St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-25
FIVE WOMEN FATALLY INJURED
ON THE STEAMER CITY
OF TOLEDO.
\ DISASTER NEAR HOME.
COLLISION WITH A SCHOONER
OFF PREsQUE ISLE WITH
SERIOUS RESULTS.
THE DECK WORKS TORN UP.
Half n Hundred of Her Passengers
Caught in WrecI2age and
Injured.

TOLEDO, O., Aug. 24.-For the
second time this week it has been
necessary for the tugs to tow in
from the bay vessels injured by
collisions. Another accident occurred
in the channel this evening that will
result fatally in at least five cases.
About 8 p. m. the passenger steamer
City of Toledo was returning from
her regular trip to Put-in-Bay. She
encountered the schooner NIagdalen
Bowling, in tow of the tug Butler, in
the strait channel just off Pressure
isle. AS the City of Toledo was
coming in she signaled to the schoon-
er to take the port side. The signals
were apparently understood, for the
tug at once commenced to sheer off,
but in doing so gave the schooner
momentum which carried her onto
a bank of mud just as the steamer
was abreast of her. She suddenly
stood off the bank and veeren into
the City of Toledo, her jib-boom
striking the passenger steamer just
forward of her gangway and tear
ing away about fifty feet of her up
per works. AS soon as the collision
occurred a panic reigned on board,
the men acting like insane persons,
most Of them taking three or four
life preservers and refusing to give
them up. The officers used every
endeavor to quiet the passengers, as
surfing them that there was no dan
ger Of the boat going down, and after
a few minutes succeeded in restor-
ing order. The schooner was pulled
away from the wreck and the debris
cleared away.
HALF A HUNDRED INJURED.
1t was found that seven persons
had been seriously injured, while at
least fifty received cuts and bruises.
A great many Of the people were
sitting directly beneath the boom
when it was pushed through the YES
sci, and those who received the most
serious injuries are:
Mrs. John Sanderson, of Ada, o.
Arms broken and injured internally;
will die
Miss Annie Zimmerman, student,
Ada, O.-WaS covered in the debris and
only her head visible; her chest is
crushed and four ribs broken and she
cannot live.
Miss Jessie Jackson, student, Ada,
O.-Fatally injured about the head and
chest.
Miss Grace Garwood. Ada, o.-Chest
crushed and internally injured; will
die.
Miss Nellie Garwood, sister of Grace
Received about the same injuries and
cannot live.
Mrs. John E. Miller, Bucyrus, o.
Crushed about the shoulders and chest;
is in a critical condition.
James Farley, Bucyrus, O.-Injured
about the lower limbs and arm broken.
The force of the COLLISION disabled
the paddle wheel of the steamer and
she was towed into the dock, where
her passengers We're landed and the in
jured ones taken to the hospital, ex-
cept Mrs. Miller and Nellie Garwood,
who were placed aboard a waiting
train and sent to their homes. The cabin
and deck of the steamer give an idea of
the force of the blow. The planking
was literally ground to pieces, and
the iron work wrenched and twisted
out of all shape. The damage to the
boat will reach $1,000. The only dam
age done to the schooner was the car
rying away of her jibboom and some
Of her canvas.