FEARFUL DISASTER ON LAKE MICHIGAN: The Steamer Lady Elgin Sunk by Collision with a Schooner; The Prince of Wales in America (9/10/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/10/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

CHICAGO, Saturday, Sept. 8. The steamer Lady Elgin, in the Lake Superior Line, which left here last night, was run into by the schooner Augusta, off Waukeegan, at half-past three o'clock this morning. The steamer sunk in twenty minutes, in three hundred feet of water. Only seventeen persons are known to be saved, including the clerk, steward and porter. From three hundred and fifty to four hundred persons are said to have been on board, and among them were the Black Zagers, the Green Zagers and Rifles, and several fire companies of Milwaukee, who were on a visit to this city, Col. LUMSDEN, of the New-Orleans Picayune, and family, were on board, and are supposed to be among the lost. At the time of the accident the schooner was sailing at the rate of eleven miles an hour. The steam-tug McQueen left this morning for the scene of the disaster. NAMES OF THE PERSONS REPORTED SAVED. The names of those saved, so far as known, are as follows: 1..H.G. Caryl, clerk. 2..Fred. Rice, steward. 3..Edwin Westlake, porter. 4..Robert Gore. 5..Thomas Murphy. 6..Thomas Cummings. 7..Michael Conner. 8..John E. Hobart, of Milwaukee. 9..Tim. O'Bryen. 10..W.A. Davues. 11..Wildman Mills, Ohio. 12..Lyman Updike, of Waupan. 13..II. Ingraham, member of the British Parliament. 14..Charles May. 15..Michael McGrath. 16..Peter Walch. 17..George Furlong. 18..Wm. Elwood. 19..John Regan.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

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Fearful Disaster on Lake Michigan: The Steamer Lady Elgin Sunk by Collision with a Schooner – 2-3
The Prince of Wales in America – 3
Editorial: Common Sense at the South – 3-4
Invaders of Texas – 4
Editorial: Reopening of the City Libraries – 4
Needless Excitement – 4-5
The Prince’s Ball – 5
Speech of Mr. Breckinridge – 5
Mr. Howe’s Sewing Machine Patent Extended – 5

[DariusBane]

Grern a d black zagares?

[jonascord]

Zouave militia companies. Very popular Antebellum social groups, in the Long ago. They would dress up in these incredibly colorful French inspired uniforms, and perform convoluted monkey drill demonstrations. They always finished with a volley of blanks.

A guy named Elmer Ellsworth was the leader of such a group, in Chicago, and an acquaintance of the new president, Abe Lincoln. He brought his performing unit to DC, yo protect the President, when the states started seceding, and no one knew just who was going to do what. A hotel keeper, across the river in Virginia, flew a Confederate flag, and Ellsworth went over to tear it down. He was coming down the stairs with the flag when the hotel keeper shotgunned him. The hotel keeper was shot, in turn, and Ellis got a state funeral and became martyr to the Republic.

The flag itself is in the NYS Military Museum, and I expect BLM to burn it, momentarily.

[DariusBane]

I am very familiar with the Zouave companies. Pretty cool stuff. Those people were probably neighbors so to lose them all together is pretty shocking.