Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1879 — MARINE DISASTERS. [ARTICLE]

MARINE DISASTERS.

An ocean disaster es a horrible character took place off the capes of Delaware, on the night of the 7th inst., by which thirty-two of the fiftyseven persons aboard the steamship Champion went down into a watery grave. The ship Lady Octavia struck the Champion square ami! ships-at 4 o’clock on the morning in question, and she sank in five minutes. The ship was badly damaged, but kept afloat The Champion was on her trip from New York for Charleston, 8. C. Throe women and several children were among the lost, only one female—the stewardess—being saved from the steamer. Immediately after the collision, a boat was sent out from the ship, which in two trips picked up twenty-two of the crew and passengers of the wrecked vessel. A passing sailing vessel saved six, two passengers and four of the The collision would seem to have been caused by carelessness, but on whose part is not at present certain. On the night of the 9th inst., the steamer Falcon, from Baltimore for Charleston, collided with the schooner 8. O. Tryon, from Kennebec river to Baltimore, loaded with lumber. As soon as the vessels diifted apart after the collision, the steamer was headod for shoal water, and she went down before proceeding half a mile. All the passengers and crew were saved, the steamer having reached water shallow enough to allow the rigging to stand above water, where they took refuge and were taken off in boats. The Guyon line steamer Arizona, from New York for Liverpool, struck an iceberg and stove in her bows, and was obliged to put back to St. John, N. F. The schooner Petrel, a small whaling schooner, was dismasted by severe gales in the last days of October, and drifted about at the mercy of the waves until the 29th, when she capsized, and fifteen persons were lost, including the Captain. The six survivors clung to the wreck until the 3d of November, when they were saved by Austrian bark Bebus. The sufferings of the rescued sailors were terrible, and they could have held out but little longer. Only one American was aboard, all the rest being Portuguese. The schooner Florence was lost in Cumberland straits. All on board were rescued, but after great suffering. The Florence was engaged in the How gate Polar expedition, under command of Capt Tyson. The French Government has given Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, a hint to keep away from France, where he has been making himself promiscuous.