Show I TOWBOAT OVER OYER DAM Three Lives lost in the Monongahela MOlo ga gaI hela River at Port Perry Peny Pa Fa Faas I as Result of Accident i Pittsburg March 7 Three lives were lost tonight when the towboat Stella Moren with two flats fiats of coal went over No 2 dam on the Monongahela at Port Perry Pa and sank In twenty feet of water The Dead John Cox engineer Charles Lorain deck hand John Bush fireman The Stella Moren was about to enter Tenter the lock when the strong current due to I the high water swung It around and be before before before fore It could be controlled the vessel and the flats were swept oVer oter oer the dam and completely wrecked Cox was caught between the lock wall and the boat and crushed to death The rest of the crew numbering ten men were thrown Into the river but all were rescued except Lorain and Bush who were not seen after the boat went down The Stella Moren was owned by the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal Coke corn com company I pany The financial loss is I |