The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-20
steamer Was Trying to Make Crow
ellis Landing When the Wind
Suddenly Capsized Her.
PANIC CAUSED BY RUM0R
HUNDREDS OF FRANTIC ITALIANS
SCREAMED AND PRAYED.
Bulletin Announcing the Loss of the
Islander Was Thought to Mean
Newark Excursion Steamer.

PADUCAH, Ky, Aug. 19.-The steamer
City of Golconda. plying between this city
and Elizabethtown. Ill, struck by a
souall during a storm about o'clock to-
night, as she was en- route to Paducah, and
turned over in ten feet of water. six miles
above the city, as she was going into Crow
ellis Landing. Seventeen or twenty persons
are reported drowned. A partial list of the
lost follows:
MISS LIZZIE GRAHAM, Grahamville.
Ky.
MISS TRIXIE GRIMES. niece of Miss
Graham, Grahamville. Ky.
COLONEL TURNER. Smithland, Ky.
CHAYLON GORDON. Smithland. Ky.
WILLIAM WEBB, Smithland, Ky.
WATTS DAVIS, Livingston county, Ken
lucky.
MRS. DAVE ADAMS. Smithland Ky.
MISS LUCY BARNETT, niece of Mrs.
Adams. Smithland, Ky.
CLARENCE SLAYDEN, Lola, Ky.
MRS. w. A. HOGAN, TWO SONS AND
DAUGHTER, Paducah. Ky.
WILL WOODS, Golconda, Ill, deckhand
HORACE RONDEAU, Golconda, Ill.
deckhand.
DEE JACKSON, Paducah, Ky, deckhand.
GEORGE STANSBERRY.
The disaster occurred as supper was
served, and many of the seventy-five pas
sengers were in the cabin. The wind struck
the boat without warning. and there was
no time for those on the inside to escape.
Captain Jesse Bauer and Pilot K. Z. Peck
were the last to leave the boat and swim
to shore They saved several struggling in
the water and left the survivors in a house
near the bank and came to the city.
Captain Bauer. who arrived here two
hours after the catastrophe, said: THE
squall struck her and she listed. Several
passengers, who were inside, jumped over
board and were caught by the boat. The
ladies' all of whom were in the cabin could
not be reached The boat settled down in
ten feet of water over a reef. and two
of the men who were in the cabin-H. L.
Wortcn and n. S. Quartermcuse. of Hamp-
ton-broke through the glass and were
saved Three colored deckhands saved
the only woman saved. A yawl that had
broken loose was caught by some of those
struggling in the water and taken to the
bank We returned to the boat after this,
but could find no signs of life, and returned
to shore"
The boat was valued at about $4,000, and
had been in the trade for several years,
being owned by Captain Otto Bauer. of
Golconda, Ill. There is way to de-
termine the number or names of the dead
until the boats books are found.
The Mary N, which went to the scene.
returned at 80 o'clock tonight with
those saved. They report that ten women
were drowned and the total number of
those who perished will reach seventeen
or twenty. None of the bodies was recov-
ered as the rescuers could not get into the
cabin. The only woman saved Mrs.
Hayden wife of the engineer.
Divers are at work tonight trying to
recover the bodies. Miss Lizzie Graham is
a daughter of one of the wealthiest tobacco
manufacturers of Paducah and is promi-
nent In society. She would have been mar
red shortly. Miss Trixie Grimes, of Gra-
hamsvile was also of a prominent family.
Mrs w. A. Hogan, while trying to rescue
her three children, pulled all four down.
The boat is valued at $4,000 and is in
sured for 5000.
James McAllister. of St. Louis, paralyzed
partially in his lower limbs. swan ashore.