. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . s, we hove up both anchors; and,finding one broken and useless, threw it away. Wecommenced hauling in the hawser, which we watchedwith intense anxiety; for had it broken, our hopeswould have been almost over. Fortunately it ship was well off the shore, but the water wasonly three and a quarter fathoms deep. The topsailswere let fall and spread with great celerity, and atthe same instant the back-rope of the kedge was cut,leav
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . s, we hove up both anchors; and,finding one broken and useless, threw it away. Wecommenced hauling in the hawser, which we watchedwith intense anxiety; for had it broken, our hopeswould have been almost over. Fortunately it ship was well off the shore, but the water wasonly three and a quarter fathoms deep. The topsailswere let fall and spread with great celerity, and atthe same instant the back-rope of the kedge was cut,leaving us once more under the influence of our can-vass. At 6 oclock we had beat off several miles,and anchored in six fathoms of water, with the islandof Mazeira in sight, showing us that we were betweenit and the main. In the niglit we dragged our anchors, but broughtup again on giving more cable. Early on the 24th,we got under way, and beat off the Gulf of sunset the southern extremity of the island wasastern, and a last cast of the lead gave us thirty fath-oms in an open sea, after having been grinding thecoral for fifty-six hours. t ^k-f JV-_. J • TORNADO AT NATCHEZ. 407 some with their roofs blown off, and all more or lessinjured. On the river the scene lost none of its horrors,—the enormous body of water now rolling in the ^Eis-sissippi, and swelling to the utmost limits of its banks,was lashed by the tornado into foaming billows, andthe steamers and flat-boats were torn to pieces, andtheir scattered planks flew about in the wind likefeathers. Here was, by far, the greatest loss of life,—the flat-boats were swamped and destroyed before theunfortunate men could escape to the shore. Thesteamboat St. Lawrence was lifted many feet out ofwater, and instantly dasheo to the bottom of the riv-er with every soul on board. The steamboat Prairiewas torn to pieces,—blown up by the wind worsethan ever boat was blown up by steam,—the hulland ma(?hinery i^ all that is
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