Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters (1856)
Lloyd, James T. [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co.; Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co. · leaf 102
Lloyds steamboat disasters •97 shoving in the pine knots, and sprinkling rosin over the coal, and doingtheir best to raise more steam. They had a barrel of whisky beforethem, from which they drank often and freely until they were beastlydrunk. The boilers became so hot that they set fire to sixty… … B U r. .N I N G OF THE B K N S H K H K u K flames. T!ie passengers, three hundred in number, were sound asleep,not thinking of the awful doom that awaited them. When the deckhands discovered the fire, they basely left their posts and ran for theyawl, without giving the alarm to the passengers.…
