. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . e put a small engineand a wooden boiler. He prepared her for an excur-sion from Norwich to New London, at the time thatPresident Monroe visited that section of the UnitedStates. Fifty gentlemen went on board, and theyproceeded down the river from Norwich. They wereall, together with the cook, (a colored man,) in abaft the boiler, when, approaching New Lon-don, it was announced that the Fulton, which hadthe President on board
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . e put a small engineand a wooden boiler. He prepared her for an excur-sion from Norwich to New London, at the time thatPresident Monroe visited that section of the UnitedStates. Fifty gentlemen went on board, and theyproceeded down the river from Norwich. They wereall, together with the cook, (a colored man,) in abaft the boiler, when, approaching New Lon-don, it was announced that the Fulton, which hadthe President on board, was in sight. The gentle-men went on deck as fast as the gangway would per-mit them to movC; the cook being the last at the footof the stairs. VYhen he was half way up stairs, thethe end of the boiler Avas blown out, and his left legwas slightly scalded. The force was so great withwhich the end of the boiler flew, that it swept everything before it,—tables, chairs, the partition betweenthe ladies and gentlemens cabin—all went out at thestern of the boat! In one minute more, if they hadstaid in the cabin, fifty-one would have been sweptinto eternity!. THE LEXINGTON. 167 COxNFLAGRATlON OF THE LEXINGTON, on her passage from Neio York to Slonington, onthe night of January 13, 1S40,—by which mel-ancholy occurrence nearly onp: hundred AND FIFTY PERSONS PERI-SHED, ANDONLY FOUR ESCAPED ! The steamboat Lexington, Capt. George Child,left New York for Stouington on Monday, January13, at 3 oclock, P. M., Avith upwards of one hundredpassengers, and a large freight consisting principallyof cotton. At 7 oclock, when about three or fourmiles from Eatons Neck, Long Island, some bales ofcotton, and the casings around the smoke-pipe, werediscovered to be on fire. The wind at the time wasblowing fresh from the north, which, with the dread-ful confusion that reigned among all on board, ren-dered ineflectual every attempt to check the fire. The boat was then headed for Long Island shore,and
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