Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-07
THE WRECKS OF OCEAN STEAM.
ERS.
Reriis OF the Deep-A Record of Forty
Hears-Seven Steamers never Heard
Of-The Missing City OF Boston.
From the Brooklyn Eag'e.

The Arctic sailed from Liverpool on Septem-
Der 20, 1854, with over two hundred passengers
and crew Of one hundred and fifty men. At
noon on Wednesday, 9th. she was on the banks
OF Newfoundland, about fifty miles from the
coast thick fog had prevailed during the
day; sometimes it cleared away sufficiently to
allow an object to be seen half a mile Off and
then again IL settled down as denseiy as before.
Notwithstan ling this. the ship was running at
the rate of twelve and half miles an hour, the
ordinary speed kept up by the Collins line, it is
stated, even i'll foggy weather. Some of the
passengers were engaged in the cabin drawing
the numbers OF the daily lottery, the chances of
which are based on the number of miles run
during the preceding tweaty-fouT hours. The
captain had left the deck for the purpose of
working out the ships position. when. at about
quarter past twelve. cry was heard from the
officer of the deck of
lizard STARBOARD!'
A steamer under full sail which had been seen
speeding through the fog toward the Arctics
bow, which CHE struck within a couple OF
seconds. glanced OFT and disappeared in the
fog as quickly as she had appeared. On hur-
rying forward the captain found that the Yes
siron anchor stock had been driven through
the bows of the Arctic. about eighteen inches
above the water line. and at the same instant
the fiuke Of the anchor had made an immense
hole two feet below the water line. So fu-
rlously did the water at once begin to pour in
that In few minutes il was over the cargo,
and the lower fires were put out All efforts to
stop the leak were made in vain; the captain
steamed on till it became evident that ere long
the ship would sink. Orders were issued to
lower the beats; confusion prevailed: the sea-
men and stOasers ieaped into some: others were
swamped. large raft was put together by the
lew officers and sailors remaining on board.
Numbers rushed on to il. Just as the Arctic fully
five hours after she had been struck was going
ah live E.Rnr t+aiVN ha.l
those precious five hours been properly en-
ployed, most. If not all of those who
persisted might have been saved. Although
eoTardice marked the conduct OF most of the
crew, there were many individual acts of hero
ism exhibited. one of which should be told
whenever the loss of the Arctic is mentioned. A
young gentleman named Holland. from Wash
ington, who was serving on board TO get in
structions in engineering. was directed by the
captain to fire the signal gun when all others
had fed and to the last tine sound booming out
upon the sea told the runaway sailors that one
man at least was heroicay doing his duty The
Arctic settled rapidly. and when the water had
nearly reached the muZZe of Mr.. Hollands gun
the last shot was fired and the devoted ship sank
OF the 36S persons on board the Arctic only 45
were saved.
LIST OF THE LOST.
The following list of lost Atlantic steamers is
rs complete the records within reach supply:
1S41.-President mysterOuslv disappeared.
1S43--COlumbia, wrecked on coast of Nova
Scotia
1s46.-Great Britain. wrecked on coast of
ireland; Tweed, on Alacrames Reef. off Yucca
tan.
1S4S.-Forth. wrecked on same reef
1S50--Helena SlGman. fOundcred.
1S52.-St- George, burned; Amazon. burned.
1S53.-HumbOlt, wrecked OH coast of Nova
Scotia
1S4.-City of Glasgow. disappeared; Frank
lin, wrecked; Arctic. run down; City of Phila-
delphia, wrecked.
1s56-Paeife, disappeared; lie Lyonnais, run
down.
1857. : Tempest, disappeared; Montreal
burned.
1S5S.-New York. foundered: Austria. burned
1S59.-ATgo. wrecked on coast of Newfound-
land; Indian. wrecked on coast of Nova Scotia;
Hungarian. wrecked on same coast.
1S60.-Connau@ht, burned.
1S61.-Canadian. wrecked on sunken ice;
North BrtOn. wrecked.
1S63.-Norwegan. Anglo Saxon, Georgia
oil wrecked of Nova Scotia
1s54.-BOhemian wrecked eff Nova Scotia:
City of New York wrecked on Irish coast Jura
wrecked at mouth Of Mersey; Iowa, wrecked Oil
CherboOrg.
1S65-GlasgOw. burned.
1S6o-ScOtland run down.
1S6S.-Hibernia. fOundered.
1So9.-United Kingdom. disappeared; Ger
mania and Cleopatra. both wrecked on coast of
Newfoundland
1S10.-City of Boston. disappeared; Cambria
wrecked on Irish coast.
1S72--Dacian. wrecked on coast OF Nova Sco-
tia; Tripoli. wrecked on Irish coast.
1S13--Brittania, wrecked in the CLYDE: At
lantic wrecked on coast of Nova Scotia: Ismai-
liza, disappeared; Missouri. wrecked on the Ba-
hamas; Vile du Havre. run down; City of WASH
ington. wrecked on coast OfNOva Scotia.
1S1o--Schiller, wrecked on one of the Scilly
isles; Vicksburg. went down in a field of ice;
Deutschland, wrecked on English coast
16U.-GeOrge Washington. fOundered off
Cape Race
1S7s.-Netropolis. bound from Philadelphia
10 Para. with workmen and materials for the
Madeira and MamOre TailrOad). driven ashore
on Currituck beach. NC, in a violent gale and
wrecked; Sandman, burnt at the entrance OF
Londonderry harbOr.
1s79-Borussio. foundered at sea; Montana
wrecked on Welsh coast; State of Virginia
ashore on Sable island and wrecked; POmerana
ran down in English channel.
1SS0.-July 16. bottle picked up off Irish coast
containing memorandum signed by the engineer
stating that the steamer Zanzibar was sinking
Vessel left New York for Glasgow January II.
1879, and has never been heard of since CITY of
Vera Cruz. fOundered in cyclone of Florida
coast; Anglia, run down.
1SS1--BOhemian. wrecked on Irish coast:
Leon. foundered; Montgomeryshire. lost.
1SS3.-MOsel, wrecked on coast of Cornwall:
Edam, run down by the Lepanto. Both these
losses due to fog.
So far th!syear, therefore. two Atlantic steam
ships have been lost with loss Of two lives only
on the Edam- The passengers OF the MOse had
narrow escape. but thanks to the presence of
mind OF her officers. the whole Ofthe $50 emf
grants on board. together with her crew were
taken OF in the ships boats. aided by one of the
national lIfebOat Institutions boats of England.
SSinee this has been published the Herder has
been added to the awful list.) 1t is certainly
STARTLING FACT.
That in the space OF forty-One years since the
unfortunate President left New York. on
March nth, 1881, never again to appear to
mortal ken. nearly seventy fine mail steamers.
including the West Indian mailbOats have been
utteriy destroyed while on their passage across
the Atlantic OF these. seven. after leaving
port. mysteriously disappeared and have never
since been heard Of; six were run down by or
eoilided with other vessels: five were burned.
one ran on sunken ice in the Straits of Belle
Isle; another went down in a field of ice: two
iecndered in mid-ocean and the remainder of
me melancholy list were wrecked either on the
IRISH or British coasts on those of America or
on the Islands or rocks off them. Fully eight of
these ran in foggy weather on the shores of
either Nova Scotia or NEWFOUNDLAND
os their westward voyages. a sufri-
Gent warning, it might be supposed. to
captains to give wide berth in those lati-