New Britain herald., 1916-01-06
EIGHT LIVES LOST WHEN STEAMER SUNK
KanaWha Goes to Bottom in Ohio
 River During Storm

Gallipolis, Ohio, Jan. 6-It was re- ported here today that eight lives were lost when the river packet Knawha sank below Parkersburg, w. Va, last night. Those drowned were said to include Steward Lloyd Gee, and Jur- ser Bert Wolfe of this city, a watch man, and five passengers including four women and a child.
 It was learned here today that the bodies of two women had been recov- cred from the Ohio river several miles below the scene of the wreck of the river packet Kanawha.
 The bodies recovered are those of Anna Campbell, Pomeroy, maid on the boat and Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Belle vile, a passenger. They were found at New England, W. Va.
 River men now place the list of n'issing at eighteen, and Captain Berry estimates the loss of life at twelve.
 Parkersburg, w. Va, Jan. 6.-Cap- tain Brady M. Berry and sixty-two of the passenger and crew of the steam CT kanaWha, which sank in the Ohio river at Dam No. 19 last night, ar rived here early today on a special train sent out by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company, to pick up the survivors scattered along four miles of river front on the West Vir- ginia side. Captain Berry said that while he saw no one in the water and did not know that any had been lost, he felt there had been fatalities and was awaiting for daylight to return to the scene of the disaster where a thorough search would be made on the West Virginia and Ohio shores of the river.
 Struck by Severe Storm.
 We were moving swiftly down stream with the flood about 7:25 o'clock last night with crew of about forty men and some twenty passengers on board" said Captain Berry The weather had been bad about that time, just as we were ap- preaching the lower end of the lock wall on the West Virginia side, we were struck by a severe storm. Ordi- narily a light shines out from the mast on the wall, but last night tn ere was no light there, and before we knew what was happening the Kama wha had struck the iron pier a little forward of the boilers and started to sink.
 ''I shouted for the boats and in very few minutes the men were get ting out the four lifeboats we had on board The cries of the passengers reused the men at the lock- They put out yawl and came to our as- sistance. The lights had gone out within a minute after we struck and there was great confusion. But we managed to get the people on the hur- ricane deck and as the Kanawha 1 turned on her side kept them nov ing toward the top while we were talk ing them off. The Kanawha contin- ually turned and when We finally got the last man ashore he was clinging 1 to the bottom of the boat, as she had l turned completely over and was drift | ing down stream bottom side up.
 Crew Rescues Captain.
 An hour or more elapsed from the l time we struck until all were off and 1 passengers and crew were constantly l being landed on the river shore until 1 survivors, shivering in the cold were l strung out through distance of four ! miles When l saw that all were off l I shouted to the crew who had taken l then last load away, and they came l back to get me.
 '"The twelve women were taken off ! first and then the men as we were able ! to move them. We lost all the books, 1 including the passenger list, and l don't know how many were on board" l
 The passenger list of the Kanawha l was made up chiefly of West Virginia | and Ohio produce men.