| Show run A AB i L brilliant silver lining fringing n i ic 1 c black clOud cI l ull the tho of American of ot death leath seamen n In 11 th face the i story ato of of the tho Columbia ot O some orne of ot Its overwhelming All Ail reports that tho the Captain of li the doomed vessel took his bla on the tho bridge as ai soon ns as the thO th ship was truck nd that he directed the efforts to lO nave tho the passengers ln with calm deliberation until his hA voice volca wan WM heard no nJ nomore n more nore lila His last word Mortis w U Cod you ou nfl all Then ho lie h tool took firmly hold l of the tho railing of at tho bridge went wOnt r down clown with th his hill on nfl Instance of heroism jom that Ti ac U o of disasters That many of to the the survivors r oWe oe e their lives of at this the mon men ho he commanded Is 18 l doubt There Theft which to In lh few moments were but bt b it a fi I act Without ut a n determined com corn r tho the precious moments would The Tire have havo boon been lost Jost In Captain could perhaps have laved f himself but bitt ho Ire preferred d to dlo die trying to in aye avo o others other Another In tho tire story i of ot the disaster Is ta s that In which a a Bait Lake girl Bin HI MI tS was the U e heroine On a II raft In III company with other victims to toed sed about by h b the Iho thet her sweet iCet she sho lifted up t i waves CS to tr pons thereby Inspiring cour our age ORO and faith It Is ta n a beautiful episode Indeed of a tragedy The worst feature ot Of this disaster dl Is I that th It must bo be ascribed to t the tho somebody A fog to oa hanging over the water and the tho watch of r f the loCI Columbia did not see the ap approaching app p schooner before tho th col eel b was vaa unavoidable But Dut It tho the I had been blown as tho the lay requires the tho proximity of the tho ves WB vessels i sels to each other would havo been teen dis cuia discovered covered long lOll tho the hulk loomed up out of the tho tog fog Or If It the tho speed pd had hM hadnot not net been very much greater realer than It ought to be In a dense fog rog fo the thur would not have collided with a I force lI to sink ono one of thorn theft and crip cripple pie pIa the tho other It Ti appears that the where here the disaster dI ster occurred Is known as nil a fatal spot Eliot on the coast It Il was In that vicinity that tile the Pacific was wasi i struck by II a salting sailing vessel and null more inore tham people were lost Since then their the sea la Is said to have claimed more than 1 n a thousand souls In this thin fatal neighborhood The Tho Columbia Wall Walla Walla Fouth and City ot or hUe Ulo Janeiro havo all 1111 gone KlInt to their doom juht AS 85 quickly as r s the tho old went nearly 32 years eRrS ago The coast coart It seems need nee mod moll modern modS S ern ern em steamers for the passenger It Is hardly justifiable to entrust so HO many mommy lives es to tubs tub without t J n a un number of It watertight compartments When tho the boats b aru constructed on modern lines they are arc comparatively sate safe Disasters rs cannot bo avoided en entirely enI hut but no vessel with watertight t I compartments could euld be sent to the thO bottom ot of tho tim sea frea etl In iwo minutes by hy collision wRit with another vessel The he fate ate Ie I ot of the Columbia should bu bo a warning and a losson I son |
