The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-22
Seventeen Bodies Recovered from
the Wreck of the Steamer
City of GoIconda.
MOST OF THE DEAD ARE WOMEN
Charges That the Officers Were
Reckless in Handling the Boat.
Only One Woman on Board Saved
Farmer Who just Kept Climb
ing-Further of the ISL
ander Disaster.

Paducah, KY, Aug. 21.-The horror
of the City of Golconda disaster at
Cottonwood bar four miles above Pa
ducah, Monday night, is just begin
ming to be fully comprehended by the
people of Paducah, as body after body
| is brought into the city and taken to
| the undertakers'. The boats register
has not vet been recovered, but it is
certain the death list will number sew
enteen, and perhaps twenty-five. A.
| A. Peck, the pilot, claims that 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.
Charge of Reck1essness Is Made,
Frank Enders, one or the passen-
gers, corroborated by several others,
declares that the effort to land brought
| the side of the boat around so that the
wind struck it full force There Lad
been almost a gale blowing for ten
minutes, and one man who could not
swim went to the pilot house and
|
finally consent to land, the hurricane,
visible as a huge black streak sweep
| ing acros the river, struck the boat as
it swung around in a position least
able to resist it.
Recovery of the Bodies.
Early Yesterday morning the work
of searching for the remains began, the
| party being led by Charles Graham,
1 Ono M
brother, whose sister was among the
dead. Three bodies were recovered in
the forenoon, those of Miss Trixie
Grimes. Miss Lucy Barnett and Mrs.
David Adams Miss Barnett's face
was badly lacerated. In the afternoon
| the bodies of Miss Graham and Mrs.
". A Hogan and Lucille, her 6-year-
| old daughter, were recovered. The
position of the limbs and the express.
| sion on the faces, as we'll as scratches
and bruises, indicated a fierce strug
| gle when the prisoners were caught in
the little cabin, like rats. The reason
the work of recovery is so slow is be-
cause the furniture is piled on the
bodies.
He "Just Kept Climbing"
Philip Boulware, travelling sales
is, a trave ng man for George d.
Barnes & Co., of st. Louis, had mar
row escapes. and when they were
thrown into the water caught several
posts on the boat which successfully
broke They finally got on top of the
| inverted hull, and there found farm
er who was not even wet. He eX-
planned this by saying he Gust kept
climbing"
| The Only Woman Who Was Saved.
Mrs Charles Hayden, of Metropolis,
Ills, the only woman saved, is badly
| bruised When she went down she
chung to her child, and 10th were
finally saved by rousters. When the
boat capsized she was sitting on the
| lower guards, so she could be near her
| husband, the engineer.
Names of Seventeen Dead.
Following are the names of those
known to be dead: Miss Lizzie Ora
ham, Of Grahamvilles Miss Lucy Bar
nett, of Smithland: Miss Trixie
Grimes, of Grahamville; Mrs. W. A.
Hogan and three children-Ira aged
1W, Wallace (aged 8 and Lucille
! (aged 6)-of Paducah; Miss May Elem
| ing, of Birdsville; Mrs. David Adams,
Of Smithland; Mr.. Watts Davis, Of
Livingstone county: Clarence Slayden,
! of lola, KY; Wallace Bennett, of Tolu,
KY; D. Jackson (colored), of Paducah;
Will Woods, George Washington, Hor-
ace Rondeau and George Sandsburg,
all colored of Golconda.
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