. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . those we have already given. He had retired to rest,not feeling very well, and was awakened, about 11oclock at night, by a loud report, followed by a tre- 70 STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. mendous crash. He supposed the vessel had runashore, and, finding himself uninjured, he arose anddressed himself, when a person came down into thecabin, calling for fire-buckets, and giving the alarmthat the boat was on fire. This person, he believes,was Mr. Sherman Miller, whom he never saw after-wards. When he reached the deck, he found thatthe boil
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . those we have already given. He had retired to rest,not feeling very well, and was awakened, about 11oclock at night, by a loud report, followed by a tre- 70 STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. mendous crash. He supposed the vessel had runashore, and, finding himself uninjured, he arose anddressed himself, when a person came down into thecabin, calling for fire-buckets, and giving the alarmthat the boat was on fire. This person, he believes,was Mr. Sherman Miller, whom he never saw after-wards. When he reached the deck, he found thatthe boiler had burst. The confusion was very great,—husbands and wives running about and calling foreach other. He saw one person, among the ruins ofthe engine, moaning, and crying aloud, gone ! gone!gone !—firemen, help me !—firemen, help me! Hewas one of the firemen. Mr. Fosdick escaped bygetting on a piece of the wreck, and, in companywith two of the deck hands, was driven ashore onSaturday afternoon, near New Inlet. The followingis extracted from his letter:—. Friday morning came—and discovered to us oursituation. We were out of sight of land. Three raftswe saw at a distance. They were too far off for usto discern the persons upon them; but they all hadsignals flying. Upon our little raft we found a smallchest,—belonging to one of the firemen, and whichafterwards served us as a seat,—two mattresses, asheet, a blanket, and some female wearing apparel. The mattresses we emptied of their contents, and STEAM-PACKET PULASKI. 71 with the covering of one of them we made a sail,which, with a good deal of difficulty, we succeededin putting up, and which did us much service, for by-noon we had almost lost sight of the other rafts : and,in the afternoon, nothing was seen, as far as the eyecould reach, but sky and water. But our spirits did not flag, for we thought thatby morning we must certainly fall in with some fish-ing-boats. We also found on the raft a tin box, con-taining
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