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Total, killed, 254; Wounded, 104. 



" In some 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 possi- 

 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 

 lives which have been lost in the United States by these accidents, 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 appear 

 small when compared with the whole amount of injury and loss, 

 which has been sustained by travelling in stages and other kinds of 

 carriages. More lives have probably been lost from sloops and 

 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 occur- 

 red within a few years, thirty four persons were drowned on board a 

 sloop in the North river, and many instances involving the loss of a 

 smaller number of lives, and one loss has occurred on the Sound of 

 twelve or fourteen individuals. 



" It will be seen by reference to the foregoing list, that of twenty 

 five lives that have been lost on board of New York steam boats, pre- 

 vious to the case of the Chief Justice Marshall, and excluding the 

 case of the Etna, only one passenger^ is included in the number. 



* Mr. Lockwood, on board the Oliver Ellswprth, 



