MADISON, Wis. (AP) A freight train derailed along the Mississippi River in southwestern Wisconsin Thursday, possibly injuring one crew member and sending two cars into the water, officials said. FS: Your handling of how the owners and crews of these vessels seemed to have not factored in the reality that dirty river water was not suitable for being used to create steam, and thus propulsion. Then the captain did his best to steer around the dead trees, but sometimes they were hidden underwater. Reuben Benton Hatch, an individual with a long history of corruption and incompetence, who kept his job through political connections: he was the younger brother of Illinois politician Ozias M. Hatch, an advisor and close friend of President Lincoln. The collision startled Marga Sachse, a passenger from St. Louis, who said she "felt a jar, and the ship lurched.". SS Sultana:The steamboat was bound for St. Louis in April 1865 when the boilers failed right above Memphis, 13 days after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Dead trees fell into the river and got stuck on the bottom. Most of Sultana's officers, including Captain Mason, were among those who perished.[8]. Bodies of victims continued to be found downriver for months, some as far as Vicksburg. In writing my first few books I literally had to go to the U.S., state, and military archives to do my research. [4]:202 Captain Hatch, who had concocted a bribe with Captain Mason to crowd as many men onto Sultana as possible, had quickly quit the service to avoid a court-martial. A Look Back The day the Golden Eagle steamboat sank in 1947 As stated in the 1903 newspaper article, the log was mistakenly taken by Sultana. Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. Newspaper accounts suggest John Fogelman and his sons spotted the burning Sultana as the remains of the paddle-wheeler drifted downriver. They tended to report what others thought these findings meant, but they very rarely added their own input, one way or another. He has conducted interviews with some 75 high-profile people, including historians, government officials, combat veterans, journalists, explorers, and Hollywood stars. Throughout the war, Captain Hatch had shown incompetence as a quartermaster and competence as a thief, bilking the government out of thousands of dollars. FS: What was the role played by the last Sultana in the Civil War, and how significant was that role? The flaming hull drifted onto a shoreline sandbar and grounded. Eventually, the group settled on meeting in the Toledo, Ohio area. Capt. On his trips up and down the river, Odis often took his wife, Rosa, along. [23], An episode of the PBS series History Detectives that aired on July 2, 2014, reviewed the known evidence, thoroughly disputed a theory of sabotage, and then focused on the question of why Sultana was allowed to be crowded to several times its normal capacity before departure. However, Sultana was a coal-burning boat and not a wood-burner. Whole groups went down together. Among those killed were Louisiana state representatives H. J. Huard and Charles Bannister. (Post-Dispatch), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews dismantle the wreck of the Golden Eagle on May 28, 1947, to eliminate its hazard to river navigation. Instead of taking two or three days, the temporary repair took only one. A passing towboat gave them a lift back to Grand Island, Ill., where they boarded buses for the trip home.
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