New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-17
UOWN IN THE SEA.

List of Missing Stea mships from the Loss
of the PresIdent, In 1s41, up to the
Disappearance OF the City of Boston.
The following was published in the New
York Times before the arrival of the
Schmidt was announced:
The President, which left New York
March II, lS41, having among her passen-
gers Tyrone Power, the, comedian. son of
the Duke of Richmond, and other noted
persons is in this dismal catalogue, and so
is the City of Glasgow, lost in 1854, and the
Pacific, in 1856; but we recolect no other
vessels of similar character that have so
vanished and ''left not q track behind !"
Consequently, the chances would seem to
be that as in the cases of the troop-sbip
Birkenhead, and the packets st. George,
Central Amerca, Sarah Sands, Austria
Anglo Saxon and London, greater OF less
number of the passengers OF the two miss
ing crafts may have been saved.
Such, ii will be remembered, was also the
fact as regards the Lady Elgin, sunk by
collision en- Lake Michigan, September 8,
1860. OF her 3S5 passengers, 2S7 perished,
among whom were MIR. Herbert Ingram,
Member of Parliament, the founder OF the
Illustrated London Ne,cs. 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
Blkenhead, wreckei off Simon's Bay, South
Africa, February &c, 1852, lost 4ei, and
saved lS4. The st. George, which was
bound for Liverpool from New York, was
DESTROYED by fire at sea, December "a, 1852,
lost 81, while 20 were rescued and taken to
Hayre by the American ship Orlando. The
Central America, which foundered on her
way from Havana to New York, September
II, 1857, carried 579 persons. of whom only
1852 were saved. OF the 53o on board the
Austria, burned in the middle of the At
lantic, september 13, 1858, but 67 survived.
The Sarah Sands, which sailed from Ports
fire in November, and afterward experienced
tremendous gale, carried all on board
safely into port. The AnglO-Sa1On, wrecked
on reef off Cape Race during dense fog,
April 27, 1868, lost 237 out of 446 individuals.
The London, which foundered in the Bay OF
Biscay, January IL, 1866. on the passage
from England to Melbourne, lost 900 lives,
| among whom were DIR. Woolley, principal OF
the University of Sydney, and MIR. G. F.
Brooke, the tragedian. Two instances have
befallen during the past few years, when
the romantic incident, so much used by
| novelists and dramatists, of single life be-
ing saved from among all on board lost
ship, has really been eXempli6ed. These
were in the case OF the Dalhouse, wrecked
Oft Beachy Head, October -, 1858, and the
Dunbar, wrecked off Sydney, August 20,
1857.
In the latter instance the survivor was
thrown by gigantic wave into tiny aper
ture high up in the face OF precipice-
| the chance of such thing occurring being
abou. the same as that of throwing pea in
3 nail hole in the side of the wall-where he
lay insensibe for many hours, but was
finally discovered and saved by daring
fellow, wh6 caused himself to be let down
| from the top of the activity by ropes.
The facts we have named, and others that
| might be cited, indicate a strong preponder-
ance in favor of the supposition that even
should the City of Boston and the Schmidt
| have been overtsken 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 a joyful tele
| gram may yet fash over the Atlantic cable
announcing that those fine ships themselves
| as well as those who entrusted their lives Il
| them, are still above water.