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“Phremologiet Lam of Deep sea!’ f Tragedies Since Middle of Nine- Tecent-horrible tragedy of the! the World's Gargest , Ship, brings before the star horrors, none of which, | Are comparable with the wreck of Monday morning, these disasters follows: the ‘iportant mérine ais récorded are: 7 i, January 11—dreamer Lor ‘on her way to Melbourne found dm the Bay of Biscay; 220 lives 1867, October 29 Royal Mail Miseiherstone and Wye and abo: Beether veterin driven ashore and’ ‘Wrecked at St. Thomas, West Indies, bus hurricane; about 1,000 lives lost 9878. March 24—British traini ie Morthflest sunk in collision of Dun- Bemnees; 300 lives ost. ‘TAT3, November 23—White Sur , Fecked off Nova Scotia, 547 | Jost. «1814, December 2¢—Emigrant nex | fire and sank of Auckland BFE lives lost. j March 24—British training | j Barvaiee, a frirste, toundered the Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost , 1878, September 3—Pritieh — tron e Princess Alice sunk in HIG the Thames river; 700 tiv t (SFB, December 11— French steam ‘Byzantine in collision with steamer Rinaldo In the War 210 Hives lost 1880, January 21—Hiritish trains Atlanta left Bermuda with 20 and was never heard row Steamer in Collision with bark off coast of Brazil; 200 tv 9 $887, November 15 — British Wah Young caught fire be low Canton and Hong Kong; 100 out. 1890, February 17—British st ar Wrecked in the China se fort September 19—Turkiah fri gate Ertogrul foundered of Jayan B40 hives lost. 1891, March 17—Annchor line ri fle sunk in collision with Hritisa Weamer Anson off Gibraltar; Hives lost. 892, January 13 How wrecked in China Host. m. steamer Name sa. 414 lives! Statistics Directing Popular Ascent Strongly to Large Ni Ar Killed White Trespassing on Railways, statistics compiled by the Intes tate Commerce Commission are as Feeling popular: attention strongly t he the numbers of people who are Sthually Allied ad injured white trespassing on the property of the railways of few United states: Re ferring to thin subject in an address delivered before the Hartroad Club at Richmond, Va., President Finley, of the Southern’ Railway Company, with “While specking on the subject of irreventable accidents, let me call a fanfow to the great rose of fire on AMETICAH railways by trespassers on railway proverts. EWR die oo ‘mention of the thousands of cases of personal injuries sustained annually by persons trespassing “on railway Property, in connection with which the railways are called upon to pay out annually large sums, or of the War damage done to railway prof eY caused by, acts of trespassers, I will simply refer to the loss of life. “The statistics of the interstate Commerce Commission show that no less than 51,083 people were killed, while trespassing on the property of the railways of this county during the ten years, 1901-1912, and thi, SUL OF the total number of people, 19,896, killed for the year waded June 20, 1911, 5,284, or more than 9 per cent, were trespassers. The airways, at an expense of ‘million of dollars for the installation of block signals, have carried the pre vention of collisions $0 for that the total number of passengers and ex ployers killed in such accidents ually is about 400. While we should aim, through greater efficiency of operation, to eliminate these ac cidents entirely, is it not worth while for the governments to take # ‘on to stop th osecots on lives annually! it for no other reason than for the protection of tho » who partici pate in it, trespassing should be evil of trespacing abolished in some way. I mention Anis ih the hope that not only those, interested In the welfare and pros perity of our railways, but to the welfare of the nation, will do every, Ching that in within tele power to “and in bringing about the enactment | for such reasonable and heipfe reee [lation as wil result In a great suring | PELE: 9 Che same tins rotors in railways of the country of consider ‘ote route and expense.” ABO4, June 25—Steamer Norge ‘Swicked on Rock Fail reef in North Atlantic; 600 tives lost. 1895, January 30—German ae Kilbe sunk in collision with br utes Crathie in Northsea; 335 lost. 1895, March 11—Spanish crui Reina Regenta foundered in the Mantle at entrance to Mediterranean 409 ‘aves Lost 1898. July 4—French line stou | a Bourgogne in collision with the Yah sailing vessel Crow Hives lost. 1898, February 15—United State battlesip Maine blows up in Habana | arbor; 260 lives lost. hire August 1—British steamer Wartah, from Sydney via Port Natal on July 26; 800 lives lost .A904, June Le General from Evcursion steamer, took free coins thrown Hell Gate, Rat river; more than 1,000 lives lost January 71—Brazilian bat tleship Aquidadan sunk near Rio Janeiro by an explosion of the powder .Magazines; 222 lives lost. 1906, August 4—Haliyn emigrant ship Sirio struck a rock on Cape Palos;250 lives Lost. 1907, July 20—American steamers Columbia and San Pedro collided on ‘the Califfenia coast; 100 lives lost 1908. March 23—Ja fr Mutsa Maru sunk in collishc near Hakadato; 300 lives lost. 1908, April 0—Japanese ia darger Matsu Shinta sunk off the Ps Cadores owing to an explosion. 200 1803, January 14 Colt be tween the Italian steamer Florida on the White Btar Republic about 170 miles east of New York during a fox 8 TaFKe number of liver were saved by the arrival of the steamer Hatti Which received the wireless distress sgnal sent out by the Republic oper for. January 22; the Republic sank Mille being towed; six lives 10:1 4911. January 7—French vattle ‘Liberte sink by explosion, harbor; 283 lives lost April 15—Titanic steam mith tcebergoff coast of New. y ‘Young Ofsnder. eft her baby in its car. door of a department found ttthors. ‘aa be. passed ‘© gaisla yelled: —Oalter's. |
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Aiken Journal and Review
Aiken, South Carolina, US
Fri, Apr 19, 1912
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