Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-04-16
CURIOUS INFogMATIoM-STEAM
EoA1S


In the last four nuinbcrs, the progress Of
steamboats, both in this country and Europe,
have bccu reviewed. showing conClusively the
advance of mechanical knowledge in both
countries. This ia subject always interest
ing-but there * one page Ia history, which,
though short, II dark and GLOOMY. To this
page, we now turn, IN q short notice, at the
accidents tba, have occurred To steamboats,,
since their introduction in this country.
The first steamboat accident in this roun
tty happened in 1918 ~ the Washington. on
the Ohio river. According TO a letter TO Con-.
gross by the Secretary Of Ike Treasury, writ.
ten in 1893, the whole number Of steam en-.
gines that were in use in the United States,
was 1910; OF that number 500 were in steam.
boats, $50 ia locomotives. and 1860 in man.
glaciories OF different kinds.
The number OF accidents 10 steam engine.
up To that time. causing loss OF life was POI
OF which number ~ were in sieambssts.
The greatest loss oil life by stesmboa, acci-
dent was by the collision and sinking OF the
Monmouth Ia 1887 on the Mississippi, the
numblr OF lives lost was 300.
The greatest loss oil life by the explosion OF
a steamboat was IN 1893, In the case of the
omonok Oh the same, the number of lives lost
was 1879.
Tn boiler. of the Steamboa, Mosclle blew
up at Cincinnati, Ohio. destroying 100 per.
SONS.
The greatest loss Of life ny s~nagins. was ia
The case OF the steamboat 81. Louis on the
Mississippi M 1891, when there were IL lives
lost.
The creates, loss OF life nv shipwrcck was
IN The casc OF the Home IN 1897, Oh the coast
oi NORM Carotina, When 100 persons were
lost.
The creates, los- OF life, BY the burning Of
a steamboat. zap 10 that time, was ian the ,ase
oil The Ben. SleuOt on the Mississippi, la
1897.
The number Of Sicamboat. lost up 10 1921
was %. During the year 1897 40 less than
30 steamer. were lost on the western waters.
DannS The ten years. from 1890 TO 1910
eighty steanb,dtsN were lost by expIo.
sion. In the United States by which means
80 persons were killed outright. and 296
wounded badly. OF which number 2si died
irom the injuries received.
On the lih OF June, 1897, the steamboat
Pulaski was desioyed by the explosion OF one
at her boilers while on the passage from
to BalliInoc, aud ~ persons per.
About the Sme time q similar accidcn, &c.
CURED to The S,SpRer Washington on Lskc
Ene, by which a0fycsa ere lost.
one hunlwd amt seyraty lives were lott.
Dy the d.sifucit ea OF the lsexsnglou in 1910.
The particularly hi this du.s<ff Zee tamiiiss va
every New Yorker, snd Their fose IL would be
worse than useless 10 Iepca, them.
The burning OF the Eric" on Lake Erie in
August, ISL. sent to their uu,i1ncly gss,es
40 pcrsons-snd IL is but a short time sincc
our .ylnPaihies werc aroused by the des,ruc-
ton OF the i'll fa,cd swallow.
Accidents 20 steamboats, are slarmingiy
frequent and scarce a newspaper reaches us
from The South or West. but chron.clrs the
destruction oi one or more. As these acci-
aents ~ n'ne cases out OF ten happen through
st"ss c~sfciessness, the persons responsible
should br Pnnistfs Die as the sacrifice OF human
'ie requires. This method. ! think. would
G0stiie.