Sultana Disaster

The Sultana burning after a boiler exploded near Marion (Crittenden County), as illustrated in Harper’s Weekly; May 1865.

Burning steamboat on the water with survivors swimming nearby

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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