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      A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE Loss of Life on Lake Ontario -- Thirty one Persons, including Several Women and Children Drowned -- An Abandoned Tug Afloat off Oswego -- The Tug Seymour Looses Her Entire Tow in Sight of Oswego Light -- Adrift in a Howling Waste of Snow and Wind -- …

 Syracuse Daily Star (Syracuse, NY), July 12, 1847     Travelling Correspondence Liverpool - River and Harbor Convention - Mud Lock - W. C. Bouck - Awful Accident - Baldwinsville - Corn - Fishing, &c.; &c.; Baldwinsville, June 30, 1847 After partaking of a most excellent supper, served up in the admirable style for which the Cerro ...

      "Buster" Greaves Victim of Tragedy Body of Little Toronto Boy Recovered -- Wore Indian Suits Parents Bought Little George Francis "Buster" Graves, aged five, only child of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Graves of 51 Rosevear Ave., Little York, drowned in the Marsh disaster, was one ...

      *not cargo, but plating from the vessel's iron hull. The SCOTIA (US#115271), sister of the iron package freighters JAVA, CUBA and RUSSIA, was 231 feet and 1502 gt. She was built by King Iron Co., Buffalo, in 1873 and went ashore in a gale Oct. 24, 1884.

 Rochester Telegraph (Rochester, NY), Nov. 3, 1818, p. 3, column 3     *This is refers to the Genesee River.

      The ERIE. -- It is understood that the steamer STAR has been engaged for the purpose of recovering, if possible, the engine of the lost ERIE. The location where it sunk has been tolerably well marked out, and the prospect is, that the undertaking will ...

      *DAVID DOWS - 5-mast schr built by Bailey Bros, Toledo, 1881. She was 265 ft., 1481 gt. Lost 11/25/1889 off Whiting, Ind, 10 mi SSE of Chicago. The larger lakes "schooners" mentioned were actually schooner-barges. An example: CHATTANOOGA, built 1898 by Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, in 1898. 308x45x22, 2339 …

      Shipwreck on Lake Ontario - On Tuesday, last about 11 o'clock A.M. the Schooner "Henry Clay," Captain Campbell of Oswego, when within 10 or 12 miles of the mouth of the Niagara River was struck by a heavy squall which capsized her instantly and she sank in a few minutes. …

      For the Chronicle and Gazette, THE GREAT BRITAIN AND SIR R. PEEL. Mr. Editor, On Wednesday the 16th instant, the Sir Robert Peel arrived from Prescott fully prepared for a trial of speed with the Britain; the Peel ...

      Death of Brower Morgan. _______ A Veteran Ship Carpenter Passes Away. Brower W. Morgan, a well known resident of this city, died at an early hour this morning at his home, 168 West Seneca St. He was 83 years old and for eighty one years had lived continuously in this …

      The Loss of the Schooner Marsh. She Went to the Bottom Just as Day was Breaking, Throwing Everyone Into the Water. Kingston, Aug. 10. - The schooner George A. Marsh, which foundered on Wednesday with a loss of twelve lives, is sunk in twenty-five feet of water and ...

      Services at Belleville - Memorial for the Victims of the Schooner Marsh Will be Held Tomorrow Night. Kingston, Ont. , Aug. 11. - A memorial service for the twelve victims of the wrecked schooner George A. Marsh will be held in St. Thomas's church, Belleville, on Sunday evening ...

      To Investigate Wreck. Canadian Government to Look Into the Loss of the Marsh. The Kingston Whig says: An official investigation by the Dominion government into the foundering of the schooner George A. Marsh with the death of twelve persons is taking place at the scene of the ...

      Sudden Death of Commodore Thomas Crimmins _______ Found Dead at His Home This Morning - Apoplexy Caused the End - Widely Known in Marine Circles. Thomas Crimmins, sixty-eight, one of the last of the old-time Oswego marine men, was found death at his home, No. 133 W. ...

      Schooner Horace Taber May Be A Total Loss _______ Effort to Get Her Coal Cargo Out before She Goes to Pieces. _______ There appears to be no doubt that the schooner Horace Taber, which went ashore at Four Mile Point is a total loss. The weather has been too ...

      Lake Freighter Burns, Sinks; Crew Rescued _______ 16 Men and One Woman Found by Canadian Steamship After Their Ship Had Burned to Water's Edge on Lake Ontario - Rescuers Stand By until Vessel Disappears. _______ Sixteen men and one woman, members of the crew of ...

      SINGULAR PRESERVATION The Schooner Wolcott of Sacket's Harbor, Samuel Knapp master, bound to Niagara with 30 passengers, was driven into Mexico bay on Wednesday last, by a severe gale blowing from the lake. In this perilous situation she was tossed on the waves 38 ...

      A few days ago, an Irishmen deserted from the British garrison at Fort George, and swam across the Niagara river. Having divested himself of those articles which would impede his swimming, he exclaimed on reaching the shore, "By Jesus I'm an American born - I've just come stark naked." ...

      It is reported that the schooner Traveller, Capt. Coffin, was lately run upon a rock and bilged on Lake Ontario. Of the three persons on board, the captain and a sailor perished.

      Liverpool, (Onondaga County) N. Y. Oct. 16, 1820 DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK --A Gentleman who arrived at this place yesterday from Salmon River, gives the following account of the loss of the British schooner ASP , of Fort George,(Newark) Captain Prosser, from ...