Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-29
RIVER WRECK.
Loss OF THE JENNIE GILCHRIST
GROWS MORE SERIOUS.
The Number of Lives Lost Still Matter
of Doubt-Five or Six Bodies Recovered
The Boat Sunk In Twenty Foot Water
Search for Bodies to Continue To-Day.

When the GLOBE went to press yesterday
morning the telegraphic report was only par
TALLY received relative to the loss of the Jen.
ME Gilchrist at the Rock Island bridge. 1t
will be remembered that the engine of the boat
became disabled after passing under the bridge,
and the high water carrying her down, she
struck the bridge broadside on the pier. The
kilograms to-day are as follows:
DAVENPORT, To-, Oct. est is impossible
at this time to give full list of those killed
in the accident here last night, as no register
was kept of those on board the steamer.
Those known to be lost are passengers J
Zuber, A. M. Wendt and daughter, Mrs
James Trever, Miss Sadie Temple and few
unknown. Crew: James Sanford, fireman.
j. B. Temple, steward; VIM. Wadehman
and four negroes and an unknown deck
hand The officials of the Jennie
Gilchrist are severely censured by the surviving
passengers for the lack of ability to prevent
| the accident The officers, with the excep-
ton of the clerk, made their own personal
escape a matter of the first Importance, and
allowed the passengers to look out for them
selves. 1t is also admitted that the boat was
overloaded with passengers and freight, car
rying more than they could successfully han
| QlS. Iuc uOSb scilOuS ClATSc, uOWtNcI, lS
| made by one of the surviving passengers to the
effect that the crew including the second pilot
were under the influence of liquor, and to this
| fact is attributed the lack of management OF
| the first accident to the machinery before the
| bridge was encountered.
ROCK ISLAND, Oct. 2S.-Only partial list
of those drowned by the accident to the
steamer Jennie Gilchrist can be obtained to-
day, owing to the injury of the clerk and alb
sence of the owner who left for his home at
Rapids City this morning. 1t is, however,
known that Mrs. Trevor, Miss Sadie Temple
and John Temple, of Rapids City; w. W.
Wendt, of Cordova, and James
Sandford, fireman, have been
drowned. All day parties have been out from
this city searching the river and the island
just below Rock Island in hopes of recovering
some of the bodies supposed to have been lost
So far their search has proved fruitless, as
not single body has been recovered. Friends
of those supposed to have taken passage or
the Inflated steamer are in the city making
enquiries concerning their missing friends
whereabouts, but, owing to the confusion and
absence of these best posted on the passenger
list, great doubt still exists as to the number
and names of those who have been lost.
| Heavy rain set in at an early hour this after
noon, and this fact prevented the diver and
Capt. Wall from making an examination of the
cabin and hull of the sunken steamer, which
lies in about 20 feet of water just below this
city. Arrangements have been made to make
this inspection tomorrow, and it is thought 8
number of bodies will be recovered, as it is
said three or four people were seen in the
cabin and other portions of the boat by those
who left the ill-fated st Gamer just as she was
sinking last night.