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 271
ish,Irish, and German emigrants, of whom only one, Robert Hall, wassaved. Mr. Hall lost his wife and four children, his mother, two sis-ters and two brothers. Mrs. Walker and child; Selina Moony; andothers not identified. Henry Wilkinson, the clerk of the Griffith, swam ashore by support-ing his… … (266) FLOODS OR FRESHETS ON THE WESTERN RIVERS. Only those persons who have witnessed the devastation of a western flood can form anyidea of the terrific nature of such a disaster. Sometimes the whole country, as far as eye canreach, is under water; while the strength of the current sweeps…
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