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 247
hurrying to and fro, wringing their hands, or seizing onsuch articles as they could use for temporary support, and jumpinginto the lake. The screams were awfully distinct and harrowing, asthey arose not from the burning boat only, but from the water, in alldirections, where many human beings were… … Lloyds steamboat disasters. 243 be reached. The horrified eyes of the people on the California couldsee men cease to struggle and go down, while those wIk) saw themperish had no power to save. It was a scene to harrow the soul ofhumanitj, a scene which could not be remembered without horror, andone…
