We illustrate on page 349 the disastrous conflagration which took place on the Ohio River, at Cincinnati, on the morning of May 12. A little before two o'clock a fire broke out in the Clifton, caused, it is supposed, by the upsetting of a lamp. Five steamers were lying in close proximity, and above these six others. In less than half an hour the six steamers below were destroyed, nearly all of
Photograph of the Cincinnati steamboat docked along the Cincinnati levee, crica 1925. The Central Bridge, or Cincinnati and Newport Bridge, stands in the background along with a view of the Cincinnati cityscape.