Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-26

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dured by relatives and friends who
anxiousiy await the arrival of an over.
due ship on board of which some one
dear to them has taken passage from a
distant port. On the 18th Of March,
1874. the President-one of the finest
passenger steamers of her time-left
passengers on board. Three or four
days after her departure she encoun-
tered terrific tornado not far to the
south of Cape Race, and was seen by
French sailing vessel to enter a thick
cloud or rHin-storm, which brooded up
on the face of The deep and sobscnred
the eavily]aboring vessel from view.
In half an hour or so the cloud lifted,
but no President met the anxious eyes
of the gazers, who, in the phrase of
French mariners, '.interrogated the
horizen't in search of the missing OBJ
ject. There was no possibility of her
having run into an iceberg or come in
to collision with another ship; but
against her name in the underwriters
books were inscribed those melancholy
words which, we are told, ought never
to be employed in connection with a
well-built and well Unnamed craft of any
kind .sfoundered at sea- No trace of
her existence was ever found, except a
few spars and part of a boat believed to
have belonged to. her, which were
washed ashore after some weeks upon
the coast of North " ales. Among many
other passengers of note whom she car
ried were included Tyrone Power, the
.welI-known and universally popular
IRISH comedian, and Lord Fitzroy
Chov1ao T connnH of
the late and brother of the present Duke
of Richmond. Lord Fit roy Lcnnox
was an officer in the guards, and was
on his way home from canada in the
expectation of passing his stwenty-first
birth day on the following 18th of June
with his attached parents. He was his
mothers favorite son, and was named
after Fitzroy Somerset, subsequently
| Lord Raglan, who had been his fathers
friend and fellow-soidier on the Duke
of Wellington' s staff during the PENN
sular War. There are many still living
and among them none tells the story
with more feeling than the venerable
and much-uespected Earl of Stafford
who well remember the long and pro-
trscted agony of hope and suspense
which the late Duchess of Richmond
was doomed to endure. Some of those,
indeed, who knew her best, and were
acq,rainted with the singular depth and
warmth of her affections, held the opin-
son that, to her dying hour, the bereaved
mother refused to give up all hope that
she might once again be blessed with .
sight of her lost son. That hope was
not destined to be realized; but among
the mourners who year after year awsit-
ed that message fl ON the sea" which
| was never to be received, the late
Duchess of Richmond will always occu-
ply a foremost place.
Steam voyages backward and for
ward across the Atlantic have latterly
been performed with such marvellous
safety, and in some cases, with such
astonishing rapidity, that the present
generation of residents in the old and
new worlds are far less prepared than
their predecessors for the loss of a pas
sanger steamer at sea. Yet the reco DIS
of that greatest highway of maritime
nations, the North Atlantic Ocean,
proclaim that during the first thirty
years of steam navigation voyages were
very far indeed frona being as safe as is
now the case. Thus we learn from the
Nautical Gazette, of New York, that
from the beginning Of 1841 to the end
tof 1873 no fewer than forty-eight At
lantic steamers perished at sea, 1.-THE
President being the first and the Vile
'du Havre the last victim. During these
three and thirty-years the Cunard Com
| pany lost the Africa and the Tripoli,
but in each case without the sacrifice OF
a life or letter; while, between 1851
and 1873 the Inman line lost six, the
lmost melancholy case being that of the
| City of Boston, whose fate is still "a
limystery. The Allan lime, again, which
commenced in 1852. was SO unfortunate
sas to lose seven vessels before 1874. The
Collins line, built and owned lin the
United States, ran four vessels between
1852 and 1857, of which they lost two.
The German companies of Hamburg
and Bremen, established in 1855, had
lost four steamers beforc 1874; the Ma.
tionali line. one; the Guion, established
in 1868, one; the Anchor, one; and the
White Star line established in 1871, has
also lost one, through the fault oil
her captain. Twelve steamers be.
Ioagisag to smaller eonnpanies have
likewise met their doom on the
| boisterOus Atlantic while of the French
companies, the Messageries Maritimes,
/ with sixty steamers, had I'M 1874 lost
1 fourteen vessels during its first twenty.
/ one years of existence; and the Com.
/ pagnie Transatlantique lost two, the
narien and the Vile du Hsvre. The
| Royal Mail. with which the Compagnie
Tgansatlantique is in competition, lost
| fifteen.ships during the first twenty-tw
years. silt has been computed" adds,
| however, The National Ga :eae of New
York, -s.that upward of sixteen thou.
samdwoyages were made across the At
lantic between 1910 and 1874 by these
4 Steamship lines" Among the disas.
tiers to which we have referred none
was more oalsmitous than those which
overtook the Allan Liner, Hungarian,
/ wrecked % f 1.-THE coast of Nova SCOTS
1 in the night sof February Is and 70,
1850. with more than two hundred
souls ON board, and the White Stal
| steamer Atlantic, which struck a rock
off the same iron-bound coast ON April
| 1S, 1873, carrying at the time more
| than q Thousand souls. of whom 442,
including Captain Williams, were sawed,
and 100 were lost. Many of her hap.
less human freight who had clmhed
into the rigging persisted from cold and
! suffering. and the Captain upon whom
| the chief blame was laid, underwent q
sentence Of suspension for two years.
We have said enough to show that
3while steam navigation was still young
the Atlantic was far from being thai
easily-crossed A'ferryn which Charles
| Dickensswas Invited to consider it when
he made his tlrs trip to the United
States in lS4I.-Lsndon Telegraph.
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