Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-29
The Loss Of Human Life is Not Yet
Known.
JOHN BULLS LUCKY SEALERS.
Argentine sGovernment Announces
a Victory for Itself.
THE NEWS OF THE DAY BY WIRE.
THE PATAPsCO COLLISION.
Searching Today for the Drowned Ex
cursionists without Success.

BALTIMORE, Nd, July ga crowded excur-
SION steamer, the Louise. returning from Toll
chester Beach with 400 souls on board last
night crashed into the Bay Line steamer Vir-
ginia, bound for Norfolk. at Fort Carroll In
an instant merriment was changed to horror,
mad shrieks filed the air, children were
trampled under feet, strong men rudely pushed
aside weak women, all in an insane endeayor
to get away from danger.
Three persons were almost instantly killed,
number were badly injured and ten persons
are still missing. The dead are: Mrs. Keyser.
Chas. Granger, five years old; Daniel Koop.
ten years old. Among the injured Adolph
Miller cannot recover and others are sure to
die of their injuries.
1t is now believed that those reported as
missing jumped overheard and were drowned.
Search has been made all the morning for
bodies, but none have thus far been re-
covered.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
This Is the most appalling accident to an ex-
cursion party since the Tivoli disaster in 1873.
The Louise Of the Colchester Steamboat Com
pany was coming up with 1000 passengers
The Virginia Of the Old Bay Line was bound
to Norfolk. The Louise was running at about
IL miles an hour and the Virginia at about II
miles. Both vessels were in their right posi-
tions in the channel, but tug, going out with
three e-masted schooner in tow bore down in
the middle Of the channel, showing both lights
The Louise signaled with her whistle for the
tug to pass on her port side. The Virgins
answered the signal of the Louise and before
the latter had time to answer back the tug 60,
between, and both steamers veering their
course, the Virginia struck the Louise on the
starboard side abaft of the wheel house and
ran half through her.
Fifty persons are missing and are supposed to
have jumped overheard in the confusion. The
scenes around the pier last night were heart
rending. Thousands of persons were looking
for their relatives and they could not be per.
suaded to leave. The officers of the boat were
trying to comfort them. Men and women
rushed from all parts of the city to the pier
and Light street wharf became scene of con-
fusion. Nobody knows how many people were
killed or drowned The officers of the Louise
think at least
SEVENTEEN JUMPED OVERHEARD,
but this is supposed to be small estimate. as
the Louise was struck in a place where the
largest crowd congregates on the upward pas.
sage. Ane ohucinS saloon, the ladies cabin
and the ice-cream saloon are all on the main
deck, just where the Virginia struck her and
the Virginia went half through her, knocking
not only half of that deck through, but shat
tering the joiner work of the hurricane deck
into splinters. The Virginia kept on her way:
the tug did the same. The captain of the Louise
stopped his vessel and lowered his boats, but
in the darkness could not find any of the miss
ing. The sea was running high and a heavy
mist hung over the bay. When he arrived at
his pier at Light street the captain Immediately
telephoned to all the police stations that there
were three dead on board
The news spread rapidly, and as the friends
Of the killed had them taken away the crowd
followed, shouting: stop, let us see their
faces; we have missing ones, too" and as the
body Of Mrs. Marshall was taken out covered
with an oil cloth spread, a mob, as it might be
called, would not allow the body to be taken
from the pier until they had looked upon her
face. Latest reports estimate the missing at
from seventy-fve to eighty, but from the con-
fusion the number cannot be definitely esti-
mated. 1t will, however, probably be not less
than fifty.