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 151
, was blown overboard anddrowned; Julius Fisk, the first engineer; Paul Johnson, second en-gineer, mortally wounded; William Ilasker, John Freeman, C. Smith,John Rhoades and Dr. Brant, New Orleans; William AVills, SouthCarolina ; C. Ebert, and nine wounded. The Wilmington had just started from a… … (146) SKETCH OF CAIRO. Cairo is advnntageously situated in Alexandria County, Illinois, at the southern extremityof the State, on a point of land formed b} the confluence of the Ohio and Missiiisippi river?,one hundred and eighty-four miles below St. Louis, and one thousand miles above New…