The St. Louis Republic., 1904-12-18
eluosd the record to six days and thirteen

| hours
its object the heating of her rivals time.
| and she c:d -. her arriyaI at ta- Nash
| vile wharf being an cventful occasion. Up
| the river she came with her band playing
| her deck hands singing and fiappiuE in tho
! Wind was a great white banner, on which
was printed. Five days and twentv-tilrec
/ pic greeted h"r at the wharf. while a car
| non sa-ute WAS fired IN her honor
The triumph OF the owners of tho Tai
! leyranl and her friends however. WAS
I short lived for in June IN" Nashville made
4 the journey In five days and tN-.V,. hours
! This Is probably the best time ever maCe
I by Nashville-Now Orleans pa ckat
DISASTERS on THE RIVER
The Cumberland has had hey particular
share Of wrecks from snags fires anti
| with great loss of lcr.
| In the annals OF the river there IS moth
ing 80 rcuant!cally horrible as the hurr.-
ing Of the Charles be.cHer whose wnc,
was seized by a beautiful vorng woman
as the boat, ab.aze from stem Ia stern
raced down the Mississippi. Nor Is there
anything TO compare with tn" story Of the
Saluoa. the fat Of which NIS fpr"ioll by
Mormon elder Its bel! uucann,iy oh
s"rved the anniversary If tho explosion
even .,Ifte. II VAS transferred TO Il church
jim BludS0. a negro pilot the John
Randolph. Who died At his wheel
The LohR RandolPh. as, rs she came up the
reached tho eni of her journey III fun
blaze. David Craft, her pilot a slave.
some say, stayed at his post and stored
Tor tho wharf Tho rope was burned in
two after the wharf v-HS touched. and the
yeSsc. swung out into the stream and
heroic soul went up in the wreck and two
other slaves lost their lives. tn" freight
aboard. which was burned, WIS valued at
s3o.ttl
The most notable steamboa, disaster in
connection with Cumberland River uavisa-
ton Was the loss Of tho steamer which was
GsrTyinE Lafayette from Nashville in 1s2j.
The FrenchInan. after being the -'icst Of
Tennessee. departed by steamer Tor Gin
cirnar. After the vessel reached the Ohio
she struck a sEaS ard sank The first re-
ports reaching Nashville Of the wreck lie
Cared that the Marquis had lost his life
When II was learned that Lafayette's life
had been saved it was the cause Of an cx-
trdordinary demonstration
ono OF the Iueerest incidents on the river
W was 80 that 5efallng the City of Huntsville
Hartsville during nigh water The boat'>;
Prov hung up or the bank, and before II
could be freed the river went down two I
feet Tie boat final Y sid off the bank and
WriIt stern foremost TO the bottom.
Tho worst disasters in which Cumberland |
River boats have fgurei took pace on the |
Mississippi
The Tcnness-c. Nashville and New Or |
Leans boat. Was sunk in the lorcr N1issis-
sippi In 1892. ard sixty-two persons. most
-, u.Sh pdsStiiStIS- were lOSI- i ne Belle |
o. Clarksville. another Nashville boat !
went down near Old Town Landing in lSi. !
and thirty-three lives We're lost principal /
" deck hands In 1886 the steamer Sa-a- |
din. with Senator Bate on board collided |
with and sank the Congress at Washing ,
ton Point Two Talleyrands. the first and /
second. were lost in the MiSSiSsppi 'r!.
Knoxville blew up in Nev- orl"a:Is in Es5f, |
many lives being lost. Tho II. R. w III. (
ran into and sank the Gr.It Western near |
Princeton in lsJt The accident being ac-
conlpanistl with great loss OF lifn
With the careful watch " Uhich officers of
the Federal Government keep on steam
boats and stearnboa t.ncn nov and tba If
iorts which are constantly going forward
toward improving the navieable streams
accidents are becoming less in number and
Importance. The Cumberland -v;s sna-f-ei
last year bv the Government snac boat (
from Burnside To Paducah. The opening
natural distractions