The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-31
THE GOLDEN CITY'' HOR.
ROR.

Golden City. DIR. MOnahan and
wife, of Jackson, Ohio; Mrs. Carey,
of Paramount, near Cincinnati; Miss
Luella Carey, Mention, place near
Cincinnati; w. FL. Stowe and wife,
Blice Wood and wife, Henderson,
| KY; Miss Anna Smith, Massachu-
sets; Mrs. Helen Percival, Haizes-
vile, Ky; Mrs L. Z. KOuntZe and
three children, Miss Campbell, a
relative Of Mrs. KountZe; Robt.
Kelly, second engineer; Mary Boyd,
Amanda Atchison, chambermaids :;
| J. C. CrOne, owner of a side show to
Stowe circus; three of the deck
crew (cOlored) and a negro boy,
servant of w. III. Stowe. Captain
/, S. Mcintyre was asleep at the time
the fire originated, but heard
the alarm and came hastily
down stairs. He tried to get
| into the cabin but the fire and smoke
| drove him back. Descending to the
deck he and a second mate John
| Hill made the burning boat fast to
the coal fleet and then aided the pas
| sengers in getting off the steamer.
He was calm and did everything in
his power to save everybody, but all
efforts proved fruitless, as the line
which held the boat either burned
or unloosened itself some way and
she began drifting out into the
stream. John S. Trewalla, business
agent of Stoves circus, was on the
lower deck and seeing Mr.. A. Butler,
of DonaldSyille, La, with mis- wife
and four children on the
boiler deck, shouted to him
to throw him his children.
Mr.. Butler tossed him two, which
Mr.. Prewalla caught and carried to
a place of safety. He then assisted
Mrs. Butler with her infant down
from the upper deck and helped
her off the steamer while Mr..
Butler brought down the stairs the
remaining child. W. c. Mckinley,
young man II years old, gives a
graphic description of the fire. He
was in his state room when the first
cry of the fire was heard. He
says it was not three minutes after
before he saw flames coming up
| through the floor Of his stateroOm.
He ran back in the ladies' cabin,
where his grandmother, Mrs. Perez
val, and his aunt, Miss Ionia Matt
son, were. Bursting in their state
room, he found both standing up.
Telling them to come on, he grasped
| his aunt by the arm and led the way
| through the binding smoke to the
front part of the boat. They had
not gone far before the flames began
bursting through the floor of the
cabin. He kept pressing forward
and finally reached the front deck
of the steamer with his aunt His
grandmother was nowhere to be
seen; she evidently had been SuffO-
Gated by the binding smoke. He
half carried and dragged his aunt
down the steps, and just IN time
reached the coal barge as the vessel
was carried down the stream by the
current.
An inquest is in progress over the
remains of the dead woman found
to-day near the week. 1t is thought
to be Mrs. Anna Smith, of MasSa-
chusettS. An adjournment was
taken until tomorrow morning.
Wash Smith (colored) captain of
the watch, was sent to jail this
afternoon on a warrant charging
him with murder through his care
lesrnesS in causing the fire in the
steamer. A diver will try to-mOr-
row to recover the bodies that are
supposed to be on the wreck of the
Inflated vessel.
The Louisville and Nashville rail-
road and Captain Bob Wise, of the
j. w. Gof, have offered to convey
the passengers and crew of the
Golden city to Cincinnati free of
charge. Some left for their homes
this afternoon Others leave to-
morrow.
Cincinnati, 3O.-The owners, Of
| ficers and crew of the Golden city
reside here's The owners are Cap
tain j. D. Hegler, Sterling G. McIn-
tyre and NJ. F.. Mcintyre. She was
valued at $4,000, and insured for
$4,000 in Cincinnati companies.
She was built in 70, and was one of
the best equipped steamers plying
between Cincinnati and New Or
leans. The government inspector
says she was extraordinarily well
equipped with every modern appli-
ance calculated to avert the calam-
ity which has befallen her. She was
1925 feet long, forty feet beam, six
feet four inches deep in the hold.
She measured eli tons, but had
carrying capacity for 1900 tons.
| The steamer left here on March
18th, and reached New Orleans
March oath. Captain Hegler, upon
hearing of the disaster, Immediately
telegraphed to Captain Mcintyre to
spare no expense to aid those in dis
treSs, or to recover the bodies of the
lost.
Our Hogs.