Show SEVEN ARE DROWNED 1 LIKE RATS IN TRAP Barge Bage Bearing a Theatrical Troupe Crushed Between Towboat and Locks I Marietta 0 O. March 25 Seven Se Seven men of tho the Henderson Eisenbarth-Henderson floating theatrical troupe were drowned in tho Ohio river when the barge bargo har o on which the they were sleeping pIng was crushed against the stono stone walls of lock No 1 18 S. S The barge was being towed by bythe the tho steamboat steamboat steamboat steam steam- boat Columbia and was starting out outon outon outon on a n seasons season's trip The current is hJ strong Just above tho the dam and swung mung the barge with Its towboat behind It H I against the locks It was crush crushed d between tho the towboat and the locks Jocks and the wat r rushing into the tho hold through great rents quickly filling mUng It The sc seven n men had no time to escape and wont vent to the bottom bottom bot hot tom torn of tho the river trapped like rats The Tho troupe was one of or those which In summer travel from one river town to another tying up at the shore and giving I shows for COI two or three days las then moving down stream to the next town They are an old time feature of tho the Ohio and Mississippi much famed In stories of that stream The river ll is ia still swollen from the recent floods Hoods After tho the accident tho the Columbia stood by Boats were vero lowered lower lower- ed ell and e cr every effort was made to rescue tho the members of or the tho troupe Those Those- on onI the Iho deck of the tho barge were saved n I |