A Typhoon Strikes the Saucy Maid on the China Sea
Harry Harland recalls a perilous voyage aboard the Saucy Maid bound for Nagashi. A drunken Captain Harris ignores warnings as a typhoon roars in, tearing masts and wrecking vessels in Ilima roadstead while passengers and crew scramble to ride out the gale.
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Parker & Mills
Japan
Isles
Parker and Mills
Nagashi
Dora
Southampton
Mediterranean
Suez
Red Sea
Cape Comorin
Point-de-Galle
Ceylon
Peninsular and Oriental
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Nagashi Harbor
Harris
Goa
Europe
Harland
Fujihama
Barky
Formosa
Tlima
Ilima Roadstead
Haven
Trunnion
Bremen
Malacca
Corea
Henry Clay
Cleavestead
Jerry
China Seas
Earnst
Peril Aboard the Henry Clay and Banknote Beliefs Abroad
The deck of the Henry Clay shows passengers clustered in fear as the ship loses upper structure to the sea. A steward confirms the captain drowned while trying to stop crew from abandoning ship. Separately, California booms with no irredeemable paper money and strong bank deposits contrast with Chicago. A Milwaukee tale ends with a comical lovers’ quarrel about breath.
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Henry Clay
California
San Francisco
Chicago
Marietta Register
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Alexandria
Davenport
Alcestre
India
Harry Harland
Rose Bank
Clevestead
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Dora Davenport
Harlands
Grange
Hong
Milwaukee
John
Almon Henry
Charles H. Wyatt
Athens County
Ohio
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Leonidas Jewett
Physicia
Gorsiene
Physicians & Operative Surgeons
Athens
OXI
Main Street
T. M. D. Pilcher
van Vorhes & Bartlett
W. Sparrow
Silvus
A B. Frame, M. D
Norton’s
K. W. Tinker, M. D
Nelsonvile
Aon & Smith's Drug Store
Washington Street
Will G. Cooley
Pomeroy
Dentist
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Office Corner Court & Union
H.K. Blackstone
J. E. Edmundson
Pittsburg
Reed Golden
Charles Townsend
Golden & Townsend
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Board of Education
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Auditor's Office
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Rome Township
Webster's Enill
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Taylor & Farleyan
Yas Grant
Pomeroy Iron Co
J. W. Thomas
Sec
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W.H. Hatch
Nelsonville, Ohio
Carver Force Pumps
Carver
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H. K. Bracknell
A. Beaton
T. J. Herrold
Dean Avenue
Hotels
Wareren House
W. H. McMonigal
Court ST
Elmer Golden
Frank Cornell
Cane
John Cornell
Frank Cornell & Son
Anne
City Gas
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Cornell & Son
Yeean T’s
Dennison
Fifth Street
Main
Cincinnati
E. Henry Carter
THE
Zettler House
Friend and
Fourth Streets
Columbius
Upton & Phelps
United States Hotel
Columbus
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High Streets
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Chas. Levasshor
W. H. Powell & CO
West Fourth St
Walnut, Ocincinnati, O
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