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Posted By: Walt Mathers on: 02/13/2010 04:16:56 EST
Subject: The Steamer Columbus Has Burned

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Burning of the Steamer Columbus - Baltimore, Nov. 30 [1850]

The burning of the steamboat Columbus, off Point Lookout, which was telegraphed yesterday, was accomplished with the following melancholy loss of life: Capt. Hollingshead, Littleton S. Godwin, (the mate), the mate's son, and five of the hands of the boat, all perished in the flames.

Source: Hunterdon County Democrat, Flemington, New Jersey.
December 4, 1850, Vol. XIII, No. 16, Whole No. 640

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