The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-04-05
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
Two Mem Drowned While Cr0s.
sing the River from Cedar
City-HoW the Lives Of
Passengers are I'm
perilled.

Saturday evening at six O'Clock
while crossing the river from Cedar
City in q ski6, five men miraculously
escaped death by drowning. Two Of
the men were indeed drowned into
Inconsistencies and had it not been
for the timely assistance rendered by
those who for iull hour worked like
beavers to restore them, they would
have been heareed in death to dsy.
The e. Il A. passenger train
had just arrived at Cedar City
and As the transportation
accommodations provided consisted
of only . fragile skiff the passengers
and train crew we're either forced to
imperil their lives or be subjected to
the inconveniencies of indefinite de-
lay
Among those who we're Whiting
this side of the river to be conveyed
tn Jefferson City we're Hoo. Mont
Carnes and wife who had just arrived
tom Fulton, General Mcintyre. rep.
resentstive from Cole county, his
wife and daughter, who hkd just come
in from Columbia.
Fortunately for them no ladies we're
in the boat when it capeized, for in
such IN event they would have been
undOnhtedlv dr0Vned. A IL vsa
the passengers we're composed
of the C. 4 A. conductor, M. O.
Reyes, the baggage master, Hugo G..
Hauter. Charles Mcdonald, of Cedar
City, VIM. Carter and Henry Andre,
of Jefferson City, and the newsboy.
Nine pouches of mail matter and .
quantity of express matter having
been heaped into the skiH, the FIVE
passengers launched from shore.
The wind was blowing at q high
rate, perhaps forty miles an hour. and
from the very outeet the passen-
gers waiting to be Transferred had
grave apprehensions as to the
safety of those preceding them. The
boat bad just about reached the mid
die of the river and was just entering
between two sand bars when q heavy
gale caps;zed it and precipitated it's
contents into the icy waters.
All save two of the men held to
the boat, and only suffered from the
chilly waters, but the two unfortu.
mates who were madly dashed away
from their companions Jared most
miserahly.
One OF these, Hugo Hauter, SWAN
to within $50 feet of the shore, but
the resistless pillows soon robbed him
of his strength. and just as he was
for the last time, a colored
man plunged boldly into the stream
and dragged his unconscious form
ashore.
The other man, VIM. Carter, was
likewise in a state of insensibility
-hen rescued. He had sunk twice,
and shouted to Conductor Reyes to
tell his family goodbye, when the
brave trainman seized his sinking
body and swan ashore, or rather
close enough to the shore to be aided
by the noble co'ored man again.
The lifeless forms OF Carter and
Hunter having been landed they
were hurriedly placed in q convey
ance and carried back to Cedar City,
where after an hours work they we're
brought back to consciousness.
Such is the account of the almost
escape from death as re.
lated by one of the passengers.
Had the ladies been in the boat
they would have been drowned.
The ferry, it seems, had broken
loose from her moorings and was
drifting in the middle of the river, but
there we're two other boats on
the Jefferson City side that
might have been secured by those
whose duty it is to provide river trans.
portation.
The passengers are ell very bitter
in their denunciations of the pitiful
provisions made for their accommoda-
lion.
Children Cry for