Show TRIP TRI ENDS IN STEAMER OVERTURNS IN THE ILLINOIS RIVER SCORES OF passengers DROWNED boat ran into shore in fog backed away and began sinking immediately dia tely excursionists being unable to escape peoria III the exclusion st strainer vainer overturned turned in tile tho illinois river the live miles south of here friday night mores beores of oe people who ho were returning home after IL 11 days celebration here being dro di owned wiled the rile number lost loft Is not absolutely known being estl by some us its high ns as tile boat jammed against the side hide of the river lit in it 11 for fog and ami toro tore it 11 linge bole in the bow of oc the boat it almost thera weve LIC aw 1 l io excursionists on oil board the lie bout boat when lian it left alfresco Al Cresto anil peoria on oil tile return trip to pekin the bout boat ran nil into the leorla shore lit in it for fog that wits MIS prevailing jt it backed away find sinking lately ol water anter rushing lit in through IL 11 large liole hole lit in the bow the boat lit in began sending out signals of di distress und and several craft from tills this city rushed to the th escene 0 of the tragedy j loss ot of life I 1 Is said to have resulted largely front from the panic flint followed immediately on oil tit tin boat ny its it began to sink doctors doctora find nurses were rushed to tile tho scene cene r from P 4 arl a one olio of tile sun survivors ivors said bald the steamer had three hiro decks I 1 was vas on tile upper one on oil that below dancing wits going on oil the bottom wits occupied pied principally fly by nien men who were eie talking and smoking 1 I do not bellevo believe ninny of the lie on oil the first two tn leeks decks cal constituted by far the larger portion of tile the crowd could have escaped q 1 I ivits ans chatting with friends we ave felt tile the boat ilse out of oe the river it wits was cloteil clouded ti itla fog there was as it crash crit sli for it moment no ono one moved and then almost everybody to one side of the boat the crew and the officers ns as soon as they realized alint was happening cried for tho the passengers BinK fia to lo even en tile lond load but it was as to too 0 late into the columbia tilted and then alit n suddenly overturned I 1 was ns thrown into into the water vilen alien I 1 came to tile surface people coq were 8 swimming liening about too deed to tc know what lint Il to follow 1 the I he 11 icat lung low above the overturned turned bonti boat front from which illicit estille it confusion n of cries for ald |