Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-16

ing the pest thirty years fail 70 show
auy catastrophe ensAiline such lam
eniabls loss Of life ~ that which has
marked the sinking 1T the Princess
Alice BY the By cell Castle. SETTING
aside the los u the Grower Kurfurst.
the most fatal accident VI like char.
scter that hes taken place In British va
tiers during the period in question was
the RAINING down Of the North6eet
emigraut ship while at anchor ID Dun.
eeness ON the night VI Jsu. q, 1873,
BY the Spanish steamer Aurilie. when
a93 persons were drowned. A coils
ion almost equally disastrous. and
strongly recalling in some respects that
which has Just occurred on the Thames,
took place on Lake Michigan on Sept.
Z, 1868. Tie steamboat Lady Elgin,
which had started from Chicago On .
pleasure trip with nearly zoo excursion.
Its on board. was run into BY .
schooner and sank within quarter Of
an hour. with 285 people. among them
Mr.. Herbert Ingram. the member for
Boston. The year 1854 was marked BY
q series Of fatal collisions. The Italian
mail steamer Ercolano left 0suos on
April a With number Of passengers
including several Engliah, French, and
Italian families, and ct midnight was
cut down 70 the watsr's sdgs BY the
Stella. Only fourteen Of the passsn
gers escaped, among them being Sir
Robert Peel. whose secretary and Mr..
Charles Halssy. the member from
Hertiordshire. we're among the drowned.
On April - the emigrant bArx Favor.
ite, from Bremen, was run iuto OF the
Start by the Hesper. and went down
like stone with 20l of her passeugers
and crew, six Of the crew only saving
themselves by clambering over the Hes.
per's bows. On Sept. "a the Arctic, .
splendid ship Of the Collins line, came
into collision with the screw steamer
Vesta in fog of the banks Of New.
foundland, and out Of the 36S persons
on board 1913 porished, among them the
Duo de Grammont aud the Duo de-
Guynes. The same year was also rom
dered memorable in maritime disaster
by the disappearance OF the City Of
GLASGOW, screw steamer, which left the
Mersey for Philadelphia on March l,
with $50 persons on board, oil told, and
of the Lady Nugent, transport, which
sailed from Madras on May 10 with re.
endorsements for tho army at Raug0on,
forming with her crew total Of some
400 persons. Neither OF these vessels
was ever heard of agxin-a fate shared
by the Pacific. which left Liverpool ON
Jan. %, 1856, with 1856, anu the City Ut
Boston. which sailed from Halifax on
Jan. Is, 1870, with 19l persons on
board. The mail steamship Europa,
on her way to England in July, 1SA9,
rau down the emigrant bark Charles
Bartlett, causing the death Of 1872 per
sons; aud the Irish STEAMER Mangerton,
Numbered into the New z 'aland clipper
Josephine Willis just of The South Fore
land, and sent her aud sixty mine people,
mostly passengers, to tue bottom.
The laundering Of the CAPTAIN off
Cape Finisterre on the night of Sept. 6,
1870, with Capt. BurgOyne and SOU
officers AMI seamon, remains the heaVi
est calamity that has befAllen the navy
duril & the latter half of the pre- sent
century. The severed loss suffered ut
sea by the army was from the con in
gent furnished by the Twelfth Lancers
and Forty third and Ninety second Foot
toward the 438 lives lost with the Birk-
enhead off the Cape of Good Hope ON
Feb. 26, 1862. The American army sus-
tanned an almost equal loss, when about
800 Of the troops on board the San
Francisco were washed overheard, or
died IRON exhaustion and exposure,
during her passage from California in
December, 1858. The most disastrous
conAagration in British waters was that
which caused the death Of It's people
on board the emigrant packet Ocean
Monarch in Abergele Bay on the after
noon of Aug. "a, 1S48. But its horrors
were even collapsed by those attending
the burning OF the steamship Austria
between Hamburg and New York on
Sept Is, 1853, when 46l out Of the 52S
persons on board were burned or
drowned. A like fate overlook 2O4 of
the 1913 persons ON board the Golden
Gate ON her passage from San Francisco
to Panama ON the 9th of July, 1862;
while the number who persisted in u
similar manner, with Eliot Warburton,
on board the Amazon in the Bay of Bis.
cay on the 9TH of January, 1852.
amounted to 102 out Of 161 persons.
The author Of "The Crescent and the
Cross" had written that "since the days
Of steam navigation the Bay of Biscay
was no longer formidsble;" yet the Lon
don steamship went down in it on her
way to Australia on the 1lth of January.
1866, carrying with her 239 out OF her
compliment Of 258. Two most disas-
trous shipwrecks OF recent date were
those of the Atlantic aud Royal Charter.
The latter, q homeward bound Austria.
liam clipper. Was crushed like an egg.
shell on the rocky coast of Anglesea
Just before dsybreak on October 26,
1859, and $50 were drowned. The
number of lives losl with the Atlantic,
one of the White Star line, was even
more appalling. She struck ON a
sunken rock of the coast of Nova SEQ.
tia, on April l, 1879. with 93l persons
on board, and the breakers swept away
ze1 of them. Tho Anna Jane, Of Liv.
erpool, bound for Canada. with $50 en-
igTants and = Grew u forty Ave, was
driven ON shore ON Barren Island, one
Of the Hebrides, ON Sept. %. 1863, and
398 persons persisted. The Pomona,
another emigrsnt ship from the same