. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . New Oileans,when she took fire on the Mississippi river, near Island No. 65, atabout half-past one oclock, on the morning of January 14, 1852. Theboat was entirely consumed. Several passengers lost their lives, butall the officers and crew, except the carpenter, were saved. The workof destruction Avas completed within three minutes. A whole familyconsisting of a man, his wife and two children, perished in the or three other persons were either burned to death or drownedwhile attempting to escape from the fire. The
. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . New Oileans,when she took fire on the Mississippi river, near Island No. 65, atabout half-past one oclock, on the morning of January 14, 1852. Theboat was entirely consumed. Several passengers lost their lives, butall the officers and crew, except the carpenter, were saved. The workof destruction Avas completed within three minutes. A whole familyconsisting of a man, his wife and two children, perished in the or three other persons were either burned to death or drownedwhile attempting to escape from the fire. The books and papers wereall lost. The burning of this boat has given occasion for several law-suits andcriminal prosecutions. A charge of conspiring to burn the boat hasbeen made by Sidney C. Burton, of Cleveland, Ohio, against Wm. 328 LLOYDS STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. Kissane, L. L. Filley, tlie brothers Chapin, Lyman Cole, Alfred Nichol-son, the clerk of the Martha Washington, and several others. It wasalleged that a heavy insurance on the cargo was obtained from several. B V K N I N I. O F T il E M A R T JI A T|- A S H I N G T 0 N offices, and that the boat hatl been laden with boxes con-taining nothing more valuable than bricks, stones, and rubbish. It issaid that in the summer of 1852, L. L. Filley of Cincinnati, one ofthe persons implicated in this imputed crime, confessed on his death-bed that there had been no merchandize shipped on the Martha Wash-ington, and that the boat had been designedly set on fire to defraudthe Insurance Companies. Sidney C. Burton states that he shippedon this boat a quantity of leather valued at $1,500, and that he wasunable to obtain the insurance money, because the insurance officersprotested that the boat had been fraudulently set on fire. At the suitof Mr. Burton, the persons named above were arrested on the chargeof conspiring to burn the boat, which involved the charge of murderingthe passengers who were lost. Kissane was tried at L
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