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If you haven’t heard of the Sultana, it’s not because Doug Stout, and Dan Fleming, and Chris Evans, and a number of us local historians haven’t tried to let you know about it ... To this day, it was the worst maritime disaster in the United States.
Silt has built up in the river over the last few years and sandbars have emerged. "(The river) is mostly ankle deep, that's how much silt is in there," he said ... "All the silt that we're sitting on here, ...