Posts Tagged ‘fire’
Video shot from the sky bridge in Davenport, IA during the flood of 2008 along the Mississippi River.
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This happen 04/03/08 at Thomas Point above baton rouge , la
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On April 27th 1865, the overload steamboat Sultana, carrying upwards of 2,400 passengers and crew, mostly Union Prisoners of War returning home from Confederate POW Camps including the Andersonville Death Camp, was torn apart by a boiler explosion in the resulting fire storm 1,900 sick and wounded soldiers, women and children parished in the worst maratime disaster in United States History
Today the tragedy of the Sultana is completly forgotten overshadowed by the end of the Civil War and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln a few weeks before, dispite the fact more people died in the Sultana Disaster then on the Titanic, or the Lusitania, the only memorials are a few obscure plaques in forgotten cemetaries
I apologize for the lack of variety among the pictures in this video but that should serve as a testimant to just how forgotten the Sultana and the 1,900 who died on that horrible night truely are.
Music: Sleeping Sun
Artist: Nightwish
Subject: The Sultana
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Hot air balloons glow at The Great Mississippi River Balloon Race in Natchez as the Bop Beats perform Great Balls of Fire, October 2009
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