The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-09-15
LOSSES AT SEA.
Jt1gheful Ocean Disasters IN Earfy
6teamship Days
Ebe Names Of Some OF the Unfortunexes
Thas Disappeared with nundretfs
(. OF Human Beings on
1narsh

From 1885, tho time when transatlar,
TO steamship traffic was established
till 1879 there were ia steamers of ali
GLASSES lost, says Prof. Dyer la the Scot,
tish Review. OF these twenty four
never reached the ports for which they
sailed, their fates being unknown; ten
were burned at sea, eight were sunk IN
collisions, three were sunk by ice and
the Others were stranded or lost from
various causes. Many of these were
small, but some were of considerable
size and their loss caused much pub
hc feeling. The first which disap-
peared was the President, which was
never heard Of after she sailed. In 1s4l
A Cunard steamer, the Columbia. was
wrecked by running ashore tn lsAs, bu&
Il Is somewhat remarkable that this
was the only Atlantic steamer lost IN
thirteen years Gftsr the Disappearance
OF the President, fact which speaks
volumes for the quality of the work.
manship of the shipbuilders and engf-
neers and the skill and cere of the nav.
igstors. In 1854 the City Of Glasgow,
with 40 souls on board, was never seen
or beard of after she had sailed. and in
the same year tho Arctic, Of the Collins
line, was sunk by collision and 500
persons perished, and two years later
another OF the same line disappeared
with 1855 persons on board. The Austria,
OF the Hamburg American line, was
burned at sea In 1883, with loss of All
lives.
Some OF the most striking losses tn
the following years were the city Of
Boston Of the Inman line, which disap-
peared in 1870 with upward of 200 per-
sons on board; the Atlantic Of the
White Star line, which ran ashore in
1878, causing the loss Of $50 lives; the
Vile du Havre of the French line,
which was sunk by collision in the
English channel and $50 persons
drowned; the State Of Florida, sunk by
collision with a sailing ship, and the
Cunard liner Oregon by the Same cause
with GOAL schooner. Statistics show
great decrease IN the number OF aoci-
dents and losses during what may be
called the modern period steamships as
compared with the earlier, and espe-
ciany with the transition period from
sailing vessels to steamships. The REQ
ord for the year 1890 was of the most
satisfactory kind, Tor, notwithstanding
all the risks involved, we find that
there were nearly 1000 trips made from
New York alone to various European
ports, and that about 100000 cabin pas
sengers were carried, in addition to
873, 900 emigrants, all without any acci-
dent
1t Is an interesting fact TO note that
In the large lines OF steamers the aver
age safety Of the sailors life Is high
The late Thomas Gray stated, for In
stance, that In the Union line to the
cape he found that only one passenger
had died In twenty years, and that
four seamen died in three years In
the Peninsular and Oriental only one
seaman had died in one year IN the
forty vessels Of the line, and during
three years not 2 SINGLE passenger had
been lost; the Imam liners had lost no
passergers ollt OF o million, and only
eleven secrnen had diea In three years,
and 1ha Clnard liners had no passen-
gers lost 10 three yeags oud only nine
seamer dead.