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 335
steadily without intermission, for two hours. Therewere about fifty cabin passengers, exclusive of eight ladies, one child,and a nurse, who, together with the officers, crew and deck passengersmade a sum total of one hundred and thirty persons. The explosion produced a deafening report and the… … EXPLOSION OF THE LEXINGTON. swam ashore ; many fell on the boat, and were mingled in awful con-fusion with the fragments of the wreck ; all was lit up by the blazingtimber, which, in that dead hour of the night, cast an unearthly gleamon the hideous spectacle. To the spectator, to whose harrowed…
