. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . ngvessels did not expect to meet with any boat coming in an oppositedirection. The only persons attached to the Monmouth who lost theirlives, were the bar-keeper and a fireman. It is not without some feeling of indignation, that we mention thecircumstance that the drowning of four hundred Indians, the largestnumber of human beings ever sacrificed in a steamboat disaster,attracted but little attention, (comparatively speaking,) in any part ofthe country. Even the journalists and news-collectors of that region,on the waters of
. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . ngvessels did not expect to meet with any boat coming in an oppositedirection. The only persons attached to the Monmouth who lost theirlives, were the bar-keeper and a fireman. It is not without some feeling of indignation, that we mention thecircumstance that the drowning of four hundred Indians, the largestnumber of human beings ever sacrificed in a steamboat disaster,attracted but little attention, (comparatively speaking,) in any part ofthe country. Even the journalists and news-collectors of that region,on the waters of which this horrible affair took place, appear to haveregarded the event as of too little importance to deserve any particulardetail; and accordingly the best accounts we have of the matter mere-ly state the outlines of the story, with scarcely a word of commisera-tion for the sufferers, or a single expression of rebuke for the heartlessvillains who wantonly exposed the lives of so many artless and con-fiding people to imminent peril, or almost certain (128) THE OLDEST STEAMBOAT COMPANY IN EXISTENCE. The United States mail line between Cincinnati, Louisville, ami St. Louis, is the oMeststeamboat line on the Western waters. This company own some of the finest and fleetestboats in the world. The corapanj was organized in ISIS, and have continued together eversince, adding finer and better boats to the line every year. In 1S18 this company built thesteamer Gen. Pike, which was the first boat ever constructed exclusiveli/ for run between Louisville and Cincinnati, making her trips in one day and sra-en hours, a featwhich is now performed in nine or ten hours by this companys boats. The Gen. Pike was firstcommanded by Capt. Bliss; afterwards by Capt. Penewitt and Capt. John M. Rowan. In theclerks office of this pioneer boat was Jacob Strader, Esq., now president of the Little MiamiRail Road Company, and lately president of the Commercial Bank, Cincinnati.
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