Show DISASTERS DAY YESTERDAY sunday Novem november bet 20 is entitled to take rank as the most prom inset arnone among the days of disaster in recent times certainly no greater number of serious cases was ever crowded into the same space in a time of peace beginning with the wreck of the daleb steamer scholten off dover england and the loss of lives the chain chain grows link by link till it reaches the inevitable railway disaster this time is ib mexico near the texas line liae tae former was however more terrible than all the others combined than anything of its kind in a great many years the terrors errors tf of the situation being beina heightened by the fact that there was so little apparent cause for far it the ordinary precautions taken on such occa occasions gions when vessels are befogged and belated would have obviated the terrible tragedy altogether but it seems the ship with which the scholten collided was at anchor in a haze hae so thick that ordinary lights could not be seen at any distance and that instead of blowing her whistles occasionally and koeving keeping strong side lights out conti continually auel ly she did neither and the ill isted fated steamer ran squarely against her sieving in both dows but receiving so much greater injury than was inflicted that ahe filled rapidly and sank in twenty minutes the scenes that followed the collision are poorly described bed and yet the presentation of them is adf awful ul men shouting women shrieking and children crying must have made up a tumult the tike like of which is fortunately seldom heard the heroism of two or three of the passengers passenger the cowardice and bel selfishness fishiness fish ness of most of the dutch sailors tors the general excitement the floundering in the water the inky arky blackness of the night and the icy i coldness of the waves were circumstances which any one of the eighty survivors r s will doubtless be able to bring brine up before him as vividly OH oa the last day of his life as now it was truly a terrible tragedy |