The Steamer Vermillion, Capt. Brundage, from Detroit, bound to Buffalo, while stopping at the port of Huron, on Lake Erie, on the morning of the 6th inst, took fire from a can of turpentine, which being accidentally upset, spread, over the deck, and coming in contact with the chimney, wrapped the boat in flames from stem to stern. The passengers some forty or fifty were mostly below, and it was with great difficulty they could save themselves, as the boat drifted out of the river into the Lake, after her fastenings were burnt. The number of lives lost, is five, as far as yet ascertained. It is feared there were more who perished. This is the second steamboat which has been burnt on the Lake by the upsetting of this dangerous article of freight, involving a dreadful loss of human lives as well as a great amount of property. Passengers should refuse to go on board of steamboats that carry freight of this extremely dangerous description.
Herald of the Times, Newport, RI, November 17, 1842