St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-18
The Steamer Sherlock Strikes
q Bridge Pier and Sinks
From Sight.
Men, Women and Children
Are Thrown Into the Icy
Water.
Some Manage to Gain the
Friendly Shore. but Many
More Are Lost.
Full List Of All the Registered
Passengers and the Boats
Crew.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 17.-The steamer
Sherlock struck Kentucky pier of the
Chesapeake & Ohio bridge going down
the river. She had on board thirty
passengers and about fifty or sixty of
the boats crew. The boat went to
pieces, and floated down to Fifth street,
where she sunk. She had on board 400
tons of freight. 1t was after Z o'clock
tonight when the steamer Sher-
lock. OF the Cincinnati g New
Orleans line, under the COM
mand of Capt. Mcintyre, backed
out from her wharf and started down the
river OH her last trip. She had aboard
from thirty to thirty-fve passengers and
crew from fifty to sixty men. The
river was high, wind strong. and, as the
vessel approached the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad bridge, nearly all the
passengers were on deck to see how
near the boats chimneys would come
to the bridge. Their curiosity was soon
changed to terror as they saw the boat
apparently at the mercy of the wind and
the current. In moment with
a Terrible Crash
in the darkness, the boat struck the
stone pier of the bridge and was utterly
helpless. At this writing no account of
the accident from any one on the boat
has been given, but James Pickett, of
the Kenton County Boat club,
was on the Kentucky shore,
and observed something unu sual
in the boats movements. In
stead of going toward the wide cen ter
span, she moved toward the Kentucky
span, where the current is. He saw that
she seemed to be unmanageable and
that she was too close to the pier, and,
to his borrow, saw her strike about the
wheelh0use on the Kentucky side of
the pier. She clung there for
short time and gave distress sig
nails. Pickett manned boats with what
help he could command, and went to
the help of the distressed passengers,
He succeeded in picking off six women
and seven men following the floating
vessel she left the pier and floated down
the angry river. He says he saw some
Of the 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 street wharf,
after narrowly missing the Southern
railroad bridge on the way,
The Hull Sunk,
leaving the cabin with the passengers
at1oat. Here some of the passengers
managed to get ashore. The harbor
steamer A. l.. Martin was hastily sent
after the floating cabin, and caught
it at Riverside. several miles below the
city. AS many as were left were
hastily taken aboard and returned
remarkably brave during their sea-
son OF peril, and that with few excep-
tiOnS the women were more courageous
than the men, and that when death
seemed certain. Mrs. McLane, of Pitts
burg, was instantly killed by falling
freight at the time of the collision.
Among the saved are:
Press Elliott. second clerk, and his
sister, Mrs. Willard and daughter, of
Columbus, o.; Mr. C0nn0rS, of COlum-
bus, o.; Anthony Davis and Sam Rey-
nolds, colored. deckhands. got ashore in
yawl. The Sherlock 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. Those
registered were:
a L. Jones and wife. for Evansville; j. Nc
Lean Of the iron and steel firm of Moorhead
& Mclean, Pitlsburg, and his wife (who was
killed.: G. McClelland Brown, aged eieven
and MaTgery Brown aged nine, grand
children of Mrs, Mclean; Louis Quinn,
Miss f: A. HAYDEN and Mr.. and
Mrs. W. Hayden, of Columbus o.; Louis e.
Ellison. of Madison. Ind; j. b. Eli. wife and
child, of Detroit; Miss NJ. Willard and daugh-
ter, of Washington q. H., O.; Mr.. and Mrs
Keye and daughter c. NJ. Nage and j. T.
Horner, of Cincinnati
The crew consisted of:
Capt. Sterling C. Mcintyre, Malcolm w
clerk; Willie Lepper, third CLERK; George
Freung and John MoorIidge, pilots;
John Lee and James Dupuy, mates;
Charles Mclean, engineer; James Van
Zant. second engineer; John Dreffer, ste W
ard; Peter Dretfer, cook: Scott Craig, second
COOK; Gus Bellew and E. W. Sutton pantry
men; Betsy Williams and Mary Moore,
chambermAids; William Bennett. carpenter:
Besides there were the usual number
of cabin and deck hands and roust-
abouts, the latter mostly colored. ID. Ii.
Keye, wife and daughter, of Cleveland,
were saved by Mr. Pickett. Mr.. keye
offered SO to his rescuer, not knowing
who he was and was surprised to hear
his offer refused.
Living and Dead.
It is known now certainly that Mrs.
Mclean, of Pitts burg, and her grand
daughter, little Margery Brown, of
Pittsburg, were the only ones of the
twenty-one registered passengers lost.
Of the nine unregistered passengers.
whether all are safe is not known.
1t is believed every one of
the official crew was saved. In
regard to the cabin and deck clerks,
there is painful uncertainty. Persons
are reported escaping to shore for quite
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 i'm
possible to make tally of the living
and the missing