. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . y given the reader. He had retired torest, not feeling very well, and was awakened about11 oclock at night by a loud report, followed by atremendous crash. He supposed the vessel had runashore, and finding himself uninjured, he arose and THE PULASKI. 61 dressed himself, when a person came down the cabincalling for fire buckets, and giving the alarm that theboat was on fire. This person, he believes, was ^liller, whom he nev
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . y given the reader. He had retired torest, not feeling very well, and was awakened about11 oclock at night by a loud report, followed by atremendous crash. He supposed the vessel had runashore, and finding himself uninjured, he arose and THE PULASKI. 61 dressed himself, when a person came down the cabincalling for fire buckets, and giving the alarm that theboat was on fire. This person, he believes, was ^liller, whom he never saw he reached the deck, he found that the boilerhad burst. The confusion was very great—husbandsand wives running about and calling for each saw one person among^ the ruins of the enginemoaning and c^ing aloud, gone! gone! gone!fireman help me—fireman help me ! He was oneof the firemen, Mr, Fosdick escaped by getting ona piece of the wreck, and, in company with two ofthe deck hands, was driven ashore on the Saturdayafternoon after the accident, near New Inlet, N. following is extracted from Mr. Fasdicks -let-ter :—. • Friday morning came—and discoyered to us oursituation. We were but of sight of land. Threerafts we saw at a distance. They were too far offfor us to discern the persons upon them, but they allhad signals flying. Upon our little raft we found asmall cliest, (belonging to one of the firemen, andwhich afterwards served us as a seat,)—two mattres-ses, a sheet, a blanket, and some female wearing ap-parel. The mattreses we emptied of their contents, and6 52 STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. with the covering of one of them we made a sail,which, with a good deal of difRcLiUy. we succeededin putting up, but which did us much service, for bynoon we had almost lost sight of the other rafts : andin the afternoon, nothing was seen as far as the eyecould reach, but sky and water. But our spirits did not flag, for we thought that bymorning we m
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