| Show CRUSHED QN ABRIDGE A-BRIDGE PIER An Accident of Peculiar Horror at Cincinnatti Yesterday Yes-terday t FIVE DEATHS ARE KNOWN II II I I II I II I I COMPLETLJ LIST WILL PROBABLY SEVER 13D KSITVYH Caught In Powerful Cross Currents the Jlneuifioeivt Nosy Orleans Steamer Stea-mer Longfellow Is as Heli > lcs asa as-a I Thrown xlnslt the Pies and Reduced to HOl less Wreck A GruCiioiua Find Cincinnati March 8Dead David Aid ridge Rome N Y passenger J 1 Carter Newport Ky clerk Augustus Cliauvot New Orleans barkeeper Jas Miller Cincinnati colored porter unknown un-known young woman This is the death Hat BO far as known from todays river disaster in which the magnificent New Orleans steamer Long fellow was crushed on a bridge pier and sunk in less than five minutes Will Xevei Be Known Unfortunately the complete list may never be known All the records of the steamer were lost tuth I and no passenger passen-ger list is ever left ashore For hours there were rumors of the loss of an invalid in-valid young woman from New York accompanied ac-companied by a female physician but the constant assertion of the onicers of the steamer that all the passengers were rescued except Mr Aldrldge and the statement of passengers that there was no panic or wild rushing for safety led to the hope that the rumor was groundless Later in the afternoon in a portion of the wreckage which had been landed some distance l below the city the body of a young woman was found She was wearing a satin nightdress and a black skirt was about her form as if she had I been in the act of dressing A small satchel was in her hand but it contained nothing to identify herO her-O Peculiar Horror The accident was one of peculiar horror hor-ror rorIt was daylight the tog had disap peared the great steamer fearful of the peril of passing the bridge piers had been given the assistance of the powerful towboat Hercules Carroll When almost upon the pier the pilot found himself confronted with an alarming condition The powerful crosscurrents which no human foresight could have located caught the long steamer nice a toy and turned the boat away from the course he had given i At the same time the smoke from the lowered chimneys which had been let down to allow the boat to pass under the bridges was wholly obscuring ob-scuring his vision The Hercules Car rolls pilot being located almost behind the great steamer was also unable to see the boats position and more likely it was not strong enough to turn its course against the treacherous current Helpless na < york And so the fated Longfellow was carried car-ried like a helpless thing against the pier and crushed into a wreck S Quick was the work of destruction that in five minutes I min-utes not a vestige of the great steamer was visible except bit of the wreckage floating on the river The cirpenter had time to KO into the hold with a lantern whence he hurriedly returned with the renort that nothing could save the Long fellow from immediate sinking |
