Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

rescued by them. This disaster was one which
might have been averted entirely but for her cap.
tam mistaken devotion to duty in refusing to
ABANDON her while there was yet time, circum
stance that cost 355 lives.
GROUNDED IN A FOG.
In November 1909, the British transport Har-
pooner, from Quebec for Plymouth, with $50 sol
ders and their families, struck rock west of
Cape Race during dense fog that frequently en-
velops the Newfoundland coast at this season.
She struck about midnight and the crash sent
horde of half-clad and wholly frightened beings
to the deck, where in the inky Dizziness the hor
rors of the occasion were intensified, as they
fought wildly for the boats and trampled one
another in their frenzy. Throughout the night
she pounded on the rocks and when daylight
broke the captain ordered the mate and four sea-
men to try and reach the land in small skff
that hung at her stern. In attempting this she
was stove against an outlying rock and they bare
ly escaped going down with her, but they clam
bered onto the slet,. though here they
could afford no aid to those on the ship. But
her captain had fine Newfoundland dog aboard
the vessel which he threw into the with
line around it, and the sagacous brute swan to
the rock, where the five men got him up, re-
moved the line from his body and hauling along
stouter lines attached thereto were soon apie
to contrive flying bridge by the and OF wnien
some thirty persons were got across I'LL Ine
boulders and the dog being unable to get back
to the ship there no suceor possible for those
remaining there. Some jumped overheard ana
tried to swim ashore; others lashed themselves TO
planks and tried the same; more built ratts ana
trusted thereto; but scarcely any survived the
ordeal, being mostly flung against the rocks anu
killed. During the afternoon the null Went 10
pieces and all who remained on it were swallow
ed IN bv the waves while those on the rock re-
NAMED there another twenty-four hours ere nsn-
ing smack came by and rescued them, and IN
the interim soldiers wife gave birth to a cnid
there both mother and babe surviving TINS ter
rible ordeal
THE GLAMORGAN'S FATE.
Two years later another troop ship, the Gla-
morzan, must have perished with her whole com
pany. 100 souls, near Cape Lahune, on the soutn-
west coast of Newfoundland, Tor some years al
terwards a party of fishermen entering cave
there came upon the bodies of some men and
women living on its sandy floor, and from mill
tary buttons and other emblems among tne re-
mains the authorities traced the TACT that these
skeetons must be those of soldiers and their wom-
an folk who had formed part Of the battalion on
hoard the Gamorgan, but whether she struck
the coast and these escaped and took refuge there
or whether their bodies were washed there by
tbe waves, or whether they left her at sea IN
boat and made the land, only to perish mlser-
ably in this manner, nobody was ever aDIe 10
fell for not solitary survivor OF her couid De
traced, and everything pointed to her entire com
nlement having proved victims OF her ill-tortune,
ybetber ON her decks after landing. indeed,
ths narties who found the skeletons asserted
NAT IN, the feet of one, apparently woman, was
;rserted n wooden stick like a gambrel used by
hntchers in suspending meat, this indicating that
a. nartv in the cave had been alive, had been
sorced to cannbalism. and had used this con
tS;vsnce TO suspend the mutilated body out OF
the Iyov of the sea or possibly of prowling ami
mails. . =, .s: - ,oEt -
.,ost fatal year in Atlantic annals, might be
dsscribed, when the Arctie's loss cost 562 lives,
the CITY of Glasgows vanishing represented 4S9
more To,e and the disappearance Of the Lady Nu-
asnt carried 446 to their ocean grave, while 2l1
800 nerished in the wreck of the Favorite Or.
arsin the horrors of 1856 might be dealt with,
sshsn the Pacific went down with 200 souls, the
Tnonais met misfortune and carried 2G0 with
her and the Hibernia was engulfed with 1876
The Hunqarian's loss off Sable Island in 1866
,hsn 296 fatalities occurred; the Avengers in
fae7 when 21O perished and the Vile de
Ja,,re,s in 1873 with death roll of 23O. are
aiso notable instances Of seafaring tragedies while
within the past few years the almost unexampled
eatastrophes of the Elbe, Bourgoane. Rio janet
yo and Bambara have added CHASTITY records to
the long roster of marine mishaps among which
the Syrio will now, by the latest wreck and rs
400 fatalities take place which will evidence
that the perils OF the sea have been by no means
| yanquished