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 292
the victims werestrangers; the bodies of a large number blown overboard were notrecovered from the water, and many of the dead were so shockinglydisfigured or torn to pieces that all recognition was out of the ques-tion. Fragments of wood, iron, and dead bodies were thrown to asurprising distance.… … EXPLOSION OF THB OLENCOK. Glencoe floated down the stream, she presented a frightful spectacle.The whole forward part of the boat to the wheel-house, and down tothe water line, had been swept away, and all the after-part was a com-mingled mass of timbers, freight, and human bodies heaped together…
