. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . n be,How boldly launched a little band Their bark upon the sea;The wild waves lashed the treacherous shore,— Their boat was weak and frail,—While high around the billows rose,— But yet they did not quail \ Light from the burning wreck still gleamed Upon the foaming wave,— . And still they toiled and rowed that night The perishing to 0, could then the troubled lake Its bosom wide unfold,How would their generous hearts be thrilled With horrors yet untold ! 252 STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. There lay the father and the son, With
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . n be,How boldly launched a little band Their bark upon the sea;The wild waves lashed the treacherous shore,— Their boat was weak and frail,—While high around the billows rose,— But yet they did not quail \ Light from the burning wreck still gleamed Upon the foaming wave,— . And still they toiled and rowed that night The perishing to 0, could then the troubled lake Its bosom wide unfold,How would their generous hearts be thrilled With horrors yet untold ! 252 STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. There lay the father and the son, With pale and marble brow ;—There lay the mother and the babe, All cold and speechless now;—There lay the lover and the loved In fond affections clasp ;—There lay the friend and enemy In deaths convulsive grasp. O, where is all the beauty now That trod upon that deck!Alas ! go view the charred remains Upon the burning wreck!Ask of the ashes scattered mid The waters and the fire ;—That treacherous lake was now their grave 1 The boat, their funeral pyre!. EXPLOSION OF THE STEAMER PERSIAN, On the Mississippi River, while on her Passagefrom New Orleans to St, Louis, November 7,1840; by which Fatal Occurrence upwards ofNineteen Lives were lost, The steamer Persian, under the command of Cap-tain Gaslee, left New Orleans for St. Louis on theevening of November 3, having on board a largenumber of passengers. She had proceeded safely onher way till the night of the 7th,—at which time shewas but a few miles below Arkansas River,—whenthe flues of her starboard boiler exploded with tremen-dous violence, by which nineteen persons were almostinstantaneously hurried into eternity, and betweenthirty and forty severely scalded or otherwise chief engineer was killed at his post, just afterputting the engine in motion; as was also the secondmate, who had just returned with the yawl fromshore. No other officer of the boat was injured, norany of the cabin passengers, as t
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