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1860

The Lady Elgin Disaster

On September 8, 1860, the steamer Lady Elgin sank in Lake Michigan after a collision, killing around 300 people, many of them Milwaukee Irish residents. Remember one of the deadliest shipwrecks in Great Lakes history.

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