1899  Photograph of paddle steamboat LADY ELGIN in Chicago the day before she was wrecked in Lake Michigan Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899. "Steamer Lady Elgin. Wrecked off Winnetka, September 8, 1860, by collision with...

  1857  ice passage on

  1851  new vessel

  1853  route

  1859  route

  1860  court trial

  1851  new vessel

  1854  trouble with elephants ?

  1871  first through Sault 1859

  1852  Reason: collision Lives: nil

  1855  Reason: broke machinery Remarks: Repaired

  1854  Reason: sunk Lives: nil Freight: passengers, goods Remarks: Raised

  1856  Reason: aground Lives: nil Hull damage: $1,300 Cargo: $2,000 Freight: cattle &c. Remarks: Got off

  1858  Reason: aground Lives: nil Freight: cattle, goods, &c Remarks: Got off

  1858  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off

  1860  Reason: sunk by collision Lives: 400 Hull damage: $33,000 Cargo: $8,000 Remarks: Total loss

  1859  Reason: broke machinery Lives: nil Remarks: Repaired

  1859  Reason: disabled machinery Lives: nil Remarks: Repaired

  B., S., Foul Air in a Steamboat's Hold, "Foul Air in a Steamboat's Hold," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), November 1854, pp.90-92  For the Nautical Magazine. FOUL AIR IN A STEAMBOAT'S HOLD. Gentlemen : -- I take the liberty of sending you some account of a very remarkable experience which I have just had in the physiologcal eflects of foul air, ‚-- such as may be, and in the ease I shall cite was, engendered in ...