Continued from September 11th. From the September 9th Chicago Tribune.
September 8th marked the 150th anniversary of the shipwreck of the Lady Elgin, the worst on the Great Lakes with 350 men, women and children losing their lives.
Harry Zych has won a court case and is the owner of the Lady Sterling's relics after he found it in 1989 after a long search. He does not put a price on it, but the court ruled that it has "very little salvage value." He maintains that he was not into it for the money.
Zych had an exhibit of the wreck at the Milwaukee Public Museum in 2008, but there were no relics. He has talked to several other museums about an exhibit were willing to finance it.
What is known is that the wreck is continually picked over by other divers so that it has gotten to the point where no one knows what remains.
It Was the Titanic of the Great Lakes. --DaCoot
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