. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . hehomes of their childhood, in obedience to the requisi-tions of a race before whom they seem doomed to be-come extinct,—an accident, horrible and unanticipa-ted, has brought death upon three hundred at they died as the savage would die, upon the bat-tle field, ill defence of his rights, and in the wars ofhis tribe, death had possessed little or no horror forthem.—But, in the full confidence of safety purchasedby the concessi
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . hehomes of their childhood, in obedience to the requisi-tions of a race before whom they seem doomed to be-come extinct,—an accident, horrible and unanticipa-ted, has brought death upon three hundred at they died as the savage would die, upon the bat-tle field, ill defence of his rights, and in the wars ofhis tribe, death had possessed little or no horror forthem.—But, in the full confidence of safety purchasedby the concession and the compromise of all theirsavage chivalry,—confined in a vessel strange to theirhabits, and dying by a death strange and ignoble totheir natures,—the victims of a catastrophe they couldneither foresee nor resist,—their last moments of life,(for thought has the activity of lightning in extremi-ty,) must have been embittered by conflicting emo-tions, horrible indeed : regret at their submission,—indignation at what seemed to them wilful treachery,and impotent threatenings of revenge upon the palefaces, may have maddened their dying THE PHOENIX. 151 CONFLAGRATON OF THE PHCENIX, on Lake Champlain, on the night of September 5,^:.^«>>^..\^: 1819,—wherein not a soul icas lost. The steamboat Phcenix left Burlington about12 oclock at night, and had proceeded as far as Prov-idefiCe Island, about half way between Burlingtonand Plattsburgh, Avhen the alarm of fire was given,about 1 oclock in the morning ; there being twosmall boats attached to the Phosnix, they were imme-diately filled with passengers ; but the wind blowingviolently from the north-west, the passengers werenot all enabled to embark, and some few of themwere obliged to jump overboard. Capt. Johnson Sherman, who was the regular com-mander of the Phosnix, was confined with a fever atVergennes, and the boat at this time was commandedby his son, Richard W. Sherman, a young gentle-man, about tw
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