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Author(s): Abraham O. Smoot
Type: First-person account
Source(s): Contributor, July 1892, Vol. 13, No. 9, 408.

"I had a very narrow escape on the occasion of the Saluda disaster. I had purchased the supplies for my company to make its overland journey with, except cattle, at St Louis, and had decided to go farther up the river to buy the..."

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Author(s): Henry Ballard
Type: First-person account
Source(s): Contributor, July 1892, Vol. 13, No. 9, 413.

"I had just been on shore to buy some provisions for a family by the name of May, which I had under my charge, and we had set down on some boxes and commenced to eat breakfast, when without the least warning, the boiler of the old boat exploded with a terrific noise, scattering death and destruction in all directions. The fore part of the boat was almost entirely..."

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Author(s): William C. Dunbar
Type: First-person account
Source(s): Contributor, July 1892, Vol. 13, No. 9, 412.

"On the morning of the fatal day, (Friday, April 9th, 1852,) I, together, with my previously named friends, Brothers Ross and Campbell, arose quite early to get breakfast. Hanging kettles on the stove to boil water, we stepped outside of the space encircled by the ..."

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