Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (1909)
Merrick, George Byron, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Cleveland, Ohio : A.H. Clark Co. · leaf 244
l-meant warnings ofAnderson, who hailed the other boat and warned them of therising wind and the danger to be apprehended. This cautionwas ignored by the Fire Canoes captain, who ran his boatdown into the channel that we had broken. The ice did moveas predicted, slowly, so slowly as to be… … KILLING STEAMBOATS 237 of her timbers was plainly heard two miles away. The upperworks were left on the ice, and later we ran down and pickedthe crew and passengers off the wreck. When the wind changedand blew the other way, the cabin was turned over and groundto splinters amid the moving cakes. In…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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