The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-08-01
is THE BOAT HOOOOOED
Tale, Of Woe FoiIowcy career of Chatta-
nooga--Ncw Tied up with TWO
Libel Suits.

The superstition of river men mat
certain steamboats, are followed, from
I'LL time they are off the ways until
they are finally destroyed, BY adverse
fate would seem 70 be justified II the
casa on tho steamer CHATTANOOGA now
on The ways AT tho foot Of Washington
street with her hull ripped 10 pieces
anu bearing marks Of q recent INNER
eion IN fhe waters Of The Tennessee,
river SAYS the Padncah Newsl)emo-
GRAFT. For her one wee has lroi upon
anothar's heels so fast have they iof
lowed her IN her checkered and event
FIJI career and now, when she H bare
~ beginning to recover from the dis
aster that nearly ended her career, she
IL in trouble with United States au-
Ihorities and may be held where sac
IL far no telling what length 81 time.
This morning two libel suits We're
fllp1 IN the office of United States
court Clerk pnryear against the CHAT
tanooea The compliments arc th2
Brookport National bank, Of Brook'
bort, I'll, and the City national bank
of Paducah. Each Of them isseoklna
ID collect money advanced en- ihe
credit Of the vessel, and ask that the
steamer be sold 70 satisfy Their
claims.
The petition 81 the Brookpoft bank
recites that, while the steamboat
Chattanooga. vessel Of more than
twenty tons burden, and Of which
Frank +. Brown is, Or lately was
master and clerk, was lying at Paaa
cab on May 49, Of this year, the bank
furnished her money and supplies ~
the value Of $500 The mehey. Il u
alleged, was necessary 70 pay the
crew before the steamer couh pro
coed upon her trip. The libel states
that a lien VAS retained on the Yesse
land that draft was given on tht
I Chattanooga and Tennessee River Pae
/! ltet company but that the debt re
mains wholly unpaid.
1 The libel OF the City National banl
Of Padueah is similar. except that tkt
amount advances was $3Q25o on May
/ 20. A draft in this case ha9 been pro
tested.
The time at which the alleges
money was advanced was just PREV
Gus to the departure Of the steamer OF
thd trip on which she sank at Bit
4 Chain in the Tennessee river,
the career oft he Chat anocsa ha'
been varied and stormy. She was Orig
inaliy the Meggiio, and Was built BY
q unique sect of religious workers
4 nv them she was used as mission
boat and piled on practically all tn
nayigahle streams tributary to TN
Miss issippi. and on hat stream II
self A little more thin year az
the Meggilo was brought 80 the onl
and her owners held meetings a!on
the shores, going up to the headdo
navigation On the return trip %
band was III financial straits and III
ally disintegrated along the Lowe
course Of the river The boat wa
abandoned and was finally sold 10 th
Chattanooga AMI Tennessee Rive
Packet company She was fepalre
on the ways at Mound City and place
in the Tennessee. river trade bet"ce
Chattanooga and Paducah
;he mad only one successful tril
lon her return 10 Paducah change
officers t.ak place and after the MOI
az for when she n now proceeds
against had been borrowed, she PR
ceaded on her way up tn Tennessee
On the first night out she ran into
reef of rocks at Big Chain ana wei
to the bottom.
II was thought that the steami
! would be ait total loss and announc
, ment was made to this effect. III
= underwriters who had risks on he
j. however. undertook to raise her an
e after considerable delay, she was II
0 ally enyeloped in a canvas hull al
t gotten to the surface. She was tow
to Paducah and put on the ways vine
= she Is now undergoing repairs