Disaster at Sea Details of the William Hunt Sinking
The New York papers describe the disaster aboard the steamer William Hunt bound for San Francisco. Leaking and broken upper works after a gale forced a Bermuda stop. Fireman Francis Bigreney was killed. two others wounded. A seaman named Richard escaped in a boat but the captain feared sinking. A box with $10,000 in gold and captain’s $245, plus ship papers, was lost overboard during the chaotic retreat.
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New York
Saterday
William
Hunt
San Francisco
Bermuda
Peices
Francis Bigekney
Richard
Steam Explosions on the Lakes Compare with Western Rivers
Steam explosions on the lakes have been rarer and less instructive than on western rivers. The Troy disaster was earlier noted as a first accident, but the Cleveland Herald contradicts this, citing several early steamboat boiler explosions with deadly outcomes between 1830 and 1844. Also reported are a fatal wagon accident near Oxford, a temperance preacher in New Orleans receiving support, and a violent tornado at Milledgeville Gap with structural damage.
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Toni
Age Fuca Golifiset
Mattias
Webulep Sini Dedtite
Ghent
Seward
Drv
de Rancia’ Packman
Mr Blake
Blake
di Parkman
Jentlechen
Webster
Law
Mara
Gachvery
Ee Butt
Clapp
Medea College
Varius Tapica
Madisal
Parkman
Hupivaayn
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Clay
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Tyrnu
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Free
Calhoun
North
Republic
Washington
Deepotisma
South
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Teddrigge
Silee
National Eagle
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ndt
Troy
Cleveland Herald
William Peacock
Buffalo
Commodore Perry
Erie
Gen. Vance
New Orleans
St.Patrick’s
St. Theresa's
Camp ‘Street
Orphan Asylum
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Milledgeville Gap
D&e
State House Penitentiary
Pennsylvania
Springfield Republican
Orrin P. Wilson
Butler Streets
Panke’ Way
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