Wednesday, August 24, 2011

On the 23d ult. the steamer Cambridge . . .


. . . on her way from Jacksonport to Memphis, struck a log in White river and sunk in four minutes.  From forty-three to forty-seven persons were drowned.  The boat and cargo were lost.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 14, 1862, p. 2 

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