Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-11-06

in fog of the Banks of Newfoundland,
and out of 1858 persons on board 323 per-
ished, among them the Due de Gram
mont and the Due de Guynes. The
same year was also rendered memorable
in maritime disasters by the disap-
pearaDce of the City of Glasgow, screw
steamer, which left the Mersey for
Philadelphia, on March 1st. with $50
persons ON board, all told, and of the
Lady Nugcat, transport, which sailed
from Madras on May 10th, with rein
forcements for the army at Rangoon,
forming with her crew total o. some
400 persons. Neither of these vessels
was ever heard of again-a fate shared
by the Pacific, which left Liverpool on
January 23d, 1856, with ls6, and the
City of Boston, which sailed from Hall
fax on January 2Sth, 1870, with 19l
persons on board. The mail steamship
Europa, on her way to England in July,
1S49, ran down the emigrant bark
Charles Bgrtlett, causing the death of
1872 persons; and the Irish steamer Man
gerton blundered into the New Zealand
clipper Josephine Willis, just off the
South Foreland, and sent her and So
people mostly passengers 20 the bottom.
The laundering of the Captain off Cape
Finisterre, on the night of September
9th 1870, with Captain BurgOyne and
500 officers and seamen, remains the
heaviest calamity that has befallen the
navy during the latter half of the pres
ent century. The severest loss suffered
at sea by the army was from the con-
tingent furnished by the Twelfth Lam
GERS and Forty-third and Ninety-second
Foot, toward the 42s lives lost with
the Birkenhead off the Cape of Good
Hope on February 26th, 1852. The
American Army sustained an almost
equal loss when about 300 of the troops
on board the San Francisco were washed
overheard or died from exhaustion or
exposure, during her passage from CAL
ifornia, in December, 1858. The most
disastrous conflagration in British wa
ters was that which caused the deaths
of Us people on board the emigrant
packet Ocean Monarch, in Abergele
Bay, on the afternoon of August 24th,
1876. But its horror, were even eclipsed
by those attending the burning of the
steamship Austria, between Hamburg
and New York, on September 18th,
1858, when 46l out 52S persons on board
were burned or drowned. A like fate
overlook 204 out of 33S persons on board
the Golden Gate on her passage from
San Francisco to Panama on the 27tn of
July, 1862; while the number who per-
ished in similar manner with Eliot
Warburton, on board the Amazon, in
the Bay of Biscay on the 4th of January,
1852 amounted to l02 out of l6l persons.
rhe author of "rhe Crescent and the
Cross" has written that ''since the
days of steam navigation the Bay of
Biscay was no longer formidable" yet
the London Steamship went down in it
on her way to Australia, on the llth of
January, 1866, carrying with her 239
out of her complement of 25S; and
among them G. V. Brooke, the actor.
The most disastrous shipwrercks OF
recent date were those of the Atlantic
and the Regal Charter. The latter
homeward-bound Australian clipper,
was crushed like an egg-shell on the
rocky coast OF Anglesea, just before
daybreak on October 10Th, 1859, and 459
men, women and children were drown
ed, some forty or so managing to scram-
Bile ashore. The number of lives lost
with the Atlantic one of the White Star
Line, was even more appalling. She
struck ON a sunken rock of the coast OF
Nova Scotia, on April 1st, 1873, with
93l persons on board, and the breakers
swept away 4Sl of them. The Anna
Jane, of Liverpool, bound for Canada,
with 450 emigrants and a crew of 40,
was driven on shore on Barra Island,
one of the Hebrides, on September 10Th,
1853, and 1898 persons perished. The
Pomona, another emigrant ship from
the same port, was suffered, through an
tiTOI III ieI iSShOhihS, W VII vi sHS
Wexford coast during the night of April
10th, 1853, the result being the loss of
1856 lives. In 1S5s, the Tayleur, another
Liverpool emigrant ship. ran on Lam
bay Island near Howth, on January 81,
when 29O lives were lost; and a similar
fate overlook The Powhattan, from
Havre, on the coast of Barnegat, on
April 10th, not a soul of the $50 on
board her escaping. In the terrible
gale of April 30th, 1850, the Royal
Adelaide steam-packet from Cork to
London went on the Tongue Sands near
Margate, and of the 26O persons forming
her passengers and crew, not one sur
vived to give the details of her fate.