Article taken from The Adams Sentinel, Gettysburg, PA, June 1832
From the Cincinnati Advertiser, June 4
Saturday, June 2, 4 p.m. a Tornado struck the steam boat Hornet, Capt. John Sullivan, of Kanawha, when she upset, and from 10 to 15 persons were drowned; among them Capt. Sullivan, John Johnson, pilot, the Chambermaid of the boat, Mr. Garrett, of Greenupsburg, and Mr. Duval, passenger; names of the others not known at present. The Hornet was left bottom up, near Vanceburgh, and will be a total loss. Capt. Embree, of the Guyandotte, took some of the passengers about an hour and a half after the accident happened.