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LEADER: 01262cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2011279716
003 DLC
005 20121017082022.0
008 120913s2012 iluac b 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2011279716
020 $a9781937484057
020 $a193748405X
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn806959858
040 $aIEL$cIEL$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aG530.C69$bZ87 2012
100 1 $aZurski, Ken.
245 14 $aThe wreck of the Columbia :$ba broken boat, a town's sorrow & the end of the steamboat era on the Illinois River /$cKen Zurski.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNorthfield, IL :$bAmika Press,$cc2012.
300 $a425 p. :$bill., ports. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"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 400 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 survival."
610 20 $aColumbia (Steamship)
650 0 $aShipwrecks$zIllinois River.
651 0 $aPekin (Ill.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aIllinois River (Ill.)$xHistory.