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 177
ched theisland to which the pilot had directed her course. The head of thesteamer struck the ground, and all the passengers might easily havepassed over the forecastle to the island, and many of them were savedin this way; but others, being apprehensive of an explosion, remainedin the cabin until… … Palmetto Tt, Homochitta R. Black Hawk Pt LLOYDS STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. 173 of the boat. All that could now be done by the persons who remainedaft, was to throw themselves into the river, as the stern of the boatlay out from the shore. Governor Poindexter and his lady were bothinjured, the former…
