The Ship Disaster - Andersonvill Reporting ...
A complete and authentic issue of ‘The Weekly Herald’, NYC, August 28, 1865, 8pp., disbound. Front page map, 9-1/2” 5”, provides the Coast of Newfoundland shows the proposed terminus of the Atlantic Cable. Front page re[port, The Brother Jonathon Disaster; All But 17 Lost; Inside report ANDERSONVILLE, the trial of Wirz; Two Hundred Deaths a Day ... The passenger steamship S.S. Brother Jonathan struck an uncharted rock off the coast of Crescent City, California. The ship sank in less than 30 minutes in stormy seas, killing over 200 passengers and crew. Only 19 people survived in one lifeboat.
A complete and authentic issue of ‘The Weekly Herald’, NYC, August 28, 1865, 8pp., disbound. Front page map, 9-1/2” 5”, provides the Coast of Newfoundland shows the proposed terminus of the Atlantic Cable. Front page re[port, The Brother Jonathon Disaster; All But 17 Lost; Inside report ANDERSONVILLE, the trial of Wirz; Two Hundred Deaths a Day ... The passenger steamship S.S. Brother Jonathan struck an uncharted rock off the coast of Crescent City, California. The ship sank in less than 30 minutes in stormy seas, killing over 200 passengers and crew. Only 19 people survived in one lifeboat.
