Steamboat snags and sinks in Arkansas

The stern-wheel steamboat Frontier City, built just months before in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hit an underwater obstruction near Napoleon, Arkansas at the mouth of the Arkansas River and quickly sank.  Ironically, its cargo consisted of salvaged goods from the earlier sinkings of the Cedar Rapids and the A.V. Sevier.  No loss of life or serious injury was reported.  (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
W. Craig Gaines, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2008), 94. 
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    Type
    Crime/Disasters
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