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WRECK OF THE sULTANA,
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Bones of the Victims Exposed by the
 Mississippi-Fifteen Hundred Soldiers
 Killed by Boiler Explosion Near
 Memphis During the War
 The wreck of the steamer Sultana,
 which occurred on April 27, 1865, and
 sent shudder over the entire length
 and breadth of this land, has been re-
 called by the action of the Mississippi
 river, on whose broad bosom the catas-
 trophe took place, and in whose cold embrace hundreds of soldiers went down to rise no more.
 | The Sultana was a very large Mis- sissippi river packet, which was en-
 gagged by the United States govern
 ment as soon as the Civil war was end- | ed to convey Federal troops from the | Far South to their homes. The steam | CT took on a large number of troops at Vicksburg, and took on several oth-
 CT smaller attachments on the way up. When she arrived here on April 26 she l had 2,300 Federal soldiers aboard. | The boat lay in this port for several hours discharging a cargo of molasses, and started up the river early on the | morning of the 27th. She had proceed ed about six miles, being opposite Hen and Chicken Island, when, without any warning whatever, her boilers burst, | her hog chains parted, and the shatter- l ed wreck caught fire. As many as 1,500 I soldiers were killed or drowned as re- 1 suit of the accident, and for four days dozens of fioaters were captured every l hour Of 50.
 | Many bodies were recovered near the | scene of the wreck. and these were Fburied at Mound City. At that time the
 people in this vicinity cared precious | little for Yankee soldiers, though they
 gave them a decent burial. No tomb 1 stones were erected, however, and the l graves were not kept green
 l When the Sultana's victims were bur | jed at Mound City the inpromptu | graveyard in which their last sleep was l to be slept was far from the river's
 bank, but the Mississippi, seemingly with a fiendish desire to claim the bones of these victims for her waters to ripple over as they have rippled l over for years the bones of other vic- tims of the same catastrophe. has grad | ually warn away the ground until now she sweeps by the graveyard with a steady, sullen murmur, and bones and ghastly skulls look down on the water | from where they lie. d few feet away. | One skeleton which has been ex-
 posed by the river brings to mind a | lynching which occurred just after the | been operating in that vicinity for some l bn ,tn Lo Ia<J &r capture him. He was a tall, dashing sort of a fellow, who wore high-h -heeled and higlq- topped boots. One day the | thief fell into the hands of the vigilance committee, and a. short time afterward l he danced wind jig at the end of a rope which was attached to one of the
 trees near by the place where the SuI-
 tana's victims had been buried. After
 the life had been choked out of him,
 and after sundry holes had been purop- | ed into him by rifle balls, he was cut down and ohucked into a rough box,
 and In few minutes he was ready for burial. The horse thief had been fool 1 ish enough to grow long and tall, and 1 this caused him to rest for many years
 in, a most uncomfortable position, for
 the lynchers had rather a short box in
 which to bury him, and they doubled
 up his legs so that all of him could be
 slowed away inside the box.
 l One of the skeletons washed out by
 the river is doubled up in a rude box. A
 portion of the boots which the skele-
 tons owner wore can be,seen, and they
 are high-heeled and high-topped. This
 must be the horse thief. His skull was
 lying exposed a few days ago, and
 may be there yet.--From the Memphis | Scimitar