Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1889 — MYSTERIES OF THE SEA. [ARTICLE]

MYSTERIES OF THE SEA.

Record of Lust S learn Vessels on the At* lantie Since 1841* The record of the lost steam vessels on the Atlantic Ocean is a long and interesting one. As compiled bj Harper's Weekly, the roll stands as follows: 184 L President, mysteriously disappeared. 1843. Columbia, wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia. 1846. Great Britain, wrecked on the coast of Ireland ; Tweed, off Yucatan, on Alacrames Reef. 1848. Forth, wrecked on the same reef. 1850. Helena Sloman, foundered. 1852. St. George, burned ; Amazon, burned. 1853. Humboldt, WTecked on the coast of Nova Scotia^ 1854. City of Clasgow, disappeared; Franklin, wrecked ; Artie, run down; City of Philadelphia, wrecked. 1856. Pacific, disappeared; He Lyonnais, run down. 1857. Tempest, disappeared ; Montreal, burned. 1858. New York, foundered ; Austria, burned. ISSJ. Argo, wrecked on Newfoundland coast; Indian, on Nova Scotian coast; Hungarian, the same. 1860. Connaught, burned. 1861. Canadian, wrecked on sunken ice; North Briton, wrecked. 1863. Norwegian, Anglo-Saxon, and Georgia all wrecked off Nova Scotia. 18C4. Bohemian, wrecked off Nova Scotia ; City of New York, wrecked on Irish Coast; Jura, wrecked at the mouth of the Mersey; lowa, wrecked oil Cherbourg. 1865. Glasgow, burned. 1868. Scotland, rundown. 1868. Hibernia, foundered. 1869. United Kingdom, disappeared; Germania and Cleopatra, both w recked on the coast of Newfoundland. 1870. City of Boston, disappeared; Cambria, wrecked on Irish coast. 1872. Dacian, wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia; Tripoli, wrecked on the Irish coast. 1873. Britannia, wrecked in the Clyde; Atlantic, wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia; Ismailia, disappeared ; Missouri, wrecked on the Bahamas; Ville du Havre, run down; City of Washittgton, wrecked on coast of Nova Scotia. 1875. Schiller, wrecked on oneof the Scilly Isles ; Vicksburg, went down in a field of ice; Dentschlaud, wrecked on English coast. 1877. George Washington, foundered off Cape Race. 1878. Metropolis ((bound from Philadelphia to Para with workmen and materials lor the Madeira A Mamore Railroad), driven aßhore<on Currituck Beach, N. C., in a violent gale and wrecked; Sardinian, burned at the entrance of Londonderry harbor. 1879. Borussia, foundered at sea; Montana, wrecked on the Welsh coast; State of Virginia, wrecked on Sable Island; Pomerania, run down in English Channel. 1880. July 16, bottle picked up off Irish coast containing memorandum, signed by the engineer, stating that the steamship Zanzibar was sinking (vessel left New York for ■Glasgow Jan. 11,1879, and has never been heard of since); City of Vera Cruz, foundered in a cyclone off the Florida coast; Anglia, rundown. 1881. Bohemian, wrecked on the Irißh ooast; Leon, foundered; Montgomeryshire, lost. 1882. Mosel, wrecked on the coast of Cornwall; Edam, run down by the Lepanto. Both losses due to fog 1883. City of Brussels, run down off Liverpool (ten lives lost); Cimbria, of the HamburgAmerican Line, sunk in tlie North Sea (nearly 400 lives lost); Ludwig, from Antwerp, for New York, with seventy persons on board, given up for lost. 1884. City of Columbus, from Boston feu Savannah, wrecked in Vineyard Sound (100 lives lost); Daniel Steinmann, wreckedoff Sambro Island, Nova Scotia (120 lives lost); State of Florida and bark Pomona, sunk in collision in midocean (135 lives lost); Amsterdam, of Netherlands Line, wrecked on Sable Island in a fog (three lives lost); 1885. Allan Line steamer Hanoverian, wrecked near Cape Race. 1886. Oregon, of Conrad Line, run into and sunk by a schooner off Fire Island (no lives lost); Rapidan, from New York for Costa Rica, given up for lost w ith all hands. 1887. Nov. 19 the W. A. Sholten was sunk near Dover, England, by collision with the coal freighter Rosa Mary (120 passengers drowned). 1888. Aug. 14 the Geiser was sunk within seven minutes by collision with the Thingvalla, of the same line, off Sable Island, Nova Scotia.

In these wrecks, according to the official returns, no less than 5,600 perished. In the Atlantic, wrecked in 1873, 562 persons were drowned, 480 were lost in the City of Glasgow, 120 in the President, 186 in the Pacific, 191 in the City of Boston, 470 in the Austria, 323 in the Artie, 372 in the AngloSaxon, 226 in the Ville du Havre, 200 in the Borussia, 311 in the Sliiller. The list, too, no account of collisions in which neither vessel was sunk, ns that in which the Celtic and another White Star steamer wore engaged some time ago —altnougli in many of these lives were lost. To ;a person who has never been at sea the dreadful panic which any accident, even if not a serious brings about can hardly be understood, while real peril is demoralizing to the last degree.