Ashtabula Disaster

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Nation of Feb. 15th says: By such disasters and by shipwreck are lives in these days sacrificed by the score, and yet except through the clumsy machinery of a coroner's jury, hardly any where in America is there the slightest provision made for inquiry into them.