Morgan Post | 1910-05-20 | Page 7 | Had Close Call

HAD CLOSE CALL missouri river steamer capsizes but all passengers are saved 1 kansas ansas city pante panic stricken by the realization that they were on a sinking steamer passengers men women and children struggled rind and fought madly to escape from the excursion steamer uncle sam when it struck a sandbar sandbag and capsized in tho the missouri river near here wednesday afternoon only tho the coolness of the boats crew prevented loss of life the accident occurred in midstream where the river Is wide and deep the steamer was attempting to turn around and while backing down tho the river with the rapid current struck the large sandbar sandbag squarely crushing in the tha entire starboard side of the boat