People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — TWO STEAMERS ARE LOST. [ARTICLE]

TWO STEAMERS ARE LOST.

Due ilnlvs. tlie Oti.er fl n rns—< ’apt. Knighi*» Sou I'er’sb'isi. New Orleans, March 7.—Oajit. 1.. V.h Codey of the sti-ir. r Ouchita reports the sinking of the si.-"', -r Marcus O, !- lins near Goheati Landing, Thursday morning, laden .with cotton; als,, t ■ burning of the steamer Laura HlnV. ! Sunday morning ivlun in sight of (h----beau Landing. Both steamers were owned by Capt. Georg.? \V. Knight if Trinity. La., and will prove a total l a-., Gapt. Knight, with the destruction of the Blanks, also 1 st a I;right son of }> years, whose body-has not as yet been recovered. The cargo of the Collins was all saved but the cargo of the Blanks, consisting of PJ3 bales of c-ul-ton, was destroyed.