1894, Nov. 1.--Steamship Wairaro wrecked off New Zealand; 134 lives lost. 1894, June 25.--Steamship Norge wrecked on Rockall Reef in North Atlantic; nearly 600 lives lost. 1895, Jan. 30.--German steamship Elbe, sunk in collision with British steamship Grathie in North Sea; 335 lives lost. 1895, March 11.--Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta foundered in Atlantic at entrance to Mediterranean; 400 lives lost. 1898, July 2.--Steamship Bourgogne rammed British steel sailing vessel Cromartshire and sank rapidly; 571 lives lost. 1904, June 15.--General Slocum, excursion steamboat with 1400 persons aboard; took fire going through Hell Gate, East River; more than 1000 lives lost. 1905, Sept. 12.--Japanese warship Mikasa sunk after explosion in Sasebo harbor; 599 lives lost. 1907, Feb. 12.--Steamship Larchmont in collision with Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives lost. 1907, Feb. 21.--English mail steamship Berlin wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives lost. 1907, Feb. 24.--Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, wrecked on Cape of Crete and sunk; 137 lives lost. 1907, Jan.--British steamship Pengwern foundered in the North Sea; crew and 24 men lost. 1907, Jan.--Prinz Waldemar, Hamburg-American line, aground at Kingston, Jamaica, after earthquake; 3 lives lost. 1907, Feb.--French warship Jean Bart, sunk off coast of Morocco. 1907, March.--Steamship Congo sunk at mouth of Ems river by German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives lost. 1907, March.--French warship Jena, blown up at Toulon; 120 lives lost. 1907, July.--Steamship Columbia, sunk off Shelton Cove, California, in collision with steamship San Pedro; 50 lives lost. 1908, Feb. 3.--Steamship St. Cuthbert, bound from Antwerp to New York, burned at sea on Nova Scotia; 15 lives lost. 1908, April 25.--British cruiser Gladiator rammed by American liner St. Paul off Isle of Wight; 30 lives lost. 1908, July.--Chinese warship Ying King foundered; 300 lives lost. 1908, Aug. 24.--Steamship Folgenenden wrecked; 70 persons lost. 1908, Nov. 6.--Steamship Taish sunk in storm off Etoro Island; 150 lives lost. 1911, Feb. 2.--Steamship Abenton wrecked; 70 lives lost. 1911, April 23.--Steamship Asia ran aground; 40 lives lost. 1911, Sept. 5.--Steamship Tuscapel wrecked; 81 lives lost. 1911, Oct. 2.--Steamship Hatfield in collision and sunk; 207 lives lost. 1911, April 2.--Steamship Koombuna wrecked; 150 lives lost. HUNDREDS WEEP AT MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD FOR “ARCHIE” BUTT. Fifteen hundred sincere mourners for Major Archibald W. Butt, lost on the Titanic, wept unashamed at his home in Augusta, Georgia, on May 2, when President Taft called his former aid affectionately by his first name and choked with tears as he paid a personal tribute to the army officer.