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 246
ifth,the St. James stopped at the point designated above, fifteen miles fromthe Pontchartrain railway landing, and having taken in several pas-sengers, started again on her course. Her companion, the California,was at this time a short distance astern; each boat, probably was en-deavoring to outrun… … EXPLOSION OF THB ST. JAMES. The St. James had run scarcely two hundred yards from the pointwhere she had stopped, when all the boilers exploded, and nearly atthe same moment, the boat took fire. The staunchions being tornaway by the explosion, the whole of the boiler deck fell upon theboilers and…
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