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Erie was a steamship that operated as a passenger freighter on the Great Lakes. It caught fire and sank on August 9, 1841, resulting in the loss of an estimated 254 lives, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the history of the Great Lakes. The Erie had a wooden hull and used a side-wheel paddle for propulsion.
In March 2019 the OEPA declared fish caught in the river safe to eat. [37] Consequently, in 2024 the first ever steelhead trout stocking in the river occurred. [38] The river's mouth at Lake Erie in Cleveland, c. 1920
Incidents occurred of the oily surfaces of tributary rivers emptying into Lake Erie catching fire: in 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River erupted in flames, [101] chronicled in a Time magazine article which lamented a tendency to use rivers flowing through major cities as "convenient, free sewers"; [59] the Detroit River caught fire on another ...
Police detectives are investigating after a body was recovered along the Lake Erie shoreline in Cleveland's Edgewater neighborhood on Monday.
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Caught fire near Point au Pelee, Lake Erie, while en route from Buffalo to Monroe, Michigan. [ 35 ] 56 lives lost. 41°53′N 82°30′W / 41.883°N 82.500°W / 41.883; -82.500 ( Northern
The Erie Times News reported in July 2010 that a fisherman caught a relative of a piranha while fishing in Presque Isle Bay. Daryl Lubak was perch fishing when he caught a 20-inch, 7-pound pacu.
SS G. P. Griffith was a passenger steamer that burned and sank on Lake Erie on 17 June 1850, resulting in the loss of between 241 and 289 lives. [1]: 54 The destruction of the G. P. Griffith was the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes up to that point, and remains the third-greatest today, after the Eastland in 1915 and the Lady Elgin in 1860.