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famous Titanic). The disaster will be overshadowed in the press by the just day-

old killings of John Wilkes Booth and recent killing of President Lincoln.

In 1888, a St. Louis resident named William Streetor reveals that his former
business partner, Robert Louden, made a death bed confession of having
sabotaged Sultana by a weapon known as a coal torpedo (36) - a hollowed out
prop that looked like a lump of coal but is actually packed with explosives.
Enemy agents would sneak the weapons into a ship’s coal supply. When

shoveled into the ship’s firebox – the boiler goes BOOM! Several Union ships
were destroyed in this manner with substantial loss of life.

Louden, a former Confederate agent and saboteur who operated in and around
St. Louis, had the opportunity and motive and may have had access to the
means. Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay, the inventor of the coal torpedo, was a
former resident of St. Louis and was involved in similar acts of sabotage against

Union shipping interests. Supporting Louden's claim are eyewitness reports that
a piece of artillery shell was observed in the wreckage.

Remember this fiendish little weapon – the coal torpedo – because Sultana will
not be the last ship to mysteriously blow up.

Agent Courtenay’s invention – the coal torpedo – sank the Sultana.