Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-02-19
PASSENGER BOAT
SENT TO BOTTOM
Eighteen Lives Are Known to
I-iave Been t-ost--Only
Six Rescued.
NEuRlwiND STRUCK BOAT
Coat Was a Packet which Piled ths
chowan River, Virsinia-sev
erai Survivors Badly
Frozen.
sVE'iRLWiND STRUCK BOA

Norfolk Va. Feb. IA cyclone
struek NE passenger steamer Olive.
which plies between l'raAkiin VA, and
iiy!enton. II. G., at $50 o'clock last
Aisnt, and scnt her to the bottom OF
the Ciowan river, off MoodleN's pier,
between Mt. Pleasant and divers
Nll1rf
Eighteen people are known 10 nave
9eAn drowned, anG others Who We're res
suset are in a serious condition.
i'he wniriNind wnen it STUCK the
Dive caused her TO SO over on her beam
saGs, and when she risilted it was only
- SINK on account of The water she
laQ la}sen.
Majority Aboard Were Below.
A majority OF the passengers and
rev We're below at the time. and had
40 opportunity 70 leac!i ,he pilot honse
If the vessel This point was the only
portion left above water. and in it
from The time of the accident ua.ii s
o'clock in the morning Captain George
Witty and five others stood waist deep
II water.
AZ 6 O'Clock this morning the river
steamer Petit hove in sight and res
,ued the almost frozen Survivors.
The Olive YVES a steel single screw
steamer, owned by j. a. Prctiow. of
Franklin, VA, and has been plying be-
cSti Ntl III ~ toii.ite ~
several Years.
According to the statement of Cap
lain Witty TO the Associated Press
seIrespon,lent here last night there are
sasemteen known TO have been ON
sqard lie sinking steamer, and n life
iso;tt loaded With Engineer G. l.. Con
way, Assistant Engineer j. r. Murphy,
Purser JIM Bell, one white and Two
| eololed passengers, unknown, and iMc
L. \, l.tt'l Ma
steamer in hopes of reaching vessel
whose lights could e seen in the dis
tamoe is yet ulheard ffun.
The l@s,si.
JACOB l.hssITER. white, Rich Square.
MRS BENNETT and l2zSeaf=old daush.
Ailss,. VAJ ,.ilSN. Franklin, VA
I FRANK Lii METER.
I GEO l}r'rtfE
NJ. H. IliDMARps'
! ANDREW VAUGHAN
+ ABRAHAM COOPER
JOHN pRf.SCDi'F.
ESTHER WtllLiAMS
IoIiN COOPER. AN colored members On
GEORGE. WHITE. colored preacher The
others being unknown.
Captain Withy's Statement.
Captain Witty reached Norfolk Last
tVcning,
70 the Associated Press correspond
"At O'Clock last night Wc passaa
Ioliie's wharf ard headed for Iidentar
5ay The weather bac;lile SD heavy
Hat ,goula not risk the opnn water
md put tho boat about to return up The
I liver for safety. it Was JUS, about
o'clock vshdn everything lecame inkS
oliell, and terrible roaring broke on
If the night. | was alone IN the pile
+ aouse. and most of those below has
.urnca in. IN i second something STRUCK
die Boat on her port Ee;,lll and tnlEet
1ei over on Her st;tsbodrl side
hought she would never right herself
and |; monster wave dashed OYER US. /
lo9Ged the hold and smashed every
hing around us. Mth TIC rush o
Mater into her hold The Olive sla%
rishted, and in loss than tsg'
Mas resting on the bottom
g.itl only the pilot house ;tboV'
he river Two ilcbGalS We're sSep
aMay and one vas lett Into this lii
angileer. assistant engineer. pulss.
and ore white and Two uoiorea passen
5efs clmbed and put OH IN hope o
atching UP with Il toW boat ,hat cool
be seen ahead pf us. never SAW then
after thcy left our side. Their 3olit
NO culurcl l,assemgelS uM board Mitl
me we stood in water waist deep un
III & O'Clock in the morning, when
Noi.folk and Southern steamer hove il
sgnt and took us off and landed u
At lsdcnton. The boat sank so quickl
after being struck that none below ha
III chanee TO reach the deck, and The
must have been drowned in thei
Dt-ftlla.
laterA special from suffoll1 say
he Grew of eight Who embarked in
Ia
eour hours, By The tug t;azelle Am
'snlea nj 'nunis.
1t MS learned last night that Il Whit
imam named Wilder Is also among IN
drowned, making Die eighteenth know
victim.