Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-04-19
ITO be continued. !
LOST ON HER SECOND TRIP.
Nothing Ever Heard Of the Whit.
Star Liner Naronie

Star Liner Naronic.
New York, April TN the melan.
choly roll of marine tragedies. that
which overlook the Titanic stands alone
IN the fact that it is the first on record
wherein conspicuous vessel had met
disaster on her maiden voyage.
There was another star-crossed craft
ana slngularly enough she belonged to
this same line, which went to the mort
OF missing ships on her second VOYAGE
thls pelng the Naronic, fine new steaml
snip which had attracted much atten-
tlon on her arrival here from the wards
OF the British shipbuilders. CARVING
ABOUT $40 all told, she steamed out of
thls port on her return voyage. That
was nearly 20 years ago, and since then
there has been no word as to how sha
met her fate.
10 enumerate all the disasters which
nave come to ships, even in recent
years. would require many columns to
tabulate. To recall some of the most
notable, there was the wreck of the A.
lantic, off Nova Scotia, in 1878, with the
loss OF 672; the laundering of the Pacific
TWO years later and the drowning of 25e
OF her passengers and crew; the loss bv
collision of the Anchor liner Irtoria
which was sunk by collision in 1891.
with loss of SD.
THE OREGON DIcAcrr1
taxing only few of the most i'm
portant disasters of the past quarter of
century, one finds the Oregon founder
ing OIL Fire Island after collision with q
schooner. She was originally one of
the Guion fleet, but at the time of the
dlsaster was under charter to the line
whose boast it was that it carried no
napkins but never lost life" No lives
were lost then.
IL was in 1890 that the old Inman
liner City of Paris went staggering to
port with large section of the Atlantic
smashing against her bulkheads. There
had been an accident to her machinery
and a gaping hole had been torn in her
sides. She managed to reach port. but
1t was one of the miracles of the dav
that she did. Just nine years later the
old liner, who Sc name had been
shortened to Paris, was in the clutch of
the Manacle rocks.
On bitter January day of 1895 the
Elbe of the North German Lloyd line
was in the English channel, when she
was run into and sunk by the Crathie.
Some few of the Elbe's passengers
were saved, but the majority, $50, went
down with the sinking liner.
The next great disaster came in July.
1893, when the French line steamship
Burgogne was sunk in mid-ocean by
collision with the Cromartyshire, the
lost numbering 535. 1t was only few
years previous that the Bourgogne had
sunk the Atlas liner Aisa by collision in
this harbor. Following the sinking of
the Bourgogne came the laundering of
the Norge in 1904 and the drowning of
$50. The Larchmont, up the sound,
added another 1873 to the toll of the sea.
In March hurricane the French liner
Vile de st. Nazaire foundered when two
days out of this port, drowning all ex-
cept two survivors. who days later were
pulled from beneath the corpses of
Others who had crowded into the only
lifeboat which was ever picked up from
the wreck.
Thirty lives were lost when the
American liner st. Paul rammed and
sunk the British cruiser Gladiator.
Then there was the tragedy of the
General Slocum and her 1000 and odd
lives, and the holocaust of the Hoboken
fire, which sent the Main, the Bremen
and the Saale drifting down stream
ablaze, with record of $50 lives blotted
out
The sinking of the Republic by the
Florida in January, 1909, involved the
loss of only six persons.
The most notable disaster Immediately
preceding this one of the Titanic, was
when the steamship Delhi carrying the
Princess Royal and her husband, the
Duke of Fife, and their two daughters
to Egypt, was driven ashore on the
coast of-Africa. All the passengers
We're saved, but the death of the Duke
of Fife soon after was due to the eX-
posture he suffered at the time.