Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-08-07 | Page 8 | Trials of Ohio River Boat Captains

IK TRIALS OF OHIO RIVER BOAT CAPTAINS PITTSBURG Aug 7 The The river rier packet Ohio with a number of passengers passengers aboard ran into a dense fog two miles gers gelS above aboe Sisters island a hort short distan distance distance dis dis- mies tan tance e above Wheeling last night and was for forced ed to tie te up The Ohio had but about four fou inches of water between her hull hul and the shallow spots between Sisters island and Pittsburg When the fog fop lifted four inches it was discovered disco that the of water had disappeared during the tho night Capt E. E J. J Mady sighed and put the tho and freight on trains bound passengers for this city This was was the fifth consecutive Unsuccessful unsuccessful unsuccessful un un- successful attempt in five weeks to reach port by the captain of the packet