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 213
n eye-witness,)the scene was indeed terrible. The ladies and children had gatheredin the extreme after-part of the boat, and their screams for help cannever be erased from my memory. If the yawl had been brought back, all might have been saved ; butthe deck hands who had taken possession of it, ran… … Jamestown Columbia^ LLOYDS STEAMBOAT DISASTERS 209 were drowned or burned to death. Every woman and child who hadbeen in the boat was lost; the only persons saved were those few whoescaped over the bow when the boat struck, and the five or six deckhands who ran off with the yawl. There were a…
