Show TOWBOAT CRASH TAKES TARES 16 LIVES NEWPORT Ky Feb 23 UP UP- UP struggled Monday to re recover recover recover re- re cover the bodies of 16 persons from the splintered towboat G. G W. W McBride smashed against a stone stonebridge stonebridge stonebridge bridge pier in the swollen Ohio river before dawn Sunday I The partly submerged wr wreckage I lay near midstream pinned to the pier by treacherous currents which caused the Ohio's worst tragedy in more than 20 years The bridge connects Cincinnati and northern Kentucky Most of the victims victims believed believed to tobe tobe tobe be 13 men and three women women were were asleep in their crew bunks when the Ohio River company's foot boat crashed as it was towing four loaded coal barges and a fuel flat She went down just about as fast as it takes you to climb from the first to the second floor said Ernest Easter year old deckhand deckhand deckhand deck deck- hand from Buena Vista Ohio I He was one of five crewmen who scrambled atop the boat and were rescued after the McBride broke in half The rescuers Joe Haas and Bill Pierman rowed to the scene in a from the Southern Ohio Yacht club Saved with Easter Faster were George Harrison 28 also of Buena Vista Raleigh W. W Hineman 33 engineer of Huntington W. W Va George Woomer 30 engineer of Henderson Hender Hender- son W. W Va and John W. W Cain 18 deck hand of North Kenova Ohio |