If someone has a subscription to NewpaperArchives and have time I would appreciate a lookup for Capt. Peter Lallance in the following paper. The article is about his death in a towboat accident on the Ohio River. Thanks, Connie Cotterill-Schumaker Portsmouth Times <http://newspaperarchive.com/portsmouth-times/1942-02-23/?tag=lallance&rtserp=tags/?pl=lallance>Monday, February 23, 1942, Portsmouth, Ohio

Front page had three banner (from left to right edge) headlines; middle one, in largest type of the three was: 2 HERE AMONG 16 DEAD IN RIVER CRASH Excerpts of story in right hand column: M'BRIDE SINKS IN PIER WRECK AT CINCINNATI Robert Kincaid, Hatzell Brown Scioto Victims; Buena Vista Pair Among Rescued Portsmouth and Pond Run men lost their lives and two from Buena Vista were rescued when the G.W. McBride, one of the best known towboats on the Ohio, crashed into a bridge pier in the Cincinnati harbor early sunday with 16 of the crew, 13 men and three women, perishing in the swollen stream, as the boat settled rapidly. . . . The craft, owned by the Ohio River Co. of Huntington, was valued at $53,000 and left that city Friday night with a tow of nine barges of coal for delivery at Cincinnati. Believed still in Boat The bodies of 13 men and three women were believed to still be in the 170-foot that swirling channel waters pinned against the upstream side of the pier near midstream, leaving only a small part above the muddy waters. Ross Smith, a professional diver, volunteered help for today's renewal of an effort to recover the missing. THE DEAD Captain Pater Oliver Lallance, 60, of Ashland. . . . (list of dead followed by discussion of local victims and survivors) (continues on page 3) Captain Peter Lallance, who was among the victims of the towboat, was a cousing (sic) of Mrs. George W. Meixner, 1224 Fourth street, and Mrs. E.C. Taylor, 401 Campbell avenue. Captain Lallance had made frequent visits to local realtives and friends and had been on the Ohio river for many years. . . . (extended discription of actual crash) Captain Edginton, one of six brothers, all river captains, and the son of a river pilot, was at the wheel when the craft went down, and Captian Lallance, the master, was at breakfast, survivors said. . . . Upon learning of the river tragedy, relatives of Captain Peter Lallance hurried to Portsmouth Sunday from Ashland to ge the details from Captain W.D. Kimble of the wharfboat. He conveyed the first information to the relatives that Captain Lallance was among the 16 that perished. "Captain Lallance was about 65 and I had known him all my life," Captain Kimble said. . . . (more on other victims and their families) --Portsmouth (OH) Times, Monday, February 23, 1942. Duncan Morrow ----- Original Message ----- From: "Connie Schumaker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 4:56 PM Subject: [GN] NewpaperArchives > If someone has a subscription to NewpaperArchives and have time I would > appreciate a lookup for Capt. Peter Lallance in the following paper. The > article is about his death in a towboat accident on the Ohio River. > Thanks, Connie Cotterill-Schumaker > > Portsmouth Times > <http://newspaperarchive.com/portsmouth-times/1942-02-23/?tag=lallance&rtserp=tags/?pl=lallance>Monday, > February 23, 1942, Portsmouth, Ohio > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message