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 196
to get possession of float-ing pieces of the wreck. I could see notliing of the exploded boat,and was fully satisfied in my mind that she was blown all to pieces,and that all my fellow passengers were lost, except those who, likemyself, were struggling in the water. I will do myself the simple… … EXPLOSION OF THKANGLO-NOnMAN. felt more buoyant, nor swam with greater ease. Still I thought itwell enough to appropriate whatever aid was within my reach; so, likeothers, I began a race, which proved to be a tedious one, after a shat-tered piece of plank. I finally reached it, and putting my…