Gilpin observer., 1908-01-23
TOLL OF THE SEA.
WEAR OF 1907 MOST DISASTROUS
ON WATER.
Over 1880 Lives Lost In Dozen Ma
rine Horrors-AppalIing List Of
Missing VesseIs-ships
Burned at Sea.


Burned at Sea.
New York.-Gideon Young, the sta
tistician Of the Maritime exchange,
has completed his annual table Of
wrecks at sea and in 1t he announced
that the year 1907 was one of the
most disastrous to life and property
on the deep in his recollection of sew.
eral decades. Aside from the sinking
OF the Joy liner Larchmont in col.
ision with the schooner Harry Knowl.
ton, in February, which disaster cost
1874 lives, and the destruction Of the
Great Eastern Railway company's
steamer Berlin, of the Hook of Hol.
land, whereby 1913 were drowned, the
marine recorder of the Maritime ex.
change shows that upward of 1000
persons went to death in ten other
marine disasters.
A total of 120 members of the
French battleship lena were killed in
an explosion which destroyed that
ship at Toulon March %. When the
Pacific Mail Navigation company's
steamer Santiago, founded off Chilli in
June 80 passengers and crew went
down with her. The steamer San
Pedro sank the steamer Columbia off
Point Delgado, Cal, July 22 and ITO
found watery graves. The Kaplan,
turkish steamer, foundered Novem.
Der "a and drowned 112. Sixty lost
their lives through the sinking of the
Sultan in the Black sea January "a.
The Hong Hing, a Chinese steamer,
drowned 120 when she foundered.
The wreck of the Great Northern
Steamship company's steamer Dakota,
March 8, cost the insurance COM
panies more than $3,50O,O00. The list
OF vessels that went away and never
arrived is an appalling one to even
shipping men who are accustomed to
see the word missing chalked after
the name of ship on the black.
boards of the exchange. Those that
turned into the port Of missing ships
during the year are the Nicaragua,
with crew Of 40; the Dulverton,
with two; Arthur Sewell, with 80;
Adolph Obig, with %; the Theodor,
formerly Cunard steamer, with 10;
the Hautot, with 90; Ormsay, with 21;
Daniel, with "a; Siberton, with 81;
Marie, with %; Netherby, with "a;
Guiana, with 20, and half a dozen
French fishing vessels, the latter with
scores of men.
The Norwegian steamer Freysdale
was worth $4,000 before she stranded
on the Maine coast. She sold for
$3.50 to junk dealer three days after
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stition as to bride on board bringing
misfortune held good in the case of
the L. A. Won Romondt, which was
abandoned in a sinking condition
October 10. The Viking, with the
bride Of her captain making her first
voyage at sea, was run into by the
ship Atlas off Cape Horn and the
captain and bride were lost.
The list shows that the elements
have no respect for names supposed
to be entitled to special consideration.
The Arhcangelsk, Guardian Angel,
Galilee and Leo XIII. were lost. The
r. P. Chase was wrecked on Jordan's
Delight, a reef in Maine. The steamer
Ohio was lost in Port Safety. The
Dart was destroyed by striking Holy
island. There were two Glad Tidings
wrecked.
Some fine ships were burned at sea.
Among them were the steamers
Thornhill, Silverslip, Milos, Thistle,
Sophia. Fortunatas, the latter worth
100000, and the Taifu Maru.
Warships sent some of the craft to
their last accounts. The French
cruiser Klober ran into and sank the
Hugoma, drowning seven of the lat
ter's crew. The British cruiser Assist
ance sank the Marie. Regular liners,
too. sent some fine vessels to the bot.
tom. The Red Star liner Vaderland
rammed the steamer Naworth Castle
in the English Channel. drowning
three. The Leyland liner Winifredian
sank the Ellen F. Gleason. The White
Star liner Romance sent the Natalie
B. Nickerson to the bottom. The Joy
liner Tennessee sank the Myronus,
drowning five.
Some of the steamers lost by found.
ering or being abandoned were the
Neptune liner Tampico, with $780,
900 worth Of copper among her cargo;
Clavering. with 90 lives; Yoero, with
Is lives; Jabba, Lucifer and the Hazel
Branch. The number of suicides in
wrecks was unusually large.