Discover just how close Steamship Erie was from land prior to 10PM on evening of August 9, 1841. Determine what Lake Erie’s situation was like from a passenger standpoint knowing so many had abandoned Erie in midst of raging fires. Understand why a man named William O’Neil is of particular importance. Find out just how many passengers and crewmen from Erie were rescued by Dewitt Clinton Crewmen. Learn how Erie Bartender Frederick Parmalee including Musician Alexander Lamberton survived for long hours in Lake Erie’s Waters before finally being rescued. Learn about Fathoms. Get an in depth analysis behind how a particular headline made its way into newspapers throughout the Midwest for a long duration after Erie’s Wreck. Find out whether or not the procedure behind identifying the dead lasted for multiple weeks. Learn just how many unidentified passengers there were including the burial process. Discover if the process behind assisting with shipwrecks had become an all too familiar task for those whom resided along South Shore Lake Erie Communities in Dunkirk, Sheridan, to Silver Bay, New York. Determine if it’s safe to say that those whom survived lost everything they had sacrificed.

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