Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-28
Disasters in Recent Years.

D1SaSterS IN Recent hearS.
French steamship Bourgogne.
CANNED and sunk by the steamship
Cromartyshire of Sable Island; $50
lives lost; July 4, 1898.
Steamship Norge. sunk at sea; $50
lives lost; July 3, 1904.
Steamship St. Paul. rammed Brit
ish cruiser Gladiator. off Isle Of
Wight; many sailors drowned; April
IL. 1908.
Steamship Wing King foundered
Oft Hongkong; 800 Chinese drown
ed; July %, 1908.
Stea mship Prudential, lost on voy-
age TO Argentina; August 8, 1908.
Norwegian steamship Folgefouden.
sunk; many lives lost: August %,
1908
Steamship. total wreck, in Car
ribean Sea; September 16, 1908.
Steamship sunk near Annoy; 200
drowned November S. 1908.
Steamer Archimides lost IN Bal
tic Sea; 10 drowned; November 8.
1908.
Steamship Finance. sunk by
steamship George. on Sandy Hook;
four lives lost; November &c, 1908.
Steamship San Pablo. sunk on
Philippines: 100 drowned; Novem-
Der 81. 1908.
Steamship Gensei Maru wrecked
on Wei Hal Wei. and crew and pas
sengers drowned December 10.
1908.
Steamship 500 City, foundered on
New Foundland: crew lost; Deem
Der 4, 1908.
New York. Jan. 27.-The palatial
ocean steamship Republic of the
White Star line, which was In COL
lision with the Italian liner Florida
early Saturday morning on Nan
tucket. Mass. went down at half past
eight o'clock last night No one was
lost. Her passengers. taken on many
hours before. are on the steamer
Baltic. which WIS on Sandy Hook
at late hour making for this port.
The Republic was in tow of the
revenue cutter Gresham and the
derelict destroyer Seneca. proceed
ing to New York when she sank.
On board her was Captain Sealby
with a volunteer detail OF fifty OF
her crew. She had been towed but
short distance when she began to
settle rapidly. Seeing no hope OF
saving the ship. the captain gave the
order TO abandon II and the crew
was taken of by the Gresham. which
cast loose from the crippled lnier
and stood by until she sank The
Gresham and the Seneca then head
ed for the Massachusetts coast and
will land Captain Sealby and his
crew at Newport. r. |.
The point where the Republic went
down is described in brief wireless
messages received here last night
as off No Mans Land. small island
south of Martha's Vineyard island.
off the Massachusetts, coast.
The Italian liner Florida. which
crashed into the Republic in the
dense fog on Nantucket early Sat
urday morning and gave her her
death blow, IS steaming slowly
toward New York. conveyed by the
liner New York Her pas
sengers are also ON the Baltic. hav-
ing been transferred in the early
hours Of the morning along with
those Of the Republic.
The Baltic. which was called Nv
wireless telegraph 10 the aid Of tho
Republic yesterday and transferred
from the Florida not only that
steamers 900 or more passengers. /
but the 442 passengers and part of !
the crew of the Republic. Is nearing |
the harbor of New York She was !
in wireless communication with TIE |
Fire Island station at II O'Clock last I
night. but did not define her posi- /
ton. The weather was very thick /
and she could not he sighted from
the observation station on Fire |
Island. 1t is unlikely that the Bal |
tic will come up the bay tonight. |
but will await daylight before pro-
Feeding to her pier.
Dead Man Prominent Banker.
Grand Forks, y. D.. Jan. Ell
" j. Mooney. who was killed in the
collision OF the steamers Republic
md Florida, was so years old and
vas engaged in banking and real
state business at Langdon, n. ID. He
vas considered one of the wealthiest
men in North Dakota. He leaves
ION, John Mooney. deputy state
Jank examiner.
Six Dead and Two Iniurc,l.
That there was loss Of life attend
ng the collision was not known I'M
II an early hour Sunday morning.
Then the wireless which has had its
Irst great trial and proven its utility.
'rought the news that Mrs. Eugene