The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-22

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Of names of missing passengers who were
aboard the steamer City OF Pittsburg:
/ Missing passengers:
CAPT. IVES DOSS, Cincinnati. body re-
covered.
MISS MARY TTssIUNI. Connection, Ind.
/ body recovered.
Thre children Of Mrs. Fannie McCui-
lom, Leavenworth. Ind: one body recov-
cred.
PATRIC KBURK. wife and ten chill
dren of Owensboro. Ky; one child only
survives of the entire family Of thirteen.
4 child of Pilot Al Pritchard.
ola YBREEzE, wife and son, of
Uniontown, Ky
Child of NJ Allen, Pittsburg
II. BRENNAN, Cloverport, KY.
Mr.. COOPERSdITH, Cincinnati
MR. and MRS. T. II ADAMS, James
town, o.
Mr.. LEACH. LaSalle, Ill.
MR.. DOWNS, Memphis.
THOMAS SMITH. Memphis.
MISS MARIE LISTER, Carrolton, o.
MRS. DAVIS. Memphis.
MISS SWEENY, Owensboro. KY.
L. L. HUNTER. Tidioute. Pa.
Unknown child.
COlored man and wife. Paducah.
Two MESSRS. WORTHINGTON, Pitts
burg, and young lady.
Lady from Bayou Mills.
Crew lost:
TOM SMITH, cub pilot. Memphis.
JAMES BROWN. colored. fireman,
Louisville.
JOSEPH STRANGE. roustabout, Louis
vile.
THEODORE NELSON. roustabout,
Louisville.
JOHN DAVIS, roustabout. Louisville
JOS. REDDING, Cincinnati. striker en-
gineer.
FRED JONES. Newport. KY. striker
engineer.
william Rentz Bolunger. Cincinnati,
first steward.
HENRY THOMAS, colored. Cincinnati.
second steward.
JOHN BETS, Cincinnati, cook
TONY GUILFERLE. Cincinnati. baker.
ALBERT MCGOWAN, Cincinnati. cook.
ED HOLLEY. sailormsn. Cincinnati
SAM SPRINSTEEN.
DANIEL SHORES.
Z. COZZENS.
ED THOMAS
ED HIBBETT and TOM GALWAY.
cabin boys, Cincinnati.
Two f1remen-
Two chambermaids.
Six cabin boys.
Captain Phillips said:
The fire caught in the hold. The night
watchman claims 10 have been IN the
hold five or ten minutes before the fire
was discovered. The pilot headed the
steamer directly into the bank and the
shaarp bow stuck IN the mud, the boat
sharp bow stuck in the mud. the boat
Mrs AIulkey, wife of Judge Mulkey. of
Metropolis, H.. boarded the City Of Pitts
burg shortly before the disaster. She
said:
II got on the boat at Metropolis to take
passage TO Cairo. All Of the passengers
were asleep when I went aboard, and I
at once went to my stateroom and lay
down with my clothes on. It must have
been an hour or more before I noticed
q bright light shining into my stateroom.
Immediately got up and opened the
door and saw that the front cabin was
on fire. At that moment the electric
light went out. I put on a life preserver
and managed to grope my way by the
pickering light Of the flames to a door
opposite. II was the barber shop Then
groped further down TO another door.
which opened out into the guards. But
few passengers were aroused at this time
and I with others climbed out over the
guards and down the railing. hand over
hand. over the lifeboat, which was right
below me.
Il hung suspended by my arms for a
while and was caught by a man who was
seated in the boat BY this time others
crowded into the boat ,tni filed it 20
Overlooking. hut as II Provdentialiy the
flames reached the ropes that held the
lifeboat and ne dropped into the river be-
fore others could push their way into the
boat.
we would have been drowned if others
had pushed into the boat. The lifeboat
commenced to drift back toward the
burning steamer and We thought that We
were going TO die after all
we had no oars 70 steer the boat ard
the men used their hands for oars There
were people ID the river an Spo@t p 1i
every side.
After We had managed to get TO the
shore fires were lighted ard the moor
men ana women and children many ~
them En- their night dresses, shireTiag
with the cold and from their wet clothing.
hufdled about the fires. Many II thcua
had lost those nearest and dearest 20
them and their cries were heartrendine
Some we're burned. bar more We're bad
r. bruised ard CRIT ~ comiRE In contact
with the wreckage People chung 70 shut
ters and anything thev could dnd @ feat
IN % shore. and only few srrcfetiet i
physician, vho. VITA his wife was araa7g
the passengers. managed % auiet the
sUfsrines Of some hv adHilisteri7s r11r-
phine y which be had q sn1ai quantity.
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