The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-01-26
STRUCK A ROCK.
Wreck of the Steamer State of
Missouri.
The Vessel Goes Down in the Ohio River
Near Alton. Ind. Forty Persons Re.
ported to Have Been Lost
swift Destruction.


New orleans packet. the state OF Mis- .
souri,, struck rock on the Indiana side !
of the Ohio near Alton. Ind. about q |
o'clock Saturday evening. and went !
down in 80 feet Of water. She gave \
heavy lurch forward and rapidly sank.
Fonr passengers of the City of Owens |
boro passing here yesterday evening
were picked up near the Kentucky
shore. They swan for life
on planks and reached the Will
lows. One reached the shore
and the otners remained in tree MANY
hours until rescued. These passengers
report that the boat struck rock near
the stern. and gave sudden lurch
forward. A yswl was sSwnched, but
so many people crowded into it that It
was soon sunk. As the boat lurched
again q second yawl was put OF from
the sinking boat, in which four
women passengers and some of the
cabin passengers managed to get places.
man named Leathers never swan
before. but managed to keep adoat
until he reached the Willows He saw
four men drowned near him, but was
poweriess to act. Que chambermaid
was picked up by q boat from q farm
house near by and several rescued pas
sengers were picked up further on and
taken mp to Louisville by the steamer
Tell City. One yswl that was upset by
frantic passengers was full of women
and children, and all are thought to bs
lost. There were fifteen cabin and
thirty deck passengers and crew Of
sixty on board. The surviving passen-
gers think that at least forty were lost.
When the vessel struck the rock she
ripped the starboard side open from
one end TO the other and in less than
Eve minutes she WAS complete wreck.
The crew and passengers, nearly 100
in all, were paralyzed st the shock and
before anything could be done the ves-
sci was almost completely under water.
The upper deck broke away and hoated
on. Nearly everybody jumped into
the river and made for the shore some
100 yards away.
The State Of Missouri left Cincinnati
for New Orleans Friday afternoon with
twenty passengers and = crew of be-
tween seventy-Hve and eighty, most of
the latter negroes. The passengers were
all ticketed through to New Orleans.
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