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

Yours truly.
BRCADBRIM.
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/ DISASTERS Av SEA.
Human nature Call be subjected
to DO agonizipg, snspense than that
endured by relatives and friends
who anxiously await Tie arrival of
an overdue ship on board Of which
some one dear to them has taken
passage from distant port. On
the llth Of March, 1S4l, 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 q terrific tornado not far
to the south of Cape Race, and was
seen by a French sailing vessel to
enter thick cloud or rain-storm,
which broodcd 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 a we'll
built and well-manned craft of any
kind foundered at sea- No trace
Of her existence were ever found.
except n few spars and part of
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 note whom she carried
were included Tyrone. Power, the
wel!-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 Unke of Richmond.
Lord Fitzroy Lenuox was an off |
Ger in the guards. and was on his |
way home from Canada in the ex.
pectation of passing his twenty, |
first birth dag on the following l1th
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-und among them none tells
the story with moro. feeling than
the venerable and much-respected
Earl of Strafford-who well 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
were acquainted with the singular
depth and warmth of her affections,
held the opinion that, to her dying
hour, the bereaved mother refused
to give up all hope that she might
once again be blessed with a sight
Of her lost son. That hope was
not destined to be realized; but I
among the mourners who year after
year awaited that message from the j,
sea- which was never to be received,
;he late Duchess of Richmond will .
always occupy foremost place. {
Steam voyages backward and for !
yard across the Atlantic have lat ,
erly been performed with such t
!stonishing rapidity, that the pre-. t
ent generation OF residents in the a
I'D and new worlds are far less pre-. q
Jared than their predecessors for
he loss Of passenger steamer at t
ea. Yet the records Of that great,
st highway of maritime nations, b
be North Atlantic Ocean, proclaim b
hat during the first thirty years of u
team navigation voyages were n
cry far indeed from being as safe t
8 is now the case: Thus we learn q
rom the National Gazette, of New
,ork, that from the beginning of ii
S4l to the end of 1873 no fewer ic
han forty-eight Atlantic steamers a.
erished at sea, the President be r,
,g the first and the Vile du Ha7re b
be last victim, During these three. lJ
nd-thirty years the Cunard Com ii
any lost the Africa and the Tripo. tc
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Ii, but in tssC1 Sile-.Asz d..o. ba 10
r rifce of life or O letter W6IIe, 10 :
/. tween 1851 and 1873 the Inmar
lime lost six, the most melancholy
2 case being that of the City of Bos
, ton, whose fate is still mystery