The St. Lawrence

The St. Lawrence, a steamer plying in the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati trade, early on the morning of March 31, 1883, came into the port of Pittsburgh, landing at the Phillips wharf-boat, which lies at the public wharf, her usual place for receiving and discharging cargo and passengers. This wharf-boat is at the north shore of the Monongahela fiver, 840 feet below the Smithfield Street bridge. The head of the St. Lawrence was to the wharf-boat, and she lay quartering out in the river, her stern projecting into the coal-boat channel. A barge at the lower end and two tow-boats immediately above…