Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . iutthe weight was so great that many ofthem fell out when the boat reached thewater. Thirty succeeded in keeping on,but the boat capsized several times, beingfull of water, and seven men wer
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . iutthe weight was so great that many ofthem fell out when the boat reached thewater. Thirty succeeded in keeping on,but the boat capsized several times, beingfull of water, and seven men were drownedtherebj*. There then remained in theboat the first officer and six of the crew,besides one steward and fifteen passengers. GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 675. nrRXINU <JF THE STEAMSHIP AUSTRIA, WITH FIVE HUNDRED SOULS ON BOARD. It was three oclock when this boat gotfree of the steamer, but, as tlie boat wasdifficult of management, and the vesselwas still going ahead, the two became soonseparated. Thej tried hard to bail thewater out of the boat, but did not succeeduntil a raft was constructed of the oars andmasts belonging to the boat, upon whichthe passengers were placed, and then, theboat being cleared of water, they were puton board again. About one hour afterhaving left the steamer, they got sight ofthe Erench bark Maurice, and on reaching her, found the third officer and some of thepassengers already on board. As the flames increased, the poor, ter-ror-stricken creatures on the bowspritjumjwd into the water as their clothescaught on fire. One tvoman, with tivodaughters, kissed them both, and then,putting Iter arms around them, all threejumped into the water. An English lady, who came on board atSouthampton, had three children with h
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