The Wynkoop family and it's descendants, like many another family, have not been immune to disasters at sea and on some of the major arteries of our growing nation. Several of these involved huge losses of life. Here you will find newspaper accounts of these incidents.

    These reports are necessarily brief and you will search in vain for family names in many of them since these are on-the-spot accounts and many of the passenger manifests went down with the ship. It is from family bible records and genealogies that we know that family members perished or were endangered in these disasters. By publishing these reports I hope to flesh out some of the family histories and provide more insight into these tragedies.

    Chris.

The Wreck Of The Belle Zane.
     The Mississippi River, December 19th, 1845.

The Mound City disaster.
     Union Army Civil War tragedy, June 17th, 1862.

The Wreck of the Evening Star.
    Disaster in the Atlantic Ocean on October 3rd, 1866.

Collision of the Steamers America and United States.
     Disaster on the Ohio River, December 4th, 1868.

The Premier/Willamette Catastrophe.
     The collision of the coastal steamer Willamette and the Premier, October 8th, 1892.

The Sinking of the Barge Van Santvoord.
     Long Island Sound, February 6th, 1895.