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Show Nineteen survivors arrived horo to-I to-I day with Ilttlo bag.sage. I D. J. Caraghan, second mate, said j the alarm on the boat was greatly In-I In-I creased by the cry of tire. Flames vyere neon to shoot up from tho furnaces, fur-naces, but tho fire was extinguished by . the water when the vessel listed. Smoke from the lime kiln on tho river banlt and .the high water prevented pre-vented the pilot from koepinp In the channel. The boat struck a rock concealed con-cealed by the water. In backing off, tho vessel turned completely around. Tho stoamer tonight bs on her side, almost al-most against the bank. the chivalry of the men. who permitted permit-ted the women nasseugers to st;irt across tho gang plaot first, cost tho liven of Ave wouirn aud a baby. Captain Cap-tain Henry N. Crane ordered men to stand aside :intil the women left the boat. Oil" of the bodies recovered aj that of Mrs. Isaac T. Rhea of Na-llle, Na-llle, ren i.. wife of the president of the St. lyiuls imd Teun. River Pacl.-t company, owners of 'he loat. Three others have hefn recovered. Taylor. Daniel C. of St. Iuls, negro porter, body recovered. Collin.-;. Lee, of St. Louis, night cabin cab-in boy. Hopan, Daniel, of St. Louis, negro rotistaltout. Search for the remaining eight bodies bod-ies wau nro"cut"d all day. "BAD MISTAKE" SAYS CAPTAIN ST. LOUIS. May 12.-Foderal Investigation Inves-tigation of the sinking of the packet City of Saltillo in the Mississippi river at Glen Park. M..., last night, with a loss of 12 lives, will begin a torn) as tho crew of the Ill-rated vessel ar river here. Seven passenger and five of tbo crew wi-re drowned by the tilting of the gang plank when it hit a trt'e. That the loss of the lives a-t due lo the mistake of ordering the passengers passen-gers to hurry frorn the sinking boat when she was near the shore was th.; assertion of Captain Crane. "It was a bad mistake." ho said. "Had we caused thj pxstengeft; wait a minute before trying to cro.s the gangjilank none would have ben drowped. "At the time the order was given, however, no human piwer could tell the boat was not going to roll over into the river and drown r-vc-y S"til on board It J en to look back and see what we mibl have dov." . Testimony at tho inquest showed , |
