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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1860., [Electronic resource], South Carolinas in the Field . (search)
A Steamer in a Terrible condition.
--The Cleveland (Ohio) Journal gives a description of the suffering experienced in a storm on Lake Erie.
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Thus when near Cleveland on Friday evening, the unfortunate steamer had to put about and for twenty-four hours endured one of the most terrible storms that ever blew on Lake Erie.
The snow, hard and cutting as particles of ice, dashed in the faces of the sailors, the heavy seas made clean breaches over the vessel, smashing her bulworks and badly wrecking her at every blow.
Ice formed everywhere, so that icicles depended from the roof of the cabins, and sheet ice cased the floors.
Costly mirrors, handsome furniture, lamps, vases, and all the other elegant fittings of this beautiful steamer, were dashed to the deck in one common ruin.
The passengers clung together, expecting every moment to be their last.
To add to the horrors of the situation, the fuel gave out, and the engines were kept going by burning up some of the fre