Disaster on the Potomac
The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding, History, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Natural Disasters, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials
| Author: | Alvin F. Oickle | ISBN: | 9781614233077 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. | Publication: | November 27, 2009 |
| Imprint: | The History Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alvin F. Oickle |
| ISBN: | 9781614233077 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. |
| Publication: | November 27, 2009 |
| Imprint: | The History Press |
| Language: | English |
For passengers of the steamboat Wawaset, August 8, 1873, began with a pleasant cruise from Washington, D.C., down the Potomac River. As the Wawaset came into sight of a small Virginia landing, fire broke out below decks, and frantic passengers leapt from the flames only to be pulled down by the swift waters. Author Alvin F. Oickle puts a human face to the tragedy as he profiles some of the seventy-five who perished, among them young mother Alethea Gray and six members of the Reed family. With a fast-paced style and firsthand accounts, Oickle masterfully narrates the last run of the Wawaset against the backdrop of a tense post-Civil War society.
For passengers of the steamboat Wawaset, August 8, 1873, began with a pleasant cruise from Washington, D.C., down the Potomac River. As the Wawaset came into sight of a small Virginia landing, fire broke out below decks, and frantic passengers leapt from the flames only to be pulled down by the swift waters. Author Alvin F. Oickle puts a human face to the tragedy as he profiles some of the seventy-five who perished, among them young mother Alethea Gray and six members of the Reed family. With a fast-paced style and firsthand accounts, Oickle masterfully narrates the last run of the Wawaset against the backdrop of a tense post-Civil War society.
