The age-herald., 1901-08-21
CARELESSNESS
 CAUSED AWFUL
 CATASTROPHE Horror of Sinking of Ga|cOnda Just DaWns on People
 of Paducah BODIES BEING RECOVERED
Pilot Says the Engineer Deserted His Post When the Hurricane Ap- proached-Mlraculous Escapes
 During the Excitement.
THE DEAD.

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 Miss Lizzie Graham, GrahamvlIIe, Ky.
 Miss Lucy Barnett, SmithIand, Ky.
 Mrs. David Adams, Smithland, Ky.
 Miss Trixie Grimes, GrahamvilIe.
 Miss May Fleming, Birdsville.
 Mrs. w. A. Hogan and three children of Paducah.
 Watts Davis oi Livingstone County. Clarence SIayden of Lola, Ky. Wallace Bennett of ToIu, Ky. D. Jackson, a negro, Paducah. Will Woods, a negro, Golconda. George Washington, negro, Col conda.
 Horace Rondeau, negro, GoIconda.
 George Sandsburg, a negro, Col conda.
 Paducah, Ky, August 20.-The horror Of the City of Golconda disaster at Cotton wood bar, four miles above Paducah. last night, is just beginning to be fully com prehended 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 1t Is certain the death list will number seventeen and probably twenty-two. An official investigation will be made, as 1t seems certain that the most culpable care lessness 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 engine helpless. The engineer denies this and | claims that he remained at the throttis' until the water was waist deep.
  corroborated by several others, declares that the efforts to land brought the side of the boat around so that the wind struck 1t full force. There had been al- most a gale blowing for ten minutes, and one man who could not swim went to the pilot-house and begged the pilot to land. When he did finally consent to land the hurricane, visible as a huge black streak sweeping across The river. struck the boat as it swung around in a position least able to resist 1t.
 Recovering the Bodies.
 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 badly lacerated.
 This afternoon the bodies of Miss Gra- ham and Mrs. W. A. Hogan and Lucille. her 6-year-old daughter, were recovered. The position of the limbs and the ex- pression on the faces as well as scratches and bruises indicate 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 the bodies. The boat is being dismantled as she lays in eighteen feet of water in order that the dead may be reached. A sickening odor already emanates from the wreck and hundreds of people are on the scene as spectators and volunteer assistants. Philip Boutware travelling salesman of Paducah, and Archibald Lewis. a travelling man for George D. Barnes & 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 the 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. | Ill., the only woman saved, IS badly bruised. When she went down she clung | ito her child and both were saved Miraculous Escapes. Postmaster Garner of Bay City, Ill., was saved by a miracle. He went down in the wreckage and a drowning rouster caught his foot. He was able to get but four fingers above the water and clerk Clarence Cooker saw them and pulled him out.
 Frank Enders, a nephew of Police Juxe Sanders of this city, was sitting on 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 MT Hogan, husband of one of the women and three children drowned. Is unknown. He travels for the Clark Grocery Company of St. Louis
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