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 279
e her. List of Killed.—Jackson Knowles, head cook; William Sheppard,porter; a young man from Elizabethtown, 111., name unknown ; threefiremen ; a collier, wife and child ; the following United States soldiers,viz.: Gilder, Hunt, Franks, Rean, Rosendale, Drury, Dumont, Dailey,Buyer, Gerard, Ilyer,… … (274) AWFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION AT ST. LOUIS. TWENTY-THREE STEAMBOATS BURNED, SEVERAL SQUARES IN ASHES. The prosperous and beautiful city of St. Louis, Mo., was visited on the night of 17th May,1849, by a most terrible conflagration, which destroyed property to the amount of…
