The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-27

previous the Rio Grande and other Texas
rivers went on a rampage and before they
retired to their channels many a Texan
| beheld ruin staring him In the face The
year before that much damage was done
by exceedingly high water In Pittsburg
and Cincinnati
Disasters on Sea and River.
Most awful of ocean and river dis
aster9 was the burning of the excursion
steamer General Slocum In New York
waters, 1000 eNcurslonlsts mostly women
and childen. being lost In sight of the city
where they lived, When the Pacific Mall
steamship Rio de Janeiro struck In q
fog, off the Golden Gate. In February OF
1901, l2S persons went down with her.
Three months before thirty-one were lost
by tho laundering OF tho steamer Monti-
cello, in the Bay of Fundy. and only last
January 1856 OF the 176 passengers and
crew on board the Inflated Valencia
found Watery grave at the entrance of
Puget Sound. In the typhoon that killed
thousands in China and ragged around
Manila last year, the steamer Casabenia
sank and 1l3 passengers and crew were
lost. One hundred and seven lives were
sacrificed on tho Japanese steamer Nato-
rimea when she crashed in a fog against
the Osaka breakwater.
Perhaps II Is but natural that disaster
should overtako man In his daring at
tempt to sail under the seas as well as
over them. Tho British submarine boat,
AL while maneuvertng in the English
sank like q stone. Tho AS sank as q
result of an explosion, twenty-six, all
told. being lost In both boats. When the
French submarine Farfadet, unexpected
ly sank to the bottom OF a Tunis harbor
strenuous attempts wero made by means
of graphing hooks to bring the broat to
the surface in time to snYe Its crow. but
all In vain. and thirteen officers and men
gave their lives to their country. Last
year, also. the Russian submarine Deltin
sank at her moorngs with her crow OF
twenty-onc.
When the torpedo boat Cobra buckled
and sank off Lincolnshire seyenty-eeVen
fighters were lost to tho British navy
That was In September OF 1901. And then
there is the long series OF disasters to the
Russian navy, beginning with Togo's sur
prise attack on the Port Arthur fleet and
ending with his wiping out of RoJestven-
sky's fleet In tho sea of Japan, sixteen
months later,
Railroad Wrecks and Assassinations.
OF six railroad disasters, two occurred
under ground and TWO overhead In
tho New York Central tunnel horror
seventeen passengers were killed and
many injured. while one hundred of the
passengers on the two trains In the
Paris Underground railway that caught
FIRE, from a defective dynamo, were
BY the railroad bridge over Dry Creek.
at Pueblo Col, colapsing, soVentyslx
persons were drowned OF crushed to
death, Last September the IL, railroad
system In New York experienced Its first
fatal accident a portion OF train taking
Il curve plunging into the street, Twelve
passengers were Killed and forty injured
In a collision near Knoxville, Tenn,
seventy persons were killed and 125 in
tured, and last years wreck on the
Pennsylvania at Harrisburg Pa, was
most peculiar, in that a buclellng freight
train threw a car loaded with dynamite
I'm front of an express train Snashup
and explosion resulted almost stimuli
taneously. rhc dead numbered twelve
and the Injured forty
With what horror the world heard tho
news that Mckinley had been shot. and
ten days later, that no had died. King
Humbert of Italy fell a victim 10 an
assassln's bullet less than q yoar earlier,
/ and IN the sGmo year Goebel Of Kon-