. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . Colles, book-keeper; Samuel Bunnall, colored fireman. died soon after the accident. EXPLOSION OF THE TIMOUR NO. 2. The steamboat Timour No. 2 exploded, September 25th, 1854, whilelying at Edwards wood-yard, on the Missouri river, three miles belowJefferson City. She was taking in wood at the time. All her boilers,three in number, exploded at the same moment, wrecking all the for-ward part as far as the wheel-houses, killing fifteen persons, andwounding five or six others. The boat sunk soon after the
. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . Colles, book-keeper; Samuel Bunnall, colored fireman. died soon after the accident. EXPLOSION OF THE TIMOUR NO. 2. The steamboat Timour No. 2 exploded, September 25th, 1854, whilelying at Edwards wood-yard, on the Missouri river, three miles belowJefferson City. She was taking in wood at the time. All her boilers,three in number, exploded at the same moment, wrecking all the for-ward part as far as the wheel-houses, killing fifteen persons, andwounding five or six others. The boat sunk soon after the had a valuable cargo, the greater part of which was lost. Thenames of the sufierers are not mentioned, with the exception of Dix, the Captains brother, who was blown overboard anddrowned. SINKING OF THE BELLE ZANE. On the eighth of January, 1845, the steamboat Belle Zane, while onher way from Zanesville, Ohio, to New Orleans, struck a snag in theMississippi, about twelve miles below the mouth of White river, and MAP OP THE OHIO .—N 0 . 30 . Hilderman;. =/ Caah I. Lloyds steamboat disasters. 279 immediately turned bottom upward! This terrible accident tookplace in the middle of an exceedingly cold night. Of ninety persons•who were on board a moment before the disaster, only fifty escapeddrowning—and many of those who succeeded in reaching the shorewere afterwards frozen to death. At the time the boat was snafirired, CO the passengers were all in their berths; those who were able to extri-
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