came to rest above Kemp's Landing (), near the modern Alabama State Route 114 bridge over the river near Pennington. The survivors were rescued by the Magnolia and local residents, with some passengers having to be retrieved from treetops along the flooded river. All of the casualties were attributed to drowning or exposure to the extreme cold during the night. The ship sank below the waters of the Tombigbee following the disaster, with the hull of the wreck remaining on the river bottom in of water to the present day. Folklore In Kathryn Tucker Windham's 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey the disaster and folklore concerning the ghost ship is recorded as “The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee”. The story roughly follows newspaper accounts of the disaster. It is purported in the story that sightings of the ship tend to happen on cold and windy winter nights, with the ship, fully engulfed in flames, appearing on the river near the same locations where the disaster occurred. It also relates that the sightings are said by river-men to foretell of impending disaster and are an ill omen to ships still plying the waters of the river. See also ''James T. Staples References 1852 ships Alabama folklore Choctaw County, Alabama Legendary ghost ships Marengo County, Alabama Maritime incidents in March 1858 Paddle steamers of Alabama Ship fires Shipwrecks of the Tombigbee River