Further correlation (which I failed to pick up earlier) of early September 1864 deaths in Sacramento with WASHOE boiler explosion. Vern D //////////////////////////// --- CASACRAM-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > CASACRAM-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 25 > From: Betty <betty@unisette.com> > To: CASACRAM-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: 1864 Deaths > > Sacramento Daily Union > Monday, January 2, 1865 > Page 6 > > MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS The following is a list of the > births, marriages and deaths that have taken place in Sacramento > during 1864, as nearly as can be compiled from authentic > sources: > ................ > DEATHS ....................... September ................. 6-D.M. ANDERSON, -----, 35 years .......................... ////////////////// > > From: Betty <betty@unisette.com> > > To: CASACRAM-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: 1864 epidemic? > > > > I am transcribing the deaths from Sacramento in 1864. > > > > On Sept 5 there were 12 and Sept 6 there were 24. Any idea what > > killed all (or at least most) of these people? Yellow Fever, cholera? > > > > Betty > > /////////////////// > From: Vern Dander <coloradogreengiant@yahoo.com> > To: CASACRAM-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: CASACRAM-D Digest V06 #23 > Per article by Samuel Clemens in The San Francisco > Daily Morning Call, 7 September 1864 (which was a > Wednesday), the steamer WASHOE exploded the > preceding Monday (5 September) near Rio Vista with significant > loss of life. Sacramentans were heavily involved in > providing aid. Article follows: > > Vern D > //////////////////// > Terrible Calamity .................. > One of the boilers collapsed a flue, and, it is said, made a clean > sweep aft, going overboard through the stern of the boat. The cause > of this dreadful calamity, according to D. M. Anderson, the engineer, > (who died at the Sacramento hospital just after he made the > statement,) was rotten iron in the boiler. ..................... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com