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 143
purpose of examining the leak, but he had scarcelyentered when the rush of water drove him back. About this time shrieks and exclamations of aiiright and distressarose from the deck below, and several ladies, who hastened to thestern-railing, reported that thej saw a number of persons strugglinoin… … SINKING OP THE SHEPHERDESS. themselves by getting into the yawl, which was cut loose and rowed tothe shore with a broom. The water rose so rapidly that it soon be-came necessary for all to seek safety on the hurricane deck. This po-sition was not attained without great difiiculty, for the bow had…
