Sentence examples for steamboat fire from inspiring English sources

In that steamboat fire, 1,021 lives were lost.

They playfully called Mr. Herman a "freak" (he wears his hair with a slick 1950s center part, and a huge tattoo on his back depicts the General Slocum steamboat fire of 1904).

Fire, Fire, Fire".

Gallery corners are devoted to sketches and engravings of disasters, including shipwrecks and steamboat fires, and to the heroic feats of George Washington and Molly Pitcher.

Yet, when his steamboat catches fire, "He saw his duty, a dead-sure thing,—/And went for it, thar and then".

Until 9/11, none was deadlier than the 1904 burning of the General Slocum, a poorly equipped excursion steamboat that caught fire in Hell Gate's waters.

But he had also orchestrated the coverage of some of the most spectacular stories of the still-young century, including the disaster on the General Slocum, a steamboat that caught fire in the East River in 1904.

The cover image, which also appears in my blog's banner, is of the steamboat Royal Tar, which caught fire in Penobscot Bay in October 1836, leading to the demise of twenty-eight human passengers, as well as "an elephant, two camels, several horses, and a number of animals in cages, composing a travelling menagerie".

In 1849 a cholera epidemic killed thousands, and a section of the city was destroyed by fire when a steamboat exploded on the riverfront.

If it were, there would be a large tribute every year to the memory of more than 1,000 New Yorkers, most of them women and children, who died on June 15 , 1904 when an excursion steamboat called the General Slocum caught fire in the waters of Hell Gate.

Others speculate that the victims of a fire aboard the steamboat, Eliza Battle, could have drifted to this nearby plantation.