Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-09
ONE DAY OF DISASTERS
A Big Steamboat Sunk Tn the
 River at Cincinnati.
NUMBER OF DROWNED UNKNOWN.

Eight Persons Are Known to Re Dead, and
 Others May He Lost-A Train of Pullman
 Cars Wrecked In Georgia and Many Pas
 sengers From the North Injured.
 CINCINNATI, March 9.-The death list D far as known from the river disaster, in which the magnificent New Orleans steam CT Longfellow was crushed on bridge pier and sunk in less than five minutes, is as follows:
 David Aldrich, Rome. N. Y.; missing; believed to be lost. His wife is at the Palace hotel, this city.
 First Clerk J. L. Carter, Newport Ky. ; missing; certainly lost.
 Augustus Chauvet, barkeeper, New Or leans; surely lost; body not recovered.
 James Miller, colored porter, Cincinnati 1; certainly lost; body not recovered.
 Mrs. W. J. Aull, Dayton, O.. body re- covered and at the morgue
 MT. W. J. Aull, Dayton, O. ii; certainly lost; body not recovered.
 Unfortunately the complete list of tho lost may never be known. All the records of the steamer were lost with it, and no passenger list is ever left ashore. For hours there were rumors of tho loss of an Invalid young woman from New York, ac- companicd by female physician, but the 
 steamer that all the passengers were res cued except Mir. Aldrich and the state ment of passengers that there was no pan ic or wild rushing for safety led to the hope that tho rumor was groundless.
 Late in the afternoon in a portion of wrcckage which had been landed somo dis tanoe below the city the body of a young woman was found. She was wearing a satin night dress, and black skirt was about her feet, as if sho had been in the act of dressing A small satchel was in her hand, but it contained nothing to identify her
 Wrecked on the Bridge Piers.
 Tho accident was one of peculiar horror. It was daylight, the fog had disappeared, and tho great steamer fearful of peril oi passing tho bridge piers, had been given the assistance of the powerful towboat Hercules Carroll.
 When almost upon the pier, the pilot found himself confronted with an alarm ing condition. The powerful cross cur rents which no human foresight could have located caught the long steamer like Q toy and turned the bow away from tho course he had given it. At the same timC the smoke from the lowered chimney which had been let down to allow the boat
 
 scuring his vision.
 The Hercules Carroll pilot. being located almost behind the great steamer, was alsC unable to see the boats position. and mOr' likely it was not strong enough to turr its course against the treacherous current And so the fated. .Longfellow was carried like helpless thing against the cruel. i'm movable pier and crushed into 0 wreck. So quick was tho work of destruction that in five minutes not a vestige of tht great steamer was visible except bits o wreckage floating on the river. The car penter had time to go into tho hold witt l lantern, when he quickly returned witt | the report that nothing could save tht Longfellow from immediately sinking. Florida vestibule Train Wrecked. MACON, March Gone of the wors railroad wrecks that has occurred in thi vicinity for many years took place at Scot | land, Ga. The Florida vestibule trail | from Atlanta to Brunswick and Jackson vile. running at the rate of 50 miles aI hour, struck a misplaced switch. The on tire train was derailed. and nearly ever, car was thrown upon its side.
 The train was crowded with .passenger bound for Florida, and the fact that onl, | b"O OL JHeSS IOSb IlNeS IS COuSlOoTbS miraculous. Mrs. O. H. Subers of Pick ems, Miss, and her 5-year-old daughte were killed.
 | Of the rest five or six received sever bruises and strains, but the majority wer only slightly injured.
 There were three Pullman cars on tn train, one of which was occupied almos | entirely by tho Roland Reed theatrica company, which was to have opened il Jacksonville last night It was here thu the greatest number of the injured wer found.
 MT. Reed had his back and leg badl, injured. Other members of the compan, were Miss Mary Myers. New York Jame Douglass, Brooklyn; Miss Isadore Rush New York, and Julian Roed, Philadelphia all slightly injured.
 Tho company cancelled its date at Jack sonville and returned to Atlanta. In on of the other Pullmans were MT. and Mrs Hoffner of Elida, O.; Mrs. R. H. Morton of Cincinnati and W. R. Bernan of Nov York. who were slightly injured.
 Mrs Subers and her young daughter who were killed, wero in the forward oar which received the first full shock of tn derailment. Singularly enough, Mrs. Su bers' nursing babe, carried in her arms was uninjured by the shock that crushe out its mothers life and was found afte the wreck still clinging to her silent form | The male passengers who were able do so worked hard to rescue their less fol tunate companions from the upturned an broken cars. MT. Reed, in spite of his ow injuries, was active in this work and res cued three of tho imprisoned ladies.