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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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hen approaching. Hereached her in an exhausted state, and was saved. A rope was thrownto him just as he cried out that he could struggle no more. It is men-tioned, as an illustration of this lads coolness, that he placed hisclothes on a small piece of plank and floated them with him to theCalifornia, having an eye to the safety of his wardrobe when his lifeseemed to be in the greatest peril. When taken on board the Cali-fornia, he had his rescued garments under his arm, and dressed him-self with the greatest composure. Mr. Wolf, the father of this boy,who could not be induced to leave the wreck, Avas lost. Captain Clarke, Commander of the St. James, was asleep at thetime of the explosion. When awakened by tlie terrific report and the,commotion on board, he ran on deck, and with the assistance of thepilot, Mr. Samuel Henderson, he took possession of the yawl, keepingback the crowd which was intent on the same object. Having launched MAP OF THE OHIO .—N 0. 22 . Stevensport Sinking Cr.
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Rock I. Cannelton i LLOYDS STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. £46 this small boat, Captain Clarke placed in it Mrs. Asher, her daughter,(a young lady of sixteen,) and her two younger children ; also Mrs.Sheed and Robert Smith, the steersman, who had an arm broken.With these persons, the yawl started for the California, but strikingagainst that vessel, the little boat upset and all who were in it, exceptMrs. Sheed were drowned. Mr. H. L. Sheed, the husband of thislady, was also one of the passengers of the St. James, and he waslost. Captain Clarkes two little sons saved themselves by swimmingto the California. Captain Clarke himself was badly scalded, andCaptain Wright, the owner of the boat, received severe injuries. Many of the passengers had not registered their names. The per-sons named below are scarcely a moiety of those who perished. List of Killed.—Hon. Isaac T. Preston, Judge of the SupremeCourt of Louisiana; Mr. Richard Turner, late Commissary of theFourth Ward, Second Municipality, New

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