The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-06-04
ANOTHER GREAT
SEA DISASTER
Steamer, Empress of Ire
land Goes Down After
Colliding With Collier,
StOrSdad.

the Empress of Ireland had gone
down, taking with her over 934 souls.
The huge steamship, which was the
property of the Canadian Pacific rail
road was rammed by the Danish col
lier Storstad, in the St. Lawrence
river, in dense fog, just before
dawn, on May 29th and sank in a
very few minutes,
The records show that in the last
half century, 35 great marine disas-
ters have occurred, the greatest being
the Titanic which went down off the
coast of Newfoundland in 1912.
Following is a list of disasters
that have taken place since the year
1866:
1866, January 11-Steamer Lon
don, on her way to Melbourne, fOun-
dered in the bay of Biscay; 220 lives
lost.
1867, October 29-Royal Mail
steamers Rhone and Wye and about
SO other vessels driven ashore and
wrecked at st. Thomas, West Indies
by hurricane; about 1000 lives lost
1888, January 22-British steamer
Northfeet sunk in collision off Dun
geness; 900 lives lost.
1873, November 23-White Star
liner Atlantic wrecked off Nova SEQ
tia SAT lives lost.
1874, December 26-Emigrant
vessel Cespatrick took fire and sanE
off Auckland, AIS lives lost.
1878, March 24-British training
ship Eurydice, a frigate, foundere(
near Isle Of Wight; 800 lives lost.
1878, September British iror
steamer Princess Alice sunk in col
lision in Thames river; 700 lives lost
1878, December 1S-French steam
er Byzantine sunk in collision in thu
Dardanelles, with the British steam
er Rinaldo; 2l0 lives lost.
1880, January 31-British train
: ing ship Atlanta left Bermuda will
290 men and was never heard from
1887, January 23-Steamer Ka
runda', in collision with bark Ad;
Melore, off coast of Brazil; 800 live
lost.
1887, November 15-British steam
; er Wah Young caught fire between
; Canton ana Honkong; 400 lives lost
1890, February 17-British steam
er Duburg wrecked in the China sea
406 lives lost.
1897 September 19-Turkish fri
gate Ertogrul foundered off Japan
$40 lives lost
1891, March 17-Anchor line
! Utopia sunk in collision with British
t steamer off Gibralter; 574 lives lost
1892, January 13-Steamer Name
how wrecked in China sea; Ala live
: lost
1898. August-British battleshi
Victoria rammed by the Camper
down; 800 lives lost.
1894, June 25-Steamer Norg
wrecked on rock reef in Atlantic; 60
lives lost.
1895, January 30-German steam
} er Elbe sunk in collision with Britisl
steamer Crathie in North sea; 33
lives lost.
1895, March 11-Spanish cruise
Regia Regenta foundered in the AT
lantic at entrance to the Mediterran
ean 400 lives lost.
1898, February 15-United State
battleship Maine, blown up in Ha
vana harbor; $50 lives lost.
1898, July 4-French liner Ii
Bourgoyne, in collision with Britis
sailing vessel, Cromartyshire; 81
lives lost.
1S9S-Klondike gold steamshi
Clara Nevada, Lynn canal, Alaska
10 lives lost.
1901, February 22-City of Rio D
Janeiro, Pacific Mail Steamship com
pany, sank at entrance to San Fran
cisco bay; 122 lives lost.
1904, June 15-General Slocur
excursion steamboat took fire goin
, through He'll Gate, East River. Nor
than 1000 lives lost.
1905, January 21-Brazilian bat
tleship Aquidaban sunk near Rio Jan
eiro by an explosion of powder mag
azines; PIP lives lost.
1906, August 4--ltalian imigran
ship Sirio struck rock off Cap
Palos; $50 lives lost.
1906, January 22-Steamship Val
encia, Cape Beale, Vancouver Island
B. c., III lives lost.
1907, July 20--American steam
ers Columbia and San Pedro collide
on the California coast; Sc lives lost
1908, March 25-Japanese steam
er Mutsu Maru sunk in collision nea
Hakodate; 800 lives lost.
1908, April 30-Japanese train
ing cruiser Mutsu Shima sunk OF
the Pescadores, owing to an explc
sion; 200 lives lost.
1909, January 14-Colision be
tween the Italian steamer Florid
and the White Star liner Republic
about ITO miles east Of New Yor
during a fog; large number of live
were saved by arrival of the steame
! Baltic, which received the &c. @. d.
or distress signal, sent up by wireles