Download or read book Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States written by Southworth Allen Howland and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book STEAMBOAT DISASTERS RAILROAD written by S. a. (Southworth Allen) 1800 Howland and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States written by Southworth Allen Howland and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States To Which Is Appended Accounts of Recent Shipwrecks Fires at Sea Thrilling Incidents written by S. A. Howland and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States written by S. A. Howland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States: To Which Is Appended Accounts of Recent Shipwrecks, Fires at Sea, Thrilling Incidents, &C Indians, preserved, while on the summit of the blazing tower, from the raging fire on the one side, and the deadly rifles of the Indians on the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States written by Southworth Allen Howland and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States to Which Is Appended Accounts of Recent Shipwrecks Fires at Sea Thrilling Incidents written by Southworth Allen Howland and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...the season of peril, where there are none to help--in the frantic clasp which death makes only more rigid--ar, e affecting testimonials, better than all other, to the immortality of the soul. A mother's soul is in her love of the children she has borne--and when should that soul be more like its source, and less selfish, than at the moment its shackles of clay are loose? Forgive us if the sentiment be sacrilegious--but to us it seems an antidote of Heaven--a manifestation of the Deity. The ages of terror that pased in the few hours antecedent to the deaths of the sufferers, are more painfully described in this little evidence of a mother's care for her child, than in volumes of description. We can read in it her retreat to the last corner of a plank, upon the wreck, which would yield a support to the horror-stricken passengers, at the greatest distance from the devouring fire; we can see the child's face buried in a moment in the bosom which had yielded a sufficient shelter against all its apprehensions of danger, previous to that awful night. The terrific screams of the weak, and the more violent despair of those who were cast down from fancied strength to conscious impotence--the confusion of the appalling scene, and the certainty of danger from which there was no escape, -apparent even to an infant, wouM force its face, in wild affright, from its temporary asylum. It was then, as she bound her terrified child to her breast; amid the horrors and distracting circumstances of that moment, that, despite of every thing which might draw it away, her heart was centered upon her child. It was then, that, she interposed the feeble barrier of a gauze veil between its face and the flames. Had a feather, floating in the air, passed her, it would not.
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Download or read book Lloyd s Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters written by James T. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River written by Vicki Berger Erwin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, more than three hundred boats met their end in the steamboat graveyard that was the Lower Missouri River, from Omaha to its mouth. Although derided as little more than an "orderly pile of kindling," steamboats were, in fact, technological marvels superbly adapted to the river's conditions. Their light superstructure and long, wide, flat hulls powered by high-pressure engines drew so little water that they could cruise on "a heavy dew" even when fully loaded. But these same characteristics made them susceptible to fires, explosions and snags--tree trunks ripped from the banks, hiding under the water's surface. Authors Vicki and James Erwin detail the perils that steamboats, their passengers and crews faced on every voyage.
Download or read book Troubled Waters written by Paul F. Paskoff and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. As such, improving the safety and efficiency of the nation's waterways was consistently at the forefront of political and economic discussions of the day.
Download or read book Troubled Waters written by Paul F. Paskoff and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. This daunting array of river hazards required a similarly broad range of efforts to remove or at least ameliorate them. Against a variety of obstacles -- natural, political, and technological -- the river improvements program succeeded in reducing the rate of steamboat loss, even as steamboat traffic dramatically increased. Its success, Paskoff argues, demonstrates that the federal government was far more active than generally thought in promoting economic growth and development in the years leading up to the Civil War.The river improvements program was one of the most volatile issues in national, sectional, and state politics, touching on questions of economic development, constitutional law, partisan politics, and sectional rivalry. Paskoff examines the controversial program from its beginnings during the early republic to 1844, giving careful attention to the policies of Andrew Jackson's administration. He explores the array of objections to the program -- some grounded in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and others in a concern over alleged federal wantonness, corruption, and waste -- and follows the political story through the administration of James K. Polk forward to secession. Paskoff also explains the fiscal, economic, and technological aspects of the hazard problem and its solution, analyzing the federal government's fiscal condition, its capacity to undertake such an ambitious program, and the influence of conditions in the larger economy, including effects of the Mexican War, upon the federal government's finances.Paskoff's lively analysis rests on a bedrock of impressive quantitative evidence, including databases containing every documented steamboat wreck -- more than 1,200 -- on American rivers, lakes, and coastal waters; construction and engine data for more than 600 steamboat packets; and all relevant federal appropriations and expenditures measures, more than 2,300 spending projects in all. Vigorously researched and vividly told, Troubled Waters is an essential contribution to the history of internal improvements in the antebellum United States.
