Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-30
A Buffalo that Took Care of Himself
Thrilling Incidents and General
Particulars.
The City Profoundly Stirred and
Touched.

AT daybreak this morning as the
steamer Golden City, Captain Sterling
Mcintyre was about to land at the An
chor Line wharf boat, below Union street,
a fire broke out amidships of the vessel,
and less than half an hour Later the char
red wreck of the boat sunk from view in
deep water below the head of Presidents
Island and 300 yards from the shore.
By this sudden and terrible disaster at
least fifty people, including over twenty.
five women and children, among the
cabin passengers lost their lives.
The names of the lost as far as ascer-
tanned are as follows
Dr. Monahan and wife, of jackson
Ohio.
Mrs. Crary, # Fairmount, near Gin.
cinnati, Ohio.
Mrs. Luella Crary, Morton Place. neal
Cincinnati.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stowe and two children.
boy of eight and a girl of FIVE, of stowe
circus, from Yidalia, La, for Cairo.
Mr.. Ollie Wood and Mrs. Amelii
Wood, his wife, of Henderson, KY.
Mrs. Anna Smith, of Massachusetts,.
Mrs. Helen Percival, destined to Hawes
vile, KY. Her son, Lad of sixteen years
is safe, also her daughter Mrs Ionii
Matson. The latter escaped by getting
over on to a barge as the burning boa
swung off into the river, and she is nov
at the residence of Mr.. Mcclure, in thi
city.
Mrs. l.. Il. Kouns, wife of Captain
Kouns of the New Orleans and Ped rive
line of steamers, with three children, al
lost.
Miss Campbell, relative OF Mrs
Kouns, aged about seventeen.
Robert Kelly, second engineer on duty
was lost while standing at his engines.
Three deck roustabou's, named John
Jones, Marshal and Wood are believed tC
be lost.
Also n number of deck passengers
names unknown. There were about
twenty-five deck people in all on the
boat.
j. Ii. Kronk, member of the circus
company, is missing and it is thought is
lost he owned the side show.
THE sAvED.
w. @. Jewett, Point Pleasant, West
Virginia
George w. Green, New Richmond, 0.
R. H. Chittenden, CarrsvilIe, Ky.
W. II. Caruthers and j. B. Jordan,
Ripley, Tenn.
Robert e. Bllbreck, treasurer of Stoves
circus.
JOhr H. Trewalla, business agent Of
Stoves circus.
Burt Stowe, brother, and Frank Stowe,
cousin. to the proprietor ofthe circus.
james Meyers aged II. of New Orleans,
on his way to Henderson. Kentucky with
his sister and brother-in-h.w, 0. Wood
and wife, is safe. The persons named
were the only relatives he had living, and
both are lost.
Charles Ross, Jr,, of Cincinnati, safe.
Z. @. Underwood, of Louisville, safe.
II. B. Hamill, New York travelling
agent, residence, Philadelphia, safe.
Mr.. Bloomfield, ,of New Madrid, Mis-
souri,, safe.
james Swift, John Filbart, Jno. Null
lane, ]. Q. Kimpel, Ned G. Glenroy, Jas
Bloomfield, James Buck and JIG. Acker-
man, all of the circus company, are safe
The boats officers saved include Cap
tain Sterling Mcintyre, Clerk w. f..
Mcintyre his brothor, assistant Clerks
James Wirthlin and Frank Stein; John
Dretfer, steward Pete DreiIer, cook; John
Lamb, second cook; Billy Luxford, pastry
cook; Mart Whalen, messroom tender;
Dock Boudurant, mate; John Hill, second
mate; Charles Harvey, deck watchman,
all white men, also the following colored
people Of the cabin crew
Bob Morris, second steward; James
Miller, texas tender Henry White and
Robert Wallace, berth makers; Charles
Guthrie, cabin watchman; Isaac Dixon.
knife sinner Ransom Watkins, outsider;
Jesse Willctt, glass tender, and w. H.
Smith, cabin boy
Of the lower deck crew, including
roustabouts, fremen and deck hands
snnne twnntv-thran In nnmhnr thrnn ~.