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 217
esting. He was on his way from Lafayette, La., to Phila-delphia, with the remains of his wife and child, recently deceased.Both the corpses were enclosed in one box. When the explosion tookplace, he succeeded in dragging his two living children from theirberths, and with them plunged into the… … ^gf Big Bone Bar Lloyds steamboat disasters. 213 A floating object attracted his attention; it was the box which con-tained the bodies of his wife and chikl. On this he placed his littleboy and girl, and endeavored to keep the box in an upright position, butthe surges caused it to pitch and roll in…
