The morning news., 1889-04-12
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On Nov. "a, 1877, the United States
steamer Huron, was wrecked off the coast
of North Carolina and 104 lives were lost.
Commodore Walker, chief OF the United
STATES Navigation Bureau, an officer OF
long experience in naval affairs. makes this
statement emphatically. His recollection
of nreyious naval losses from storms and
stress, running back thirty-6ve years is as
follows:
The Albany, sloop-of-war, was lost in
West Indian waters in 1888. She is sup
D sed to have gone down in cyclone, with
every soul of her crew of 2lO officers and
men, as she was never heard from after sne
sailed on her last cruise.
In the same year the brig f-war Porpoise,
with 100 people aboard, went down in the
China seas without leaving trace Of her
end.
Again, in 1853 another sloop-of-war, the
Levant disappeared from the face OF the
globe in the waters of the Pacific, taking
some 200 men to "Davy Jones' locker"
In 1868 the brig-of-war Bainbridge met a
cyclone off Cape Hatteras. A colored cook
picked up day or two afterward on bit
of wreckage, told the story OF the loss OF
every one of his shipmates.
The old Yorktown was blown ashore
near the Cape de Verde Islands on the Afri-
can coast some years later, but the crew es-
capped. In 1868 great tidal wave picked
up the sIoop-of-War Wateree in the harbor
of africa, Peru, and carried her seven or
eight miles inland depositing her in trop-
zeal forest, where she ended her days hotel,
The same tidal wave caught the storeship
FredonIa at anchor, rolled her over, and
sunk her instantly, with every soul on
board.
The MonongaheIa, now in active servics,
had peculiar experience in the year 1867
She was caugh up by tidal wave, carried
over a number of large buildings on the
island of Santa Cruz " est Indies. knocking
down one Of them. and deposited in the
street of a city. Subsequently workmen
were sent there who blocked her up and
launched her again.
The Saginaw was cast away in the night
upon one of the islands OF the Pacific about
fifteen years ago. The wreck of the Huron,
although it occurred thirteen years ago, is
still fresh in the minds of people on the
coast. The ship was wrecked upon Curri-
tuck Beach, North Carolina, and few of her
crew escaped to tell the story of heavy
weather and false beacon lights.
The Monongahela, now on her way to
Apia, was carried by tidal wave in 1867
across the wharves and into the streets of
Santa Cruz, doing much damage to prop
erty along her track and suffering badly
nerSeII. III LOOK several weeks TO block her
up and launch her again. The war sloop
Albany, was lost in cyclone off the West
Indies in 1858, with 210 officers and men.
In the same year the armed brig Porpoise,
with 100 men, went down in the China sea-
In 1858 the war sloop Levant, with 200 men,
foundered in the Pacific. rha war brig
cambridge was lost off Hatteras in 1868,
with every one on board except a colored
cook, who clung to piece of wreckage
until rescued. The Wateree, one of the
victims of the South Pacific tidal wave
mentioned above, ended her days as an
inland hotel. The Saginaw was cast ashore
in hurricane at one of the South Pacific
islands in 1873