The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-12
WRECK OF THE SALIER
Nearly 400 People Went Down
With the Vessel.
no ONE LEFT TO TELL THE TALE.
The saIier suppo ed tn Have Gone on the
Rocks While Heavy Mist Hung Over
the Seattle Vessel Must Have Foun-
dered with All Hands w thin Few
Minutes After 1t struck-Where the
Disaster Occurred.

Disaster Occurred.
Bremen, Dec. 12-The loss of life by
,he laundering of the North German
Lloyd steamer Salier, which sank on
the Coronas Corrubeda shoals, in the
gale that swept th6>-Atlantic coasts OF
Europe early this week, is now posi-
lively known to have been much great
er than at first supposed The steamer,
In addition to her crew of seventy-eight
men and officers, carried PA steerage
passengers. Every soul on board went
down and was lost with the ship, max
ing a total of 292 persons that Perished
through. the laundering of the old
steamer.
A dispatch from Lloyds agent at Co
runa says that SS1 lives were lost by
the wreck of the Salier
News of the Disaster.
News of the terrible diaster fioated to
Villagarcia with the tide. An over
turned boat with the name of the vessel
painted on the stern, spars and planks
torn from the ship as it crashed into
the rocks, were swept to shore as ST.
lent witnesses Of the fate of passengers
and crew. Not one human being on
board was able to reach safety, though
il may be possible some were picked
ND by passing vessels. The sinking or
the Salier may be one of the mysteries
of the sea.
The Salier was bound from Bremen
to Buenos Ayres, by way of Coruna ana
Villagarcia Advices from Bremen ana
Coruna state that the passengers were
mostly in the steerage, and consisted
of 113 Russians, thirty-five Galicians,
sixty-one Spaniards and one German.
The vessel had put in at Coruna, and
was heading eastward for Villagarcia,
when il crashed into the jagged rocks,
which are always given wide perth
by mariners.
Terrible Guardian of the Bay.
Many a vessel has met its doom on
the reefs and mariners always go an
extra point out of the way rather than
court an intimate acquaintance WIFI
what is called the terrible guardian OF
the Bay of Arosa. The Salier swunt
eastward. and, pursuing the ordinar,
course, would have gone south or th'
Corrubedo and then northeasterly t
the harbor of Villagarcia.
A heavy mist hung over the sea am
StTOuS WlHu was bhO"iio AASA@ -
south when the Salier was about du
to head toward Villagarcia. The yes
sci could easily have been seen from
the shore but for the mist, as the chan
mel between the rocks and the coas
of Spain is only about five miles wide
A miscalculation, and the Corrubed
rocks were responsible for the creates
. disaster which has ever occurred In tn
, Bay of Arosa.
, No One to Tell the Tale.
, Nothing was known of the fate of tn
, vessel until the floating wreckag
, reached villagarcia- The latter por
had been advised of the departure o
the Salier from Coruna. and though
, the steamship was overdue. 1T was lit
, tie suspected that 1t had gone to piece
on the Corrubedo rocks and that al
on board had been lost. But when tn
sea gave up the wreckage. all hope o
the vessel was given up and searcl
p, was made along the shore for possibl
: survivors Of the disaster. None coul
be found.
3 The fact that the rocks are only abou
I five miles from the mainland and tina
. none Of the passengers or crew ha
: been able to reach the shore led to tn
E belief that the Salier must have foun
! dered within a few minutes after
had struck on tie reef.