09/07/1860 |
Almost three hundred drown on Lake Michigan in an excursion steamer collision |
Crime/Disasters |
10/27/1856 |
Gale-force winds pound Lake Michigan |
Crime/Disasters |
05/09/1863 |
Lake Erie cargo ship explodes its boiler off Cleveland, Ohio, killing four |
Crime/Disasters |
01/31/1860 |
Mississippi Central Railroad completed between Canton, Mississippi and Jackson, Tennessee |
Business/Industry |
10/09/1860 |
On Lake Erie, a Detroit grain ship explodes its boiler and sinks in Lake Erie, killing two crewman |
Crime/Disasters |
11/22/1860 |
On Lake Michigan, another steamer is wrecked in a storm but no lives are lost |
Crime/Disasters |
05/29/1860 |
On Lake Superior, a passenger steamer runs aground during fog and is lost |
Crime/Disasters |
11/06/1859 |
Propeller steamer explodes and sinks in the middle of the night on a stormy Lake Erie |
Crime/Disasters |
10/14/1861 |
Secretary of State Seward urges Great Lakes governors to fortify their lakeside ports against foreign threats |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
06/26/1860 |
Steamship bursts a boiler on Lake Michigan, seven crewmen killed |
Crime/Disasters |