Arizona republican., 1898-07-18
THE OCEANS GRAVEYARDS.
The Nova Scotian Coast, the Grand
 Banks and Sable Island.

The Nova Scotian coast and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are veritable ocean graveyards. In the last fifty years twenty-one large transat- lantic passenger ships have been wrecked there and thousands of per sons have been drowned. Of these wrecks ten were caused by collisions i1 thick, foggy weather exactly as the La Bourgogne was sunk. Sable island, within sixty miles of which this last wreck occurred, is Strewn with the bones of many ships that have gone to their doom there. It is this Iow-lying island and the thick fogs that sailors on Atlantic steamers most dread.
 It is generally supposed by landsmen that storms cause most of the wreckS at sea, but of all the vessels lost in the north Atlantic in the last fifty years only three or four were from heavy weather. Miscalculation as to dis tances run and courses steered, cloud ed skies, dark nights and dense fogs are the primary causes of nearly all of the wrecks.
 The sinking of the steamer Arctic in fog on the Grand Banks in 1854 was almost exactly like that of the La Bourgogne, and the crew of the Arctic fought the women back from the boats with knives as the crew of the French liner did. Of the crew and 1 passengers on the Arctic, 526 were drowned
 The Arctic was bound from New York to Liverpool. In a dense fog lnn nd Ic 10 Brit | ish ships, with all sails set and the wind on her starboard quarters, ram med the Arctic. Both ships backed off after the collision. The Vesta's bow was crushed in and the upper part i the Arctic thought that the ship was Vesta, but the Vesta drifted away out of sight in the thick fog and eventually made port and was saved.
 Ten minutes after the Arctic was struck it was discovered that water was pouring into her through a great hole below the water line. It was seen at once that nothing could be done to save her. Then became scene of panic, selfishness and, brutality that was partly duplicated in the sinking of the La Bourgogne July 4. Captain Luce lowered boat that would have held eighty persons. but the fremen of the ship had broken into the spirit room and become drunk. They rushed on deck as the boat was lowering and fought Captain Luce and the women back, stabbing at them with knives. ! Twenty of the crew leaped into the boat and then one of them cut the line I,.sf s-k l Another boat was lowered and an other insane rush for it was made by the crew. A third boat took all that was left of the crew except Captain Luce and his third mate, who were left alone with the 800 passengers, who were panic stricken and pressed around the brave captain imploring him to save them.
 Bv this time the ship was sinking rapidly As she went down Captain Luce stood valiantly on one side of the naddle boxes with his young son in his arms. They sank with the ship, but piece of the wooden paddle box "ame loose and foated upward, bear Ing the captain and his boy to the sur 'ace He chung to this and floated, but 2 piece of wreckage struck and killed his son.
 Captain Luce foated two days and was picked up by fishing smack and landed in Montreal. When the news of his rescue was flashed over the wires of this country a New York preacher sent him this telegram:
 "We welcome you, and the whole people hold you in their hearts as God has held you in his hands"
 Only one boat load of the Arctic's crew ever reached shore.
 The loss of the White Star line steamer Atlantic on the Nova Scotia shore April 1, 1873. was the most heart-rending of all wrecks on the American coast. The Atlantic was 240 | feet long and carried 952 people when she cleared from Liverpool for New York Of these 562 were drowned. Her loss was due to mismanagement. She