New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-05
OVER HUNDRED LIVES LOST
(Coutinued from First Pase.)

line steamer Pommerans. while on her yoysgs 70 Nsg-
York was run down and sunk by the Noel Ethan sail
and the Ponmerana sank In aoCut twenty minutes rom
the time she was struck In spite o. the dsrsness ana
OF DIT persons on board all we're saved except thirty
Of the passe and eighteen OF the crew Cap
tain swensoh. who commanded the Pommeranls. DIS
tngshed himself by bis bravery and GOODNESS and was
saved.
on september g. 1873 the Excursion steamer Princess
Alice, while returning from Gravesend 20 London was
run down on Bar King by the Bywell Castle Zoo There
about 500 passengers board and ABOUT oOO were
lost, most Of them being women and children -.
On May 81. 1878, In clear weather and calm sea- tne
,ierman ironclad Grosser Kurrnrst was struck OF
rolkstone, in the English Channel. by the ironciaG
KONG Wilhelm member OF the same neet she Sank
almost Immediately, nearly 800 lives being lost BY the
I'm 1873 occurred the los4 OF the French steamship
VILE DIN Havre she sailed from this port for Hayre on
November Is. Shortly after leaving port she entered
the night clear she by the English ship Loeb
Earn and sans In twenty minutes. This disaster cost the
At midnight on January 23 1873. the emlgrant ship
NOrthheet with Az passengers on board was run dOwh
in the English chanle by Spanish vessel, when mace
ATTEMPT 10 any of the passengers II this dis
aster 325 persons drowned.
on April y, 1868 the Anglossxon' another Britisn
mail steamer, wasOst in dense fog the reef OF Cape
Race Newfoundland only 237 out of 446 persons being
The Hungarian. new British mail steamer. was
wrecked off the coast Of Nova Scotia on February H.
The ROYAL Charter, British screw-steamcr,
Moefra the Anglesea coast on October 20
1889, and 4t6 lives lost.
on April 2s 1859, the Pomona. American ship,
which had left Liverpool Tor NeW-1 ud{
mistoOk revolving light at Blackwater Bank on the
Irish coast for the Tnskar light and ashore There
457 persons on board the vessel OF whom only
twenty-tour saved. -,
The British steam emgrant sloOp. Austria, which
sailed from Hamburg on September :. 1905, Win Dos
persons on board. burned IN the middle or the
Atlantic eleven days afterward The re was caused oy
careessness in ngattng the vessel French Dark the
Maurice passing at the time, but IL saved only sixty
seven persons
Several other great disasters nj have marked the
period beginning in 1850. The Arctic Newly DIX
vessel Liverpool September 20. 1854 and on the
9th into collision with the Iron propeller Nesta IN
dense fog on Cape Race OF the 439 persons on board
3O7 were drowned The Birkenhead, English trO0pe
ship left Queenstown January Z 1882 for the Cape OF
Good Hope and February 20 struck upon pointed
pinnacle rock OF SmOns Bay, Africa, and sank There
were persons board, and 454 OF them persisted
The Amazon. West India mall steamship was de-
srOyed by fire gJanuary T. 1852, about 10 miles from
Scilly, England. She had left southampton on the ID
on her first voyage with al6I persons on board Only
hfty-nne from death by nrc or water. Among
the lost Eliot WashbgOn, "a wellknOwn writer IN
general literature.
on the Pacific. which disappeared in 1895 there we're
s6 people and the City Of Glasgow never hearu Oni
since 1874, there $50.