Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
The Wrecks of the Past.

An idea of the comparative magni- tude of the disaster to the steamer At
 lantic, may be obtained from the fol- lowing statement of the prominent ma rine accidents since 1840:
 In the month of March, 1841, the steamer President sailed from this port with large number of passengers j; when two days out she is supposed to have encountered terrible gale, and was never again heard from. On the 28th of April, 1847, the Exmouth, an emigrant ship from Londonderry, was wrecked, and nearly 24O lives lost. A still more disastrous wreck was that of the Royal Adelaide, which occurred on the Tongue Sands, off Margate, on which occasion 400 lives were lost. In September, 1850, the Edmond was lost on the western coast of Ireland, and more than half of the 200 passengers perished. Upon the occasion of the loss of the troop-ship Birkenhead in Simon's Bay, South Africa, in Febru- ary, 1852, 454 of the crew and soldiers perished. Again, in 1853, just year after this, the Independence took fire on the coast of Lower California, and 14O persons were consumed by the flames or drowned in the sea. In May of the same year TO lives were lost by the wreck of the William and Mary near the Bahamas and five months af- rewards 348 persons, mainly emigrant passengers, on the Annie Jane, of Liver pool, perished on the west shore of Scotland, where the vessel was beached. The Favorite, on her way from Bremen to Baltimore, in April, 1854, ran into the bark Hesper, and POI lives were sacrificed. In May of the same year 400 officers and soldiers were lost with the Lady Nugent, troop-ship, which foundered in hurricane, and in the succeeding fall the United States mail steamer Artic came in contact during a fog with the French steamer Vesta, and loss of 300 lives was the result, an ac- cident which still rings in the memory of many. The steamer City of Glasgow disappeared also before the close of this disastrous year with 480 persons on board. In 1855 the only serious ma- rine accident was the loss of the George Canning near the mouth of the Elbe with ninety-six passengers on board. In 1856 the John, an emlgrant vessel, was wrecked on the Munch Rocks of Falmouth, on which occasion 200 lives were lost. On the 23d of February of the succeeding year the well-known Collins steamer Pacific left Liverpool for New York freighted with 186 souls, and was never again heard of. During the summer of 1857 the clipper ship Dunbar was wrecked near Sydney, and out of 121 persons on board only one was saved. In September of the same year the steamer Central America foundered at sea with 579 passengers only 152 were rescued. On the 18th ot September, 1858, the steam emigrant ship Austria was burned in mid Allan tic, and of the 538 passengers but 67 were saved. In September of the same year 317 Chinese emigrants lost their lives in consequence of the wreck of the St. Paul on the island of Rossel. Of the 419 persons on the Pomona, which was lost on Blackwater Bank, April 2S, 1859, only "A were saved. During the same year the Royal Char ter was wrecked off Moelfra, with loss of 446 lives. On the night of February 2, 1860, new mail steamer, the Hun garian, was wrecked off the coast ot Novia Scotia, and all on board, 205, perished. Ten years ago this month 237 out of 446 persons, passengers on the Anglo-Saxon, lost their lives when that steamer was wrecked off Newfound- land. In January of 1866 the steamer London foundered in the Bay of Biscay, sacrificing about 22O lives. Among the more recent losses at sea that of the City of Boston, around which still hovers an unfathomed mystery, and that of the Northfeet, are still within the recollection of the youngest.-Neat