DEATH BY FIRE AND ICE: The Steamboat Lexington Calamity

Tells the little known story of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound in January 1840. With an estimated 147 passengers and crew and a cargo of baled cotton it left at four o'clock on a bitterly cold day. By seven o'clock she caught fire off Eaton's Neck on Long Island's north shore. By 3 a.m. only one passenger and three members of the crew survived. Photos.