The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-05

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In mo same month Of the following
year tho still more terrible disaster to
thc Austria occurred. She was nm iron
hcrew.s,eamor Of tho Hamburg line, and
sailed from Hamburg for New York OH
September ., 1858, with five hundred
ana thirly.eight souln aboard. a hot
chain In bucket Of iumigating tar
caused llre and she was destroyed.
Unly sixty.soyon persons wore saved.
INC chapter headings Of nn historical
Work describes tho calamity thus:
sho lnkei fire on tho eleventh dry
from combustion Of tho hot tur used In
iGmlRationC!lhroo decks instantly In a
1iaSe. Inability TO stop tho ongines.
mo sill y continues hcr courao In furious
iamos. Torture aud death IN every
form. Nearly i've hundred men, women
anu children loat. Ahot chain In tho
bucket oil tar. Sudden aud singular
ignition. Rapid Roadway Of tho flames.
They leap up tho shrouds. Powerlsss.
ness Of tho officers. Tho captain panic.
STRICKEN. Frantic conduct OF passen.
gers. Swamping OF tho boats. Chit
dron troddon under foot. Writing In
the hoat. lShrieks.and cries. Beings
roasted allvo. Only ono boat aloat.
Jumping into tho waves. Last embrace
OF lovers. Adieus OF husbands and
wives. Seven brothers and sisters.
struggles OF tho iiremen, A living wall
OF hre Fate OF the women. Father
and son. "A sail!' Rescue OF n fow."
HALF a HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
The Atlantic. OF tho White Star line,
when ahe sailed from Liverpool for New
York on March 20, 1878. had OH board
93l persons. Equinoctial gales OF great
violence caused the captain to make q
course for Halifax, n. s. In tho night
oil April l she struck the rocks near
Meaghet's Island. Many OF tho pas.
sengors and crew wero rescued by boats
aud lite-lines, but 4Sl porished. Moro
than hundred storage passengers
were drowned in their berths.
This disaster was followed on Noyenl.
Der Il OF tho same year by that OF the
Vile do Havre. She was sunk wnen
ak days out from New York by three
mas.ed ship, the Loeb Earu. Accord.
Ing to the story Of passenger she went
down within twenty minutes OF the
collision. Her crow and passengers
numbered 3lS. aud Of these 226 were
drowned.
Two great disasters 10 steamboats,
plying on the Sound are generally 70.
membered bv New Workers. On June
20, 1880, the Seawanhaka, running from
New York to Glen Cove, l.. l., caught
fire between Wards Island and Astoria.
She was run ashore, but grea. panic
occurred before the passengers could be
landed.
About fifty lives were lost. Tho panic
was principally responsible for this. a.
the inquiry held afterwards one man
stated that he walked ashore without
we,ting himself above tho knees.
On June II. 1880, tho Narragansett
colilded with the Stonington near the
northern entrance 10 the Sound and
then took fire. Fifty lives we're also
lost in this wreck.
EloHr STEAMSHIPS NEVER REACHED PORT.
The Naronic, OF tho White Star line,
which left Liverpool Tor New York on
February II. 1898, and has never been
heard from, is the most recent ship to
share tate which has oyertakeu mum.
Der OF Atlantic liners. Eight great
steamships have left port never to be
seon again. 1t most cases no trace has
been left OF their fate. 1t is, OF course,
reasonably certain that they have gone
to the bottom, but whether they have
been destroyed by collision, by storm,
by breakdown oil machinery. by hid.
den rocks or by some other peril OF the
sea Is mystery.
The Naronic was freight vessel and
an unusually good one Tor the work.
She had made the transatlantic pas
sage in little more than nine days.
Her gross register was 6.594 tons and
she was 40 feet long. Those aboard
her included crew OF iifty.dve aud
about dozen cattlemen.
Since 1890 there have been rcmarka.
bic series OF accidents to great liners
without loss Oil These are as inter.
es,ing in another way as the great ca,as.
trophies. there are few New Workers.
who have not relatives or friends whose
lives were impsriled by these accidents.
THE CITY OF PARIS ACCIDENT.
In March, 1890, tho City Of Paris, then