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 265
intothe water and she was saved. A father, who had rescued his wife andsix children, went back into the blazing wreck, hoping to save theseventh, but lost his own life. A young man who had escaped to theshore, returned to the boat to bring away his sister, but he was seento fall into the blazing… … 3 Diamond 1. Lloyds steamboat lisasters. 261 wife in the wreck, sat on the wharf to all appearance an indifferentspectator of the frightful scene. It appeared afterwards that hisgrief had reduced hiin to melancholy madness, or idiotic apathy.Another young man who had seen his father and mother…
