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Home > Publications > Columbia Steamboat Disaster > The Columbia Steamboat

The Columbia Steamboat

Photo of Columbia Steamboat docked at Peoria Riverfront

Columbia Steamboat picture. Color, 11 x 8.5

$3.00

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SKU: COL-05 Category: Columbia Steamboat Disaster Tags: Books, Illinois River, Tazewell County

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One of the worst disasters in the history of United States inland navigation occurred at midnight, Friday, July 5, 1918, when the excursion steamboat Columbia hit a submerged stump and sank into the Illinois River with 496 passengers near Wesley City (present-day Creve Coeur). Eighty-seven passengers, mostly women and children, drowned in the submerged wreckage.

This picture is reproduction of a painting (photo?) depicting the Columbia Steamboat docked on the Peoria Riverfront.

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