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Title: Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Lloyd, James T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fitch, John, 1743-1798. (from old catalog) Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815. (from old catalog) Steamboat disasters Steam-navigation Railroads
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co. Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n; Horace Palmer ; Richard Palmer ;Charles Brown; Theodore Oilman ; Richard Mann ; W. P. Tinkhamand his two children ; Daniel, a colored waiter ; Hugh McLair; GeorgeWilmcn ; P. Keeler; Mrs. Heth and Francis Heth and their four chil-dren ; M. June ; W. Tillman ; A Ferguson; J. R. Manson ; ThomasWild; an unknown man, on whose person was found one thousand one hun-dred and sixty dollars; J. Marsh; another stranger, whose clothes weremarked with the initials F. P. ; Francis Huilc; a great many English,Irish, and German emigrants, of whom only one, Robert Hall, wassaved. Mr. Hall lost his wife and four children, his mother, two sis-ters and two brothers. Mrs. Walker and child; Selina Moony; andothers not identified. Henry Wilkinson, the clerk of the Griffith, swam ashore by support-ing his chin on a piece of firewood. When about to leave the wreck,he first threw his mother and little niece overboard, and endeavoredto save them, but was unable to do so, being nearly drowned in the at-tempt.
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(266) FLOODS OR FRESHETS ON THE WESTERN RIVERS. Only those persons who have witnessed the devastation of a western flood can form anyidea of the terrific nature of such a disaster. Sometimes the whole country, as far as eye canreach, is under water; while the strength of the current sweeps everything before it In theyear 1786, the Ohio river rose fifty-nine feet above low-water mark. As the surroundingcountry was but sparsely inhabited at that time, the damage done by this flood was compa-ratively trivial. In 1792 the Ohio rose 63 feet above low-water mark—four feet higher thanthe*flood of 1786. On the 11th of November, ISIO, there was a great flood at Pittsburg. A brig which hadbeen built at Plumb Creek, near that city, and which was ready to be launched, was floatedoff her wa3-s by this freshet, so that the common process of launching was unnecessary. For-tunately the vessel was secured and made fast, or she would probably have made a longvoyage down the river, without the usual e

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