The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-13

sibility.
Among calamities of the water the
burning of the excursion steamer Gen
eral Slocum on June Is, 1904, stands
next to the Titanic disaster in inI-
rortance and number of lives lost.
Crowded with eXcursionists, most OF
them women and children, the Gen
eral Slocum was going up the East
! river when the fire occurred. The
occasion was the annual excursion OF
st. Marks church and everybody
aboard the boat was out for a day of
fun aud frolic. Off One Hundred
and Thirtieth street the boat caught
fire and before she could be beached
on North Brother Island nearly 1000
pers ons had lost their lives.
The burning of the Uranium line
steamer Valtnrno in mid-ocean Oh
October 0, 1913, vas the greatest dis
aster by fire in the ocean of recent
gtdlos 1 ne NOll VI hO Ndo bONlllb
from Rotterdam to New York with
Cj7 passengers aboGrd when fire start
ed in her hold. In spite of the fact
that wireless calls brought ten ships
to the rescue 1876 lives were lost
One of the strangest of the great
sea disasters Of modern times was
the loss of the President, which put to
sea on March /, 1{41, with 800 per
sons On board. Months afterward
bottle containing note. telling of the
sinking o. the ship was picked up
in mid-oCean, but the details of the
disaster are mystery to this day.
Before the invention of wireless
telegraphy many ships left ports and
were never heard OF again. How they
were wrecked was never told. After
months of waiting they were merely
reported lost With all on board
Among those SO reported were the
British steamship City of Glasgow,
which left Liverpool March 4, 1854,
with 4S0 passengers and crew; the
steamer Pacific, which left New York
in January, 1886, carrying $50 pas
songers; the Evening Star, which dis
appeared with $50 persons on board
in 1866 while running from New York
to New Orleans, and the City of TOs-
ton, which left New York in 1870,
carrying III passengers,
A disaster of the early days that
was greatly felt in New York was
the loss of the steamer Arctic in 1854
Running in a dense fog on October q,
she came into collision with the
French ship Vesta. Thinking that the
Nesta, instead of his own vessel, had
been seriously damaged, Captain Luce
OF the Arctic sent off four of his life
boats to the aid of the French liner.
| W hen the lifeboats were out of reach
he discovered that the Arctic was
sinking All her crew and passen-
gers numbering f3O persons, We're lost.
Most of them were residents OF New
York.
Another appalling sea tragedy was
the burning Of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can liner Austria in September 1858.
She left Hamburg for New York on
September l with 546 persons On
board. On September IS she caught
fire in midoceln, and 40 persons
lost their lives.
In 1873 the British ship Atlantic
Was wrecked or the Nova Scotia
coast with 952 persons on board. The
vessel struck the rocks of Mars Head,
Cane Prospect, and sank with 81 OF
the passengers and crew.
Two notable wrecks occurred in
1874. In April of that year the Amer
lean ship Pomona ran on Blackwater
Bank. on the coast of Ireland, and
AZ persons We're drowned. IN Nov
ember the emlgrant ship Cospa:riok
burned at sea, and of her 476 pas
sengers only six escaped in an open
boat, from which they were rescued
after drifting for ten days.
The Princess Alice sank after a
collision in the river Thames m 1873
and 7OO lives We're lost, In January,
1883. the Hamhurg-American liner
Cimbria collidad with the British
steamer Sultan in fog in the North
sea and sank with 42i persons on
board. In 1884 the American steamer
City of Columbls was wrecked OF
Gay Head Light Mass, and 20 per
sons perished Mere ;han 400 Chin
ese We're lost when the Chinese
steamer Wah Young burned in he
Pacific Ocean in 1856.
In the '9O's several great sea disas.
ters were recorded The steamer
Utopia collided with the Arson on
Gibraltar in 1891 and 574 lives were
lost The British battleship Victoria