Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Everett, Marshall

Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks

Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ia in colhsion withBritish steamer Anson off Gibraltar and sunk; 574lives lost. 1893, June 22—British battleship Victoria sunk in col-lision with the Camperdown off. Syria; 357 liveslost. 1894, June 25—Steamer Norge wrecked on RockallReef in North Atlantic; nearly 600 lives lost. 1895, January 30—German steamer Elbe, sunk in col-lision with British steamer Crathie in North Sea;335 lives lost. 1895, March 11—Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta foun-dered in Atlantic at entrance to Mediterranean; 400lives lost. 210 WRECK OF THE TITANIC 1898, July 2—Steamship Bourgogne rammed Britishsteel sailing vessel Cromartyshire and sank rapidly;571 lives lost. 1904, June 15—General Slocum, excursion steamboatwith 1,400 persons aboard; took fire while goingthrough Hell Gate, East River; more than 1,000lives lost. 1905, September 12 — Japanese steamship Mikasawrecked by explosion; 599 lives lost. 1907, February 21—English mail steamship Berlinwrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives lost.

Text Appearing After Image: €*V*~< « CHAPTER XXIV THE TRAGEDY OF THE SEABy Rev. Andrew Johnson And the sea gave up its dead.—^Rev. 20;13. Prophets have prophesied, poets have sung of thesea, sailors have sounded its hidden depths and paintershave painted its glory and its gloom. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean;Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Today the attention of a civilized world is focusedupon the fell disaster—that greatest of all disasters ofthe sea. The dark graveyard of the Atlantic hasunfolded its bosom and taken to its trust over fifteenhundred human victims. The catastrophe speaks a various language andmakes a lasting impression upon art, science, business,government and religion. The startling news of thetragedy for the past days has flashed over the wires,appeared on the pages of the press and lingered on theUps of the public. It has fallen everywhere as the i( words of a fatal song. 211 212 WRECK OF THE TITANIC These warning tones of the Titanic s fate will nodoubt ring

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