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 146
d down to Natchez, so that there was an un-usually large number of these boats collected at the last-named city atthe time of the tornado. The steamboat Hinds was blown out into the stream and sunk, andall the passengers and crew, except four men, were lost. It is notknown how many passengers were… … AT NATCHEZ. is conjectured that lie must have returned to the boat, and shared thefate of his crew and passengers. The wreck of the Hinds was after-wards found at Baton Rouge, with fifty-one dead bodies on board,forty-eight of whom were males, and three females; among the latter wasone little girl…
