INEXCUSABLE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 12.

In speaking of the great loss of the steamer Rio de Janeiro, an Eastern paper truly says:—

“The loss of one hundred and thirty-five lives by the wreck of the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, when she was approaching the Golden Gate and struck a sunken rock, is a tragedy as appalling as it seems inexcusable; and the vessel was in the hands of the pilot. And then, how is it that in these days of water-compartment-built steamers this great vessel went down in a quiet sea? And how was it that this perilous rock had not been removed, in whole or in part? These and other questions will present themselves, and the public will demand some answer. Over sixty millions for harbors, and rivers, and creeks, and a great ship, with its freight of human lives, is destroyed in a moment at the entrance to one of the finest harbors of North America. What an anomaly! What an inexcusable tragedy!”