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Great Lakes storm wrecks and ships lost meet
Eighteen men aboard the propeller Dean Richmond are lost near Van Buren Point after Lake Erie hurricane. Five corpses wash ashore as another schooner Minnéhaha is reported wrecked near Manistee. The Annie Sherwood and Wookoken are listed among recent tragedies with many drowned. The storm also brings the death of Marshal MacMahon in Paris and extensive damage from the Georgetown flood.
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Dean Richmond
Alton Boned
Minndishe
Sevan
BufFaLo
Lake Erie
van Buren Point
Dunkirk
Richmond
Typo
Craw
Gravely Bay
Hargrove Company
Detroit
Toledo
G. W. Stoddard
George Boynan
Samuel Meadows
Frank Ernest
H. Wheeler
A. B. Dodge
Evans
Jacob Ernest
William Zink
George Schilling
Ail
Yoledo
Walter Goodyear
Linske
Helena
Lelske
Tua Atay la
Neamed Taba
Jake
Great’ Lakes
Wookoken
Cleveland
Long Folnt
Coset
Atoria
Albert Meawild
Marine City
Bara
Meswald
John" Mitchell
Chleveland
David Jones
Clevelandy - Matthew - Hasler
Michael ‘Hinkelman
Ohlet
Georgetown
Ty Anid
Magnolia Bencholmont
Pawley's
Auituer Resort
Dr. H
M, Tucker
B. 2
Frazer
L. G