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Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Eve, January 13th, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished — Nathaniel Currier|William Keesey Hewitt|The New York Sun | Open Metropolitan