The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-11-19
Awaken TO Find Themselves
In Darkness At Mercy of
Wind and Waves
BRAvELY STICK TO POSTS.
Woman aud Child Remain Calm
While Husband Fights Against
the Elements.
wATCnMAN KEEPS HIS HEAD.

Wrapped In sleep. four persons
we're adrft In the Tennessee river
last night on three unmangeable
boats and barges. They were:
Mrs. william Terry, Ethel Terry.
Mr.. William Terry, George Eggles-
ton.
Torn from their moorings In Me
chanicsburg by heavy accumula-
ton OF driftwood, the steamers Mary
Michael. Monte Bauer with eight
bargcs and a gasoline boat, the Ger
tie NJ. drifted down the Tennessee
into the Ohio wholly beyond control,
ramnnng into the different craft tied
along the river bank.
On the Monte Bauer. the only per-
son was the night Waterman. George
Eggleston There was no Waterman
on the Mary Michael On the gas'o-
line boat were Mr. and Mrs William
Terry and their daughter Ethel.
The first lntimation any of them
had that the steamers and barges
were adrlft. was when they wore jar
red by the heavy surge Of The boats
and hcrrd the strong ropes. swapping.
Az wore asleep when tho drift
wood. which had been accommodating
all day Sunday. ovecame the shore
lines. Eggleston was the first awak-
enod by the steamers breaking loose,
and came ont on deck in his night
clothes. Calling to the Terry family
to et them know their peidlous sltua-
iion. ne rushed back into the cabin
and hastily put on few clothes.'
BY this time the drifting steamers
had reached the ~, c. & st. l.. In
cline and wharfboat into which they
jammed, crushing the wheel of the
gasoline boat Gertie NJ. roarlng n
would sink, william Terry hurried
his wife and daughter, who had got
ten dressed. to barge TO which the
gasoline boat was tied.
They had hardly effected this trans
for before the steamers and barges
struck the steamer Harth, bounding
back into the river by the contact.
When they struck again, they hit the
south end OF the Paducah whUrfboaa,
this collision crushing in the side of
che Gertle NJ.
Eggleston. the night Waterman,
ran across the barges. Jumped TO the
wharfboat, and then into a yawl
which was tied TO the Mary Michael.
The Monte Bauer had gotten loose
from tine rest of the boats and barges
and he started toward It in the yawl.
The Terry family had gotten hack
into their boat after they struck the
wharfboat
The drifting steamers scraped the
w'harfboat and the steamer Joe Fow-
Ter: barely missed the dry docks and
the steamers Kit Carson and Scotia,
and a curve In the river gave them a
clean sweep toward the Illinois shore
This gave Mr.. Terry an opportunity
to get his boat away from the rest
OF the boats. and he menaged to
throw rope across tine head OF the
Kit Carson while they were passing
that boat
At this juncture the Joe Fowler
took "a hand, starting down after the
drifting steamers with their helpless
human freight.
The steamers continued to drift
close to the bank. and EggNston on
one occasion, when near the !. c. in
cline, jumped out dnto the river M
90 his waist in water, struggled to
the shore and tied a line to log
from the steamer Monte Bauer.
The steamer dragged the heavy
bog OFF the bank into the river as II
II had been fealther, and Eggleston
swan back to the boat.
The Mary Michael and the bargee
were farther out in river and some
distance ahead. The Joe Fowler was
catching up with them rapidly.
When the Monte Bauer reached