Showing posts with label Lake Erie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Erie. Show all posts

Saturday, June 1, 2019

The Morning Star Disaster

By Fred E. Hamel (1850-1946)

Cleveland, Ohio, June 21, 1868 – Yesterday about noon, the apalling news of one of the most frightful and distressing disasters that ever occurred on the inland waters, reached our city ...

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* Note: Page 9 does not appear in the first document. This is the result of mis-numbering, not the absence of a page.

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Atlantic sunk by collision - 300 lives lost

By Fred E. Hamel (1850-1946)

Buffalo, Aug. 21, 1852 – Among the incidents connected with the terrible catastrophe on the lake, is as follows:

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More on the Atlantic shipwreck:

Wikipedia article