The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-12-16
LOSS OF THE SALIER.
NEARLY 400 PEOPLE WENT DOWN
WITH THE VESSEL.
Would Have been 100 Greater IL the Dis
aster Had Occurred Few Hours Later
Lost Like the Drummond Castle -struck
the Rocks at Night.

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aster Had Occurred Few Hours Later
Lost Like the Drummond Csstie-struck
the Rocks mt Night.
Coruna. Spain, Dec 12.-Three hun
dred and eighty-one human beings
went down in the wreck OF the Salier.
instead OF pa. as first reported, the
vessel having taken on more than 100
passengers after she left Bremen. Near
ly all the passengers were I'm the
steerage. Owing to the fact that there
seems TO be no survivors of the week
there is little else but theories to fall
Experts here look upon the loss of the
Salier as having been due to causes
proabbly i'm every particular similar TO
those which led to the loss of the Brit
ish steamer Drummond Castle.
OF the Castle line. off Ushant. on
the northwestern extremity of France,
In June last AS i'm the case of the
Salier, the weather previous to the
wreck of the Drummond Castle and
the loss of nearly $50 people had been
very heavy. and was followed by thick
weather which prevented Captain
Pierce. her commander, from seeing
the light
How the Drummond Castle Was Lost.
When he believed he was far enough
north Captain Pierce ordered the helm
of the Drummond Castle TO be ported.
and with fine rain and fog headed her
on the night of June II on a north
easterly course for the Bristol channel.
But he was apparently out OF his
reckoning, for the Drummond Castle
seemed 10 have run at full speed upon
a ridge of rocks extending from the ISL
and OF Molene, half way between
Ushant and the mainland of France, to
other and smaller islands. The con-
cussion. II was generally admitted at
the time, must have ripped the steamer
open from stem to stern, and she APP
parently pitched over the reef and sank
almost Immediately afterward in deep
water. for no trace of her was ever
Like the Drummond Castle, II is be-
lieved that the Saiier was making the
found. Like the Drummond Castle, ii
is believed that the Salier was making
the best time possible under the cir
cumstances, for after leaving Bremen
the Salier had touched at Antwerp and
this port and her commander was anx-
ious to have his vessels head pointing
on her voyage across the Atlantic
ocean.
Theories I'm Regard Ia the Salier.
Another theory of the cause OF the
disaster is that the Salier's steering
gear was carried away while she was
heading around the rocks for Villagar-
cia ard that she thus became unman
ageable and was driven upon the reef,
which is about two and a half miles
from land. The passengers of the Sail
er, IL is conjectured. must all-or near
ly all-have been in their births In the
steerage at the time the steamer
struck. and ii is thought most of them
were drowned before they could tumble
out on deck, for no bodies with life
preservers have been found so far as
known at present.
The steamer struck during the night
of Monday last on ledge of rocks
about two and one half miles off Cape
Corrubedo, on her way from this place
to Villagarcia. where she was TO ship
another lot of steerage passengers
bound for Buenos Ayres. large
amount OF wreckage is reported to
have washed ashore. The Salier was
an old vessel. but she was considered
to be i'm every way seaworthy.
If the disaster had occurred after the
Salier touched at Villagarcia the loss
of life would have been much greater.
as il is understood there We're nearly
one hundred more passengers men,
women, and children-awaiting at that
port TO embark for Buenos Ayres