The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25
In a Helpless Condition
After She Strikes.
Some Passengers Rescued By
Boats From the Shore.
Johnstown Once More Suffer-
ing From the Flood.
The High Waters Doing Great DAM
age All Along the Valley.

CNoINNATI, O., Feb. 1.-THE steamer
Sherlock struck Kentucky pier of the
Chesapeake & Ohio bridge going down the
river on trip to New Orleans. She had
on board thirty passengers, about fifty or
sixty OF the boats crew. The boat went
10 pieces and floated down to Fifth-st.
where she sank. She had on board 400
tons OF freight. The cabin foated down
the river and at Riverside some of the
crew got ashore in n skif. Some were
rescued at First-st. 1t is not known how
many arc lost.
It was after o'clock tonight when the
steamer Sherlock OF the Cincinnati and
New Orleans line, under command OF
Cap. Mcintyre, backed out from
her wharf and started down
the river on her last trip.
She had aboard from thirty to thirty-fve
passengers and a crew of fifty to sixty
men. The river was high. the wind was
strong, and as the steamer approached
the Chesapeake d Ohio railroad bridge
nearly all the passengers were on deck
to gee how near the boats chimney would
come to the bridge. Their curiosity was
! soon changed to lear rs they saw the boat
| apparently at the mercy OF the wind and
| the current, and in a moment, with ter
! ribie crash in the darkness, the boat struck
| the stone pier of the bridge and it was
utterly helpless.
At this writing no account OF the acct
| dent from any one on the boat has been
| given, but Dir, James Pickett of the Ken
/ ton county boat club was on the Kentucky
| shore and observed something unusual in
| the boats movements. Instead of going
toward the wide center span she
moved toward the Kentucky span where
! the curr ut is. He saw that she seemed
! to be unmanageable and that she was too
| close to the pier. and to his horror he saw
her strike about the wheel house on the
| Kentucky side of the pier She
| chung there for short time
and gave distress signals Pickett manned
/ boats with what help ne could mmand
and went to the help of the distressed
/ passengers. He succeeded IN picking off
six women and seven men, following the
! floating vessel as she left the pier and
| floated down the angry river He SAYS he
| saw some of tho crew swimming ashore.
| He saw two on raft OF three boards,
and he thinks he saw many struggling in
| the water When the steamer reached
| the Fifth-st. wharf, after narrowly missing
"a Southern railroad bridge pier on the
way, the hull sank, leaving the cabin
with the passengers afioat. Here some OF
! the people managed to get ashore.
The harbor steamer A. l.. Martin was
| hastily sent after the floating cabin, and
caught it at Riverside, several miles be.
1 "a loff
hastily taken aboard and returned to the
city. 1t is said they were remarkably
brave during their season OF peril, and
that, with few exceptions, the women
were more courageous than the men, even
when death seemed certain.
Mrs. Mclean of Pi!tsburg was instantly
killed by falling freight at the time of the
| collision. Among the saved are Pres Ellis
| sion, second clerk and his sister; Mrs.
Willard and daughter of Columbus, o.;
Mrs. Connors OF Columbus, o. Anthony
! Davis and Isam Reynolds. colored deck
| hands, got 10 shore in yawl.
| The Sherlocks was eighteen years old,
valued at $4,000, and insured for $4,000.
| She had 400 tons of freight consisting OF
nails, paper, bottled beer, glassware and
| miscellaneous freight.
| There were twenty-one registered pas
| sengers and nine not registered.
| ID. II. Key, wife and daughter of Cleve-
land were saved by Mr.. Pickett, Mr. Key
offered $l0to his rescuer, not knowing who
! he was, and was surprised to bear his
offer refused. II is now known certainly
that Mrs. Mclean of Pittsburg and her
grand daughter, Margery Brown of Pitts
burg, were the only ones OF the twenty
one registered passengers lost. OF the
nine unregistered passengers, whether
Ii is believed every one OF the official
crew was saved. In respect to the cabin
| and deck crew there is a painful uncer-
tainty. Persons are reported as es-
Gaping to shore for quite q
distance along the river in
| Covington. Many believe several are lost.
| The rescued are SO scattered about on both
sides of the river tonight that it is impos-
sible to make a tally of the living and the
missing.
CINCINNAT1. Feb. IS.-Mr. Mclean of
| Pittsburg, whose vile was killed by the
accident TO the steamer Sherlock last
night. had the melancholy sat
| isfaction this morning OF hearing that the
body OF his little granddaughter. Margery
| L. Brown, had been received at Riverside,
where the upper works of the boat were
beached last night. Beyond these two
there is vet no positive assurance of loss Of
life, although number of persons on and
about the wreck tell of seeing bodies in
the water and of seeing them apparently
sink
An accusation is made by one OF the
cabin-boys that the mate and engineer on
the boat were both drunk and that the
crew was short. He will be held as a
witness. 1t is true that the colored deck-
hands demanded dollar day instead of
S25 a month, Just before the boat started,
and being refused, they went ashore, a
circumstance that no doubt saved the lives
OF the passengers.
Mr.. VIII c. Lepper, supposed to have
been drowned, put in an appearance to-
day He said he had fearful struggle in
the river and had no strength to go be-
yond the waters edge on the Kentucky
shore, where he lay until he was found by
citizens, who took him to house in Cow
ington.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 17.--Fitch M. Adams,
a we'll known business man in this city,
was drowned at Chgrin falls today. He
was in boat inspecting damage done by
the high water and was carried over the
fails.
AT PITTSBURG.
Tho Present Rise BIDS Fair 60 Rival the