Article taken from The Gettysburg Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA, December 29, 1835
The Cincinnati Post states that on the 2d instant, at 4 o'clock, a.m. the steam boat Lady Franklin on her passage up to Cincinnati, was run tinto about two miles below the Yellow Banks by The Portsmouth, and sunk immediately, when from fiften to eighteen persons were drowned.
Among those that perished, were a family of nine persons, Dutch emigrants--the husband only escaped. Of the crew, one fireman and one deck hand--of the cabin passengers, there was a gunsmith from Nashville, and another person, names unknown, who also perished. Captain Horne and the Clerk were both taken up adrift, the former speechless; among the deck passengers drowned were three women. The Lady Franklin started for St. Louis, but could not get up the Mississippi for the ice; she discharged her cargo at the mouth of the Ohio, and was in ballast. The stern of the boat was just to be seen above the water when left.