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 268
Browns I. Raleigh Lloyds steamboat disasters 201 a moment ? The consternation of all on bqard may be estimated fromthe fact that scarcely any of the survivors were able to give a lucid ac-count of the catastrophe. There were three hundred and twenty-six … BURNING or THE G. P. GniFFITH. persons on the boat; of these, only about thirty, who were able to swimashore, were saved. Every child perished, and every woman exceptone. the wife of the barber. One of the passengers, a Mr. Parkes, hadsecured a piece of the wreck, Avhich was barely sufficient to…
