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SINKING UP A STEAM Kit UN THE CHATTAHOOCHEE.Cupt. Winguto mid Throe Oilier* Drowned.[from the Columbus Sun, -jGtli.jThrough the kindness of Mr. Epping we have In i i» furnished wllli the following des-pulches:Eltaui.a, Ala., Oct. 25.—'The Hard Times is just up. She reports the Alice sunk itl Uicooe's Dluir, uud Cupt. Wingate and two others drowned.(Signed) C. R. Woods.SECOND DESPATCH.El'paula, Oct. 25.—Don’t send any one to the wreck. Capt. Wood was near the Alice, on the Shamrock, when she went down, and lias done all tiial can he done. My son Dick stands by the wreck and will, until further assistance can be bad. Major Zulousky ia here and will come up lo-niglit. Cnpt.Wiu-gate, the watchman and two deck hands drowned.(Signed) C. R. Woods.Beyond these despatches nothing positiveis known.The Alice ia a new and beautiful boat, and bus made on'y two trips on the river. Her cost was some 81)2,000, and we beiievu she is owned principally by gentlemen in Columbus. Owing to being htrm houud site was seven weeks makiug the trip between Pittsburg and Apalachicola. It is general I}’surmised that the bout was coming up the river with freight. The channel at Ricoe’s is deep, but it is hoped the boat may be saved.Tlu: deatli of Capt. Wingate wdlbe received with universal regret, as he was one of the most popular and esteemed officers on the liver, lie commenced his career ns a cabin boy on the Apalachicola, and step by step has worked up by intelligence and industry to a positiou of honorable independence.He was about fifty years of age, and leaves behind eigiil small childreu.LATHK.We are informed the boat was heavily In-den with freight for Columbus. Who had just left the wood yard ucur Hicoe’s, when she struck something in tlm stream, careened, and sunk in fifteen leet water. It is supposed Capt. Wingate was caught betweeu tin; freight und could not extiicate bimsell.nrn
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Savannah Daily Herald
Savannah, Georgia, US
Wed, Nov 01, 1865
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