Show SHIPS AND ACCIDENTS S A correspondent of the New York Sun suggests that every steamship that carries passengers at sea S shall ahall be accompanied or immediately followed by a aS aha S trailer ha ler so that in the event of a serious accident the smaller and cheaper steam steamer r can rescue those on onboard onboard onboard board the regular liner There does not happen to be much in that A S steamer struck the coast of an island in the Mediterranean Medi redi- S the other night in a terrific storm was S. S dashed to pieces and all on board were lost except exceptS S S one man that was picked up and tossed on the shore g i by hr y a roller Had there been a steamer following it iti i could have rendered no assistance and probably lild have shared sharp the same fate although the cir cir- Clr- Clr I seem to show that this steamers steamer's machinery ma ma- chinery must have been disabled It is S' S very very seldom eldom that a ship meets an accident t ci at once goes down and when they have a few r. r hours rs on all the main routes the wireless will bring fah thi em i rescue Under ordinary circumstances ships pg do donot not need help they are made to fight out the theS S storms torms and all ll the coasts are covered with life saving saving sav say ing Sing stations S Occasionally cc sion lly an accident comes codes which seems to toS tobe S bel be fate t it can hardly be explained any other way The ship that was lost in the Mediterranean was being driven before a tremendous storm In some someway someway someway way it got out of its course probably it was dis dis- disabled disabled and hurled upon the rocks and crushed in a aS S moment m Those things will happen The sea lies in wait and the winds are arc on guard and once in awhile a awhile awhile while they reap their revenge on poor humanity When men get over making mist mistakes kes there will not be any my more accidents When men get more wisdom there will be fewer accidents We read every every everyday day where families are burned up in houses and that has hau almost invariably been due to 10 the fact fact that when the man built the house he put in no back stairs a and d when the fir firs fira came it came right stairs left and the family perished mind the only |