The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-11
STEAMERS WRECKED.
The Paris Q. Brown Strikes q Sna1
and Goes Down in the Lower
Mississippi
Several Lives LOst-Captain Johnston
Describes the Wreck Of the Kate
Robbins.
Terrible Explosion of q Boiler in Pitts
burgh, Pa.-Disastsr on the Illinois
Central.

burgh, Pa.-Disastsr on the Illinois
Central.
BAYOU SARA, La, Jan. THE steam
boat Paris e. Brown, from New Orleans
for Cincinnati, struck snag at Hermitage
Landing, Pointe Coupee Parish, at nine
o'clock Saturday night and sank to the
hurricane deck. Five of the cabin crew,
two firemen and one passenger are miss
ing. The cargo consisted OF 40 tons Of
car wheels and 49, tons o. sugar, molasses,
old iron and sundries. She was registered
at l,4c0 tons and owned by Captains A. NJ.
ued at $24. 900 and insured for $14. 900.
The vessel was built at Cincinnati in
1879 by the Marine Railway and Dock
Company for the Cincinnati and New
Orleans trade. in which she hal been run.
ming ever since, making over ninety trips
without . mishap of any kind. She hal
been for a number of years in command of
Captain A. M. Halliday, but at the time
of the disaster was commanded by Captain
c. G. Young. a native Of Cincinnati.
The officers of the Hannah Blank report
that the boat is a total wreck with only
deck appearing above water. hermitage
is only twenty-five miles above Baton
Rouge, but owing to want of communica-
tion with that point nothing definite was
learned as to the loss of life and property.
The following persons on the steamer
were lost: One of the cabin crew named
William Mitchell, from Gallipolis, o.;
lady's cabin MN, William Marshall, of
L. 81.
names unknown, from Cincinnati; jane
Harrison, second pantry man, from
Memphis, Tenn; William Taylor, night
Waterman, from Cincinnati; Samuel
Gravireman, of Cincinnati; Abraham
Mitchell. of New Orleans.
The cabin passengers saved were: DR..
Graham and wife, of Pawtucket, r. L.;
Messrs. Donly and Shafer and another
cabin passenger and wife, nam, unknown.
of Boston; Mary and Ben jolly, of Bayou
Paul.
All the crew, except as above stated, are
accounted for and saved. One of the cabin
boys got to the river bank but could not
climb up the slippery mud, fell back into
the river and sank before assistance could
be rendered him.
STARVATION IN DAKOTA.
FARGO, OAK, Jan. IA letter from Rev.
c. W. Riches, of Park River. OAK, conveys
the first authentic information Of extreme
suffering and privation among the Nor
wegian settlers in Western Walsh County.
Men with relief report that they found
about seventy families i'm about a destitute
circumstances as it is possible for human
beings to be and still exist. Many were
found with barely enough clothing to
cover their nakedness and that of the
thinnest material, and shoes were almost
unknown. These farmers had lived on
their little capital until nothing remained.
Most of them have been living on kind of
porridge made by cooking frozsn green
wheat and oats-stuff not fit 10 feed q hog.
One family had not seen any flour for six
weeks and nearly all were entirely out of
-four. The people have been dividing with
each other their potatoes until now they
are gone, too
BAD BUT NOT FATAL.
BRoOKHAvEN, Miss, Jan. IA south
bound passenger train on the Illinois Gen.
trail railway, while running thirty miles
an hour, last evening, at Cedar Hill
switch, two miles south of this place, ran
into an open switch, teescoped a box car
loaded with lumber and completely
smoker, ladies' car and sleeper were all
derailed, the smoker being turned bottom
up. The mail, baggage and ladies' cars
were thrown at right angles across the
track. Engn Jarvis and a negro fire.
man were badly shaken up and somewhat
bruised, and one or two passengers were
slightly scratched. Apassenger describes
the wreck as the worst he ever saw, and
h o. 4: IoI =,
ply miraculous.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF A BOILER.
PITTSBURGH Pa. Jan. I'm New Hope,
Mercer County, w. Va, Saturday after
noon, a number of farmers gathered at
William Porter's grist mill to get their sup
plies of -four, and numb II were talking in
the boiler house when the boiler exploded,
completely wreckiug the mill. Joseph E.
French, Thomas Carter. Levi Shields and
John Winner were instantly killed, their
bodies bang blown into shreds, and Eli
Shields died from injuries to-day. Pieces
of flesh have dropped from the arms of
Wade Shufilebargers expos ng the bones,
and his death will soon come. Jerome
Carter and William Carter were also Sc
riously injured. The explosion is said to
be due to the carelessness of the engineer
&
low.
HOW THE KATE ROBBINS SANK.
VICKsBURG. Miss, Jan. 7.-Captain
Johnston, who was commander of the
steamboat Kate Robbins which sank Sat-
urday morning, has arrived here from the
scene of the accident. He says the steam
er struck n b .dden obs ruction on the lar
board siie of her hull, about opposite the
fire doors, and sank in about five minutes,
settling about ten feet from the shore,
with eight feet on the port and five feet on
the shore side. He thinks the steamer can
be raised and a diver is en- route from
Cairo aud barges will be sent up to-day.
STORM IN FRANCE.
PARIS, Jan. IA violent storm has oc-
Cured in enees-Orientales. Streams
have overlooked their banks and the
streets of Persignan and the country
round about are flooded. Communication
has been stopped, an enormous amount of
damage has been done and much distress
caused. 1t is feared that the storm also
wrecked vessels.
A fellow staff officer" of Lieutenant.
Colonel G. A. Forsyth, recently sentenced
by court martial for The ofense of duplicat.
ing his pay, writes as follows: Poor San.
dy Forsyth! The first time I saw him he
was being carried in a blanket, smiling. but
desperately wounded, from the battlefield
Of Beverly Ford; the next time saw him he
had reported for duty on crutches rather
than be dropped from the rolls. In the last
year of the war, and for years afterward, he
was Sheridan's right-hand man for any
desperate enterprise on the field. His
Indian fight against almost hopeless odds
is perhaps the most famous on record. What
tempted him to the trouble he has made for
himself, his pretty young wife, and his
boy, no one who knows him can fathom.