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Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and
Disasters on the Western Waters - 1856


  [253]                  EXPLOSION OF THE ZACHARY TAYLOR
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        This was an old boat employed in the transportation of hogs from
    Lawrenceburg to Cincinnati.  On the 21st of December, 1853, she was
    towing two barges laden with hogs, and there were about three hundred
    of the same kind of animals on the deck of the steamer, abaft the
    engine.  About day break, on the day aforesaid, when the boat was
    within ten miles of Cincinnati, one of the flues of the larboard
    boiler collapsed, projecting columns of steam and scalding water fore
    and aft, killing three of the boat's crew instantly, and scalding five
    others.  The three men who were killed were lying asleep in front of
    the fire.
        The first engineer, MOSES SMITH, was scalded in the face.  The
    second engineer, JOHN EVERHART, was more seriously injured.  Captain
    PRETTYMAN had passed by the boiler a moment before the collapse.  The
    hot water thrown back among the swine scalded many of them so severely
    that they jumped overboard.
        There were thirty-five passengers on board, not one of whom was
    hurt.  One of the deck hands who were killed was named BOYLE; the
    names of the other two are not given.

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