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    VESSEL NAME:   Chicago
    OTHER NAME(s): (none)
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    REASON:        Fire
    DATE OF LOSS:  30 July 1849
    LOCATION:      Docks at Buffalo, N.Y.
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Buffalo, N.Y., 1842
    OWNER(S):      E. Weed & Co., Buffalo, N.Y., & J. A. Armstrong, Detroit
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       151
    LENGTH:        ?
    BEAM:          ?
    DEPTH:         ?
    CASUALTIES:    none listed
    SURVIVORS: 

                   Burned to the water's edge while docked just above
                   the Buffalo elevator.  No casualties listed.

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Sources: Buffalo Daily Republic, 30-31 July 1849