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 The Age (Philadelphia, PA), 8 Sep 1863, p. 2, column 6     Terrible Disaster on Lake Superior -- The Steamer Sunbeam Lost with all on Board. SARNIA, C.W.. September 7.--The steamer City of Cleveland reports the loss of the steamer Sunbeam in Lake Superior. last week, during a gale with all the passengers and crew except one ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 1 Dec 1902     Boat Pounded to Pieces Steamer Charles Hebard Said to Have Been Wrecked on Copper Point Lake Superior's Chicago Dec. 1. An underwriter's report, reaching here from Sault Ste. Marie this afternoon, says that the steamer Charles Hebard was wrecked and has been pounded to ...

      Francis H. Clergue, builder of the Soo power canal and the man who made a thriving city of Sault Ste. Marie, will, during the winter, visit Washington as President Roosevelt's guest. The President entertained Mr. Clergue at dinner during his recent visit at Detroit and spend over half an hour …

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1902     Marine News. Schooner Bar Founders Chicago Sept 26, An underwriters' dispatch states that the schooner H.B. Barr foundered on Lake Erie, off Port Stanley, in the recent storm. The crew reached Buffalo early today. The Barr was under charter to the Clergue syndicate and was ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1902     Wreck sighted by Rome Detroit. Mich. Sept. 26--Capt. Dennis of the steamer Rome reported having sighted the wreck of the schooner H.A. Barr, which sank twenty-five miles east of Rondeau, directly on the course of vessels between the dummy light and Buffalo. The foremast and ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 2 Dec 1902     67 LOST ON LAKES MANY SEAMEN PERISH IN GALES WHICH HAVE RAGED FOR A WEEK 29 LOST IN TWO DAYS Crew Of All The Crafts Are Still Missing Steamer Charles Hebard, Schooner Aloha And Barge Celtic Last Victims-- All Hope Of Finding The Bannockburn Is Given Up-- The Wreck ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1902     The Marine News Chicago, Sept. 26 Dense fog prevails today on Lake Huron, extending past Sault Ste Marie and Mackinaw City. While the storm of Wednesday has completely passed over, navigation is being seriously delayed by the fog which succeeded it. Underwriters are fearful of ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 3 Aug 1896     New Lock Open. Three Steamers Go Through The Work At The Great Sault Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Aug 3 The 800 foot lock was officially opened this forenoon and the revenue cutter Andrew Johnson and the river and harbor steamer Hancock were locked through. No official programme ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 28 Nov 1896     New Canal at the Soo Work on a Great Water Power Project to Commence this year Sault Ste. Marie Mich. Nov. 28. It is now a settled fact that work on the big water power canal will be commenced within thirty day. At a meeting of the directors all of …

 Milwaukee Journal, 4 Oct 1910     Wireless brings aid to crew of burning steamer Set for the timely assistance given by the Pere Marquette steamer No.19, whose sister ship No, 18 sank in mid lake last month with two score on board, the crew of the Frank L. Vance of Cleveland (?), a coal steamer with …

 Milwaukee Journal, 23 Nov 1891     Marine News. Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Nov. 23. The steamer Brazil collided with the steamer Mather about eight miles out from Iroquois Point. The Mather sunk in 250 feet of water in half an hour. She was laden with 58,000 bushels of wheat from Duluth for Buffalo. She was struck …

 Milwaukee Journal, 22 Jul 1899     Bottom Falls Out Disaster to schooner John Breden several are drowned Port Huron, Mich. July 22. According to the statements of her master, the schooner John Breden foundered as a result of the bottom falling out of her. Capt. McDonald her skipper, made the following ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 9 May 1916     Lake Ship Lost 20 seamen perished Steamer S. R. Kirby Sinks During Terrific Gale on Lake Superior Mate and one sailor are saved. Boats on Lake Superior Driven to shelter by Fifty-two mile wind. Considerable damage done in Copper Country Sault Ste. Marie, May 9 ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 12 May 1916     Lucky to be Alive Survivor of Lake Disaster Summarized His experience-- Engineer of lost steamer visits Milwaukee James True second engineer on the steamer S.R. Kirby, which foundered during a heavy gale on Lake Superior, Monday and who was one of but four members of the ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 16 Nov 1929     Crew Abandons Grounded Ship Buffalo N.Y. Battered for 12 hours by heavy seas, the freight steamer Briton was filling rapidly Friday and seemed beyond hope of salvage, according to reports received by the coast guard here. Capt. Johnson and the crew of 27 men on board since ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Nov 1895     Allmendinger ashore On the Beach near Mequon-The crew all taken off. During the blinding snow storm last night a steamer grounded in the lake off Mequon and early this morning gave the signal of distress. A telephone message was sent to the central police station in this city ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1898     Steamer Penobscot Aground Detroit Sept. 26. The steamer Penobscot, down bound, with ore, ran hard aground on Pipe Island, early this morning. She is out six feet and is leaking three inches of water an hour in her forward compartment. Tugs and lighters are at work on her. One ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1898     Steamer Eddy Stranded Mackinac Island. Sept. 26. The steamer Charles A. Eddy, bound for Chicago with a cargo of iron ore, stranded on Middle Point Mackinac Island, at midnight. She ran out six and one half feet forward and is leaking badly. Assistance has been wired for. A large ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 26 Sep 1898     Five drowned at the Soo Sault Ste Marie Mich., Sept. 26, The lighter Monitor sank in Waiskai bay yesterday morning and the following of the crew were drowned: William Corbiere Joseph Prior John Robeare Emmanuel Robeare John ...

 Milwaukee Journal, 2 Dec 1902     No News of Bannockburn Chicago Dec.1-- No tidings whatever have been received up to a late hour this afternoon from the Canadian steamer Bannockburn, missing on Lake Superior. The underwriters waited anxiously for a telegram from the wrecking tug Boynton, sent out from Sault Ste. ...