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peutet pretended not to hear , and continued his work , I asked if the captain ought not t < fc j be Called , since all the
boilers had burst , and placed both boat and passengers in danger of making a sudden aerial voyage . * Why so ?' replied he ; does not the vessel go as before ? It is not the first time the boilers have
burst . I have hardly time to make plugs fast enough . As soon as a hole is observed in the boiler , a plug is put in , &nd iti answers the purpose perfectly well . ' "
Agftin * Mr Arfwedson observes , " Each year adds a considerable number to the long list of human victims lost by accidents in steamers on this river * It is almost a
miracle to escape with life on these trips . Of nine steamboats that left New Orleans on the same day for different places * * * three only arrived without disasters of some kind or other . * But still nee :-
ligence may not always be the qause : false economy , and a want of prpper feeling on tlje parit ofvpi ^ prietors of steambpats , ha , ve alsq their share v if the statements current in the ^ este ^ rii States , may be
depended upon . A captain of ? $ e 0 $ ( hie : sn ^ alle ^ flfpats rhad , 9 j ^ iW $ g ^ n f ^ rmedji fpr a long tijcnei called $ je ^ tt ^ njtion ! of his WP ^ S ^ rtfe ^ in 4 ffferep . t <; dndition of the boilers , and assured them that some were so
? ' The mimtfmWtoA < Cm&M 9 ' fa lB 3 Qp ^ StaMd ^ ^^^ ¦ on , Esq . 2 vols . London , 1884 . Elohard Bentloy . Vol . ii , pp . 40 , W . tPp , 8 P , 8 U
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worn out that te ; expected they would burst every niinuie > and that he could not answer for consequences . The ovvriers laughed at his warnings , gtiuj ordered him immediately to
proceed with the steamer to his place of destination , adding : ' A few lives , more or less , are of very little consequence to us ; the steanier must go . ' " +
If not often avowed , this principle is no doubt often acted upon . On another occasion the boat in which Mr Arfwedson was
travelling caught fire . "The fire was occasioned by the dilapidated state of the kitchen chimney . Being placed close to the outer wall of our cabin ,
it would never have occasioned any accident , had it not been in so bad a condition . The component parts , it appeared , had given way , leaving an opening towards the w&ll ,
large enough to communicate heat and sparks of fire ; these first blackened , and afterwards ignited the dry wood Wbrk . An early discovery of tte Srie enabled the captain ' to ^ & 1 r p'uish it at once . As sobn as ^^* ' ' ' i ¦ t > ' v' * T It S ' . f - _
the danger was over , I asked if he intended to repair tfie chimney , that we might iftrf , in the course of our voyage ( , be asfecond tirne exposed W jt 6 * a similar ^ atas trb ^ he ? ¦•;¦; ]* fll haye so niai ^ y tiai ^ s gori 4 ^ P and down the Mississiji ^ i Wiui the chimney in this at ^ t € j , with-
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276 Steam-boat Accidents and their Prevention
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/51/
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