The Wreck of the Columbia: A Broken Boat, a Town's Sorrow & the End of the Steamboat Era on the Illinois River

by Ken Zurski

Book Overview

Part of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library research collection, Springfield

On the night of July 5, 1918, a steamboat named Columbia, returning from a moonlight excursion, collapsed and sank in the middle of the Illinois River. Of the nearly 500 passengers on board that night, most were from the town of Pekin. Eighty-seven people lost their lives in the disaster. The rest were left to tell their stories of fortitude and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193748405X
• ISBN13: 9781937484057
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Amika Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"