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Show STEAMER SINKS, BUT NO ONE IS DROWNED INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. $.-The excursion ex-cursion steamboat Sunshine sank yesterday yester-day afternoon at Broad Ripple park, ten miles from the city, with 180 passengers on board, all of whom were men except one. a woman, who was -rescued by a launch. No one was drowned, but several were Injured In the panic. The Sunshine plies on the back water of Broad Ripple dam, on 'White river, and was carrying a picnic party consisting of employees of the Indianapolis stockyards. The overweighting of the boat caused if to turn over on its side and the superstructure super-structure broke from the hull. The water is fourteen feet deep in the channel, but the boat wae near the bank when the accident occurred and In but seven feet of water. The upper deck.remalned above the water. Five persons were more or less Injured. William Waited had his back badly hurt and Bennis Milligaa had his right foot matted. Persons In launches and canoes took a number of persons from the water. The greater number clung to the upper deck, which was not submerged, until taken ashore by boats. |