| Show E RECORD RECORD-OF OF FIRES FIRES- AT SEA APPALLING Average A of One Ona Steamer Jearner Dam Darn r aged Ev Every ry Day Days LOST IN INSE SEVEN SE N YEARS A Majority of Disasters Were Were Accompanied Accompanied Accompanied by Heavy L Loss ss of Life Fate Life Fate of Many Ships Ships Lost Before Days o of t. t Wireless Unknown but No Doubt Many Were Burned New York FIre Fire at sea has caused H heavy loss of life lite in the the past century 4 In lu the days before the tu Invention ol of wireless many vessels left port anc and were were never heard beard from again What proportion of these suffered d from fire and what proportion were lost ost In other ways no one knows An average R of one steam vessel has hus been destroyed or damaged oo by b fire lire every ery every day for the la last t se seven seen n years anc anca and o. o a a- a half according to fi figures res compiled complied at th the bureau burrou of ot Paris which keeps kelil a complete register of maritime casualties From Jan 1 1 1006 1000 until Tune June 30 1913 steam vessels were destroyed v by lire fire and In the same same period 2447 steam vessels were partially burned Tue record of ship fires appears to increase increase in in- crease each year in 1906 1006 there were fires In 1007 1907 there were the I next year there were gm in 1909 1009 there i were In 1910 there w were re In 1911 1011 there were last year ye r. r there were and in Iu the first six months mouths of 1913 of 1913 there were In 1912 1012 and the first half halt of 1 1913 13 these vessels were destroyed by bi fire tire Isea Axel Snorre Sidney y C. C McLouth Florida i cL Kull Kullervo n Haft Baft sund Varella t Dunholme Lally Lalli John I. I Brady ills ills- paula pania Perdita Estonia Alum Chine Frost Prost Charles Nels Nelson n and Ophir Twenty nine st steam am vessels had bad tires fires r f in June last T Among mong the known losses of ships b by i. i fire one of the first Was that of th thErie the Erie a lake steamboat which was wa burned on Lake Erie on Au Aug 9 fl 1841 1841 with with- witha a loss of lives Alves On Ou Nov No 21 21 1347 the steamer Phoenix was WUK burned on Lake Michigan an with a loss los of lives On Aug 24 1848 the American emigrant ship Ocean MO Monarch f t S s k Cr p 1 S At a y N d 1 OAl AIN INCH mou COMMANDER OP OF DU BURNED NED VOLTURNO Liverpool f for r New York was was' burned horned off eft the coast const of Wales Wale and about souls wore were lost Another steamer on the great l likes lakes the Griffith was burned burned burn burn- ed on ou Ial Lake e EriE Erie on June 17 1850 O with witha fl a loss of life of or persons Tire transatlantic ste steamship zon was burned oft off the Scilly Islands on on Jan 24 lR 1St with a n l loss ss of lives A year rear lat later r.- r. on Feb 10 lr 1853 persons per- per Bons sons jons' were killed in the burning of tillIn till the In Independence oft off the coast roast of Lower Low Low- er California Ca lIfo Ill I'll I a. a A A St. St Lawrence river rIvel steamer r. nm the Montreal on her er way to Montreal J was wa burned on June JUDO Zit 1857 1557 the death toll be being In 20 persons The accident of Its kind Lind up to that was the tilt burning in fn r. r ti Au Austria bound from Ha to New ew York Four hundred and one seventy ent one persons lost their lives fives s In III this disaster Tb The great lakes kt R l again come Into th the list liston t on flu April 9 0 fl with the burning of the steamer 1111 Sea U Hill Bird on nl Lu Lake iw gan nn In which lives 1 were lost On OCt t. 27 of t the hp following following- year ar a 1 leis MIs- the Stone Stone- river rl steamboat wall was burned h 1 just of f Cairo III Iud anti wore were killed A disaster of practically the same proportions as ns that of or the Austria d on IU Dec C. C t jJ whets when the file III a It ship In life emigrant mt currying bu hn ln ss burned and killed The eighties elg had h their share of marine marine ma ma- I rine disasters disaster lint hot fire fir yas II not a fi feature fea tea tore ture of them On Oil hi 20 O. O 1 IRIO RII the British steamship ite ill was burned horned hum horn ed In the tilt hint hintea sei ea with with th the 10 loss of passengers Mini 1111 rt rew The TIlt Abys- Abys of the Onion Poe line hound bound from New Kew York fur for Th Ll eri vas was l.-was ns burned n nt ut t spa sea n ou on De Ike 1 IS The North orth trman i d ste sh i p came ame along olon and saved 11 Hi lives |
