The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
The Wrecks of the Past.

An liea OF the comparative magnitude
of the 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 this port
with large number of passengers; when
two days out she is supposed to have
encountered terrible gale, and was
never again heard from. On the 2Sth
of April, 1917, the Exmouth, an emigrant
ship from Londonderry, was wrecked.
and nearly $40 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 persisted. Upon the
occasion of the loss of the troop-ship
Birkenhead in Simon's Bay, South Afri-
ca, in February, 1852, 454 of the crew
and soldiers persisted. Again, in 1888,
just year after this, the Independence
took fire on the coast of Lower Califor-
MIA, and 40 persons were consumed by
the flames or drowned in the sea- In
May of the same year 10 lives were lost
by the wreck of the William and Mary,
near the Bahamas and five months af-
terward 34S persons, mainly emigrant
passengers, on the Annie Jane, of Liv-
erpool, persisted 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 sacri-
feed. In May of the same year 400
officers and soldiers were lost with the
Lady Nugent, troop-shlp, which found
cred in hurricane, and III the succeed
ing fall the United States mail steamer
Arctic came in contact during fog with
the French steamer Vesta, and loss of
300 lives was the result-an accident
which still rings III the memory of many.
! The steamer City of Glasgow disap-
peared also before the close of this dis
astrous year with $50 persons on board.
| In 1856 the only serious marine accident
was the loss of the George Canning near
the mouth of the Elbe, with SO passen-
gers on board. In 1866 the John, an
emigrant vessel, was wrecked on the
Munich Rocks, off Falmouth, on which
occasion 200 lives were lost. On the
23d of February of the succeeding yeaI
! the well-known Collins steamer Pacific
left Liverpool for New York, freighted
with 1S6 souls, and was never again
heard of. During the summer of 1857
the clipper ship Dunbar was wrecked
near Sydney, and out of 12l persons on
board only one was saved. In Septem-
Der of the same year the steamer Central
America foundered at sea with $40 pas
sanCers only no were rescued On the
18th Of September, 1853, the steam emf
grant ship Austria was burned in mid
Atlantic, and of the 53S passengers but
81 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 40 persons on the Pomona
which was lost on Blackwater Bank,
April %, 1859, only "a were saved. Dur
ing the same year the Royal Charter was
wrecked off Moelfra, with loss of 44f
lives. On the night of Feb. 2, 1860, a
new mail steamer, the Hungarian, was
wrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia, and
all on board, 2O5, persisted. Ten years
ago this month 237 out Of 4l6 persons,
passengers on the Anglo-Saxon, lost their
lives when that steamer was wrecked of
Newfoundland. In January of 1866 the
steamer London foundered in the Bay
of Biscay, sacrificing about 800 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.
York World.