Record Data
Source citation
“Terrible Catastrophe – Forty-Nine Children Drowned,” Cleveland (OH) Herald, February 27, 1860, p. 2: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
Daily Cleveland Herald
Newspaper: Headline
Terrible Catastrophe – Forty-Nine Children Drowned
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
3
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE – FORTY-NINE CHILDREN DROWNED. – From the Quincy (Ill.) Herald we learn that a most terrible calamity, rivaling that of the Pemberton Mills, occurred on Thursday last, near the town of Hardin, Illinois, on the Illinois river, and about twenty-five miles above Alton. Fifty school children in attendance at a university in that place, went out upon the ice to play. The ice gave way, and with one exception, all were lost. Our informant was unable to give further particulars, but he represents that the village was the scene of universal mourning, almost every family in it having lost one or more of its members.
