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The Mountain Sentinel
Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
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Telegraph news from America reports Esquimaux claim of Sir John Franklin's ships wrecking in 1846 northern seas, with crew drowning or killed by natives, though discredited. American search ship Advance aground but expected unharmed.
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Esquimaux have been discovered who represent that two ships, answering in their description to those of Sir John Franklin, were wrecked in the northern seas in the winter of 1846, and that a part of the crew were drowned, and the remainder after undergoing many privations were killed by the natives. This story is discredited, and probably with reason.
The American ships of search have been heard from, and at the last advices the Advance was aground, but it is said would be got off without injury.
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Northern Seas
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Winter Of 1846
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a part of the crew were drowned, and the remainder after undergoing many privations were killed by the natives. this story is discredited, and probably with reason. the advance was aground but it is said would be got off without injury.
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Esquimaux have been discovered who represent that two ships, answering in their description to those of Sir John Franklin, were wrecked in the northern seas in the winter of 1846. The American ships of search have been heard from, and at the last advices the Advance was aground.