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jtllll lllo | «v/iv hmuvm moffice of a hotel, ami las gave the following graphic account ofTUB Slir.TANA KXPI.03I0X:•‘Tho Sultana disaster occurred April 28, 13C.f, at two o’clock in tho morning. It was the most appalling ? • of water horrors, ami in less stirring ’ times would have been (ho occasion of wide comment unlt;l much newspaper/ notice.! Tho steamer was a Cincinnati built boat intended to rim in. the Ohio ltlver trade above the.Queen City, but during the war she was placed in the trade between St. J^ims and Now Orleans. She was Jongthoned and broadened to a very largo carrying capacity, her cabiStopped at Hie chimneys, leaving ir.large cj|n*h space on the cabin ' niui bolW ib-cjc, suitubio for light:? 1*.freight’or. convenient fortlie trans-|Mirlidi«n W irunps. I belonged to tip) Tenth/Tndisum Cavalry,- and was owe of the unfortunate devils who V-tookthe first degree in veliel. prison life lit likliby, and the Inst at Anderson villa. Chideritri armngeffient he- tween our (jov’eninicTl nml the lt;lf\-r‘ • cials of iho O.-iSt A.Syl!, or' nvsivly :: nil, the Union ,d*is iiio ra cm dined ill»/»# | - - ^ *-»Iy safe, for the hulk was rapidly dlining toward lund.niid before the tintiios would reach them they would bo so near shore that It would not be much troulde to roniii it. Suddenly the hulk turned out stream, tho wind gave fresh Imiaf-lus to the tiro, and the Haines dashed into that croud of .shrieking, crying ami praying humanity, driving them into the water, from winch not lifty escaped alive.“The river in the evening was lighted up by the flames, mid on Us broad bosom could be seen hundreds, and hundreds of struggling men, catch 11/at ovorytiiing coming mar them. She water was cold ami chilly, and many a strong swimmer was taken will) cramps and Went down fovovcr. Homo wore uninjured mid some* hint already received their dead)-wounds, hut with I hat tenacity that had brought them through many months of danger, sickness and suffering, they clung in life until forced to surrender to the mighty flood, and, throwing up I heir arms in one last cdlovt, would sink to a watery grave.“Although twenty years haveS big Milo ; to I wa vlu on 'I m.| wi!TuIIn n lt;in! IT»l : II;. , WI inn. Tie
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Piqua Daily Call
Piqua, Ohio, US
Wed, Sep 30, 1885
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