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 79
wharf at Mobile, in order to makeher regular trip to Montgomery. Scarcely had she disengagedherself from the wharf, when the explosion took place, pro-ducing a concussion which seemed to shake the whole city to its foun-dations. The entire population of Mobile, alarmed by the terrificdetonation,… … EXPLOSION OF THE BEN FKANKLIN, 1836. of the lake, was now a shattered wreck, while numbers of herpassengers and crew were lying on the decks, either motionless andmutilated corpses, or agonized sufferers panting and struggling in thegrasp of death. Many others had been hurled overboard at the…
