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Tragedy of the steamer Lady Elgin...
Tragedy of the steamer Lady Elgin...
Item # 685016
September 10, 1860
THE WORLD, New York, Sept. 10, 1860
* Lake Michigan disaster
* Steamship PS Lady Elgin
Page 4 has 1 1/2 columns taken up with a report on the sinking of the Lady Elgin with column heads: "FEARFUL CALAMITY" "Collision on Lake Michigan" "The Steamer Lady Elgin Sunk" "300 Lives Lost" and more.
This was was called "one of the greatest marine horrors on record". The Lady Elgin disaster remains the greatest loss of life on open water in the history of the Great Lakes.
Eight pages, good condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War