Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — Marine Disasters. [ARTICLE]

Marine Disasters.

Official reports show that during the fiscal year ending June 30, the total number of vessels driven ashore by stress of weather was 120, and that they had on board 1,253 persons; of this number of lives there were 1,214 saved and 39 lost; the number lost being about 3 per cent', of those imperiled. The estimated value of the vessels wrecked is $1,746,464, and of their cargoes $1,348,876, making a total property valuation of $3,095,331. The total amount of property saved, so far as reported, is $1,554,506, and of that totally lost $1,053,826, leaving $487,000 not yet ascertained whether saved or lost. Upon fifty of the occasions of disaster, the life-saving service' apparatus was successfully used, and 838 persons were rescued tnrough its instrumentality.