Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Pushing the women overboard who were too much terrified to make the leap

Description
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Wood engravings
Description
Woodcut engraving of pushing some of the female passengers of the the Michigan Southern Railroad Company's steamboat NORTHERN INDIANA into the Lake as she burned off Pelee in Lake Erie on 17 July 1856
Inscriptions
"Pushing the women overboard who were too much terrified to make the leap"
Publisher
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Place of Publication
New York
Date of Original
2 Aug 1856
Subject(s)
Fires
Paddle wheel steamers
Passengers
Rescues
Shipwrecks
Steamboats
Northern Indiana (steamboat)
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Lake Erie
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 42.454166 Longitude: -81.121388
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Pushing the women overboard who were too much terrified to make the leap


Woodcut engraving of pushing some of the female passengers of the the Michigan Southern Railroad Company's steamboat NORTHERN INDIANA into the Lake as she burned off Pelee in Lake Erie on 17 July 1856