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Sinking of the SS Sultana
Sinking of the SS Sultana
Written By Mister Gu on Monday, March 5, 2012 | 3:36 PM
On April 21, under the command of Captain J. C. Mason of St. Louis, the Sultana, which had accommodations for 376 passengers, left New Orleans for Vicksburg with 100 people, 100 hogs, 60 mules, 100 hogsheads of sugar, and a leaking boiler. In Vicksburg, boilermaker R. G. Taylor told Captain Mason that two metal sheets on one of the ship’s four boilers had to be replaced, but Mason opted to