Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= USGenNet Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Ludington (Michigan) Record Thursday, July 23, 1896 Volume XXIX FLUNG FROM A FLATBOAT. Over a score of victims were claimed Thursday night by the Cuyahoga river at Cleveland. A flatboat ferry used by ore handlers capsized at 7 o'clock, and of the twenty-five men and boys known to have been on board only four escaped by swimming to shore. The boat was crowded to a dangerous limit. When part way across the stream the tug W. Cushing and the steamer Aragon were seen coming down the river. Nearing the wash of the steamer some of the people at the bow attempted to turn back and a panic followed. The frail shell was capsized and the occu- pants dumped in a struggling mass into the river. Most of them sank like lead. While the search for the bodies was going on a disgraceful scene occurred between two undertakers. They pounced on to one of the bodies and fought like demons. While the fight was going on the two got near the edge of the dock and were in danger of falling into the water with the body between them. Both thereupon released the corpse and it rolled back into the river. The indignation of those present was unbounded and both the undertakers left the scene. ===========================================================================