Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-01-26
A BIG PACKET SUNK
Steamer State of Missouri
in SO Feet of Water,
MANY ARE SAID TO BE LOST
Survivors state That Boat Load of Pas
senger- Was Overturnei ans Lost
But the Report Is Denied.

Greensboro KY. Jan. 20.-The big
New Orleans packet, the State of Mis-
souri, struck a rock on the Indiana side
OF the Ohio river near Alton. Ind. about
6 y. M, last evening and went down in
SO feet of wafer She gave a heavy
lurch and rapidly sank. Four passen
gers on the City of Owensboro. passing
here this evening. were picked UP near
the Kentucky shore. They swan for
their lives on planks and reached the
Willows, one reached the shore and the
others remained in the trees until res
cued They were W. c. feathers. from
Hopkins county. Kentucky. and man
named Gregory OF Cave-in- Rock. Ill
The names Of the other two could not
be learned.
These passengers say that the steam
er hit "A rock near her stern and gave a
4 sudden lurch yawl was launched,
/ but so many people crowded into IL
/ that It was soon sunk. Az the boat
t lurched again "a second yawi was put
1 on IN which four women passengers
and some OF the cabin passengers man
aged e. get places feathers never
swan before. but managed 10 keep
afioat until he reached the willows. He
/ saw four men drown near him. but was
powerless to act, one chambermaid
was picked up by boat from a farm
house near by. and several passengers
were picked up further on and taken t.
Louisville by the steamer Falls City.
One Of the yawls that was upset was
fun OF women and children and all are
thought to be lost.
There were IL cabin and 30 deck pas
sengers and crew of so on board. The
surviving passengers think that at least
80 We're lost The cabin and upper
works Of the boat fioated away. The
pilot house was towed ashore at Rock.
port The city OF owensboro got oui
part Of the cabin freight from the cabin
deck.
In less than 10 minutes time from IN,
time the boat struck she had gon,
down At Roekport and here, as wei
as at all intermediate points, the banh
Is lined with skiffs picking up pieces D
furniture and watching for dead bodies
but the current was too swift for small
craft TO go out far. No names Of thos'
drowned can be learned here. The hoa
Is total loss,
CLAIM NO LIVES WERE LOST
Cincinnati Jan. 20. Commodor
{ I.aidley and Captain Wise, officers Q
the Cincinnati, Memphis a New Dfleau
G Packet Company which owned tn
6 State Of Missouri insist that they hay
reports from their officers on til
c wrecked steamer stating that the boa
) and the entire cargo are total loss
e but they do not believe any passenger
: were lost. IL Is impossible TO get trac
n Of all who reached either bank Of tn
: river. but they report that the officer
i are ~ the opinion that all the passen
V gers viii be accounted for. one OF IN
/ pilots telegraphed his family here tina
Z they had hard time getting to shor,
4 but that no lives were lost.
i The State of Missouri left this cit
). last Friday Most az her crew are froI
> this city. and private dispatches froi
J them 10 their friends and families a
i well as from Captain Wise. say the
y are safe and no lives were LOST TIL
+ Enquirer's special says i've men wel
4 rescued tonight below tile scene of ii
i wreck. They had been elinglng to ii
/, trees
! The Commercial Gazette's specii
= says seven passengers We're picked 4
/, in bad condition ut HawesVille. X
/, Advices 70 both OF these papers up
=. 1890 o'clock indicate that no lives wei
lost