The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-02
DOWN sN 1NzE >E A.
List Of Missing Steamships from
the Loss of the Preside mt, ias
1s1a, up to the Disappearance
Ofshe City of Boston.
From the n. Y. Times. I

From the N. Y. Times.1
The President, which left New York
March 11th, 1S41. having among her
passengers Tyrone Power, the comedian
son of the Duke of Richmond, and
other noted persons, is in this dismal ca
talogue and so is the City of Glasgow.
lost in 1854, and the Pacific, in 1856;
buf We recollect no other vessels of SINH
lar character that have so vanished and
cleft not rack behind" Consequent
ly the chances would seem to BE- that as
in the cases of the troop-ship Birk-n-
head and the packets St. George, Cen
rral America, Sarah Sands, Austria, An
glo-Saxon and London, greater or less
number of the passengers of the two
missing crafts may have been saved.
Such, it will be remembered, was al
so the fact as regards the Lady Elgin,
sunk by collision on lake Michigan,
September s. 1860. OF her 3s5 pa>sen-
gers, 2S7 perished, among whom were
MIR. Herbert Ingram. M. P. the founder
of the Illustrated London News, and his
son. OF the passengers and crew of the
Hungarian, on the other hand, which
| was wrecked on the coast If Nova Scu-
tia, February l9, of the same year, all
on board were lost. The Birkenhrad,
wrecked off Simon's Bay, South Africa,
February 26, 1852, lost 493 and saved
1877. The S.. George, which was b und
tor Liverpool from New York was e.
sIroyed by fire at sea December "a.
1852, lost 81, while 70 were rescued and
takel, to Havre by the American ship
Orlando. The Central America which
fonndered on her way from Havana to
New York, September ~, 1857, carried
| $40 persons, IF when only l52 were "a
we'd. OF the 53S on board the Austria,
| burned in the middle of the Atlantic
September Is. 1853, but 81 SUI vived.
The Sarah Sands which sailed from
Portsmouth, tor Calcutta iu August, 1857.
took fire in November, and atterward
experience tremendous gale. carried
all on board safely into port. The An
g,o-Saxon, wrecked OH reef IF Ca"e
Race during dense fog, pri 81, 1868,
lost 227 out of 446 individuals. The
London, which foundered in The Bay OF
Blscay, january IL, 1866, on the pas
sage from England to Melbourne, lot
220 lives, ano, whom were DR.. Vel
ley. Principal Of the University of sgd
ney, and G. V. Brooke, the tragedian
Two instances have befallen during the
pa-t few years when the romantic Incl
dent so much used by novelists and dra.
matst<, of single life being saved from
among all on board lost ship has real
y been -xemplifed. These were in the
cases of the Daihuusie wr, cked off Bra
chy Head, october 10. 1853, and the
Dunbar. wrecked of Sydney, August
20, 1857.
In the latter instance the survivor was
throw ,,,by gigantic wave int" tiny
aperture high up in the face of "a preci
plce-,he chance ,f such thing occur
ring being about the same. as that o
throwing pea i'll nail h lie III the side
# wall-whcre he lay iusensible fl
IN ny hours, bnt was finally discovered
and saved by a daring fellow. who cans
ed himself to be let down from the tol
Ut the activity by ropes.
The facts we have named, and other
that might be cited, indicate stron,
preponderance in favor of the suppnsi
ton that even should the ''ily of BIS
ton aud the Schmidt have been overta
ken by calamity, many aud perhaps al
of their passengers and crews may hav
been saved. We do not, however, lik
to abandon the hope that a joyful 'ele
: gram may yet fa-h over the Atlauti
cable, announcing that those fne ship
themselves, as well as tll,se who intru>t
, ed heir lives to them, are still abov
water.
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