The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-21
STEAMER DISASTER.
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! The following are known TO have been
! aboard the City OF Pittsburg ut Cincinnati:
John Allen of Pittsburs.
! Mrs. John Allen.
| Their 10-year-old son
! Sylvester Doss, Cincinnati
| Joseph Craig of Grsndylew, Ind, grain
merchant
! II. Brunen OF Cloverport, Ky.
Mrs Arch Schrleber Of Moscow. Ohio.
Mrs Al Pritchard, Memphis Tenn.
Sarah PrItchard, II years old.
Ella Prltchard, years old, her dnugh-
tiers.
Just prior TO the boats departure she
! underwent her annual inspection by United
States Inspectors Cameron and Fearns and
was granted first class papers.
Mrs. Mulkey, wife Of Judge Mulkey of
Metropolis. ILL.,, boarded the city Of Pitts
burg shortly before the disaster. She
said;
81 got on the boat at Metropolis to take
passage to Cairo, Ill. All of the passengers
were asleep when l went aboard and at
once went TO my stateroom aud lay down
with my clothing on. 1t must have been
an hour or more whom / noticed a bright
light shining into my stateroom and ! i'm.
medlately got up and opened the door and
saw that the front cabin was on fire. At
that moment the electric light went out.
l got a life preserver and put It on and
managed 10 grope my wav by the flicker
ing light OF the flames TO a door opposite.
It was the barber shop. Then I gronod
further down to another door, which opened
on the guards Bnt few passengers were
aroused at this time and / with others
climbed out over the guards and down tine
railing, hand over hand over the Hfcboats,
which were right below me.
u hung suspended by my arms for
while and was caught by man who was
seated in the boat. BY this time others
crowded into the boat and alled IL to over.
lowing. But, as II providontialy the
flames reached the ropes that held the life
boat and we dropped into the river before
others could push their way into the boat
I'VE would hsva all been drowned II
others had pushed into the boat. The life
boat commenced to drift back toward the
burning steamer and We thought that we
were 10 do after all.
eve had no oars 10 steer tho boat and
the men used their hands for oars. There
were people In the river all about us on
every side
After We had managed TO get 10 the
shore, Ares were lighted and the poor men
Sud women and children with many OF
them ip their night dresses. shlverug wien
the cold and from their wet clothing, mud.
died anout the fres Many Of them had
lost those nearest and dearest to them
hnd their cries and means were heart
Tendlng.
a t,,t IN
| cut and bruised by coming 10 contact with
the wreckage oh, It was horrible expe.
rience and one | shall never forgetl PEG.
| pie chung to shutters and anything they
could find 10 hoat on to shore, and only
few succeeded. physician who with
his wife, was among the passengers man.
| aged to quiet the sufferings az some by
administering morphine, Of which he had a
| small quantity"
! Louisville Ky, April 2O.-Tbe city OF
| Flttsburg left Louisville Friday afternoon
after getting three passengers and twenty
roustabonts at this city. A Louisville man,
! Benz. Bridges, was third clerk OF the
Plttsburg. A telegram received here this
afternoon says Clerk Bridges aud his sis.
ter, Miss Margaret Bridges, and Miss Jen.
lie Bissick of Lexington, KY, the latter
two having boarded the boat at Louisville,
were saved. man whose name Is I'M
known here, also took passage on the Pitts.
burg from this city. The telegram gave
no particulars Of the disaster and none has
been received By the Louisville officers OF
the line.
owensboro, Ky, April 20.-Patrlck
Burke, a farmer who, with his wife and
children, were all lost on the steamer city
Of Plttsburg today, formerly lived at
whitesylne, In this county, He left last
Friday for Missouri where he expected TO
reside.