The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-21
SCORE ARE THOUGHT DEAD
Culpable CareleSSneSS Caused
 the Great Disaster.
Only One of the Women on Board the Steamer Was Saved-Sev- eral Miraculous Escapes
 From Death.

Paducah Ky, Aug. 2o.-The horror of the City of Golconda disaster at Cottonwood Bar, four miles above Pa ducah, last night, is just beginning to be fully oomprehended by the people of Paducah as body after body is brought into the city and taken to the undertakers. The boats register has not yet been recovered, but it is cer- tain the death list will number 11 and probably P. An official investigation will be made as it seems certain that the most cu!pable carelessness caused the catastrophe.
 A. A. Peck, the pilot. claims the en- gineer deserted his post and that he could not manage the boat with the engines helpless. The engineer denies this and claims that he remained at the throttle until the water was waist deep.
 Frank Enders. one of the passengers. corroborated by several others, de- clares that the effort to land brought the side of the boat around so that the wind struck it full force. There had been almost a gale blowing for ten minutes and ona man who could not swim went to the pilot house and begged the pilot to land. When he did 1OhSCHt to lIS uoAlkC visible as a huge black streak sweep ing across the river. struck the boat as 1t swung around in position least able to resist 1t.
 Bodies Recovered.
 Three bodies were recovered in the forenoon. those of Miss Trixie Grimes and Miss Lucy Barnett and Mrs. David Adams. Miss Barnett's face was ba lily Iapara ted srhis affarpnnn ha hodiAo of Miss Graham and Mrs. w. A. Ho- gan and Lucille, her six-year- old daughter. were recovered. The position of the limbs and the expression on the faces as well as scratches and bruises. indicate a fierce struggle when the prisoners were caught in the little cabin like rats. All the bodies were brought here and prepared for burial. The reason the work of recovery Is so slow is because the furniture Is piled on their bodies. The boat is being dis- mantled as she lies in as feet of water in order that the dead may be reached. A sickening odor already emanates from the wreck, and hundreds of peo- pie are on the scene as spectators and volunteer assistants.
 Philip Boutware, a travelling sales man of Paducah, and Archibald Lewis,
 
 X Co. of St. Louis, had narrow escapes When they were thrown into the water, they caught several posts on the boat which successively broke. They finally got on top of tke inverted hull and there found a farmer who was not even wet. He explained this by saying he just kept climbing"
 Mrs. Charles Hayden of Metropolis, H., the only woman saved, is badly bruised. When she went down she clung to her child and both were saved.
 Saved by a Miracle.
 Postmaster Garner of Bay City, H., was saved by miracle. He went down in the wreckage and a, drowning rOuster caught his feet. He was able to get but four fingers above the water and Clerk Clarence Coker saw. them and pulled him out.
 Frank Binders. a nephew of Police Judge Sanders of this city, was sitting in the gangway when the lurch came. He kept climbing, and when he reached the hull of the boat saw two men drown.
 The whereabouts of yMr. Hogan. hus- band of one of the women. and the three children drowned, is unknown. He travels for the Clark Grocery Com pany of St. Louis.
 The TolloWlnS N the latest llst or the known dead:
 rSiss Lizzie Graham, Grahamville, Ky; Miss Lucy Barnett. Smithland, Ky: Mrs. David Adams. smithland, Ky; Miss TriKie Grimes, Grahams- vile. Ky. Miss May Fleminng, Birds vile: Mrs. ". A. Hogan and three children of Isaducah, Ky; Watts Da- wis. Livingstone County; Clarence Stayden. Lola. Ky; Wallace Bennett Tolu, KY: D. Jackson. colored. Padu- cah, Ky! Will Woods. colored. Golcon- da; George Washington, colored, Col conda: Horace Rondeau, colored. Col conda;, George Sandsburg, colored, Col condS..