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In relation to the Sultana; The guy who was counting the people getting on the boat actually left to go out for lunch. So will never know the official death toll. Based on the count before he left, most conclude that there were between 1500-2300 passangers on board when she went down.      They were packing enough people on the boat to cause it to visibly list as the soldiers went to one side (This was captured in one of the last photos of the Sultana, taken the day before she went down). The boiler on the Sultana had developed a bulge a day or two before the explosion. They kept her running to keep raking it in, the people in charge knew the risks. The whole disaster could have been avoided.
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