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: Names. __ _.. Place of explosion. Killed. Wounded. 
“New Caledonia, Mississippi, 11 
me Kenhawa, Ohio River, er 
“Car of Commerce, ae 28 29 
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_ & Andrew Jackson,- .  SavannahR. . 2 
- 1831, Tri-Color, <3 Ohio River, 8.8 
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killed, 254; Wounded, 104. 
“Jn somie of the principal accidents comprised in the foregoing list 
the number of killed includes all who failed to recover from their 
wounds. . In other cases the numbers are as given in the news- 
papers of the day, and some of the ‘wounded should perhaps be 
added. © In some few instances no list has been obtained, and poss 
bly in some, no loss has occurred. The accounts of some of the 
“minor accidents may have been lost sight of or overlooked in my 
files. In making an approximate estimate of the whole number of 
8 whi in the United States by these accidents, 
lives which have been lost i 
should fix it at three hundred. — : 
* Although this is a melancholy detail of casualties, yet it seems 
less formidable when placed in comparison with the ordinary causes of 
mortality, and especially when contrasted with the insatiate demands 
of intemperance and ambition. It is believed that it will appe* 
small when compared with the whole amount of injury. and loss 
which has been sustained by travelling in stages and. other kinds of 
_earriages. More lives have probably been lost from. sloops ™” 
packets on the waters-of this State, since the introduction of steam 
boats, than by all the accidents in the latter, though the number of 
passengers exposed has been much smaller. In one case that occu 
red within a few years, thirty four persons were drowned on board @ 
sloop in the North river, and many instances involving the loss of a 
d one loss has occurred on the Sound of 
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It will be seen by rolamence to the foregoing list, that of twenty 
five lives that have been Jost on board of New York steam boats, pre 
_ vious to the case of the Chief: Justice Marshall, and excluding the 
ease of the Etna, only one passenger* is included in the number. 
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© My. Lockwood, on board the Oliver Ellsworth. 
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