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ports, but they will do SO within the next ten
years unless our moneyed men wake up and
put portion of their money into herds.
JAMES s. BRIsBIN.


put portion of their money into herds.
JAMES S. BRIsBIN.
FORT KEoGH, March 16.
Sea Disasters WitI.in Thirty Years.
Since the sinking of the Cimbria early last
year, there has been no disaster at sea which
involved the loss of many lives except the
wreck of the City of Columbus on January
IS, this year. That vessel had left Boston
on January 16, bound for Savannah, with
eighty first class and twenty-five steerage
passengers, about one-third of whom were
women and children, and crew of forty
five. AT 3:45 O'Clock on the morning of
January IS, she struck On the rock known
as Devils Bridge, in Martha's Vineyard
Sound; near New-Bedford. The weather was
intensely cold, and many of the passengers
were frozen to death in the rigging of the
steamer although they were safe from the
reach of the waves. Nearly 100 lives were
lost, and none of the women or children
were saved.
The Cimbria, which was lost on January
49, 1888, was a vessel of the Hamburg
American Line. She left Hamburg for New
York on January II, with $50 passengers
most of whom were immigrants, and crew
of 10. At 2 a. III. on the morning of the
10Th, in the midst Of a thick fog, she was
run down by the British steamer Sultan, off
Borkum, an island near the north OF the
Ems River. The Sultan proceeded to CuX-
haven after the collision, and the captain
testified at the subsequent official lnyeshga-
ton that he had no idea that the Cimbria was
sunk, but thought it strange that the captain
Of that vessel did not stop to inquire what
damage lie had done to the Sultan, which
L., ~ ~TNnr
sons out of the AGO on board the Cimbria
were saved.
short time previous ION January 1889
the Inman Line steamship city of Brussels
was run down in fog near the mouth of
the Mercy by the Kirby Hail. which was max
ing her maiden voyage from Glasgow to the
East. The Inman steamer had stopped her
engines on account of the fog, while the
Kirby Hall was moving at her usual speed.
Two Storage passengers and eight of the
crew of the city of Brussels were drowned.
The steamer CITY of Vera Cruz, belonging
to Alexandra 81 Sons sailed from New York
on August %, 1880, for Havana and Vera
Cruz. On the morning of August % she
foundered in terrific cyclone off the Florida
coast, near st. Augustine. There were
twenty-eight passengers on board, and the
crew numbered forty-nine. Only seventeen
persons were saved.
The year Of 1878 was marked by numer-
Gus disasters at sea. On January 81, the
steamer Metropolis. from Philadelphia for
Para, Brazil, went ashore in a violent gale
off Currituck Beach, North Carolina. A ter
rble panic seized every one when the vessel
struck, and because..of the absence of order
many lives were lost which, it was believed,
might otherwise have been saved. The
Metropolis was carrying 260 passengers and
only So were saved by being washed ashore.
The same year, in November, the Ham
burg-American line steamer Pommerania,
while on her voyage to New York, was run
down and sunk by the Noel Eilian sail
ing vessel near Dover, England. The night
was dark, and the Pommerania sankin about
twenty minutes from the time she was
struck In spite of the darkness and con-
fusion five boats were successfully launched,
and out of 227 persons on board all were
saved except thirty-seven of the passengers
and eighteen of the crew. Captain Swenson
who commanded the Pommerania distin
guished himself by his bravery and GOODNESS
and was saved.
On September 3, 1873, the excursion
steamer Princess Alice while returning from
Gravesend to London was run down off Bar
King, by the Bywell Castle There were
about 800 passengers on board, and about 900
were lost most of them being women and
children.
On May 81, 1878 in clear weather and
calm sea, the German ironclad Grosser Kur-
furst was struck off Folkstone, in the En-
glish channel, by the ironclad KONG With
elm, member of the same
fleet. She sank almost imme-
diately, nearly 300 lives being lost by the
collision.
In 1873 occurred the loss of the
French steamship Vile du Havre. She sailed
from this port for Havre on November Is.
Shortly after leaving port she entered dense
fog which lasted five days. On November
%, with the night clear, she was run into
by the English ship Loeb Earn and sank in
twenty minutes. The disaster cost the
lives of 227 lives.
At midnight on January %, 1878, the
emigrant ship Northfeet, with 412 passengers
on board, was run down in the. English
channel by Spanish vessel, which made no
attempt to save any of the passengers. In
this disaster 1926 persons were drowned.
On April 27, 1868, the Anglo-Saxon,
another British mail steamer, was lost in
dense fog on the reef of Cape Race, New
Foundland, only 237 out of 446 persons be-
ing saved.
The Hungarian, new British mail steam
er, was wrecked off the coast of Nova
Scotia on February 10, 1860, 205 persons
perishing.
The Royal charter, British screw-steam-
er, was wrecked off Moelfra on the Anglesea
coast on October 25, 1859, and 446 lives
were lost.
On April %, 1859, the Pomona, an Amer
lean ship which had left Liverpool for New
York the day before, mistook a revolving
light at Blaelwater Bank, on the Irish coast
for the Tuskar light, and ran ashore. There
were 457 persons on board the vessel, of
whom twenty-four were saved.
The British steam emigrant sloop, Austria,
Which sailed from Hamburg on September 2,
1858. with 53S persons on board, was burned
in the middle of the Atlantic eleven days af-
terward. The fire was caused by carelessness
in fumigating the vessel A French bark
the Maurice, was passing at the time, but it
saved only siXty-seven persons.
Several other great disasters at sea have
marked the period beginning in 1850. The
Arctic, a New York vessel left Liverpool on
September 20, 1854 and on the 9th came
into collision with the iron propeller Vesta,
in dense fog off Cape Race. OF the 439
persons on board, 307 were drowned. The
Birkenhead, an English troope ship, left
Queenstown on january, 1852, for the Cape
of Good Hope and on February 26 struck up
on pointed pinnacle rock off Simon's Bay
Africa, and sank. There were 63S persons
on board, and 454 of them persisted.
The Amazon, West India mail ship was
destroyed by fire on January 4, 1852, about
10 miles from Scilly, England, She had left
Southampton on the I'd, on her first voyage
with 161 persons on board. Only fifty-nine
were saved from death by fire or water.
Among the lost was Elliot Washburton,
well-known writer in general literature.
On the Pacific, which disappeared in 1856,
there were 1876 people, and ON the City of