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LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

Many people
were flung to con-
siderable distances,
and fell in the
river; among these
were Mr. Wood and
my brother, and the
carpenter. The
carpenter was still
stretched upon his
mattress when he

struck the water seventy-
five feet from the boat,
Brown, the pilot, and George
Black, chief clerk, were
never seen or heard of after
the explosion. Hie barber's
chair, with Captain EHine-
felter in it and unhurt, was
leffc with its back over-
hanging vacancy — every-
thing forward of it, floor
aod all, had disappeared;
and the stupefied barber,
who was also unburt, stood

A STABTLED BABB.EB.