The searchlight., 1912-04-19
OTHER GREAT
SEA DISASTERS
NORTH STAR LINER NARONiC.
MYsTERioUsLv DISAPPEARS
WITH 800 ABOARD.
672 LOST ON ATLANTIS,
Thousands Of Lives Claimed by Salt
Waters In Last Quarter
century-RepubIie Was
Saved by Wireless.

New York, n. Yin the melan-
choly role of marine tragedies, that
| which overlook the Titanic stands
alone in the fact that it is the first on
record wherein a conspicuous vessel
| age.
There was another star-crossed
craft-and, singularly enough, she be.
loIged to this same line-which went
to the port of missing ships on her
second voyage. this being the Ma
| ronic. fine new steamship which had
| attracted much attention on her ar
rival here from the British shipyards
where she was built Carrying about
300 all told. she steamed out of this
port on her return voyage. That was
| nearly twenty years ago. and since
then there has been no word as to
how she met her fate.
To recall some of the most notable
| sea disasters. there was the wreck of
the Atlantis, of Nova Scotia, in 1873,
with the loss of 672: the laundering
OF the Pacific. two years later, and
the drowning of 256 of her passengers
anu 'i'"s thc loSS os Coi1IslOH vi tuc
Anchor liner Utopia. which was sunk
by collision in 1891, with q loss of
574.
Taking only a few of the most i'm
portant disasters OF the past quarter
| of a century, one finds the Oregon
laundering off Fire island, after col
lision with a schooner. She was orig
inally one of the Guion feet, but at
the time of the disaster was under
| charter to the line whose boast ii was
that ii 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 a large section of the At
lantic swashing against her bulk
heads. There had been an accident to
her machinery and gaping hole had
been torn in her sides. She managed
to reach port, but il was one of the
miracles of the day that she did.
Same Liner Goes on Rocks.
Just nine years later. the old liner
whose name had been shortened to
Paris, was in the clutch of the Man
acle rocks. On a bitter January day
of 1905. the Elbe. of the North Ger
man-Lloyd line. was in the English
channel, when she was run into and
! sunk by the Grathie. Some OF the
| Elbe's passengers were saved. but the
majority, $50, went down with the
sinking liner.
The next great disaster came in
July, 1898, when the French line
steamship Bourgogne was sunk i'm
mid-ocean when she collided with the
Cromertyshire, the lost numbering
535. 1t was only few years previous
| that the Bourgogne had sunk the AT
las liner Ailsa, 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 to the toll of the sea.
In a March hurricane. the French
liner Vile de St. Nazair foundered
when two days out from this port,
drowning all except two persons. who
days later were pulled from beneath
the corpses Of others who 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.
| The sinking of the Republic by the
Florida in January, 1909. involved the
loss Of only six lives.