The Sultana Tragedy - Marion, AR
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N 35° 12.897 W 090° 11.894
15S E 755029 N 3900477
A marker for the The Sultana Tragedy in Marion, AR.
Waymark Code: WM18F15
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2023
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"On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River. She was heading north, dangerously overloaded with some 2,200 passengers, most of them freed Union prisoners of war from the Andersonville and Cahaba camps. A weakened boiler, which had been patched instead of fixed, blew up about 7 miles north of Memphis, hurling men into the frigid river. Men from Marion were among those who tried to save passengers, but around 1,800 people died in history's worst maritime disaster. No one was ever punished for the tragic loss of the Sultana."
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History of Marker:
Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,167 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.
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