The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
PREVIOUS SHIPPING DISASTERS.
Ships That Have Gone Down in Recent
Years with Hundreds of People.
New York Tribune


Years with Hundreds of People.
New York Tribune
The greatest shipping disaster of the GEN.
fury was the wreck of the British frigate
81. George and Defence, off the coast Of
we're drowned. The sinking of the Royal
GEORGE off Spithead, in 1872, when Admiral
kempenfelt went down with six hundred
men, had long been celebrated in song and
story as the greatest catastrophe by sea for
many generations. Since then, with the in
crease of travel, these sorrows of the deep
sea nave been growing more frequent
The Pacific with 1856 persons, disappeared
In 1856, and the City of Glasgow, with 4S0
souls, has never been heard from since 1854.
Inc mystery of the City of Boston, with
solved.
The Amazon, a West Indian mail steam
ship left Southampton on her first voyage
on Jan 2, 1852, and two days later was de-
stroyed by fire. OF the 161 persons on board
l02 persisted The Brkenhead an English
troop ship, with 63S soldiers and crew,
struck a rock off Simon's bay, South Africa,
IN FEBRUARY. 1852, and 454 men persisted: The
Arctic lost 307 of the 439 persons aboard in a
ccollision with the iron propeller Vesta, off
Cape Race. The Austria, a British immi-
grant sloop, burned in midatlantic Sept. 10,
1893, and only. sixty-seven out Of the 598 per-
sons on board were saved. In September of
the same year the st. Paul, an English YES
sci from Hong-Kong to Sydney, with 372
SnlneSe emlgrantS. was wrecked on the
Island of Rossel. The captain and eight of
the crew went for assistance, and were
others who remained behind all were
crowned or killed by the natives. save one
Chinaman.
The emigrant ship Northfeet. which sailed
from London with Az passengers, exclusive
Of her crew, was run into at midnight on
Jan. %, 1873, in the British channel. and S25
which 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 1, 1873. About
$50 people were lost; 442 were saved: many
persisted from cold and exposure in the
rigging The Vile de Havre, a French mail
was run into about 2 o'clock on the morn
ing or Nov. p, 1878, by the Lochearn, and
sank in twelve minutes. Out of S1S persons
aboard 226 were lost. The Schiller, Ham
burg mail steamer, was wrecked in fog
on the rocks of Sicily May Z, 1875 and 33l
people were drowned.
on the forenoon of May 81 1878, with the
weather bright and til sea calm, the Ger
man ironclad Grosser Kurfurst was struck
the ironclad Koenig Wilhelm of the same
fleet and sunk almost Immediately, and
nearly three hundred lives were lost. The
steamer Metropolis. from Philadelphia for
Para, Brazil, on JAN 81, 1878, went ashore
in a gale on Currituck Beach. North Caro-
lima OF 26O passengers fifty-eighth were
saved by being washed ashore. The eXcur-
sion steamer Princess Alice, returning from
Gravesend to London, Sept. 3, 1878, with
eight hundred passengers on board, was run
down off Barking by the Bywell Castle and
about six hundred persons, mostly women
and children, were lost.
The steampship Champion. which sailed
from this city for Charleston, was sunk
on Nov. Z, 1872 by a collision with TIE bark
Lady Octavia, about thirty miles off Cape
Henlopen. As the night was clear the ac-
cident was the result of not having q care
full lookout. Thirty-two ont of fifty seven
persons on board were lost. The Pomme-
rama, of the Hamburg line. while on her
was run down and sunk nv the Moll Ethan,
a sailing vessel, near Dover, England. The
night was very dark, and the vessel sank In
twenty minutes. That only thir y-seyen of
the 227 persons on board were lost was due
to the cool-headedness cf Captain Swersen,
who commanded the Pommerania. The
steamer Narragansett running from this
city 10 Stonington, Conn, was run into by
the Stonington at midnight in the dense
fog on June II, 1880. Although the Nara
ganSett'S side was crushed in ami her boilers
and furnaces upset, so that she burned fu-
riouSly and soon sank. yet but thiry-tour Of
her Sol passengers We're lost.
During 1852 2iS steamships and large rive?
steamboats, met with disasters, aud o0n2
lives We're lost. Among them were the ex-
cursion steamer Victoria, in the River
Ihames, near London, Ont, by which two
hundred lives were lost; the Trenton was
stranded near the Cape of Good Hope Aug
81 and carried down two hundred persons.
me Cimbria, Hamburg steamer was sunk
by collision with the British steamer Sultan
Off the coast of Holland Jan. 10. 1889: ahout
Tour hundred and fifty people persisted. One
or the most dreadful disasters of recent
| snip Victoria by collision with the CAMPER
Gown of the coast of Syria, June 90 1883
Inc snip went down within fifteen minutes
after the collision, with Sir George Tryon
and about four hundred men,
Among recent disasters the sinking Of the
North German Lloyd steamer Elbe is the
most shocking. since it was due to negii.
gence on the part of the mate of the British
steamer Crathie, with which she colided
Inc Elbe was on her way from Bremen
pound for this city, and was struck at about
o o clock on the morning of Jan 30 1895
Every pre- caution was taken by her officers
ana when the Crathie was sighted the mum
| per OF rockets was doubled, but the warn
| ing was without effect. An enormous hol,
was stove abaft her engine room, and the
| vessel sank in twenty minutes. The pas
Sengers and crew numbered $780, of whom
| but twenty We're saved.
| ON May q, 1895, the Pacific Mail steam
snip Colima was wrecked on the south Mex
| ican coast and only ten persons survived
out or total of over one hundred and fit,
| on board. She had encountered a hurricane
/ and was seeking to enter little known har
| Dor and struck on the rocks On March Z
! 1897, the French line steamship Vile de ST
| Nazaire left this city, bound for Port-aiI
| Prince, and carrying crew of seventy mer
! and ten passengers. The next day she me
| a terrific storm and foundered off Cape Hat
/ teras. After undergoing terrible hardships
| tWenty-nine survivors were finally rescued
| The steamer Alden. from yokohama. bount
! Tor London. via Alden. was lost off III,
| Island of Socotra, east of Africa June 9
1897. and seventy-eight were drowned AM