American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04
The Missing Steamship Scanderia.

Up to present date no tidings reach us
of the missing steamship Scanderia, now
over sixty Gays from this port for Queen
town. This full-powered vessel lett New
York on the Sth of October, in the height
of the eguinoctial season. She was well
Differed and manned and was well equip
ped with sailing ear, for use in case of
tire failure or arrangement of her macLin-
try. The mysterious silence concerning
h fate is explicable by none of the usu-
al arguments tor the detention or drifting
of disabled vessels; and the unwelcome
inference is forced upon her agents, as
well as upon the public, that she has
persisted. The Scanreria had hardly
steamed out to Sandy Hook when an east
understanding storm appeared ON the
Great Lakes. On the afternoon of the
10th of October it was rapidly propagated
over the New England coast-as shown
by the Signal Service reports-and was
directly in the wake of the steamer AM
evidently gaining upon her hourly. Al
though this storm was not very violent
along the American coast, under the me-
neurological scrutiny of the Signal Bureau
it was. doubtless. Oh reaching the vicinity
| of Newfoundland. where the not Gulf
Stream is encountered by the Labrador
current, and enormous quantities OF latent
heat are set free. greatly intensified in cv-
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turbance. It is not improbable that the
| Scandcr;a. was overtaken by this storm.
and. il so, though weii-conditiont d
ship, she might easily have been
TAX II at a great disadvantage by a
change of wind and overwhelmed by a
| stroke from such a sea as often attends the
cyclone. The case OF tie steamer Sn,idr.
| which, in March, 1870, br- Ike her screw.
and was drifted by wind and wave in the
vicinity of the A ,ores, furnishes no hope
| for the missing Scanderia. The Smidt was
only forty-nine days out from Bremen.
and, being westward bound, was virtual
| Iy moving up stream in the face of the
torrential westerly gales that at that sea-
son sweep across the North Atlantic, while
| the unheard-from British ship was in Oc-
tOber moving with these gales, and, il dis
abled. ought to have made some Euro
| pe;in or British port in half the time re-
! CURED by the German to get into New
| DIRK. The facts are instructive and af-
! ford Il timely warming to the strongest
and most confident steamer TO e. on the
earnest lookout TOR the great waves of
! low pressure. as they have been called.
| The weather reports indicate the genera
ton of these storms in the Far West. and
watch and proclaim their daily advance
eastward, so that "A seaman, il compelled
to leave our Atlantic ports while one i
approaching, goes to sea fully forewarncd
and thus fOrcarmcd. He can observe the
Stealthy or the boistcrOus nearing of the
dangerous meteor an | elude it, if he
only chooses. No vessel has ever yet teen
built strong enough 10 deity these dread
phenomena ofthc Q. can. and to allow him
self to be oyertaken in one of them is
either a seamaiI'S inca pacity or hi crime.
Fortunately. in the resent in Stancc, the
missing vessel took no passengers; but
this does not -ahatc the instruction or
warning which probability gives Tor her
iatc.-N. y. Heratd. Dec. II.