The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-25

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DISASTERS AI' SEA.
Human nature Gil be subjected
to DO agonizing, suspense than that
endured by relatives and friends
@ho anxjousIy await Tie arrival of
an oTerdne ship on board Of which
some one dear to them has taken
passage from distant port. On
the llth Of March, 1871, the Presi.
dent one Of the finest passenger
! steamers Of her time-left New
York for Liverpool with many pas
=. sengers on board. Three or four
days after her departure she en-
countered terrific tornado not far
to the south Of Cape Race, and was
seen by French sailing vessel to
enter a thick cloud or rain-storm,
which brooded upon the face Of the
deep. and obscured the heavily-la-
boring vessel from view; in half an
hour Or 80 the cloud lifted, but no
President met the anxious eyes of
the gazers, who, in the phrase of
French mariners, ''interrogated the
horizon in search OF the missing
object. There was no possibility
of her having run into an iceberg or
come into collision with another
ship ; but against her name in the
underwater hooks were inscribed
those melancholy words which, we
are told, ought never to be en-
ployed in connection with we'll
built and well-manned craft of any
kind foundered at sea- No trace
Of her existence were ever found,
except few spars and part of a
boat believed to have belonged to
her, which were washed ashore af.
ter some weeks upon the coast of |
North Wales Among many other
passengers of fnote whom she carried |
were included Tyrone. Power, the |
well-known and universally popu-
lar Irish comedian, and Lord Fitz- |
roy Charles George Lennox, Sec
ond son OF the late and brother of |
the present Dnke of Richmond.
Lord Fitzroy Lenuox was an off,
Ger in the guards, ana was on his
way home from Canada in the ex.
pectation of passing his twenty. I
first birth day on the following 11th
of June with attached parents. He
was his mothers favorite son, and
was named after Fitzroy Somerset,
subsequently, Lord Raglan, who
bad been his fathers friend and fel-
low soldier on the Duke of We'll
lington's staff during the Peninsu
lar War. There are many still
living-and among them none tells
the story with moro. feeling than
The venerable and much.respected
Earl Of Straford-who we'll re- +,
member the long and protracted
agony Of hope and suspense which
the late Duchess Of Richmond was
doomed to endure. Some of those, '
indeed, who knew her best, and {
we're acquainted with the singular I
lepth and warmth of her affections,
leld the opinion that, to her dying
lour, the bereaved mother refused I
o give up all hope that she might {
'nce again be blessed with a sight s
" her lost son. That hope was G
lot destined to be realized; but
mong the mourners who year after '
ear awaited that message from the y
ca" which was never to be received, il
he late Duchess Of Richmond will p
lways occupy foremost place. d
Steam voyages backward and for j
'ard across the Atlantic have lat. "
erly been performed with such Il
stonishing rapidity, that the pre- Il
ent generation OF residents in the a
Id and new worlds are far less pre-. q
ared than their predecessors for Fl
1e loss of passenger steamer at ts
"a. Yet the records OF that great, L
st highway of maritime nations, b,
le North Atlantic Ocean, proclaim b,
nat during the first thirty years of Z,
;esm navigation voyages were N
sry far indeed from being as safe tt
} is now the case. Thus we learn at
ON the National Gazette, of New
ork, that from the beginning of til
al to the end of 1873 no fewer 10
ian forty-eight Atlantic steamers ar
,rished at sea, the President be re
6 the first and the Vile du Havre be
10 last victim, During these three, ~
ld-thirty years the Cunard Com th
ny lost the Africa and the Tripo- to
dI-:,ssa csis as GAS. without the sac, SO
Ii, but in eaoI csi+s-assS Snatn,ba,. lal
, rifioa of life or letter. W67TG-t~-