. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . BY S. A. KOWLAND. SECOND EDITION. WORCESTER:PUBLISHED BY DORR, HOWLAND & CO. 1840. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, byDorr, Rowland & Co. In the Clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts. SpooNER & Rowland, PriuierS; Worcester. I CONTENTS STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. Explosion of the jEtna, in New York harbor, May 15, 1S24,—and loss of several lives, 139 Destruction of the Ben Sherod by fire and explosion, on
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States : to which is appended accounts of recent shipwrecks, fires at sea, thrilling incidents, etc. . BY S. A. KOWLAND. SECOND EDITION. WORCESTER:PUBLISHED BY DORR, HOWLAND & CO. 1840. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, byDorr, Rowland & Co. In the Clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts. SpooNER & Rowland, PriuierS; Worcester. I CONTENTS STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. Explosion of the jEtna, in New York harbor, May 15, 1S24,—and loss of several lives, 139 Destruction of the Ben Sherod by fire and explosion, on the Mississippi river, May 8, 1837,—with the loss of nearly two hundred lives, .94 Burning of the steamboat Belle, on the Mississippi river, near Liberty, Illinois, November, 1839, . 157Loss of the steamer Bedford, on the Missouri river, April 27, 1840, .231 Thrilling narrative of the escape of the steam packet Charleston from being wrecked, during the same storm in which the steamer Home was lost, . -. 38Explosion on board the steamboat Chiriton, n^ar St. Louis, July 27, 1837, ; I40 Escape of the steamer Constitution, in a tremendoussteamboatdisaste00howl
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