Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-21
SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST
IN STEAMBOAT DISASTER.
Careful. INVESTIGATION SHOWS
THE ACCIDENT WORSE THAN
FIRST REPORTED.
ONLY ONE WOMAN WAS SAVED.
ACCURATE LIST on THE LOST CAN.
NOT HE HAD TILL BOATS
BOOKS ARE FOUND.

PADUCAH. Ky, August 20.--At least
seventeen lives are known to have been
lost when the river steamer City OF
Goleoada turned turtle in a wind storm
last night while the boat was being
worked into the landing at Crowells.
six miles from Paducah. There wero
sixty persons aboard.
This dead list may reach twenty-five.
The dcadt
Miss Lizzie Graham, Grnhamvt11c.
Miss Lucy Bnrpctt. Southland.
Miss Trtxtc Grimes. Grnhamvillc.
Mrs. David Adams. smi,ssIand.
Mrs. w. A. Hogan aud three chill
drcn. Ira, aged 10. Wallace, =, and
Lucille, q, of Paducah,
Mr.. watts Davis, of Ltvingston
county.
Clarence Sinyien. DoIa. Ky. gas
wallace Bcunett. rolu. ky.
Miss May Fleming, Hirdsvtllc, KY
-. JACKSON. coiorcd. Of pnducah.
VIII Woods, cotorcd. Gotconda.
George Washington, coiored, Col.
eonda.
Horace Rondeau, coiorcd, GoI-
conda.
George san-burg, coIored. GoI-
condn.
OF all the women aboard the steamer
only one. the wife of Engineer Hayden.
was saved. The passengers we're at
dinner In the cabin when the storm
struck. There was absolutely no
chance for those in the cabin to escape.
The usual rocking of steamer cap
sized by the wind was not felt. The
boat simply turned over and sunk In
ten feet of water. Captain Barr and
Pilot Peck jumped overheard and
reached the shore. where they secured
assistance and rowed around the wreck,
picking up the few who had been able
to throw themselves overheard.
OF those who were inside the cabin
when the steamer turned over, only
two-H. IL. Whorten and N. s. Quarter
nous, of Hampton. KY, escaped. they
got out by breaking a hole through tho
| glass top-work. and were picked up by
| boatg.
Captain Bauer expressed the opinion
that the people In the cabin were
drowned instantly. vnenu q
screams and declared that the accident
| happened so quickly 1t was mystery
| to him how single person escaped.
As the boats passenger list was lost.
as well as all her papers. an absolutely
accurate list of the persons drowned
has not yet been obtained.
The Golconda. which was valued at
$500. piled between this city and
Elizabethtown, Illinois. and was due
here at o'clock last evening. AS she
was the only boat coming down yester-
day the passenger list was unusually
heavy.
Three divers and salvage corps are
at work on the wrecked steamer. They
reported this afternoon that the loss OF
life exceeded twenty, but that no re-
vsed list can be had until the boat
shall have to be raised and the books,
as well as the bodies. recovered. The
divers report that the cabin, which
was closed when the storm came up, Is
full of bodies. Only three were re-
covered up to noon, those OF Miss
rrixie Grimes, Miss Lucy Barnett and
Mrs. David Adams.
The boat is rs yards from the Ken
tucky shore, in 10 feet Of water. head
down stream and difficult OF access
every way Recovery of the bodies Will
be slow work.
An OmclHi lnVeStlgdllOn VIII De Hdu0
as 1t seems certain that culpable care
lessness caused the catastrophe
A. A. Peck, the pilot, claims the engi-
neer 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 corrobor-
ated by several others, declares that the
effort to land at Crowels Landing
brought the side of the boat around SO
that the wind struck 1t full force.
There had been almost gale blowing
for ten minutes and one man, 1t is said,
went to the pilot house and begged the
pilot to land When he did finally con-
sent to land, the hurricane struck the
boat as it swung around into position
least able to resist 1t.