. Les catastrophes de Steamboat et les accidents de chemin de fer aux États-Unis . l'avoine avait quitté les 238 deuxièmes DÉSASTRES DE STEAMBOAT. Le temps, il a découvert, sous un seettee, le chambermaidof du Phoenix, qui, dans sa furieuse et confusion, égaira toute conscience. L'arrimer au plan qu'il avait préparé pour sa propre fuite, ce gallantcapitaine l'a lancée vers la rive; Et a été laissé seul avec son navire, maintenant une pile brûlante.après s'être convaincu qu'aucun être restant à conscientiedon à bord de son bateau, et avec le fier ousnessqu'il avait sauvé chaque vie confiée à ses soins, hésitait de la

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. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . oats had left the second 238 STEAMBOAT DISASTERS. time, he discovered, under a settee, the chambermaidof the Phoenix, who, in her fright and confusion, hadlost all consciousness. Lashing her to the plankwhich he had prepared for his own escape, this gallantcaptain launched her toward the shore; and was thusleft alone with his vessel, now one burning pile.Having satisfied himself that no living being remainedon board his boat, and with the proud consciousnessthat he had saved every life entrusted to his care, hesprung from the burning wreck, as it was about tosink beneath the waters, and, by the means of a set-tee, reached the shore in safety. This is no exaggerated story. It is the simplenarrative of one of the most heroic acts on record.We have only to add, that the captain who so faith-fully and fearlessly discharged his duty on this tryingoccasion, is still in command of a noble boat on LakeChamplain, and is known to every traveller as Cap-tain Sherman, of the steamboat Burlington.. CONFLAGRATION OF THE STEAMER ERIE, On Lake Erie, while on her Passage from Buffaloto Chicago, August 9, 1841; by which AwfulCalamity nearly Two Hundred Persons per-ished, The steamer Erie, Captain T. J. Titus, left Buffalofor Chicago on the afternoon of August 9, having onboard upwards of two hundred passengers. Thecrew, including the officers and others attached tothe boat, numbered about thirty, —making a total ofnearly two hundred and forty souls. The boat left thedock about 4 oclock in the afternoon, and althoughthe wind was blowing fresh, and a rough sea pre-vailed at the time, every thing otherwise promised apleasant and prosperous passage. The vessel pro-ceeded gallantly on her way until about 8 oclock inthe evening, —at which time she was off Silver Creek, and nearly eight miles from shore, —when a slight ex-plosion was heard, and immediately, almost instan-taneously, it seemed, the whole vessel was wrapped

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