Burlington (Propeller), sunk, 29 Nov 1872

A heavy northwest gale passed over the head of Lake Erie yesterday, causing serious disasters to the shipping. The prop. BURLINGTON has sunk below Bar Pt. Schr. SAM FLINT and prop. PHILADELPHIA are ashore below Bar Pt.
      Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
      November 30, 1872 3-5
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      The propeller BURLINGTON, which latterly served as a steam barge in the lumber trade, with barges in tow, sank in Point au Pelee passage on Friday while on the upward passage, caused by damage from ice.
      Port Huron Daily Times
      Monday, December 2, 1872

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The prop. BURLINGTON, which lately served as a steambarge in the lumber trade, with barges in tow, sank in Pt. Pelee passage on Friday while on the upward passage, caused by damage from ice.
      Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
      December 3, 1872 3-6

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Efforts to rescue the prop. BURLINGTON, sunk at Bar Pt., Lake Erie, have been abandoned on account of the ice and stormy weather.
      Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
      December 4, 1872 3-5

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The weather on Friday night (11/29) was exceedingly boisterous; the wind blowing furiously from the north west accompanied at times with blinding snow.
We give the following marine mishaps as have reached us from Detroit and other localitities. The following is from Detroit:
The BURLINGTON is sunk below Bar Pt.
      Erie Gazette
      December 5, 1872

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      The stmb. BURLINGTON which sunk a few days since near Bar Pt., was got into the port of Detroit on Friday.
      Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
      December 9, 1872 3-6

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      BAR POINT CASUALTIES.
      From a hasty glance at the records of marine disasters we find the difficulties have their
origins somewhere about 1854. The schooner BUTLER, deep laden, struck an unknown obstruction and sunk, but was subsequently raised. The cause was supposed to be that of some sunken wreck. The accident took place in May. In the month of October, 1855, the propeller ILLINOIS, commanded by Capt. Wm. Dickson, of long experience on the lakes, having a full load of merchandise, struck and sunk. The entire cargo was damaged, and the loss to
the steamer and cargo amounted to $85,000. The propeller CUYAHOGA, with a cargo of wheat, in October, 1856, run on the same spot, worked herself off, and was run ashore, the damages amounting to $3,000, the damage to cargo and vessel slight. In July, 1857, the schooner ALICE was stranded near there, and became a total loss. The schooner DREADNAUGHT, with a cargo of grain, struck in 1858, and sustained damages amounting to $100. In 1859 the bark LONDON run on the same place,, damages $150. The bark INDIANA, in November of the same year, dragged her anchor and grounded in the same spot, but was lightered off damaged $200. The scow E. S. TAYLOR, laden with coal, was sunk near there in 1860 and became a total loss. In April, 1861, the schooner WYANDOTTE, laden with coal, met with a disaster at the same place, the damage amounting to $300. The propeller DETROIT struck there in 1862, and sprung a leak, damages $100. In May, 1863, the steamer MORNING STAR struck on what was supposed to be an anchor, but the real cause was doubtless one of the wrecks above alluded to. The sloop MESSINGER, with a cargo of wheat, grounded there and damaged her cargo $3,000. The propeller MARQUETTE, cargo of merchandise, sank there in 1865, but subsequently got up; cargo badly damaged. In September of the same year the propeller PITTSBURGH struck and went ashore, and lightered off. Soon after the propeller WENONA grounded and was lightered off, and the steamer CANADA, of 166 tons, sunk and became a total loss there in September of 1865. In November, 1871, the propeller POTOMAC stove a hole in her bottom on the same obstruction and returned to Detroit, damages not stated. Soon after the propeller CHINA sustained a like disaster. The disasters of 1872 from the same cause were as follows: In May, the propeller MERCHANT, cargo merchandise, sunk, raised, and taken to Detroit. In August, bark C. K. NIMS, cargo grain, struck and sprung a leak. Bark RED, WHITE and BLACK (sic), stove hole in bottom, damaged cargo and brought to Detroit. In November schooner OWASCO, cargo corn, all damaged and vessel ashore but got off. Propeller BURLINGTON sunk and got up. Propeller PHILADELPHIA stranded but got off.
Schooner SAM FLINT, cargo grain, stranded and got off. In December, propeller RUSSIA, cargo grain, struck and sunk, raised and brought to Detroit.
      Detroit Free Press
      July 11, 1873
     
Other vessels lost or heavily damaged on or near Bar Pt. during the same period included: Schr GUERRIERE (1832), strs ERIE and DANIEL WEBSTER ('39), str LITTLE WESTERN ('42), schr C. C. TROWBRIDGE ('57), schr MORNING LIGHT ('60), prop CLEVELAND ('66) and schr W. S. LYONS ('69).