This Gazetteer features an alphabetical listing of villages, towns, and cities in the state of Missouri for the years 1893 and 1894. The listing contains the name of each place accompanied by a short description of its location, principle railways, mail services, and primary exports. Beneath each entry is located an alphabetical business directory. In addition to the alphabetical listing
This is a guide to the collections of the St. Louis Museum as of the year 1859. It is an update to the earlier catalog of 1856. It includes an introduction by the museum's curator John Bates, statements on the Zeuglodon skeleton excavated by Albert C. Koch, the contents of 51 cases of stuffed birds and other animals, lists of statues and paintings, and other miscellaneous holdings. There is
This Gazetteer features an alphabetical listing of villages, towns, and cities in the state of Missouri for the years 1881 and 1882. The listing contains the name of each place accompanied by a short description of its location, principle railways, mail services, and primary exports. Beneath each entry is located an alphabetical business directory. In addition to the alphabetical listing
This Gazetteer features an alphabetical listing of villages, towns, and cities in the state of Missouri for the years 1876 and 1877. The listing contains the name of each place accompanied by a short description of its location, principle railways, mail services, and primary exports. Beneath each entry is located an alphabetical business directory. In addition to the alphabetical listing
The James T. Staples was built at Mobile, Alabama in 1908 by Captain Norman Staples; her net and gross tonnage was 365. Her high pressure machinery was rated as 800 horse power. The wooden hull was 200 by 40 by 5.1 feet and she carried a crew of 41. She was a handsome steamboat which ran on te Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers. On January 9, 1913 she exploded her boilers and was partially wrecked near
; depth of hold, 5 1/2 feet. She had four boilers (2 flues each), 42 inches in diameter and 26 feet long. Her engines included the cylinders, 18 inches in diameter with a 7 foot stroke. Her wheel was 22 1/2 feet in diameter with 29 foot buckets. Later she was sold to the Red River Line and Captain W. T. Scovell became her master. She was dismantled in 1893 at Jeffersonville, Indiana, by the Howards and
framework of the boat was completely demolished and many of her passengers and crew were killed. The accident occurred about 10:30 P.M. The Dictator was a short distance behind the Missouri when the explosion occurred, and came alongside to give every possible assistance. She took off the dead and wounded. At least 100 persons were killed, of whom some 20 were cabin passengers, and the rest were about