The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-04-19
OTHER GREAT
SEA DISASTERS
NORTH STAR LINER NARONIC
MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS
WITH 800 ABOARD.
672 LOST ON
Thousands Of Lives Claimed by Salt
Waters In Last Quarter
Century-RepubIic 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
has met disaster on her maiden voy-
age.
There was another star-crossed
craft-and, singularly enough, she be-
longed to this same line-which went
to the port of missing ships on her
second voyage, this being the Ma
ronic, a fine new steamship which had
attracted much attention on Der ar
rival here from the British s~hipyards
where she was built. Carrying about
300 all told, she steamed out of this
port on her return voyage. That vas
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, off 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
and crew; the loss by collision of the
Anchor liner Utopia, which was sunk
by collision in 1891, with a loss Of
574.
Taking only a few of the most inn
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 n of the Guion fleet, but at
the time of the disaster was under
charter to the line whose boast it was
that it carried no napkins, but never
lost a life" No lives were lost then.
1t was in 1890 that the old Inman
liner City of Paris went staggering
to port with a large section Of the At
lantic smashing against her bulk
heads. There had been an accident to
her machinery and a gaping hole had
been torn in her sides. She managed
to reach port, but it 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 in
mid-ocean when she collided with the
Cromertyshire, the lost numbering
595. 1t was only a few years previous
that the B%ourgogne 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 200 and odd
lives.
The sinking of the Republic by the
Florida in January, 1909, involved the
loss of only six lives.