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Title: Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Lloyd, James T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fitch, John, 1743-1798. (from old catalog) Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815. (from old catalog) Steamboat disasters Steam-navigation Railroads
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co. Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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on Monday morning, February 22d, 1841,when the Creole had reached the mouth of Red River, she was dis-covered to be in flames, which spread with such rapidity as to precludeall hope of saving the vessel. The engineer and pilot remained attheir posts until they were completely surrounded by the flames, andt succeeded in running the boat to the nearest bank of the river, beforethe tiller-ropes were burned off. Unluckily, however, the bank whichhad been reached was steep and inaccessible; and the boat, when shestruck against it, dislodged a quantity of earth, which fell on her bow,and caused her to bound off from the shore. She then became un-manageable, as the tiller-ropes by this time were consumed. Many ofthe passengers and crew were rescued by the steamers Baltic and Gov-ernor Pratt. The cargo, baggage and specie were all lost. Thenames of the killed are comprised in the following list: Killed.—The family of A. B. Church, consisting of two grown MAP OF THE MISSISSIPPI.—N 0 . 24.
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Morganzie g:^^ Lloyds steamboat disasters. 175 daughters, himself and wife, and two colored servants ; D. M. Delmon-ico, New Jersey; wife of John Abrams, St. Louis ; A. Dutchcr anddaughter, Mobile ; E. Fitch, New Orleans ; A. Barker and wife, Tcnn.;Miss Snow, of Montgomery, Ala.; John Floyd, W. Smith, and Ed^vardYoung, Miss.; four colored waiters ; nine firemen, Irish ; a Germanfamily, six in number; besides thirty-one persons who were more orless wounded. EXPLOSION OF THE EDWAUD BATES. A flue of the steamer Edward Bates collapsed on the Mississippiriver, near Hamburg, 111., on the 9th day of August, 1848, causingthe death of fifty-three persons, and wounding forty others. The par-ticulars are unknown, as few of those who witnessed the disaster sur-vived to tell the melancholy story. The names of some of the killedand wounded have been preserved, and will be found in the followinglist: Killed—William Chamberlain, Mr. White, Mr. Rarridon, and Mr.Haines, deck passengers ; IMrs. Bowen

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