Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-04-23
OCEAN HORRORS.
Resume of Leading Ocean Disas


Resume of Leading Ocean Disasters
Since 1910.
An idea of the comparative magni.
tude of the Atlantic disaster may be
obtained from the following statement
of the prominent marine accidents since
1910:
In the month of March, 1871, the
steamer President sailed from New
York with large number of passen-
gers when two days out she is sup
posed to have encountered a terrible
gale, and was never again heard from.
On the 28th of April, 1S47, the Ex-
mouth, an emigrant ship from London
derry, 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 Ed
mond was lost on the western coast of
Ireland, and more than half Of the 200
passengers persisted. Upon the occa-
sion of the loss of the troop-ship Birk-
enhead in Simon's Bay, South Africa,
N February, 1852, 454 of the crew and
soldiers perlshed. Again, IN 1858, just
ayear after this, the Independence took
fire on the coast Of Lower California,
and 140 persons were consumed by the
flames or drowned in the sea. In May
of the same year no lives were lost by
the wreck of the William and Mary
near the Bahamas, and five months
afterward 348 persons, mainly emf
grant. passengers, on the Annie
Jane, of Liverpool, perished on the
west shore of Scotland, where the vessel
was beached. The FavoFite, on her
way from Bremen to Baltimore, In
April, 1854, ran into The bark Hesper,
and 201 lives were sacrificed. In Nav
of the same year 400 officers and sol
diers We're lost with the Lady Nugent,
troop ship which foundereJI IN a hur.
ricane. and IN the succeeding fall the
United States mail steamer Arctic came
in contact, during a fog, with the
French steamer Vesta, and a loss oi
three hundred lives was the result, al
accident which still clings to the mem
ory Of many. The steamer City OF
Glasgow disappeared also before the
close of this disastrous year, with 4OO
persons on board. In 1856, the
only serious marine accident was
the loss of the George Canning
near the mouth of the Elbe with ninety
SIX passengers on board In1856 the
John, an enligrant vessel, was wrecked
on the Munich Rocks off 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 fer. New York
trelghted with 1856 souls, and was new
er 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 of September,
1858, the steam emigrant ship Austria
was burned in nlid-Atiantic, and of the
a538 passengers but sixty y-seyen were
saved. In September of the same year
BIT Chinese eD1igrants lost their lives
IN consequences Of the wreck of the ST.
Paul on the island of Rossel. EOf
the 419 persons on the Pomona, which
was lost on Blackwater Bank, April %,
1858, only twenty-fonr were saved.
During the same -eap the RoyaI Char
ter was wrecked off Noelfra, with a loss
Of 446 lives. On the night of Febru-
ary 2, 1860, new mail steamer, the
Hungarian, was wrecked off the coast
of. Nova Scotia, and all on board, 2O5
perished. Ten years age this month
237 out Of 446 persons, passengers on
the Anglo o-Saxon, lost their lives when
that steamer was wrecked off the coast
of newfoundland, In January of 1866
the steamer London foundered in the
Bay OF Blscay, sacrificing 22O lives,
~ Among the more recent losses at sea
that OF the City of Boston, around
which still hovers an unfathomed mys.
terry, is still within the recollection ol
the youngest.