The evening times., 1902-04-21
DETAILS ADD PAqHOS
TO STEAMBOAT HORROR
Children Robbed Of Parents
and Parents of Children
A PARTICULARLY SAD CASE
Of One Family of Thirteen All Perish
Save Little Girl-MotheT Loses Her
Three ChiIdren-City of PittsbuTg Lies
Today a Blackened Hulk.


of Pittsburg. which burned to the waters
edge Sunday, places the number Of dead
at between fifty and sixty persons, in
Guiding passengers aud crew. This, it IS
admitted is nothing more than guess.
and there are people who were on the
boat who estimate that not less than
saventy-fve were lost.
There is no method OF obtaining the ex-
act facts, as the passenger and crew
lists were burned. and Purser Daniel A.
Scott relies on his memory in making his
estimate
a bIaclzened, misshapen wreck lying on
the Kentucky shore. eighteen miles above
this city. is all that is left OF the hand
some boat
Within its ruins, still too hot to search,
are entombed the bodies of scores of
Pittsburghers and members of the crew
who we're caught Ike rats in trap. and
literally roasted alive. though the dense
smoke sunocated and relieved them of any
suffering
Coming down the river under full
steam, and with so souls on board the
steamer was discovered to be on fire at
o'clock yesterday morning. Almost i'm
mediateIy the entire forward end Of tho
steamer was ablaze.
The flames drove all passengers aft
The boat was 2S7 feet long. and the
passengers and crew who escaped by
jumping into the river had fully 296 feet
to swim TO shore
The current is swift, and the big steam
er created an eddy into which many
were carried
This accounts for the dreadful loss of
life, which amounts to at least sixty.
Ben Bridges, OF Louisville, KY. one Of
the clerks. relates his experience:
q was asleep at the time the FIRE broke
out and was awakened by the screaming
of frightened passengers. Ny sister Mar
garet and her friend. Jennie Lubbock,
were making the trip with me.
q aroused them, and told them to put
on life-prcservers. as I had done. Then
We went On the lower deck. and. taking
hands, awaited until the water below Us
was clear of wreckage and struggling
people. and we jumped into the stream all
together
One young lady was on each side Of
me, and they had hold Of my arms. so I
could only paddle with my feet. The girls
were frightened and alternately cried and
prayed, but I finally quieted them. We
foated a mile. and at LIST caught hold
OF a willow growing at the edge of the
water, and we pulled ourselves ashore,
Out Of Patrick Burke's family Of thir-
teen, who reside at Owensbcro. Ky. only
q little girl is left She. is cared for by
kind-hearted people here until her rela-
tives come
Another had LOST her father and moth
er, and the only one left OF the feuiIy.
One lady. Mrs. Hermann sBfcCuIiam. of
Charlottesville. lost three children. all
sAs had
The accident could scarcely have oc-
cured in a worse place. CT in a worse
manner. The boat had 200 bales of hay.
which fed the flames and added to the
horror The boat was beached three
miles above Caledonia
Among those drowned was Capt. Svlves-
ter Doss, an I'D river pilot, who was max
ing the trip TO get material to complete
a book he was writing on Famous River
Disasters
The list o. dead and missing are.
Capt, Sylvester Doss, a pilot: Miss
Marie Tessin. Can1eIton Ind. Miss Mary
Lister. Carrolbon. Ohio: Miss Sweeney,
Owensboro, Ky; William R BcIIinger.
Cincinnati; 4. ". Adams and wife. en-
route TO st. Louis; Mrs Davis. Memphis:
Pat and Mrs. Burke and ten children
OwensboTo. Ky; Thomas Smith. Memphis.
Joseph ReddiRg, Cincinnati; Fred Jones
Newport, Ky; daughter of a. l. Pritch-
ard, Memphis; unknown child; L. l.
Hunter. TiVite, Pa. Henry Thomas. Gin
ciunati; three children Of Mrs. NcCuIIcm
Charlottesville, Mo; John Bolts, Gin
cinnati: Antonio GilfoyIe. Cincinnati.
Clay Breese, wife. and son, Unfontown
Ky. son Of Archie NJ Allen. Pittshurg.
-- Downs, Memphis; Tom Smith. Mem
Phisi first Pantrynar, three coiored fire.
men, six cabin boys, two chanbermafds
six OF eight deckhands.
Following are among the survivors,
Miss Emma Smith. LoveIaCevfIIe. XIV
E K Stalcns and wife. CarruthersvflIa-
Miss Margaret Bridges, Louisville: Mss
Jennie Bessick, Lexington. KY: Mr. and
Mrs A NJ Allen, Pittsburg: W X
Tompkins, St. Louis; s + Leach and wife
Bridgeport, Ohio; Miss Ellen Fennimore
and daughter, ArbuckIe, W Va; DR.. W
T Eaugharty. wife and child Marion. Ky:
Mrs Mulkey, Metropolis, III; Mrs. Archie
Shriver. Moscow, Ohio; Mrs A L Pritch-
ard. Memphis; H T. Gardner. GIoverport.
Ky, Harry ClawsOn MCCouRelIsviIle
Chic; J. r Million, Benwood. W Va:
Fred ReutZ. Newport, Ky. James Neville.
Dayton. Ky: son of Ira Neville. Dayton.
Ky; William Whitney. JeffersonviIIe.
Ind; Mrs Fannie McCuIlom, Leayen-
worth, Ind.
The surviving members Of the crew are.
Capt. J. NJ Phillips. master. Capt. Dana
Scott, puTser; o. D. Phillips, second
clerk; Ben Bridges, third clerk; Harry
Doss and A L. Pritchard. pilots: CIo.e
Crawford. chief engineer; Harry CIawson
second engineer; Archie Schriver first
mate; James Chriss, second mate; l. E
Megowen, second baker; Fred Reutz. bar
keeper; James Holland cabin watchnan.