Chief Political Assassinations Since 1865 Source: Various Official Accounts 1865-April 14. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in Washington; died April 15. 1870-Dec. 28. Prim, Marshal of Spain. 1872-Feb. 8. Earl of Mayo, Gov.-Gen. of India. 1876 June 4. Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Turkey. 1881-March 13. Alexander II, of Russia. -July 2. James A. Garfield, President of the United States, in Washington; died Sept. 19; Guiteau hanged, June 30, 1882. 1893-Oct. 28. Carter H. Harrison, Sr., Mayor of Chicago. 1894-June 24. Marie Francois Sadi-Carnot, President of France. 1895-July 25. Stanislaus Stambouloff, Premier of Bulgaria. 1896-May 1. Nasr-ed-Din, Shah of Persia. 1897-Aug. 8. Canovas Del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain. -Aug. 25. Juan Idiarte Borda, President of Uruguay. 1898-Feb. 18. Jose Maria Reyna Barrios, President of Guatemala. -Sept. 10. Empress Elizabeth of Austria. 1899 July 26. General Ulisses Heureuax, President of the Dominican Republic. 1900--Jan. 30. William Goebel, Governor of Kentucky. -July 29. Humbert, King of Italy. 1901-Sept. 6. William McKinley, President of the United States, in Buffalo; died Sept. 14. Leon Czolgosz executed, Oct. 29. 1903-June 11. Alexander, King of Serbia, and his wife, Queen Draga by army officers, in the palace, Belgrade. 1904-June 16, Bobrikoff, Gov. Gen. of Finland. 1905-Feb. 17. Sergius, Grand Duke of Russia. 1923-May 10. Vaslov Vorovsky, Soviet Russia's Minister at Rome, by M. A. Contradi, ex-Russian Army officer, Lausanne. June 4. Cardinal Soldevilla y Romera, Archbishop of Saragossa, near that city, in Spain. -June 29. Gen. J. C. Gomez, 1st Vice-President of Venezuela, killed in bed, in Caracas. July 20. Gen. Francisco "Pancho" Villa, ex1924-June 10. rebel leader, in Parral, Mexico. Giacomo Matteotti, moderate Socialist leader in Italian Parliament, kidnapped near Rome, slain body found, Aug. 15. 1925-Feb. 13. Prof. Nicola Mileff, Bulgarian Minister-Designate to the United States, antiagrarian, in Sofia. This was followed by the slaying of Communist Deputies Strachimiroff and Stoyanoff on Feb. 16 and March 6. -April 16. 200 were killed by the explosion of bombs in the Cathedral of Sveti Kral, in Sofia. at the funeral of Gen. Georghieff. The dead included Police Prefect Kissoff, Mayor Paskaleff.. ex-War Minister Davidoff; Gens. Naidencff, Nezrezoff, Loloff, Ziatereff and Popoff; Dept. Prefect Medelecheff. 1926-May 25. Gen. Simon Petlura, ex-Pres. of Ukrainian Repub., in Paris by a compatriot. 1927-June 7. Peter Lazarevitch Voikoff, Soviet Russian Minister to Poland, at Warsaw, by a 19-yr. Russian monarchist. -July 10. Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Irish Free State, near Dublin. 1928-May 20. Gen. Luis Mens, ex-President of Nicaragua, in Ponelova, by a countryman. -June 20. Stephan Raditch, leader of Croatian Peasant Party, Paul Raditch, his nephew; and Dr. George Basaritchik. -Dec. 30. Ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, Idaho.-July 17. Ex-President and President-elect. Gen. 1908 Feb. 1. Carlos, King of Portugal, and Louis Philippe, Crown Prince. 1909-Oct. 26. Prince Ito, of Japan. 1911-Sept. 14. Peter Stolypin, Premier of Russia. -Nov. 19. Ramon Caceres, President of the Dominican Republic. 1912 Nov. 12. Jose Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain. Alvaro Obregon of Mexico in San Angel near Mexico City. The assassin, Jose de Leon Torol, artist, was executed on Feb. 9. 1929. 1930-June 7. Dr. Albert von Baligand, German Minister to Portugal, Lisbon. -Nov. 14. Fremier Hamaguchi, Tokio. 1932-May 6. Paul Doumer, President of the French Republic, by Paul Gargolov, a Russian exile, Paris. 1913-Jan. 23. Nazim Pasha, Turkish Minister of May 16. Ki Inukal, 77, Japanese Premier, Tokio. war. -Feb. 23. Francisco I. Madero, President of -July 31. Jean L. Jaures, French Socialist leader. 1915-July 28. Guillaume Sam, President of Hayti. 1918-July 5. Gen. Count von Mirbach, German Ambassador to Russia, in Moscow. -July 16. Czar of Russia and family, in Ekaterinburg: at Perm, July 12, the Czar's brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexander. -July 31. German Field Marshal von Eichhorn, in the Ukraine. -Oct. 21. Count Karl Sturgkh, Austrian Premier, in Vienna. --Nov. Count Stephen Tisza, ex-Pres. Hung. Privy Council, in Budapest. -Dec. 14. Sidonio Paes, President of Portugal. 1919-Feb. 20. Habibullah Khan, Ameer of Afghanistan, in Laghman. -Feb. 21. Kurk Eisner, Bavarian Premier, in Munich; April 12, War Minister Neuring. in Dresden, Saxony; Oct. 8, Hugo Haase, Pres. Ger. Soc. Party, in Berlin. 1920-May 20. Gen. Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico, in Tlaxcaltenago. 1921-March 8. Dato, Premier of Spain, at Madrid. Aug. 26. Mathias Erzberger, ex-German ViceChancellor, near Offenberg, Baden. -Oct. 19. Portuguese Premier Antonio Granjo, Ex-Pres. Machado dos Santos, and two other high officials, Lisbon. -Nov. 4. Ta Kashi Hara, Japanese Premier, in Tokio, by Korean youth." 1922-June 22. Field Marshal Sir Henry H. Wilson, by two Irishmen in London. -June 24. Dr. Walter Rathenau, German Foreign Minister, by two German youths, in Berlin. -Aug. 22. Gen. Michael Collins, Irish Free State Premier, by rebels, near Bandon, County Cork. -Dec. 16. Gabriel Narutowicz. first President of the Polish Republic; by Capt. Niewadomski, an artist, in Warsaw. 1933-On Feb. 15, in Miami, Fla., Joseph Zangara, anarchist, born in Italy, shot at President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but a woman seized his arm, and the bullet fatally wounded Mayor Anton J. Cermak, of Chicago, who died March 6. Several others nearby were shot. Zangara pleaded guilty, was found sane, and was electrocuted on March 20, 1933. -April 30. Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, president of Peru, shot to death in Lima by Abelardo Hurtado de Mendoza, who was killed by guards. -June 6. Assis Khan, 56, elder brother of King Nadir of Afghanistan, shot to death in Berlin by an Afghan student Nov. 8. Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan, killed in Kabul by Abdul Khalliq, a student, who was executed on Dec. 16. -Dec. 29. Ion G. Duca, Premier of Roumania, in Sinai. by a student. 1934 July 25, in Vienna, Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria, by Nazis, who invaded the chancellery, put the Cabinet to flight, proclaimed the end of the regime, and began a revolt there and in Carinthia and Styria provinces. Otto Planetta, who was tried and convicted as the actual slayer, was hanged. -Oct. 9, in Marseilles, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and French Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou, by Vlada Chernozensky, a Bulgarian of Macedonian birth. -Dec. 1, Sergei Mironovich Kirov, of the Communist Political Bureau, friend of Stalin in Lenigrad, by Leonid V. Nikolaev, a former Soviet official. He and 13 others were tried and shot. 1935-Sept. 8. U. S. Senator Huey P. Long, shot in Baton Rouge, La.. by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss. who was slain by Long's body guards. Senator died on Sept. 10. The 1936-Feb. 26. Finance Minister Kore Kiyo Takahashi, 82; Admiral Makoto Saito, 78, ex-Premier: Admiral Sonoku Suzuki, Grand Chamberlain; and Gen. Jotaro Watanabe, 58, in Tokio: slain by army officers and men in a mutiny. 1940-Aug. 20, Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein), 63, exiled Russian war minister, by Frank Jackson (Jacques M. van den Dreschd), near Mexico City. The Record of Polar Explorations Source: National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., Gilbert Grosvenor, LL.D. (President) ARCTIC EXPLORATION (*Represents new records) | Cape Horn, and up the west coast, arriving at Callao, Peru, in the early summer of 1839. "The great achievement of the voyage was, of course, the expedition into the Antarctic in the winter of 1839-40. Leaving Sydney, New South Wales, the last wek in December, Wilkes spent the months of January and February, 1840, follow In January and February, 1840, Charles Wilkes, commander of America's first naval exploring expedition, sighted the Antarctic continent and then followed its coastline for a distance of more than 1,500 miles. Though not the earliest to glimpse land in the South Polar region, he was the first definitely to announce the existence of an Antarcticing the coastline of Antarctica until he had concontinent, according to Daniel C. Haskell, bibliographer of the New York Public Library, whose account of the expedition appears in a bulletin of that institution. The Squadron" says Haskell sailed from Norfolk, Va., Aug. 18, 1838, and headed first for the Madeira and Cape Verde Islands, then recrossed the Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro, worked its way down the east coast of South America, around RECENT POLAR Soviet Arctic-The ice-breaker, Sedoff, ice bound since October 23, 1937, reported on Aug. 29, 1939, that it had drifted to latitude 86° 39' North and longitude 47° 55', the farthest north ever reached by boat. This is about 250 miles from the North Pole. Under the leadership of Capt. K. S. Badigan, the crew of the Sedoff has made scientific observations concerning meteorology, oceanography, etc. The Sedoff was extricated by an ice breaker on Jan. 13, 1940. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S.N., returned to Antarctica early in 1939, by direction of the government and discovered and charted 900 miles of unknown coastline, by the combined use of his ship, the Bear, and an airplane. He found that the magnetic South Pole had shifted to the west. The coastline he explored consisted of a plateau about 3,000 feet high extending for perhaps 1,100 miles He left 33 men at West Base, near Little vinced himself that what he had discovered was in fact the Antarctic continent. The squadron reached New York in June, 1842, having been gone 3 years and 10 months and sailed a distance of 87,780 miles. The land which Palmer saw in 1820 is now supposed to have been the Antarctic Continent. The late Dr. Frederick A. Cook claimed to have discovered the North Pole on April 21, 1908. EXPEDITIONS Ellsworth Antarctic--In his ship the Wyatt Earp. which he had used for three previous Antarctic expeditions, Lincoln Ellsworth sailed from Capetown, October 29, 1938, and three months later reached the edge of the Antarctic Continent at Princess Elizabeth Land. On January 11, 1939, Ellsworth claimed 77,000 square miles of Antarctic Territory for the United States as a result of a flight over an area which he named this "American Highland." German Antarctic--A German Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Ritscher, on March 9, 1939. claimed for the Reich 231,660 square miles of territory in Crown Princess Maerta Land, which had previously been claimed by Norway. Notable Marine Disasters Since 1833 (Figures show lives lost. For lack of space, only more serious disasters, mainly in American waters commerce, are noted) or in American 1833-May 11. Ship Lady of the Lake, England to -Feb. 16. British ship Jane and Margaret, Eng- -Oct. 9. Steamboat Home, New York to Charles- -Oct. 29. Steamboat Monmouth sunk in collision on Mississippi River; 234. 1838-April 25. Steamboat Moselle blown up on Ohio River, near Cincinnati, Ohio; 100. grounded on Long Beach, N. Y.; 311. -May 10. Troopship Lady Nugent, from Madras. foundered in a storm; 400. Sept. 27. Steamer Arctic, from Liverpool, sunk in collision in fog, 40 miles off Cape Race, N. F.: 350. -Sept. 29. U. S. sloop of war, Albany, sailed from Aspinwall (now Colon), Panama, for New York: never heard from; 193. -Nov. 13. American-owned immigrant ship, New Era, from Bremen for New York, wrecked on No. Jersey coast, 15 miles below Sandy Hook: over 300. -Nov. 13-16. Eleven British Army transport wrecked, 6 disabled; steamship Prince sunk in storm, Black Sea; 500. 1855-May 1. Emigrant ship John wrecked of Falmouth; 200. 1856-Jan. 30. Chilian warship Cazador wrecked 314. ished at sea; 288. -June 14, Steamboat Pulaski, Savannah to Balti--Sept. 23. Steamer Pacific, Collins Line, van- -Nov. 25. Steamboat Gen. Brown, blew up on Mississippi River, at Helena, Ark.: 60. 1840 Jan. 13. Steamboat Lexington, New York to Stonington, burned off Eaton's Neck, L.I.: 140. -Aug. 9. Brig Florence, Rotterdam to New York, foundered off Newfoundland; 60. 1841-Feb. 19. Ship Governor Fenner, England to New York, sunk in collision off Holyhead, England; 122. -March 11. Steamer President, New York to Liverpool, with 136 persons on board; never heard from. -April 19. American ship William Browne, England to Philadelphia, sunk by iceberg: 70. -Aug. 9. Steamer Erie burned on Lake Erie; 175. 1844-Feb. 28. Steamers De Soto and Buckeye collide on Mississippi, Buckeye sinks: 60. -Oct. 23. Steamer Lucy Walker explodes three boilers at New Albany, Ind.; 50. 1846-Feb. 12. Steamer Tweed lost off Yucatan; 60. 1847-April 28. Emigrant ship Exmouth, Londonderry to Quebec; 200. -Nov. 19. Steamers Talisman and Tempest in collision on Ohio River; 100. -Nov. 21. Immigrant (Holland) Steamer Phoenix burned on Lake Michigan; 240. -Dec. 20. British steam frigate Avenger, wrecked off north coast of Africa; 200. 1848 Aug. 24. American emigrant ship Ocean Monarch, from Liverpool, burned off Carnarvonshire, North Wales; 200. 1849-Nov. 15. Steamer Louisiana explodes at New Orleans; 60. -Nov. 16. Emigrant ship Caleb Grimshaw burned; at sea; 60. 1850-March 30. Steamer Royal Adelaide wrecked -Aug. 20. Steamer Atlantic sunk by collision on Lake Erie; 250. 1853-Feb. 15. Steamship Queen Victoria, wrecked near Dublin; 67. -Feb. 16. The Independence burned off coast Lower California; 140. -May 3. Immigrant ship William and Mary, sunk at Bahamas; 170. -Sept. 29. Emigrant ship Annie Jane wrecked off coast of Scotland; 348. -Dec. 24. Steamer San Francisco, bound for -Jan. 28. Steamer Georgia, burned at New --March. Steamer City of Glasgow, Liverpool to Philadelphia, with 450 passengers, never heard -April 15. Steamer Secretary blew up in San Pablo, Cal. Bay; 50. from. -April, 16. Ship Powhatan, Havre to New York, -Sept. 24. Steamer Niagara, burned on Lake Michigan; 60. -Nov. 2. Steamer Lyonnals sunk off Nantucket in collision; 260. 1857-Feb. 26. Steamer Tempest, Anchor Line 150 on board; never heard from. -May 31. Steamer Louisiana, burned near Galveston, Tex.; 55. -June 26. Steamer Montreal, Quebec to Montreal. burned: 250. -Aug. 20. Ship Dunbar wrecked near Sydney. Australia; 120. -Sept. 12. Steamer Central America, Havana to New York, sunk; 400. 1858-June 13. Steamboat Pennsylvania exploded on Mississippi River, near Memphis; 160. -Sept. 13. Steamer Austria, Hamburg to New York, burned in midocean; 471. 1859-April 27. American ship Pomona, Liverpool to New York, wrecked; 400. -Oct. 25. Steamer Royal Charter wrecked on the Anglesea coast; 446. 1860-Feb. 19. Steamer Ondine, sunk in collision with Heroine, at Biddefork; 60. -Feb. 19. American ship. Luna wrecked off Barfleur; 100. -Feb. 19. Steamer Hungaria wrecked near Cape Sable, N. S.; 205. 1860-June 24. Steamer Ben W. Lewis, blew up at Cairo, Ill.; 50. Sept. 8. Steamer Lady Elgin sunk by collision on Lake Michigan; 300. 1863-Feb. 7. British steamer Orpheus wrecked off coast of New Zealand; 190. -April 27. Steamer Anglo-Saxon wrecked in fog off Cape Race, N. F.; 237. 1864-Nov. 4. British steamship Racehorse. wrecked off Chefoo, China; 99. 1865-April 27. Steamboat Sultana with exchanged Union prisoners of war aboard, destroyed on Mississippi River, 7 miles above Memphis, by boiler explosion; 1,450. -Aug. 24. Emigrant ship Eagle Speed foundered near Calcutta; 265. 1866 - Jan. 11. Steamer London foundered in Bay of Biscay; 220. -Jan. 30. Steamer Missouri, boilers exploded on Ohio River; 100. -Jan. 30. Steamer Miami, boilers exploded on Mississippi River; 150. -May. Steamer Gen. Grant, wrecked off New Zealand; 87. -Oct. 3. Steamer Evening Star, New York to New Orleans, foundered; 250. 1867-Oct. 29. Royal mail steamers Rhone and April 9. Steamer Sea Bird burned on Lake April 17. Anchor liner United Kingdom, van- -Dec. 4. Steamboats United States and America. burned on Ohio River, near Warsaw, Ill.; 72. 1869 Oct. 27. Steamer Stonewall burned below Cairo, Ill.; 200. 1870 Jan. 24. American ship Oneida sunk in collision off Yokohama; 115. -Jan. 28, Inman Line steamer City of Boston, New York (Jan. 28) to Liverpool, vanished at sea; 177. Sept. 7. British warship, Captain, foundered off Finisterre, Western Spain; 472. -Oct. 19. Steamer Cambraia lost off Inishtrahull; 170. -Oct. 20. Steamer Varuna, New York for Galveston, sunk off Florida coast; 72. 1871-Jan. 14. Steamer T. L. McGill, burned on Mississippi River; 58. were foundered; 150. -July 22. Spanish steamer Gigon and British steamer Lexham in collision off Cape Finisterre; both sunk; 150. -Sept. 22. British gunboat Wasp wrecked off Donegal; 52. 1885-Feb. 15. British steamship Humber left port, never heard from; 56. 1887-Jan. 20. Steamer Kapunda in collision with bark Ada Melmore off coast of Brazil; 300. -Jan. 27. Steamer Kensington collides with bark Templar off Cape Hatteras, both wrecked: 150. -Jan. 28. Steamer H. R. Arthur explodes; 87. -July 30. Staten Island ferryboat Westfield's-Nov. 19. Steamer W. A. Scholten sunk by boilers exploded in New York harbor; 100; 200 injured. -Dec. 23. Steamer America, Buenos Aires to Montevideo, burned; 60. 1872-April 11. Steamer Oceanus explodes; 40. ---Aug. 30. Steamer Metis sunk in collision on Long Island Sound; 50. -Nov. 7. The brig, Mary Celeste, left N. Y. harbor, under Capt. Benj. S. Briggs, laden with alcohol, bound for Genoa, 5 weeks later, found abandoned in the Atlantic, with all sails set, 300 miles west of Gibraltar. Crew never heard from. 1873-Jan. 22. British steamer Northfleet sunk in collision off Dungeness; 300. -April 1. White Star steamer Atlantic wrecked off Nova Scotia; 547. -Aug. 8. Steamboat Wawasset, burned in Potomac River; 75. collision in the English Channel; 134. 1888 Aug. 14. Steamship Geiser sunk by collision with the Thingvalla; 105. -Sept. 12. Italian steamship and steamship La 1890 Jan. 2. Steamer Persia wrecked on Island of Corsica; 130. Feb. 17. British steamer Duburg wrecked in China Sea; 400. March 1. British steamship Quetta wrecked off Cape York; 124. -July 13. Steamboat Sea Wing, overturned in storm on Lake Papin, Minn.-Wis.; 97. -Sept. 27. Steamship Ismailia, Anchor liner, lost-Sept. 19. Turkish frigate Ertogrul foundered at sea; 52. -Nov. 23. French Line steamer Ville du Havre, New York to Havre, in collision with ship Loch Earn and sunk in sixteen minutes; 230. 1874-Dec. 6. Emigrant ship Cospatrick burned at sea; 470. 1875-May 7. Hamburg mail steamer Schiller, wrecked in fog on Scilly Islands; 200. --Nov. 4. American steamer Pacific sunk by collision off Cape Flattery; 236. --Nov. 9. Steamer City of Waco, burned off Galveston; 53. -Dec. 6. Steamer Deutschland, Bremen to New York, wrecked at mouth of the Thames; 157. 1877-July 15. British steamer Eten wrecked off Valparaiso; 100. -Nov. 24. United States sloop-of-war Huron wrecked off North Carolina coast; 100. -Nov. Steamer Atacama wrecked off Caldera, Chile; 104. 1878 Jan. 31. Steamer Metropolis wrecked off North Carolina; 100.. -March 24. British training ship Eurydice foundered near the Isle of Wight; 300. - Sept. 3. British steamer Princess Alice sunk in collision in the Thames; 700. -Sept. 28. German steamship Hermann Ludwig, vanished at sea; 50. --Dec. 18. French steamer Byzantin sunk in collision in the Dardanelles; 10. off coast of Jap.; 540. Oct. 29. Steamship Viscaya, New York for Havana, sunk in collision off Barnegat, N. J.; 70. -Nov. 10. British cruiser Serpent wrecked in storm off coast of Spain; 167. -Dec. 27. British steamer Shanghai burned in China Sea; 100. 1891-March 17. Steamer Utopia, Anchor Line. sunk by collision off Gibraltar; 574. -April 16. British ship St. Catharis wrecked off Carolina Island; 90. -April 22. Chilean warship Blanco Encalada blown up in Caldera Bay; 200. -Sept. 10. Italian steamship Taormina sunk in collision in Mediterranean; 50. -Nov. 2. Steamship Enterprise sank in Bay of Bengal: 77. -Dec. 18. Steamer Abyssinia, Guion Line, burned at sea. 1892 Jan. 13. Steamer Namchow wrecked in China Sea; 414. -May 22. Brazilian warship sank near mouth of La Plata River; 120. -Oct. 28. Steamer Roumania, Anchor Line. wrecked off Portuguese coast; 113. 1893-Feb. 8. Steamer Trinacria, Anchor Line, wrecked off coast of Spain; 115. -Feb. 11. White Star steamer Noronic, Liverpool to N. Y. on maiden voyage; vanished. -May 29. British steamship Germania foundered in Bay of Bengal; 64. 1879-Feb. 12-16. Thirteen American Fishing schooners foundered off George's Bank, New--June 22. British battleship Victoria sunk by foundland; 144. -March 19. British steamship Bernicia, left port, never heard from; 45. 1880 Jan. 31. British training ship Atlanta left Bermuda with 290 men; never heard from. --Aug. 29. Steamer City of Vera Cruz foundered off Florida coast; 68. -Oct. 16. American steamer Alpena foundered on Lake Michigan; 60. -Nov. 24. French steamer Uncle Joseph sunk by collision off Spezzia; 250. 1881-May 24. Steamer Victoria, capsized in Thames River, Canada; 200. -June. U. S. Naval vessel, Jeanette, crushed in Arctic ice and sank 500 miles off Siberian coast. Commander G. W. De Long and 21 others were drowned, frozen or starved; 11 survived, including Lieut. G. W. Melville. The vessel had been in the ice pack since Sept. 1879. She had sailed from San Francisco in July, 1879, for the North Pole, having been bought and outfitted by James Gordon Bennett. --Aug 30. Steamer Teuton wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope; 200. 1882-July 4. Steamer Sciota wrecked in collision on Ohio River: 57. -Sept. 14. Northwest transit service steamer Asia, foundered between Ontario and Sault Ste. Marie: 98. 1883-May 3. Grapples burned near Bute Inlet, Vancouver Island; 70. -July 3. Steamer Daphne capsized in the Clyde; 124. 1884-Jan. 18. American steamer City of Columbus wrecked off Gay Head Light, Mass.; 99. -April 3. Steamer Daniel Steinman wrecked off Sambro Head, N. S.; 131. -April 18. Bark Pomena in collision with steamer State of Florida off coast of Ireland, both vessels collision with her sister ship Camperdown off Tripoli, Syria; 350. 1894-Feb. 2. 'United States covette Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef. -June 25. Steamship Norge, wrecked on Rockall Reef, North Atlantic; 600. -Nov. 1. Steamer Wairarapa wrecked off coast of New Zealand; 134. 1895-Jan. 30. German steamer Elbe sunk in collison with British steamer Crathie in Nor Sea; 335. March 11. Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta foundered in the Atlantic at entrance to the Mediterranean; 400. -May 28. French steamer Dom Pedro wrecked on coast of Galicia; 100. 1896 June 17. Steamer Drummond Castle wrecked off Brest, France; 250. 1898-Feb. 15. United States battleship Maine blown up in Havana harbor; 260. -July 4. French Line steamer La Bourgogne, in collison with British sailing ship Cromartyshire; 560. -Oct. 14. Steamer Mohegan, Atlantic Transport Line, wrecked off the Lizard; 170. -Nov. 26-27. Steamer Portland, from Boston, lost off Cape Cod; 157 passengers, also the crew. 1900-June 30. Fire at Hoboken destroyed or damaged several steamships including the Main, the Bremen and the Saale, and damaged North German Lloyd and Hamburg American docks; 145 lives lost; property damage over $10,000,000. 1901-Feb. 22. Pacific mail steamer Rio de Janeiro wrecked in San Francisco harbor; 128. -April 1. Turkish transport Asian wrecked in Red Sea: 180. -Aug. 14. Steamer Islander, with $3,000,000 In gold, struck an iceberg in Steven's Passage, Alaska, and sank in a few minutes in 365 feet of 1904-June 15. Steamship General Slocum took St. Lawrence River; 44; also on this day a great storm destroyed, on Lake Superior, the steamer Henry B. Smith, 26; on Lake Huron, the steamers John A. McGean, 23; Charles S. Price, 28; Isaac M. Scott, 26; Hydrus, 24; and Argus, 24, with many small craft. 1914-March 31. Sealing steamer Southern Cross wrecked south of Belle Isle Strait; 173. of Ireland sunk in collision with Danish collier Storstad in St. Lawrence; 1,024. -Sept. 18. Steam schooner Francis H. Leggett wrecked near mouth of Columbia River, Oregon; 80. fire going through Hell Gate, East River; 1,021.-May 29. Canadian Pacific steamship Empress -June 20. Russian submarine Dolphin sunk; 23. -June 28. Steamer Norge, wrecked off Scottish coast; 646. 1905-May 28. Russian battle cruiser, Admiral Nachimov, sunk in fight with Japan's fleet in Bay of Tsushima; loss of life unknown. The vessel carried $53,000,000 in gold. -July 6. French submarine Farfadet sunk; 14. -July 21. Boiler explosion on U. S. gun boat, Bennington, San Diego, Calif., 65. -Sept. 13. Japanese warship Mikasa sunk by explosion; 599. -Sept. 14. Australian submarine El failed to return from dive; 37. -Oct. 30. British hospital ship Robrilla wrecked on coast near Whitby, England; 54. 1915 March 24. U. S. submarine F4 failed to return after submerged run off Honolulu; 22. -April 3. Dutch steamer Prins Mauritz lost off Cape Hatteras; 59. 1906-Jan. 21. Brazilian battleship Aquidaban --Jan. 22. American steamer Valencia lost off -Aug. 4. Italian emigrant ship Sirio wrecked off -Oct. 21. 1907-Feb. 12. Steamer Larchmont sunk in Long -Feb. 21. British steamer Berlin stranded off the -Feb. 24. Austrian steamer Imperatrix wrecked; 137. -March 12. Explosion on French battleship Jena -July 20. American steamers Columbia and San 1908 March 23. Japanese steamer Matsu Maru -April 30. Japanese training cruiser Matsu Shima -Nov. 6. Steamer Taish sunk in storm; 150. 7. Cunard Line steamship Lusitania, Aug. 13-14. Steamship Marowijne, in Gulf of -Aug. 16. Dredge San Jacinto wrecked off Gal- -Aug. 16. Dredge Sam Houston wrecked off -Aug. 19. White Star liner, Arabic, sunk by -Nov. 7. Italian liner, Ancona, sunk in Mediter- 1910 Jan. 22. Steamship Pollentia foundered in mid-Atlantic. -Feb. 3. Steamer Daijin Maru sunk in Pacific: 160. -Feb. 26. French auxillary cruiser Province sunk in Mediterranean. Of nearly 4,000 on board but 870 were saved. June 5. British cruiser Hampshire sunk by German mine in Orkneys; Earl Kitchener and several hundred others lost. -Nov. 27. Steamer San Pablo sunk off the Philip--Aug. 29. United States cruiser Memphis wrecked pines; 100. 1909-June 12. Russian submarine Lambala ram- -July 4, British submarine CII sunk; 13. -Nov. 14. Steamer Scyne sunk in collison with at Santa Domingo; 33. --Aug. 29. Chinese steamer Hsin Yu sunk off coast of China; 1,000. -Aug. 29. Japanese steamer Wakatsu Maru -Oct. 20. Steamer Marida lost on Lake Erie; 20. in the Aegean Sea by a torpedo; 50. 1917-Jan. 25. British cruiser, Laurentic, sunk off Ireland, by mine; 350. 1910-Feb. 9. French Line steamer General --Nov. 21. British hospital ship, Britannic, sunk Chanzy wrecked off Minorca; 200. -May 26. French submarine Pluvoise sunk: 25. 1911-Feb. 2. Steamship Abenton wrecked: 70. -April 2. Steamship Koombuna wrecked; 150. -Sept. 5. Steamship Tuscapel wrecked; 80. -Sept. 25. French battleship Liberte sunk by explosion at Toulon; 285. -Nov. 23. Steamship Roumania sunk in Adriatic; 60. 1912-Jan. 11. Russ, Russian steamer, foundered in Black Sea; 172. -Feb. 8. American merchant ship, California, -July 9. The British warship Vanguard blown up at her dock in a British port; 800. July 27. Japanese freighter Koto Hira Maru wrecked on island near Alaska; loss, $1,000,000. -March 5. Spanish steamship Principe de Asturias-Oct. 17. U. S. transport, Antilles, torpedoed at struck rock off Sebastian Point and sunk: 500. sea; 70. -March 21. Passenger steamship Cachepol sunk-Dec. 6 U. S. destroyer, Jacob Jones, sunk off off coast of Peru; British officers, 25 passengers; Scilly Isles by German submarine; 64. crew of 45 Chilian sailors; 80. -Dec. 17. U. S. submarine F1 rammed and sunk by F3 in maneuvers off San Diego. Cal.; 19. -Dec. 30. British transport Aragon sunk in Mediterranean by torpedo; 610. -March 28. British steamship Koombana lost in typhoon off Australian coast; 130. -April 8. Nile excursion steamer, sunk in collision near Cairo, Egypt; 200. -April 14-15. White Star steamship Titanic sunk after collison with iceberg in North Atlantic; 1,517. -April 30. Steamer Texas blown up by mine at entrance to Gulf of Smyrna; 64. June 8. French submarine Vendemairo sunk; 24. -Sept. 23. Russian steamer Obnevka sunk in Dvina River; 115. -Sept. 28. Japanese steamer Kickermaru sunk off coast of Japan; 1,000. 1913-March 1. British steamer Calvadas lost in blizzard in Sea of Marmora; 200. -March 5. German torpedo-boat destroyer S-178 sunk in collison with cruiser Yorck, near Heligoland: 66. 1918 Jan. 21. British troopship, Louvain, sunk in -Feb. 1. French steamer, La Dive, sunk in -Feb. 5. Tuscania, British ship with U. S. troops -April 25. Chinese steamship Kiang-Kwan sunk -May 1. American steamship City of Athens -May 23. Moldavia, British ship with U. S. -March 7. British steamer Alum Chive destroyed-May 26. Leasowe Castle, British troopship, sunk by dynamite explosion, Baltimore; 50. -Oct. 9. Steamship Volturno wrecked by fire and explosion in midocean; 135. -Nov. 9. Steam collier Bridgeport wrecked in in Mediterranean by German submarine; 101. -May 31. U. S. troop transport, President Lincoln torpedoed by U-boat; 26. June. The U. S S. Cyclops, 19,300 tons dis |