The technologically advanced all-steel cargo ship Western Reserve, once dubbed the "inland greyhound," found broken in two at a depth of 600 feet in Lake Superior.

It was a late summer evening when conditions on Lake Superior turned from bad to treacherous. The year was 1892, and the ship — a 300-foot steamer christened the “Western Reserve,” hailed as one of the speediest and most advanced cargo vessels of its era — found itself in a sudden squall.