Semi-weekly herald., 1910-05-16
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

ST. LOUIS, May 12.-Thirteen per
sons were drowned when the steamer
City of Saltillo sank in The Missis
sippi river near Glen park, twenty
four miles from St Louis at $3.50 We'd
nesday night Among The dead are
five women passengers and eight men.
The Saltillo was bound from st.
Louis TO Tennessee river points and
struck rock and foundered within
reach of the shore at Glen park. The
steamer turned turtle after striking
the rock and was pointing up stream
when finally foundered. Many pas
Nashville, Tenn.
When the boat struck and careened
the scene was horrible. Men and
women rushed onto deck Captain
Crane did his utmost to allay their
fears. but panic reisned. and mingled
with the screams of women were the
hoarse cries of engineers and stokers
below deck. who We're burned by the
escaping steam.
One of The heroes of the disaster
was William r. Barnhart of st. Louis.
mother, two sisters, aged S and 10,
respectively, and the family nurse. All
were thrown into the swirling waters
when the boat capsized. Barnhart
saved his mother. sisters and the
nurse, and then plunged into the water
time after time and dragged other pas
sengers to safety. He was finally re-
strained by members of the crew and
other passengers and sat on the bank
and wept because he could not rescue
more.
When news of the disaster reach
ed st. Louis scores of automobiles
were started to the scene. while n
relief train was dispatched from De
Soto, Mo. The survivors were rushed
warmth and dry clothing could be Sc.
cured.
The City of Saltillo was valued at
$40 900 and is a complete loss. She
carried cargo of freight last night
valued at about 100000.
The relief train bearing the surviv-
ors of the disaster arrived in st. Louis
at 6 O'Clock this morning. Relatives
and friends fairly stormed the sta
ton in endeavoring 10 greet those
whose lives were spared.
| NEW YORK. May l2.-Escaping gas
| caused an explosion on the fourth floor
of tenement house in East One Hun
dred and Thirteenth street today. by
which seven persons. two OF them chill
dren. were injured.
SEATTLE, May 12.-Three highway
men held up the passengers of a pay.
as-you-enter car on the South Park
line of the Seattle Electric company
shortly after / o'clock this morning
and escaped with money and Other
valuables estimated in value at two
thousand dollars.
The hold up occurred at the Spok
ane avenue trestle on Fifth avenue
South. Twenty passengers were In
the car which the three bandits board
ed just after II left the business sec
ton OF the city They remained quiet
Ily in their seats until 1t stopped a
Spokane avenue. There they held NJ
the conductor and signaled the mo
torman TO stop the ear. The passen
gers and crew were lined up in a row
and while two of the men covered
them with their revolvers, the thirc
stood to one side and relieved eacl
! man of his valuable as he was ordered
out of the line and marched down III,
aisle
DENVER, May 12.--August Rische
the discoverer of the Little Pittsbur,
mine in Leadville. which started The
great Leadyille boom, and who ha.
been Ill with pneumonia for severa
days, died this morning at 4:40 n
} his home. 1869 Boulder street.
WASHINGTON. May 12.-That feal
is greater influence toward promot
ing tuberculosis than all the othe
causes against which public healtl
alarmists" are trying to protect peopl,
was the claim OF Charles w, Mile
Of Idaho, who was the principal speak
er at the meeting of the Associated
Dairymen of the District of Columbia
Maryland and Virginia, held here las