Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02
Annual Report Of Superin-
tendent Kimball.
PROPERTY IN JEOPARDY
SMALL NUMBER OF LIVES THAT
WERE LOST. 49,. *.
Good Work Of the Life Saving Crews
Pensions for Them Again
Recommended.

General Superintendent Kimball of the
nfe-saving service has transmitted to the
Secretary OF the Treasury the report of the
operations of his bureau for the year end
ing June 90, 1868.
The report states that at the close of the
fiscal year the life-saving establishment
comprised 277 stations. embraced with thfr-
teen districts and distributed by coasts as
follows: Two hundred on the Atlantic ana
gulf coasts, sixty on the coasts of the Great
Lakes, one at the Falls of Ohio Louisville,
KyD and sixteen on the Pacific coast
The number OF disasters to documented
vessels within the scope of the service DUR
Ing the year was 800. There We're on board
these vessels 4.0s9 persons. of whom - were
lost. Succor was afforded at the stations
TO 624 persons, to whom an aggregate OF
1,51O days relief was furnished. The esti-
mated value of the vessels was $1,i33,3 800
and that of their cargoes 81 5S5,2G0 making
the total value of property imperiled SiO,-
O.6GO. The estimated value of property
saved was s791T3S5; of property lost, "
4O3,215. Sixty-thTee vessels were totally
lost. Four hundred and twenty casualties
were sustained by undocumented vessels
sailboats. rowboats etc.-involving $50 per
sons, of whom 10 were lost. The value or
property involved in these casualties Is es-
timated at 1854 GEO; of property saved, s2oS,-
10, OF property IoSl, SoOco'
Life-Saving Crews.
The life-saving crews saved and assisted
in saving 4G4 imperiled vessels and their
cargoes, besides affording assistance or
more or less Importance TO 81 other YES
sells. including craft of all kinds, making
total of 1,14i vessels to which aid was fur
nished In addition. So steamers and SS
sailing vessels running into danger were
warned OF their peril by the signals of the
patrol and lookout in time to escape disas7
ter, l51 of these warnings being given IN
the night and IA during the day in thick
weather Many lives and much property
were undoubtedly thus saved from destruc-
ton, but II is manifestly impossible to estl-
mate In figures the services of the station
crews in this regard.
While IL Is primarily the province of the
service to save and succor the shipwreck-
ed, considerable number OF persons not
connected with vessels are annually res
cued from various situations involving i'm
minent peril of their lives. There were 1Ol
cases of this character during the year.
Twenty-seven persons had fallen from
wharfs, piers, bridges, etc; were in bath
ing, 30 were cut off from land by water,
were in burning dwellings, had attempted
suicide by drowning, 2 were lying on rail-
road tracks intoxicated l was frostbitten
and unconscious on the beach, , were lost
on the Ice in a thick fog, were in runaway
accidents, l was suffering from a severe
hemorrhage. ! was bitten by a rattesnake
and were on board a locomotive that had
plunged through an open draw.
The report also contains a tabular state
ment OF the operations of the service from
November /, 1871 (the date of the introduce
ton of the present SYSTEM, to the close OF
the last fiscal year.
The expenditures for the maintenance of
the service during the year aggregated ST.
7ga GA 20