The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-08-24
WRECK OF GOLCONDA
Further Details of Disaster Near
Paducah, KY.
List of Seventeen Persons known to
Have Perished-Six Women and
Three Children Among
the Victims.

Paducah, KY, Aug. 21.-The horror
of the City of Golconda disaster at Cot
tonwood Bar, four miles above Pa
ducah, Monday night, is just beginning
to be fully comprehended by the peo-
pie 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
certain the death list will number ~
and perhaps %. An official investiga-
ton will be made, as it seems certain
that the most culpable carelessness
caused the catastrophe.
The Victims.
The list of known deadis asfollows:
Miss Lucy Graham; of Grahamvilie; Miss
Lucy Barnett, of Smithland: Miss Trixie
Grimes. of Grahamville; Mrs. w. A. Hogan
and three ehildren-Ira. aged ten: Wal
lace. aged eight. and Lucille. aged six, of
Paducah; Mr.. Watts Davis. Of Living
stone county; Clarence slayden. of lola,
KY; Wallace Bennett, of Tolu. KY; D.
Jackson (colored), of Paducah: Will
Woods (colored), Golconda; George WASH
tngton (colored), Golconda; Horace Rom
deau (colored), Golconda; George Sands
burg (colored), Golconda; Mrs. David Ad-
ans, Smithland: Miss May Fleming, Birds
vile.
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 boats side around SO that the wind
struck it full force. There had been
almost 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 position least able to re-
sist it.
Early Tuesday morning the work of
searching for the remains began, the
party being led by Charles Graham,
county clerk, and Luther Graham, his
brother, whose sister was among the
dead. Three bodies were recovered in
the forenoon, those of Miss Trxie
Grimes, Miss Lucy Barnett and Mrs.
David Adams. Miss Barnett's face was
badly liberated. In the afternoon the
bodies of Miss Graham and Mrs. w. A.
Hogan and Lucille, her six-year-old
daughter, were recovered. The posi-
ton of the limbs and the expression on
the faces, as we'll as scratches and
bruises, indicated 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 up on the bodies.
The boat is being dismantled, as she
lay in is feet of water, in order that
the dead may now be reached. A sick
ening odor already emanates from the
wreck and hundreds of people are on
the scene as spectators and volunteer
assistants. The crowd is so thick that
the wreclking crew has great difficulty
in wrecking. Groups of sad-visa ged
people dotted the wharf here all day
awaiting tidings from the rescuers.
while the par,ors of the Richmond ho-
tel were filled with weeping women.
Mrs. Charles Hayden, of Metropolis,
ILL.,. the only woman saved, is badly
bruised. When she went down she
clung to her child. and both were final
ly saved by ronsters. She was sitting
on the lower guards, so she could be
near her husband, the engineer, when
the boat turned over.
The whereabouts of Mr.. Hogan, hus-
band of one of the women and the
three children drowned, are unknown.
He travels for the Clark Grocery com
pany, of ST. Louis.