| Show LOST ON THE KIVEE RIVER A boat wrecked and SOT enteen lives perished BY U tel carach to the ilia herald ROCK ISLAND ills oct 28 A little after joe 10 clock last night tho the jennie gilchrist left rock island with 13 passengers and 16 of a crew aboard it passed through tho the bridge and got about a half balf a milo mile abo above Y it at it 1030 tho the engineer discovered that th alie cam arx rod which is used to reverse t lie wheel waa was broken tho the boat at once began drifting rapidly down stream tho the swollen river current additional force and swiftly the craft went DOWN TO destruction when the threatening danger became beame al apparent n t mr ake skelton ton at once C rushed I into are to t the he cabin telling the passengers IS of tile accident which ya had ai happened and urging them at once to take refuge on the barges ho ile notified the pilot of what bad had happened who he exclaiming why dont they do something for tr gods sake do st l blew the whistle abr for a danger signal the tile pilot then left his wheel giving ita it a turn for port 11 and made mada a track for the barge crying as lie he went down stairs save o avo your lives she is is going to strike O the bridge in tho cabin everything ingras was frantic the women were crying rin an and d the men were about as 11 useless se no one seemed to have any idea as to what was to be and what could bo be done IN THE DREADFUL EMERGENCY the crew with the exception of tho pilot the errand clerk and the engine engineer erand and fireman are reported to have been drunk and as is terror stricken she elie drifted upon the pier urged on by the swollen current she elie bartly turned and preserved lier her starboard ar side to obstructing the pier striking it just aft of tile boiler eight persons bad laken refuse on the barge b arge and as it swung round to ti the left of tile pier she cast off the etem stem and the tile spring line lines the bow line was fastened to a flat ahead and when it was cast off tile nat flat s swung ung to the right and the line went out with a rush A negro named jim smalley was at that moment climbing over the bow of the barge and the line being between his logs he lie w was WHIRLED OVEE BOAHn but skelton shelton grabbed him by the trousers and landed him aboard a very astonished but highly grateful 13 negro agro when the jennie struck the bridge she hit a little afton aft of the boiler head and broke it in at once the ilie steam began to rush out and for a moment the prospect of being scalded will wa added to that of being drowned the scene at that crisis ras ivas terrific f THE TIM ONLY CE TO was by lying down and putting their mouths months to holes in the deck they could licar hear the cries and moans of the fated passengers in the cabin who had stood there while the crew ont anthe he forecastle were appeal appealing I mg loudly for help they could be seen and at that time no help could be given the barge drifted off to the left followed by the boat and the flat following it after the bridge was passed the work of rescuing those on tile boat was begun first the engineer was pulled aboard then t lie clerk and one negro they tried to reach the barge before striking the bridge but failed and falling in the water had ALONG ALON BIDE THE barax and they were rescued the wind carried tho barge over toward the davenport shore and in the course of a short time they drifted down into the island outside of paige dixon co s mill where ro it stranded the stay L t there h re vas short her the evansville Evan h had J card the erica cries for holp and left rock island on ita its err errand and of succor in about twenty twenty minutes it came upon the stranded strande barge and rescued its twelve passengers from their situation carrying them back to rock island besides the twelve saved on the barge there were five picked up on the iowa shore who had clung on to the wreck one ono a woman who had displayed remarkable PLUCK in tho the cabin when the danger became apparent sir mr skelton and clerk schuler tried to get the passengers down to the barge the four women in the cabin were in a state helplessness evidently expecting death alie gentlemen tried entreat reata v and advice but it was useless all efforts to remove them proved fruitless THERE WEKE SEVENTEEN TEEN LOST it is now impossible to give their names the steamer had in tow one barze and one flatboat flat boat the flatboat flat boat was bein being pushed at alio bow odthe of alie steamer ipie the barge barg ewas was fastened to tho portside port eide of the steamer there seems no doubt that the steamer was i totally unfit for work it was heavily liea vily loaded and most of the crew were drunk the boat was merely a freight i boat and was not licensed to carry passengers the accident was entirely entire lv duo due to carelessness AN AND D there was a good deal of whisky in the cargo and some of it was tapped before starting it is impossible to civo a full list as yet of these killed in tho accident he here last night aano asno aa no re register grister was kept of those on board those known to be lost are passengers J zuber zaber wm wendt and daughter mr james trevor miss sadie temple and anti four unknown crew james sanford fireman J BT B temple steward williams watchman four ne degrees grees unknown deck hands the officials of tb the jennie gilchrist Oll christ are severely censured by fhe surviving passengers for their LACK or ABILITY tp to cope cepe with accident the officers with tho the ex exception cep tion of the clerk cleric made their own per personal escape a matter of first importance and allowed tile passengers to look out for themselves it it iso is also admitted that the boat was overloaded with P as and freight carrying more than she could successfully I handle andle tho the most serious charge cli arge bowe however ver is mado made by one of vj Js the surviving to tho tile effect th that attlio alio crew incle including ing the second pilot were under tinder THE INFLUENCE OF R and to this fact is attributed the lack of management after tho the first accident t to lie the machinery before tho the bridge was encountered |
