Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-21
after being brought ashore.

after being brought ashore.
The captain. clerks and engineers. two
engineers stokers, two cooks.
Partial List Of Lost.
The following IL a partial list OF those
lost:
Mr.. ADAMS, Ohio, bound for st. Louis.
Mr.. DOWNS, Memphis.
TOM SMITH, steersman. Memphis.
PATRICK BURK. wife and six children,
owensboro, KY. bound for Morehouse, Mo.
JOE KIDDING and LUD JONES. engi-
neers' stokers. Cincinnati.
WILLIAM ROLINGER, steward, Cincin-
nFt.
LITTLE GIRL named sweeney Of Owens
boro. K-.
l.. L. HUNTER. Litinti, Pa.
TWO COOKS.
TWO CHAMBERMAIDS.
MOST OF THE DECK HANDS.
The fre started in the forward hatch lar
board and burned hercely. When the
steamer ran ashore escape was made over
the cabin railing. Very few passengers or
the crew we're aware Of fire until 1t was too
late.
The captain and clerk late tonight claim
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for. leaving sixty people lost or unae-
counted for.
The steamer Maude Kilgore, Captain Cole,
brought the survivors to this place at G
.. m, and the several societies OF the city
rendered all the assistance in the way Of
clothing. etc.
Boat valued at eighty Thousand.
CINCINNATI, April 2O.-City Of Pitts
burs, a large side-wheeler, which
burned TO the waters edge near Turhur's
landing today, left Cincinnati last Wednes-
day night with thirty-one passengers and
took many others aboard further down the
river. City Of Pittsburg had a crew
Of forty. Among the bodies recovered are
those OF Captain Wesdoss Of Cincinnati
and Miss Marie Tissim Of Cannelton, Ind
Very many are reported seriously burned
When City OF Pittsburg left Cincinnati
last Wednesday night for Memphis 1t had
thirty-one passengers and a crew Of over
sixty.
The local officers Of the packet company
cay that some of these passengers have
since reached their destination and others
had been taken aboard during the last
three days, at points Town the river. Some
of the passengers were from Plttsburg, and
OlncIb w ~ IlNtI Holul5s ENtn II hdIuC
OF the passengers. who started from Gin
einnati are not obtainable. as the only
register kept was in the purser's once on
the steamer.
Pittsburg was built at Marietta, in
1899. and was valued at $50, 900. 1t was
800 feet long and eighty feet wide and
owned by John NJ. Phillips and Al Brahm
Of Pittsburg and Dana Scott OF GAINESVILLE,
Mrs. Phillips, wife of the commander OF
the steamer and her son. remained here
this trip and received a telegram from
her husband tonight that he was not seri-
ously hurt during the FIRE,
Omcers of Fated steamer.
Pittsburg's officers consisted Of: John NJ.
Phillips, commander; Dana Scott, purser;
oliver Phillips Of Pittsburg, clerk; Ben
Bridges Of Louisville. third clerk; Arch
Schriber Of Moscow. o.. hrst mate; Tom
whitney Of New Albany. Ind. second mate;
Harry Doss Of Cincinnati. pilot; Al Pritch-
ard Of Memphis. pilot; Clate Crawford Of
f~ronton, o.. engineer; Harry Chosen OF
Zanesville, second engineer; William Roll
linger OF Cincinnati, steward, Fred Rentz
of Newport. KY. barkeeper; Harvey Brown
OF Cincinnati, steersman-
The following are said to have boarded
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OF Pittsburg, Mrs. John Allen, their TO-
year-old son, Sylvester poss Of Cincinnati,
Joseph Craig OF Grandview, Ind, grain mer-
chant; H. Brunen of Cloverport, KY, Mrs.
Arch schriber OF Moscow, o., Mrs. Al
Pritchard Of Memphis, Tenn, Sarah Pritch-
ard. IL. her daughter; Ella Pritchard s.
her daughter.
Had Just Passed Inspection.
Just prior to the boats departure II un-
derwent Its annual inspection by United
States inspectors Cameron and Fearn and
was granted hrst-class papers.
LOUISVILLE. KY, April 2O,-City OF
Pittsburg left Louisville Friday afternoon
after three passengers and twenty roust-
abouts had boarded 1t at this city. A Louis
Vile man. Benjamin Bridges, was second
clerk Of Pittsburg.
A telegram received here today says that
Clerk Bridges and his sister, Miss Margaret
Bridges, and Miss Jennie Bissick Of Lexing-
ton. KY. the latter two having boarded
the boat at Louisville, were saved. A mar
whose name is unknown here also tool
passage on Pittsburg from this city. The
telegram gave no particulars Of the disas-
ter and none has been received by the
Louisville once OF the line.
The passengers lost all they had and the
books and papers on board were burned.
A special from Cairo. Ill. says the In.
formation there Is that Twenty-Five liveI
were lost by the burning OF the steamer
City OF Pittsburg.
GREENSBORO, KY, April 2o.-Patrlcb
Burke, a farmer who with his wife and
children were an lost on the steamer City
Of Pittsburg today. formerly lived Al
Whitesyille, In this county. He left last
Friday for Missouri where he exnected N