But to the one wounded ship that survives collision with a berg, a dozen perish. Presumably, when the shock comes, it loosens their bulkheads and they fill and founder, or the crash may injure the boilers or engines, which explode and tear out the sides, and the ship goes down like a plummet. As long ago as 1841, the steamer President, with 120 people aboard, crossing from New York to Liverpool in March, vanished from human ken. In 1854, in the same month, the City of Glasgow left Liverpool for Philadelphia with 480 souls, and was never again heard of. In February, 1856, the Pacific, from Liverpool for New York, carrying 185 persons, passed away down to a sunless sea. In May, 1870, the City of Boston, from that port for Liverpool, mustering 191 souls, met a similar fate. It has always been thought that these ships were sunk by collision with icebergs or floes. As shipping traffic has expanded, the losses have been more frequent. In February, 1892, the Naronic, from Liverpool for New York; in the same month in 1896, the State of Georgia, from Aberdeen for Boston; in February, 1899, the Alleghany, from New York for Dover; and once more in February, 1902, the Huronian, from Liverpool for St. John's--all disappeared without leaving a trace. Between February and May, the Grand Banks are most infested with ice, and collision therewith is' the most likely explanation of the loss of these steamers, all well manned and in splendid trim, and meeting only the storms which scores of other ships have braved without a scathe. TOLL OF THE SEA Among the important marine disasters recorded since 1866 are the following: 1866, Jan. 11.--Steamer London, on her way to Melbourne, foundered in the Bay of Biscay; 220 lives lost. 1866, Oct. 3.--Steamer Evening Star, from New York to New Orleans, foundered; about 250 lives lost. 1867, Oct. 29.--Royal Mail steamers Rhone and Wye and about fifty other vessels driven ashore and wrecked at St Thomas, West Indies, by a hurricane; about 1,000 lives lost. 1873, Jan. 22.--British steamer Northfleet sunk in collision off Dungeness; 300 lives lost 1873, Nov. 23.--White Star liner Atlantic wrecked off Nova Scotia; 547 lives lost. 1873, Nov. 23.--French line Ville du Havre, from New York to Havre, in collision with ship Locharn and sunk in sixteen minutes; 110 lives lost. 1874, Dec. 24.--Emigrant vessel Cospatrick took fire and sank off Auckland; 476 lives lost. 1875, May 7.--Hamburg Mail steamer Schiller wrecked in fog on Scilly Islands; 200 lives lost. 1875, Nov. 4.--American steamer Pacific in collision thirty miles southwest of Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost. 1878, March 24.--British training ship Eurydice, a frigate, foundered near the Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost. 1878, Sept. 3.--British iron steamer Princess Alice sunk in the Thames River; 700 lives lost. 1878, Dec. 18.--French steamer Byzantin sunk in collision in the Dardanelles with the British steamer Rinaldo; 210 lives lost.