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- Greatest Loss of Life In Wreckof Boat the World Had knott n.1 SOME HOW ARD COUNTY MENWere Vboard—I hree Escaped—One of Them Is StillLiving.It wa. fifty year.' ago today—on April 27, 1835— that the disaster tc the steamship Sultana occurred. For many years the wreck of the Sultana ; had the lead in loss of life over any other 'ike disaster the world has ever known.The Sultana was a Mississippi river steamship, one of the largest thatstream ever saw. She pulled awav| from the wharf at Vicksburg on the evening of April 25, starting north I with hundreds of soldiers returning from servic? in the south or from southern war prisons. The great boat had reached a point about eleven mile3 above Memphis on the evening of April 27, when her boilers exploded, (Shattering the structure from stem to stern and setting it afire. There were I 2,175 persons on the boat. Of these, more than 1,500 lost their lives, either burning to death or drowning. Scores | of men were killed in their sleep by . the explosion.
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Tue, Apr 27, 1915
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