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The Rugby Gazette And East Tennessee News
Rugby, Morgan County, Tennessee
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Annual U.S. Life-Saving Service report from Washington details 203 stations handling 256 vessel disasters, saving 2,196 of 2,206 lives and $3.35M of $4.6M property, with 56 total losses; lowest fatalities since 1880 expansion.
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An Encouraging Report from a Most Praiseworthy Department.
WASHINGTON, November 29.—The annual report of the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service shows that at the close of the last fiscal year the establishment embraced 203 stations, 157 being on the Atlantic, thirty-eight on the lakes, seven on the Pacific and one at the falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. The number of disasters to documented vessels within the field of station operations during the year was 256. There were on board these vessels 2,206 persons, of whom 2,196 were saved. The estimated value of the vessels involved in these disasters was $3,519,550, and that of their cargoes $1,084,905, making the total value of property imperiled $4,604,455. Of this amount $3,352,760 was saved. The number of vessels totally lost was fifty-six. The total loss of life within the scope of the service is the smallest ever reached since its general extension, except in the year 1880, when but nine were lost. Since that time, however, the field of operations has been greatly enlarged by the addition of twenty stations, in localities especially selected on account of their dangerous character.
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Event Date
November 29
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2,206 persons on board 256 documented vessels, 2,196 saved (10 lost); $4,604,455 property imperiled ($3,519,550 vessels + $1,084,905 cargoes), $3,352,760 saved; 56 vessels totally lost; smallest loss of life since general extension except 1880 (9 lost)
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Annual report of General Superintendent of Life-Saving Service: 203 stations (157 Atlantic, 38 lakes, 7 Pacific, 1 at falls of Ohio, Louisville, Ky.); 256 disasters to documented vessels within station operations; field enlarged by 20 stations in dangerous localities since 1880