One of the pictures from above, Wooding Up on the Mississippi, was an illustration of a terrible disaster, the explosion of a Mississippi steamboat, The Princess. Since this is on another page, I'll recopy the print.
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TERRIBLE DISASTER. EXPLOSION OF THE MISSISSIPPI STEAMER PRINCESS -- 75 TO 100 PERSONS KILLED -- 100 WOUNDED -- NAMES OF LIST, MISSING AND INJURED.
A telegram from New Orleans, published on the 1st instant, briefly announced the explosion of the steamer Princess on the Mississippi, and a dreadful loss of life. The New Orleans papers give full particulars of the disaster. The names of the killed had not been fully ascertained, but it is supposed that from seventy-five to one hundred lives were lost. Upwards of one hundred persons were wounded. The Princess was about four years old, a first-class packet, plying between New Orleans and Vicksburg. She was put in thorough repair last summer, at a cost of $30,000. On Sunday morning, Feb. 27, at about 10 o'clock, while on her way to New Orleans, her boilers exploded. Out of four hundred passengers on board, over two hundred were killed or injured. The Picayune says that four of the large, powerful boilers exploded at once, driving aft, clearing all before them, and the whole upper cabin, state rooms, hurricane deck and all, fell in almost immediately, and in a few moments the flames burst forth. The shock was so sudden and so tremendous, so utterly unlooked for, as apparently to have bewildered the bravest and most experienced men.
The New York Times, New York, 1859-03-10. Researched and transcribed by Stu Beitler.