Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-06
TELEGRAPHIC.
ANOTHER oF THOSE TEERiELE RIVER
HORRORS.
Wrecked on the Ohio and Fifty
Lives Lost.
A DUEL PREVENTED AMONG
SOUTHERN EDITORS.

S~rEUBENvILLE (Ohio), July 5.-The
steamer Sciota was wrecked on the Ohio
river yesterday, near here. To-day hun
dreds of persons are attracted to the scene
Of the calamity, some in search OF missing
loved ones, others from curiosity. One
dead body has been recovered on the Ohio
side. Two bodies of boys are reported
near Wellsburg. Two boys were picked up
on the Virginia side who had swam a mile
and a half below the place Of the accident.
They say about fifty persons were on the
lower deck with them when the boat sank.
Many Of these are probably drowned.
Captain Thomas of the Sciota is crazed
with grief at the loss of his son and be.
numbed with cold from a f~ruitless search
in the watery cabin for his son, whose body
has since been found at Brilliant Station.
The death roll will probably exceed fifty.
More thar this number are missing, and
all chances of escape are heard from. A
hundred persons went from Wellsville and
East Liverpool to the scene of the disas-
ter this morning. The list Of the missing
is as follows: Wellsville--John Stevenson,
David Fargo, Sallie Siddy, E. P. Smith,
wife and two children, Willie Ewing,
Charles Davidson, Joseph Conner, Irene
Farmer, G. Thornton, Lincoln Thompson,
Annie Booth, Carrie ~Boardman, NJ. E. Est
line and wife, Willie FARRELL, John Christy,
John Tomlinson, Jacob Gibson and wife,
DR.. Stevenson and three men, named, re-
| spectively, Kennett, Woods and Burke.
Lewis Harper OF Wellsville was fatally
hurt. At Mingo Junction the following
persons have been found dead; c. E.
Spriggs of Hammondsville, Miss Belle
Brandon, Dave Fargo, Sarah Kiddy, Stew
art Piper, Joseph Conner, Ed. Smith, all
OF Wellsville; r. Z. ~Boardman, E. Burke
and Mollie Shields Of East Liverpool, and
Ed. Thomas, the Captains hey. Probably
fifteen more will be found, and perhaps
twenty-five to fifty in all, as the people at
East Liverpool and Wellsville are missing
their friends. When the boat is raised
many bodies will be found. The party
was about equally gentlemen and ladies.
Sullivan knock Elliot SenseIess.
NEW YORK, July 5.-Sullivan, the cham
pion p~ugilist, gave a picnic yesterday.
The special attraction announced was a
sparring match between Sullivan and
James Elliot, the latter to receive $500 if
he knocked the former out in -four three
minute rounds with half a minute rest.
In the third round sullivan knocked Ell
hot senseless, in which condition he re-
NAMED 20 minutes, and was then taken
home.
appointment OF Professor Hewitt.
WILLIAMsTowN (Mass.), July 5.-The
Trustees of Williams College voted to
give Professor Hewitt Of Chicago the
chair of ancient languages and to endow a
professorship with the Garfield Memorial
Fund instead Of using it to establish a
chair for some leading political teacher a5
first intended.
Two Men Drowned.
S~KowHEGAN Me-, July 5.-Stephen
Coburn, the younger brother of ex-Gov.
Coburn, and a prominent member Of the
bar, while temporarily insane from sickness,
drowned himself last evening. His only
son followed him into the river and in at
tempting to save him was drowned also.
A DueI Prevented.
ATLANTA Ca, July 5.-Colonel Lamar,
editor Of the Macon Telegraph, has been
arrested on suspicion of being about to
cross the State line to fight a duel with
Colonel Howell, late editor Of the Con-
stitution.
Murder and Suicide.
CINCINNATI, July 5.-Jacob Wagner shot
his wife last evening and then shot him
self. He was an intimate acquaintance Of
Cole, who shot his wife and daughter and
himself last week.
Fourth of July Mfshap.
EVANSVILLE Ind.), July 5.-Three
women were seriously, others slightly, in
jured by the explosion OF fireworks yester-
day.
The Big Running Race.
ROCHESTER, July "a ten-mile running
race between Miss Peck Of Michigan and
Lizzie Pinneo Of Colorado was won by
Miss Pinneo in &c minutes and "a seconds,