Enslaved of Seth
Goshom
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 3 March 1859, page 3
We have been informed by Mr. Robert McCracken, of Newport, that a
serious accident occurred to Mr. Seth Goshom. He was in the act of floating a
flat-boat down the river, loaded with slaves. When just below Jamestown, on the
opposite side of the river, it struck against the hull of a new steamer lying at
the bank, and broke in two, floating off all the slaves and ruining the boat.
Captain Mead, of the Newport Belle, made an attempt to save some of the slaves, but found them passing downstream so rapidly that it was impossible. The loss of Mr. Goshom is about one thousand dollars.