid last
evening that she would topple over, and were
with difficulty restrained from dropping into
the water after she had been beached. The
young pilot, Mr.. Beadle, stood manfully and
worked her in to shore. I do not know where
the other pilot, Mr.. Tibbles, got off, probably
at the bridge. The passengers, while anxious
to get of, acted very commercially. The
boat at the bridge. was compelled to get
passengers to shovel coal to keep up the fires
The principal damage is to the boat, and
when the water goes down l think she can be
repaired, l consider the accident terminated
very fortunately. Had the boat tipped over
at the bridge with the high water, the rasult
would have been appalling. / felt much
a Sjar whom thII and Tins oh
waited such q calamity. There is no danger
now of the boat topping over. She is sit
ting on solid foundation. The cargo will be
removed at once.
THE CARGO.
She had miscellaneous cago of about
10000 packages; 1000 sacks of potatoes and
AS sacks of barley, for Quincy; 1000 sacks
of barley for St. Louis; 5000 sacks of pota-
toes for st. Louis. There were three Wizard
oil wagons ten horses and four mules,
600 packages of sundries, 500 barrels of flour
for New Orleans, 500 barrels of oat meal and
a miscellaneous assortment of freight. The
cargo is mostly insured, and with what will
be saved, the loss on the cargo will be light.
While the War Eagle was heavily loaded her
guards were all ofgeightesn inches out of the
water, and she lacked fully 200 tons of being
loaded to her full capacity.
THE PASSENGER LIST.
The following are the passengeas who were
aboard as shown by the War Eagles register:
Frank Schmidt, st. Paul: G. n. Hackett,
Burlington; W. Fortified, P. A, Kendall, Har-
ry Eastwood, Frank Goodfellow, A. j. Smith,
st. Panl; Mrs. Griswald, La Crosse; w: s.
Hunt, Dubuque, = Collins, A. Baullear
P. Irving. Muscatine; J.. A. Gull, Muscatine;
= White; Stuart, deck passenger, Mr.. Chas. Ar
mon and wife, Davenport; DR.. Watkins, wife
and two children, Davenport; James Barnes,
st. Paul; John Kokerel, ST. Paul; Mrs. Multi
gan and daughter, st. Paul; 3 Reese, st. Paul;
G. NJ. Kanfenden and family, b. Francis,
Paul; J. La Rui, NJ. Pritton, n D.
Stone, Gardner, j. West, = Roscoe,
Mr.. Thomes, Dubuque; Mr.. Evans, Dubuque;
Taylor Davis and wife, st. Paul; s. A. Reeve,
wife and child, Burlington; Mrs. Crodist, Fort
Madison; Mrs. White and daughter, lansing;
Mr.. Kraper and wife, Muscatine; Mrs. Towns
end, Davenport; Mrs. Tantons, Davenport;
Miss Martin, Davenport; Mrs. Sarah Shuck,
Davenport; Miss Ward, Davenport; Mrs.
Cowden, Muscatine; Miss Hallord, st. Paul;
Mr.. Wood and wife, Davenport
SOME OF THE SAVED.
The following passengers are known to have
been saved:
Mrs. T. r. Davis New York; Mrs. F C. Town
send and Miss Mooreville. Hannibal; Miss
Sardoris, Clinton; Mr.. Condor and Mrs. Con-
don, Washington, Iowa; Mrs. Anna White
and Miss Marie White, Lansing, Iowa; DR..
Atkins and wife, Chicago; 7. L. Kendall, Bal
timore.
Mr.. Cullom, Sonora Falls, and c. w Nor
ton, Chicago; W. Porter, Gold, Montana; DR.. j..
E. Gardner. Memphis; w. H Roscoe, DR.. w.
H. Hunt, Ike Rue, M. Payton sand Chas.
Armour and wife, Wizard OIL company; Mrs.
FL. T. Bradish, Fort Madison; E. A. Woods
and wife, Sabula; B. Kemper and wife, VIM.
Holmes, st. Louis; Jas. Hennesy, st. Louis;
Jno. Page and wife, St. Louis: Jno. Perry
st. Paul; Enos Poole, Paducah, KY;
Lawrance Kimball, st. Paul; Jas. Mulligan,
Minneapolis; Mrs. Mlluigan and daughter, st.
Louis; J. B. Allis, J. Painter and Dan O'Keefe,
cooks on the boat; E. H. Beadle and Tibbles,
pilots; H. C. Beadle, brother of tie pilot; M.
G. Coners, head baker; J. w. Clifford, grocer,
and four or five others whose names could not
be obtained. There were several undoubtedly
drowned, but at this hour it is impossible to
tell how many and who they are.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE BOAT.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 5.-The steamer War
Eagle, which was wrecked at Keokuk last
night was owned by the st. Louis & st.
Paul Packet Co., of this city, was valued at
$4,000, and was insured for $4,000 against
fire, but there were no marine risk on her.
She was very fine and next to the Gem City
the fastest steamer on the upper Mississippi
river.
A Grand Programme.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-The ball to be given
by the state commissioners in honor of the
French and German guests on the night Of