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<\/a>\nDuck Hunters in Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n
On the water, Lake Michigan bore the brunt with winds reaching as high as 124 mph. All over the lake, vessels were in trouble. On the east shore at Ludington, the car ferry\u00a0City of Flint 32<\/em>\u00a0was blown ashore, while a nearby fish tug\u00a0Three Brothers<\/em>managed to save seventeen men aboard the doomed\u00a0Navadoc<\/em>. The freighter\u00a0Frank J. Peterson<\/em>\u00a0was beached at Hog Island, while another freighter, the\u00a0Navadoc<\/em>, went aground off Naubinway at the northern tip of the lake.<\/p>\n Among the worst disasters were the complete loss of both the 380-foot steamship\u00a0Anna C. Minch<\/em>\u00a0and the 420-foot steel freighter\u00a0William B. Davock<\/em>. All hands perished – 24 on the\u00a0Minch\u00a0<\/em>and 32 on the\u00a0Davock<\/em>. The\u00a0Minch\u00a0<\/em>was found a mile and a half south of the pier at Pentwater with her mast still above water. Bodies from both ships washed up along the shore near Pentwater and Ludington, leading some to speculate that they had collided.<\/p>\n In all, 59 sailors, mainly on Lake Michigan, were lost. Because November had always been a dangerous month for shipping on the Great Lakes, the storms were given the nickname “Witches of November”.<\/p>\n Culled from:\u00a0Disaster Great Lakes<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak<\/a>\u00a0is an album and booklet by\u00a0Negativland<\/a>. The band describes the project as \u201ca 6 by 12 inch 64-page full-color book which comes with a 45-minute CD soundtrack.\u201d \u00a0I\u2019m not interested in the band Negativland, but I own a copy of this objet d\u2019art macabre because car crashes are fascinating\u2026 and this is very similar to a project I wanted to do years ago but never got around to completing (nothing new there). \u00a0What they did was go to junkyards and look for notes left behind in the smashed cars and display them together. \u00a0Of course. you\u2019re left wondering \u2013 did the person who wrote the note or for whom the note was intended live or die? I have no answers\u2026 \u00a0but speculating can be its own entertainment, and so I present to you this entry.<\/p>\n What do you think?\u00a0 Fatal or no?<\/p>\n The Wreckage:<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nA view\u00a0from the car ferry City of Flint 32<\/em><\/p>\nCar Crash Du Jour!<\/h3>\n
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