. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . ferent and superior character tothose usually found in books of this description. In collecting the materials which form the bodyof the work, the compiler has been largely indebtedto many of the various journals of the day for theprincipal facts contained therein. In preservingthese facts, however, the language in which theywere clothed has mostly been remodelled,—the ac-counts shorn of much that was unimportant, andotherwise condensed,—and, by culling from onesource whatever seemed of interest, and so blendingit with that of
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . ferent and superior character tothose usually found in books of this description. In collecting the materials which form the bodyof the work, the compiler has been largely indebtedto many of the various journals of the day for theprincipal facts contained therein. In preservingthese facts, however, the language in which theywere clothed has mostly been remodelled,—the ac-counts shorn of much that was unimportant, andotherwise condensed,—and, by culling from onesource whatever seemed of interest, and so blendingit with that of another which was imperfect in someof its details, he has been enabled to render a more Vlll PREFACE. full, connected, and interesting narrative of doing this, he has also aimed to give to the wholea decidedly moral influence, by appropriate reflec-tions and remarks of his own, as well as by selec-tions from others, which he has introduced whereverit could be done with advantage, and where thepeculiar circumstances of the narrative seemed todemand CONTENTS. STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. Page. ./Etna, explosion of, in New York harbor, May 15, 1824, andloss of several lives, ....... 166 Bedford, steamer, loss of, on the Missouri river, April 27,1840, 259 Belle, burning of, on the Mississippi river, near Liberty, Illi-nois, November, 1839, 269 Ben Sherod, destruction of, by fire and explosion, on theMississippi river, May 8, 1837, with the loss of nearly twohundred lives, ......... 133 Britannia, steam-ship, escape of, from the rocks and breakersoff the harbor of Halifax, during a fog, May 19, 1841, . 272 Bunker Hill, loss of, on Long Island Sound, November 15,1841, . . . . . .268 Chariton, explosion on board of, near St. Louis, July 27,1837, . . .171 Charleston, steam-packet, thrilling narrative of the escapefrom being wrecked, during the same storm in which thesteamer Home was lost, ....... 50 Columbia, steamer, wrecked upon Black Ledge, Seal Island,during a fog, July 2,
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