New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-07

sloop, burned in mid-Atantc September !3, lSs ana
only sixty-seven out Of 53s persons on board were
saved In September Of the same year the ~.
Paul an English vessel from Hong Kong 10 sgd
ncy. With 80 Chinese emigrants, was wrecked
on the island Of Ro.sel. Tho captain and eight OF
the crew went for assistance. and were picked up
by a passing schooner. OF the others VINO re-
nlalnef behind an drowned or killed by the
natives save one Cnnaman
The emigrant ship Northaeet which sailed from
London with AZ passengers. exclusive OF her crew.
was run into at midnight on January %. 1873 In the
British Channel and 32i persons were lost The
Spanish vessel whch caused the collision did not
attempt TO save any passengers. The Atlantic. Of
the White Star Line struck on the Meagher Rocks.
near Halifax on April l. 1873. About $50 people
were lost: ii2 saved: many persisted from cold
and exposure in the rigging The Vile de HaVre.
a French mail steamer. sailing from NewYork 10
Havre. into about O'Clock on the morn
ing Of November % 1873 by the Lochesrn. and
sank I'm twelve minutes. out OF 3i3 persons aboard
92G were lost. The SCHILLER Hamburg mail steam
cr. wrecked in a fog on the rocks OF Sicily
May :. 1873. ana 81 people were drowned
ON tho forenoon II May g. ls7s with the weather
hright ard the yea calm. the German ronclat
Grossor KurfHrst was struck Of To.kestone. in the
British channel hy the ronclai k0ng Wilhelm. OF
tho same feet. and sunk almost Immediately, and
nearly three hundred lives were lost. The steamer
Metropolis from Phi adelphia FOR Para. Brazil, on
January g. 1877. went ashore in a gale on Curri-
tuck Reach. North Carolina. OF go passengers
nfty-clsh: were saved by being washed ashore. The
excursion steamer Princess Alice. returning from
Grayeseud to London. september s. 1885, with egh:
hundred passengers on board. was run down OF
Barking by the Bywel Castle and about six hun
dred persons. mos IS women and children. were
lost.
The steamship Champion which sailed from this
city for Charie ston. :. c.. was sunk on November
:. 1873. - collision with the bark Lady octavia.
about thirty miles OF cape Henopen. As the night
"a clear iteut AZ result OF not having
careful lookout Thirty two out Of nfty-seven
persons hoard were .ost. The Pommerania, OF
In, ll.muurg Line. WnI.r her voyage from this
city In November. SIS. run down ana sunk 10y
land The night was very dark and the vessel sank
in twenty minutes. Tnat only thirty-seyen OF the
"a persons board were lost was due 10 the cool,
headedness Of Captain SmenseE VINO cominand i.
the Pommerania. The Steamer Narragansru run,
ming from this civ 10 Sto"inston, conn, was run
into by the Stonngron ~ midnight IN the dense
fog on June II. 1850 Although the Narraganseits
SIDE was crushed In snd her boilers ana furnaces
upset so that she burned furously and soon sank.
yet but OF nsf s nd %s river seam
boats met with disasters. ana 20j2 ives were lost
i'm the River Thames. near London. ont, by which
Two hundred yss were lost ne to Trenton was
and carried down two hundred persons The Cim-
bria Hamburg steamer. was sunk by collision
Holland January 49, 1888: about four hundred and
MY people persisted one of the most dreadful
BRITISH "arshie We coas, ~ Svrs Tune % 1856
The ship went down within fifteen minutes after
tho collision with Sir George Try and about four
hundred men.
Among recent disasters the sinking OF the North
German Lloyd steamer ElOe is the most shocking
since IL was due to negligence on the part OF me
mate Of the Bcltsh steamer Crathe. with when
she colllded. The Elbe was on her way from
Rremen bound for this city. and was struck at
about O'Clock on the morning Of January 30. 1885;
Every precaut!on was taken ~ her 4nicers, anu
when the Crathie sighted the number or rock
e,s was doubled. but the warning was without et-
An enormous hole was stove al" II her engine me.
room and the vessel sank In twenty minutes Inc
passengers and crew numbered 800. OF wnom Out
twenty were saved. . a., .-.,. ~.
on May q 1875. the Pacific Mail steamship co,
lima was wrecked the South Mexican coast. ana
only ten persons survived out OF a total OF over
one hundred and fifty board. She had en-
cnunt.red a hurricane. and was seeking TO enter a
lutle-k known harbOr and struck on the rocks; on
March : 1897 the French Line steamship Vile de
ST Nazaire left this city. bound for Prince
and carving a of seventy men ana ten pas
seneers The next day she met terrinc storm, ana
foundered of Cape liaiteras; After undereoins
terrible hardships. twenty-nine survivors were
finally rescued The steamer Alden. from Yoko-
Ia ma bound for London. via Alden. was lost on the
I.land OF Socotra east OF Africa. June 3. 1877 and
seventy-e,ght were drowned and missing.