Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1904 — BLAST KILLS THIRTEEN [ARTICLE]

BLAST KILLS THIRTEEN

Boiler of the Towboat Fred Wilson Blown I p Near Louisville, Ky., With Frightful Result. Lotiisvllle, Ky., May 26.—Thirteen persons were killed, three fatally injured and five hurt by an explosion of boilers which demolished the towboat Fred Wilson, off Rivervlew park, two miles below this city. The Wilson was the property of the Monongabela Coal and Coke company and left Pittsburg last Friday with six barges, twelve coalboats and four flats, bound for Louisville. The Wilson was literally blown to pieces and her hull sank in eighteen feet of water. Two heavy pieces of her boiler were found almost 500 yards from the bank and her flag floats from the top 6f a tree near Riverview park, where it was blown with a piece of wreckage. The dead are: Captain Joseph Price. Pittsburg; William Holland, a friend traveling with Captain Price; William Quinn, steward, Pittsburg; Albert Miller pilot Pittsburg; Sherman Shively, second engineer, Pittsburg; first cook, name unknown; Joseph Warren, colored, Middleport O.; William Thornton, colored, Middleport, O.; Patrick, portion of body found on coal boat; four white deckhands, names unknown.