DESTRUCTION OF A MISSISSIPPI STEAMER.
|by electric telegraph.—copyright. 1 Washington, December 2G. A steamer caught fire in Louisiana waters owing to a lighted cigar being thrown amongst the cargo of cotton, and a terrible catastrophe followed.
Thirty of those on board were burned to death, and sixty were drowned in their efforts to escape.
Only ten lives were saved. The pilot went raving mad, and the cap tain blew his own brains out.
Full particulars are not yet obtainable, owing to the excitement still prevailing, but sufficient is known to stamp the disaster as one of the most fearful tragedies in the history of American river navigation.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2570, 29 December 1888, Page 2
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107DESTRUCTION OF A MISSISSIPPI STEAMER. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2570, 29 December 1888, Page 2
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