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Shipwreck dangers on Lake Ontario sailors survive fierce storm
Maritime historian Richard Palmer highlights fall gales on Lake Ontario in a Palladium feature. The Dec 4 1886 piece recalls the Comanche, Blazing Star, and F D Barker storms, lightning warnings, near misses, and the storm’s rapid 80 mile dash across the lake, tying to Carlyon railroad wrecks and a three masted vessel capsizing.
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