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ACCIDENT TO J S MAIL STEAMSHIP

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855
ACCIDENT TO J S MAIL STEAMSHIP
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ON street to or may own em large ye in rated vbout upply York outhern District of. New York No 215Vor. I intared ace rding to Acs of Congress in the year 1860 by Frank Lustre in the Olerks Office of the District Court for th ACCIDENT TO THE J S MAIL STEAMSHIP GRANADA FROM THE ICE IN NEW YORK Bay. For some days the ice had been gathering in our harbor.

The sudden spell of moderate weather had loosened it up the Hudson river and the ebb tide brought it down in large masses and fields and borne along by the strong cur rent it became an object of danger and fear to the vessels which were compelled to venture into the stream. The United Sates Mail Steamship Granada Captain McGowan of the M O Roberta line from. New Orleans and Havanaon her way up the harbor to her dock atabout halfpast seven P M encountered these heavy masges of ice 1 was quite dark and so completely was she sur rounded by the ice that she had to be stopped and backed out ceveral times. On arriving near the Battery it was found that one of the heavy.

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