Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals

Chicago's Nightmare: The 1894 Storm


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From Milwaukee to the Michigan border, schooners were pushed into each other and onto the shoreline in relentless 60 mile per hour wind. What started out as an 80 degree spring day was transformed into a snowy hurricane that threw hapless crews into the 48 degree water. Historian and master storyteller Ric Mixter shares details on each shipwreck and rescue attempt as well as his family connection to a schooner destroyed near the Calumet River in 1894.

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Great Lakes Shipwrecks and SurvivalsBy Ric Mixter ft. Dan Hall

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