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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
terwards raised, abandoned in a gale off San Salvador while en route to New York......Nov. 1, 1898 Steamers Portland and Pentagoet lost with all on board (about 180), and nearly 200 other vessels wrecked (loss of life about 200), in great storm on North Atlantic coast......Nov. 26-27, 1898 Steam ferry-boat Chicago sunk in collision with steamer City of Augusta in New York Harbor......Oct. 31, 1899 British steamer Ariosto wrecked near Cape Hatteras, N. C., twenty-one drowned......Dec. 24, 1899 Pacific Ocean, etc. Independence wrecked on Margaretta Island, off coast of Lower California, the vessel taking fire; 140 persons drowned or burned to death, a few escaping with great suffering on a barren shore......Feb. 16, 1853 Explosion of steamboat Gazelle at Canemah, Or.; twenty-one killed and many wounded......April 8, 1854 Steamboat Secretary, crossing San Pablo Bay from San Francisco to Petaluma, bursts her boiler; more than fifty lives lost......April 15, 1854 St