THE DISASTER ON LAKE MICHIGAN-Names of the Lost and Saved; Editorial-Humors of the Canvass; THE PRINCE’S PROGRESS (9/14/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine | 9/14/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Milwaukee papers of the 10th bring additional details of the wreck of the Lady Elgin. The Sentinel gives the following list of lost and saved, the latter being designated by an asterisk; Arnold George; a man and wife from Washington; *a deck hand from Chicago, name unknown; *a woman saved at Evanstown, without clothing, name unknown. Bishop Harry and Augustus; Barry, Captain of Union Guards; Burns, deputy sheriff; Burns, Michael and Welland; Burtel, Michael; *Boyd, Frank; Boesenberg, Pred, city band; Balfin, Thos.; Burns, Fanny; Bulger sisters, Black Hugh, Blatz Mrs. Helen, Bohan Thos., Birmingham Cornelius, Barron Mrs., supposed to be on board; *Blos Philip, City Band; *Beverung Chas., *Buchan Jerome, *Blebert Albert, *Burke Ed., *Beman, William, Milwaukee. Corcoran John, Cosgrove James, Cosgrove John, *Cook Jacob, Fond du Lac; Conley Patrick and James, Commonfort R.E., *Caryl H.G., Clerk of the Elgin; Casper Frank, Ceefer Mr., *Crilly J.J., Alderman; Collins J.H., Churchill George, Churchill William H., Curtin Elizabeth, *Connor M., Chase _____, *Cummings Mr., Chicago; Corbitt Alex., *Cook Jacob, Fond du Lac; *Crother Terry, Chicago; *Catherm L, Chamberlain Frank, Cook Mrs. Jane, Fond du Lac; Cook Elizabeth Miss, Fond du Lac.

[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.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Link to previous New York Times thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Disaster on Lake Michigan: Names of the Lost and Saved – 2
Editorial: Humors of the Canvass – 3
Swans for the Park – 3
Editorial: The Pharmaceutical Convention-Poison for Cures – 3-4
The Cuban Slave-Trade – 4
Arrival of the Pike’s Peak Express – 4
A Fight with the Indians – 4
Gov. Sprague at Albany – 4
Railroad Matters – 4
Two Days Later from Europe – 4-5
Progress of the Italian War – 5
The Syrian Question – 5
Conclusion of the Germantown Cricket Match – 5
The Prince’s Progress – 6

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Attention everyone. Don’t miss the description of barbecue provided on page 3, column 1. Readers from 1860 might be surprised to learn that not only white Democratic men but women, as well as men of various ethnicities and other political parties would one day partake of the barbecue feast. Also, in the future it will not be a requirement to barbecue an entire ox.

[Larry Lucido]

The Lady Elgin disaster remains the greatest loss of life on open water in the history of the Great Lakes.[3]

In 1994, a process began to list the shipwreck on the National Register of Historic Places. After it was determined to be eligible for listing in 1999, the process ended after an objection by the owner, so the shipwreck is not listed on the Register.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Lady_Elgin

It may have made it into Kramer’s “Astonishing Tales of the Sea,” however. And Cat Stevens may have written a song about it just like that one he wrote about the Gordon Lightfoot.

[Rebelbase]

Reading the wiki link about the Lady Elgin, it appears she was a bad-luck ship.