Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-29
DOWN IN THE SEA.
List OF Missing Steamships from the Loss Of thS
President, Ia IsIi, up TO the Disappear
snce OF the City OF Boston.

The President, which left New
York March IL, 1871, having among
her passengers Tyrone Power, the
commedian, son Of the Duke of
Richmond, and other noted persons,
ls in this dismal catalogue, and so is
the City of Glasgow, Lost in 1854,
aud the Pacific, in 1856; but we re-
collect no other vessels ofsimiIar char
acter that have so persisted and cleft
not rack behind Consequently
the chances would seem To be that "a
in the case Of the troop-ship Birken-
head and the packets ST. George,
Central America, Sarah Rands, Aus
tria, Anglo Saxon, and London,
greater or less number Of the passen-
gers of the two missing crafts may
have been saved.
Such, it will be remembered, was
also the fact as regards the Lady
Elgin, sunk by collision on Lake
Michigan, September 8, 1860. OF her
300 passengers. 2S7 persisted,
amongst whom were Mr.. Herbert
Ingram, M. p, the founder of the
London Illustrated NelcS and his
son. OF the passengers and crew of
the Hungarian, on the other hand,
which was wrecked on the coast OF
Nova Scotia, February 10, of the
same year, all on board were lost
The Birkenhead, wrecked on Simon's
Bay, South Africa, February 20, 1852,
lost 4Sf and saved 1874. The ST.
George, which was bound from Liver
pool to New York, was DESTROYED
by fire at sea, December "a, 1851,
lost 81, while 20 were rescued and
taken TO Havre by the American
ship Orlando The Central America.
which foundered on her way from
Havana TO New York, September II,
1857, carried $40 persons, of whom
only 1852 were saved. OF the 538 on
board the Austria, burned in the
middle of the Atlantic, September ID,
1858, hut 81 survived.
The Sarah Sands, which sailed
from Portsmouth for Calcutta in
August, 1857, took fire in Novem Der,
and afterward experienced ire
mendous gale, carried al on board
safely to port. The Anglo-Saxou.
wrecked on a reef of Cape Race du-
ring dense fog, April 81, 1863, lost
237 out OF I46 individuals. The
London, which foundered in the Bay
of Biscay, January II, 1866, on the
passage from England to Melbourne,
lost 220 lives, among whom were DIR.
Woolley, Principal of the University
of Sydney, and Mr.. G. V. Brooke,
the tragedian. Two instances have
befalen during the past few years,
when the romantic incident, so much
used by novelists and dIamatists, of
single life being saved from among
all on board lost ship has really
been exemplihed. These were in the
cases Of tile Dalhousie, wrecked off
Beachy Head, October 10, 1853, and
the Dunbar wrecked off Sydney,
August 20, 1857.
In the latter instance the survivor
was thrown by a gigantic wave into
a tiny aperture high up in the face of
a precipice--the chance of such
thing occurring being about the same
as that of throwing a pea in a nail
hole in the side of wall-where he
lay insensible for many hours, but
was finally discovered and saved by
a daring fellow, who caused himself
to be lot down from the top of the
activity by ropes.
The facts we have named, and 9th.
ers that might be cited, indicate
strong preponderance in favor of the
supposition that even should the
City Of Boston and the Schmidt have
been overtaken by calamity, many
and perhaps all of their passengers
and crews may have been saved.
We do not, however, like to abandon
the hope that u joyful telegram may
yet fash over the Atlantic cable, an
nouncing that those fine ships them
selves, as well those who intrusted
their lives to them, are still above
water.-N. Y. Times.