. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . EXPLOSION OF T a li O li O N o K O . between decks was densely crowded with sleeping passengers, when theflue collapsed, as aforesaid, and the steam swept through the wholelength of the boat with the force of a tornado, carrying everythingbefore it. jNIany of the crew, whom duty had called on deck at thatearly hour, were blovm overboard ; and as the scalding vapor penetratedevery part and recess of the cabin and space between decks, the slum-bering population of the boat, with scarcely an individual exception, wereeither kill
. Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters . EXPLOSION OF T a li O li O N o K O . between decks was densely crowded with sleeping passengers, when theflue collapsed, as aforesaid, and the steam swept through the wholelength of the boat with the force of a tornado, carrying everythingbefore it. jNIany of the crew, whom duty had called on deck at thatearly hour, were blovm overboard ; and as the scalding vapor penetratedevery part and recess of the cabin and space between decks, the slum-bering population of the boat, with scarcely an individual exception, wereeither killed on the spot, or injured in a manner more terrible thandeath itself. Some of these unfortunates were completely excoriated,some shockingly mangled and torn, while others were cast among massesof ruins, fragments of wood and iron, piled up in inextricable deck was strewn with more than fifty helpless suflerers; the MAP OF THE MISSISSIPPI.—N 0 .18 Lake Providence ^^. Transylvania Ldg. sHsss^tTennesee Ldg. Lloyds steamboat disasters. 107 river was all alive with those that had been hurled overboard by theforce of the explosion, and those who, frantic with pain and terror,had cast themselves into the water. Some of those who had been scaldedswam to the bank, and then in the wildest phrenzj, occasioned by in-tolerable agony, leaped back into the water and were drowned. Thosepersons who occupied the cabin generally escaped before the steamreached that apartment; but one gentleman, Mr. Myers, of Wheel-ing, while making his way forward with his child in his arms, becamealarmed at the scene of confusion and distress which presented itself,and rushing back to the cabin, which by this time was filled with steam,he and the child were both badly burned, and died soon afterwards. Nearly one hundred deck passengers are supposed to have beensacrificed, the names of a great majority of whom were unknown, andare therefore not inserted in the subjoined
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