Sultana steamboat disaster

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1. Chicago Tribune — 1865-04-29, page 1

   … and North Car ■ i ■ olina* - ■ APPALLING STEAM BOAT DISASTER I NEAR MEM PHIS. - EXPLOSION OF THE STEAMER SULTANA - NEARLY TWO THOUSAND LIVES 'J : LOST. Thrilling Details of the I Calamity. IEEE …

   … AkdexwJohnson. BjW.IICNTEB, Acting Secretary of State.- XCKBXBLE t>HAST£R. Ill* steamer Sultana Blown Up’ • Fourteen HundredXtns Lost. TSpccial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune …

   … from New Madrid acnounces a horrible cataatrophh down'the- river. Tuo ate&tner Sultana exploded with two thousand toldlvis onboard. Fourteen bumlretniveM were lOfit. …

2. Chicago Tribune — 1865-04-30, page 1

   … W. Hardin, Jr., of that firm, with his wife, was on board the HI. dated steamer Sultana when she blowup,- was lon ' : Thcnniabera lost by the blowing up of the steamer …

   … Sultana seem to magnify rather then diminish. S-vcn hundred and eightyFix have already …

   … Foil and InU'i llie Iliart [Special Dispatch to t) Memphis papers of the £ of the Sultana disaster. Lave been lound alive. About 1,600. It is thongtn foutd to hare • fCapert …

3. Chicago Tribune — 1865-05-01, page 2

   … W. Hardin, jr., of that firm, with bis wife, was on board tbe ill iuted steamer Sultana when she blow up. Mr. Bardin was saved, bnt his wife was lost. The numbers lost …

   … by .the blowing up of the steamer Sultana seem to magnify rather than diminish. Seven hundred and eighty elx have already …

   … Tribune.] Cairo, April S3. Memphis papers of the 2Sth give further detafia of the Sultana disaster. Of those on board 7SB Lave been lound alive. The lost are placed at about …

4. Chicago Tribune — 1865-05-02, page 1

   … confession. It is not yet de veloped. The tciriblc catastrophe occasioned by tho explosion of the steamer Sultana near Mem phis, is being made the subject of official in. yestigaUon. One result …

   … of that Investiga tion has already been declared, viz: that the Sultana’s carrying capacity was fixed by reg ulations at eleven hundred troops and four …

   … LOUIS. A Guerilla Banged—Bushwhackers '■ flouted-Releasing Isabel Prisoners —Tile Sultana Catastrophe—Gratis Vi olation or HcgnlUtlonß* [Special to the Chicago Tribune. …

5. Chicago Tribune — 1865-05-02, page 4

   … , one of the ladies connected with the Sanitary Commis sion, was cn the steamer Sultana at the time of the late explosion. We are reliably Informed that this Is not so. No ladies took pysaSge at Mem phis …

6. Chicago Tribune — 1865-05-03, page 4

   … Mem phis at daylight this morning. On board were three hundred survivors of the Sultana disast a r Mort of them were able to walk to Benton Bir racks. Five deck bands …

   … unable to pat oat tbe flames from thc'lnflammabte nature of her cargo, aud fear of explosion of her maga zine. The Webb was armed with three guns, one a 32-pounder. There were …

7. Chicago Tribune — 1865-05-04, page 4

   … E. Boemer, who was feared to have been at passenger upon the lIU-fated{etcainer Sultana. She is at Memphis. We Requested to say that the reason of ■omission by Mrs. Bullene …

   … motherless child o! a Lancashire coal miner, who, dying irom the effects of an explosion in the “pit.’ l bequeaths her to the care of John McLane (Ur. Conldock)—a young …

8. Chicago Tribune — 1865-05-05, page 2

   … earnest hearts and willing bands than ever before —laborart cst orart. . . THE SULTANA TBAGEDF. Shocking as were our first accounts of the Sultana disaster, it appears upon a fuller in vestigation that those accounts failed alto …

   … - bat in vain. The accessary inference at. the lime was.that the Captain of the Sultana obtained them by cor jnpt means. ‘So evident was ihe danger that n professional …

   … steamboat engineer, who had engaged passage on the Sultana, left the boat in apprehenaionof it. The last inspection 01 the vessel was by-the …

9. Chicago Tribune — 1865-05-09, page 2

   … tana, and C*prr Orlsa, brother lu law of Capt. Mbson, visited tho wreck of- the Sultana on the sth. and found th.l some thirty bodiep bad risen, all tut one of whom teemed …

   … almost . la. a state of nndity, the clothes having been torn from them by the awful explosion, or bnrncd by fire subsequent to iL Two hundred and sixty-seven rebel officers, …

10. Chicago Tribune — 1865-05-13, page 2

    … Cincinnati Commercial, lllh.} Among'the fewwho survived the horrible results ol' the explosion and burning of the Sultana, on the Mississippi river, near Mem phis, was Mrs. Peiir, of this city, wife 01 …

    … husband, whose vessel was then lying near the month of Kcd Elver. As soon as the explosion took place, Mrs. Perry fas tened on a life-preserver and sprang into the river …

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