The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
City Of Saltillo With Twenty Seven Passengers
on Board Sinks Thirty Miles Below ST.
Louis Early Last Evening.
Thirteen REPORTED TO HAVE LOST LIVES
Several Are Missing and Several Are Known to
Have Been Drowned in This, the First
River Tragedy for the Season.

the Missouri bank of the Mississippi
river at Glen Park, Mo-, thirty miles
below st. Louis. In the confusion at
tending the housing of the rescued
passengers, it could not be ascer-
tanned if any had drowed but it was
believed many perished. The boat
carried crew of thirty persons.
The boat struck at $50 O'Clock
last night, Just as most of the pass
engers were retiring. 1t was thought
that through some error the pilot got
out of his course and came in too
near the shore. On account of the
present high stage of the water the
steamer filled and sank quickly.
The passengers, including many
women and children, were thrown in
to confusion and required the utmost
efforts of Capt. Harry N. Crane and
his crew to rescue them. The boat
turned on it's side as it went down
and many were thought to have been
drowned in their cabins.
The crew, numbering about thirty,
including the roustabouts, placed
gang plank from the boat to the bank
across which the frightened passen-
gers rushed. In the darkness and
confusion it was impossible to tell If
all negotiated the precarious bridges
in safety. The passenger list was al
so on the boat.
The little town of Glen Park was
quickly aroused as the news of the
disaster spread and the citizens threw
their dooors open for the care of the
survivors.
Glen Park is one mile south of Sui
phur Springs landing, in Jefferson
county, Mo. Capt. Crane reached Sui
phur Springs about midnight, IN
search of physicians. He said several
of the passengers were injured and
medical aid was sent at once. He did
not know whether any were drowned
Capt. Crane, over the long-distance
telephone, said it was impossible at
that time to tell the full extent of the
disaster. my pilots are with the
boat now trying to ascertain the ex-
tent he said. Capt. Crane has been
in command of the Saltillo for several
! seasons. He is we'll known along the
river.
The crew of the Saltillo was COM
posed of Capt. Harry Crane, pilots,
First Clerk Cole Baker, Second Clerk
Rittenhouse, the engineer and the
roustabouts. All are believed to have
escaped.
John Stannard Bronson, of 1857 Nc
| Kinley avenue. received a message
! from his sister, Mrs. E. P. Bronson,
of Chester. H.. who was on the boat
saying that she escaped with her
niece, Dorothy Patterson, aged IL
months. but that she had not been
able to find Mrs. A. M. Patterson, the
| child's mother and Archibald, Jr.'
| five. of Savannah, Tenn. Mr.. Bronson
| hired an automobile and started Tor
! the scene of the wreck at midnight.
/ Mrs. Patterson with her two chill.
] dren. had been visiting Mrs. Bronson
1 at Chester. Yesterday morning the
two women, with the two children,
came to st. Louis to catch the boat.
They were going to Mrs. Patterson S
home in Tennessee. When he left for
! the scene of the wreck Mr. Bronson
had about given up hope for his sister
who is 90 years old. His mother is
about so.
The Saltillo left st. Louis at
o'clock two hours late. She was
hound for Waterloo. Ala. via the Ohio
and Tennessee rivers, an eight-day
trip. from where she arrived here
Tuesday. Besides her twenty-seven
passengers, she carried a large cargo
of general merchandise.
The Saltillo carried the delegates
to the Deep waterways convention
and made the trip to New Orleans on
October 2G with President Taft's
4 fleet.
4 She returned with cargo of empty
! bottles and was the only boat to re
1 turn with freight.
She was built in 1904 at Capt. Ed
Howard's shipyards at Jeffersonville
] Ind. at a. cost of $4,000, for the st
Louis and Tennessee River Packe
company, and has since run in the st
| LOUSY aterloo trade.