STRUCK BY A SQUALL.
TWENTY PEOPLE DROWNED.
(By Telegraph.) (Per R.M.S. Sonoma, at Auckland.)
San Francisco, Aug. 25. A sad accident occurred on the Ohio river on the evening of August 19. The steamer City of Goleonda turned over on being struck by a squall. Nearly twenty people were drowned. Those on deck jumped into the river, and were saved, but the women were in the cabin, and could not be reached. There wero a number of children lost, and among the women were several members of prominent families of Kentucky.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 210, 11 September 1901, Page 2
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