Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-12

Francisco Sne encounttlNu -. ,l.t.
fercest gales ever known, sprang leak
and sank on Cape Hatteras on sep
TENDER IL. Three-fourthS OF her pa
senrers and all Of her cargo were lost.
caveroi vessels came TO the assistance
of me Central America In her distress
hut were only able to save lot passel.
gers. a fireman, named A,vAalu'e'
Grant, who was saved from tiis Hnp
mad also escaped from the Arctic sh9
,,a.a a,bsr disastrous wrecks He had
acquired the habit. s,,
To- me same month of the following
,,aar Tho still more terrible disaster 10
;hs Austria occurred She was an IRON
screw steamer OF the Hamburg ilhe,
and sailed from Hamburg LOT NeM
York on September z, lSos'Wlth COG 70
aboard. A hot chain In bucket o.
Sumirating tar caused a fire ana sne
was destroyed. Only siNty-seVen per
sona were saved. The chapter mead
inEs of an historical work describes
the calamity thus: ,. a.,
'ishe takes fre on the eleventh uay
from combustion of the hot tar USED IN
fumigation. Three decks instantly in a
bIaze Inability to stop the engines
The shin continues her course In turl-
ous flames. Torture and death IN ev-
erv form. Nearly five hundred men,
women and children lost. A not chalh
in the bucket of tar. sudden and SIN
gular ignition. Rapid headway OF lIe
flames. They leap up the shrouas'
Powerlessness OF the oiheers' nv d dup
tain panic-stricken, Frantic e9huuet
OF passengers. Swapping OF the
boats. Children trodden under root;
Writhing in the heat Shrieks ana
cries. Being roasted alive. only one
boat afloat. Jumping into the waves
Last embrace of lovers. Adleus OF nus,
bands and wives. Seven brothers ahe
o.. aF tho HTRmpn. a
living wall OF fire. Fate OF the women
Father and son. "A sail! Rescue OF
The Atlantic of the White Star line,
when she sailed for Liverpool for New
ork on March 90 1913, had on BOARD
g3i persons. Equinoctial gales OF great
Violence caused the captain to make a
course for Halifax, N. S. In the night
of April / she struck the rocks near
Meagher's Island. Many of the passen-
gers and crew were rescued by boats
and life-llnes but isl perished. More
than hundred Storage passengers
were drowned In their berths:
This disaster was followed on NO
yember 2l of the same year by that OF
Inc VILE du Havre. She was sunk
when six days out from New YORK by
n three-masted ship, the Loeb Earn.
According to the story Of a passenger
she went down within twenty minutes
OF the collision. Her crew and passen-
gers numbered S13. and of these 22o
were drowned.
Two great disasters to steamboats,
plving on the Sound are generally re-
membered by New Workers. on June
20, 1880, the Seawankaka, running from
New York to Glen Cove. l.. l., caught
fire between Wards Island and AS
toria. She was run ashore, but a great
panic occurred before the passengers
could be landed.
About fifty lives were lost. The panic
was principally responsible for this. At
the inquiry held afterwards one man
stated that he walked ashore without
wettlng himself above the knees.
on June II, 1850, the Narragansett
colided with the stonington near the
north enterance TO the Sound and then
took fire. Fifty lives were also lost In
this wreck.
The Naronic, of the White Star line.
which left Liverpool for New York on
February II. 1893, and has never been
heard from, is the most recent ship to
share fate which has overtaken n
number OF Atlantic liners. Eight great
steamships have left port never to be
seen again. In most cases no trace has
been left of teir 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 Of machinery, by hid
den rocks. or by some other peril of the
sea Is n mystery.
The Naronic was a freight vessel and
an unusually good one for the work.
She had made the transatlantic pas
sage In lille more than nine days.
Her gross register was 6504 tons and
she was 40 feet long. Those aboard
her Included crew of hfty-hve and
about a dozen cattlemen.
Since 1880 there have been a remark
able series of accidents to great liners
without loss OF life. These are as in
teresting In another way as the great
catastrophes. There are few New
Workers who have no relatives or
friends whose lives were imperilled by
these accidents.
In March, 1880, the City of Paris, then
the champion of the Atlantic and still
one Of the most magnificent ships
atloat, came within an ace of founder
Ing. She had 1860 persons aboard. on
the eastward passage, when 225 miles
on queenstown, the low-pressure cylln-
Ger or the starboard cngine burst the
pieces shattering gre.N condensjnr'
pipe. Water poured into <ne ship aii.
Ing four compartments For five DAVIS
she was at the mercy of the sea, Her
stern was almost under water. The
Adriatic, of the White Star line. re-
fused to tow the City of Paris. show
Ing apparently, that an unwritten rule
to this effect has been established
among mail-carrying steamships. The
| CITY OF Paris was towed into Queens
town by the Aldersgate. a 2OOO- ton
steamship.
On December 20, 1893, when four davs
out from Queenstown, the Umbrh Of
me Cunard line broke her thrust shaft
for three days she drifted helplesslv
ana then, by repairing her own ma
ehlnery. was enabled to reach nor,
me Ga1lia, of tho same line. refused ~
neip the Umbria when the latter sig.
In June, 1890, the City OF Rom. q,
me Anchor line, struck the Fastpot
ROCK. breaking her stem. me enstres
ma Iad been reversed before sho stTnct1
me passengers We're landed at oneens.
I pool oh TO Liver
In July, 1892, the City of chIca,o =,
,n cue Inman line, bound from New Yorl,
I9r Liverpool. went ashore Off The i 0IS
th eau OF kinsale In fog. Fortuna toll,
,t e sea was smooth and the nasser
| Sets We're put ashore In the boats TN
10y o. Chicago struck on rocks u,htns
Immediately pierced her botfon, aa
'"e afterwards broke up. anu
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