1873 steamboat Wawaset disaster...

Item # 671711

August 09, 1873

THE NEW YORK HERALD, Aug. 9, 1873

* Steamboat Wawaset fire disaster
* Potomac River sinking

The top of page 4 has one column headings: "DREADFUL CALAMITY" "The Steamboat Wawasset (sic) Burned on the Potomac" "Over Fifty Passengers Lost" "Flame and Smoke Drive Off the Fireman" and more. (see)
Complete in 10 pages, nice condition.