The museum to open next fall is to take in the full context of the nation's worst maritime disaster and how it has been lost ...

The new Sultana Disaster Museum was set to open in Marion next April, but the opening has been postponed mainly for funding reasons, according to an email obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

The huge steamboat steamed upstream against the powerful current of the Mississippi River. It was mid-April and the spring rains had fueled a torrent of muddy, brown water which overflowed the banks ...