RIVER STEAMER SUNK
NEW YORK, August 20,
A message from Keokuk (Iowa) reports that the river steamer Henry Bosse turned turtle. Fourteen of the crew were imprisoned below the water-line. A heavy storm is raging.
Seven men escaped death, but the other seven were caught in the cabin and drowned like rats. f
The captain was flung into mid-river when the deckhouse parted. As the vessel capsized a man and woman released themselves from under a boat. They reached the surface, but were drowned before the rescuing boats arrived.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 26
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