Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-08

TERRIBLE DISASTER At SEA
| Wreck of the steamer Schiller and
Loss of 2GO Lives.
| LONDON. May ~.-lntelligencc o. 4 shock
| irg marine disaster has just reached this city
| The Eagle lire steamship Schiller. Captain
| Thomas. which sailed from New York April
18Th Tor Hamburg. by way Of Plymouth an
| IheTbourg. has been wrecked OF the Sg.lly
| Isles. II Is believed that 20) persons Fay,
| persisted.
ON the Rocks nj Midnight.
| LONDON, May :, l2.59 p. m.-Ad9itioua'
| particulars thus far received Of the wreck q.
the steamship Schiller show that the diSsS-
| ter Is fully as terrible a. at first reported.
| The accident occurred at one O'Clock thi,
| morning, 3t which hour the steamship struck
| on the dangerous RetarTere lodges near
| Bishops Rock y fog prevailed az the time
| y boat belonging TO st. Agnes. the southern
| most of the Scilly Islands. has landed some
| of the survivors OF the wreck at -. Marv's
| Island. another OF the Scillys. These sur
| viVorS We're picked up while swimming with
| the tide. They hal several narrow escapes
| from drowning. and were a uumber Of times
! washed OF q rock. They declare the number
Of lives lost by the disaster To be 2ll. \ fear
fnl sea j. raging, and 10 il scarcely posi- BILE
! for boats engaged i2 searching for survivors
! 10 live. The Scilly iife5Oat has pa, OF for
! the wreck.
Only seven Survivors.
| LONDON. May :. 4. MP so this hour
five passengers 3Bd two OF the CREW %. the
| steamship Schiller are known To have been
SdAtl. II - NfDitt ititI tle c2faf tllt ftlH
| second mate were drowned. The steamship
! is now lying brO3d>ide on the rocks. She r.
under wa er and ner maiumaSt - gone. A
steamer and several boats are cruising about
| the SceTe Of the wreck searching for survi-
| vors. The disaster was owing 10 the tense
| FOG. which prevented either o. the Scills
! lights being seen.
Excitement in London.
| LONDON, May s, =. m--Tne wTccr OF t1o
| steamship Schiller has caused great excite
| ment in this city. ExtrGS containing all the
| particulars at hand OF The diSa7ter have been
issued by several OF the newspapers. Later
| Dispatches hold ont the hope That some per
| sons may have escaped and reached O;ner OF
| the Scilly islands.
| The Inflated Shin. and her Captain.
NEW YORK. May s-The agents "a New
| York of the Eagle line say that Captain
| Thomas. Of the Schiller. was the oldest om-
| mander i'm the line: that he was for many
| years in the employ OF the PENINSULA and
| Oriental company, and that he OccIpied a
| high place among British sailors. II ? was
with great difficulty induced TO leave the
| British service to enter that OF the Eagle
| line. The Schiller was one OF the newest and
| best boats in the trans continental service
| large and strong, and constructed o. the
| latest pattern. She was built on the Clyde.
| by Robert Napier 4 Sons. Her sister ship is
| the Leasing. These two vessels left this port
! for home denSely crowded, being the first 10
| take advantage of the opening of the spring
| travel To Europe. They We're the last two
! steamers that sailed under the iag % the
| Eagle lire. which had been consolidated with
| departure of the Schiller the company VeS-
| sells had gone out with light passenger lists.
THE DIMENSIONS OF THE SCHILLER
! were as follows Length, 3iJ feet; beam, go
| feet: depth of hold. - feet: height OF SpaY
! deck, feet ! inches; height OF lower deck,
/ feet inches; 5000 tons burthen, aud 5000 in
| dictated horse power, and was claSSei AT
| IlOyd'S 100 \ l. She was full brig rugged
| had eight large life boats and three iron
| decks. Herengine was Of the compound yer
| teal diTCct-acting principle, hal two cylin-
| % diameter.
| six inch stroke OF piston, and could run the
| vessel fourteen 10 fifteen miles an hour. Her
| boilers were four in number. with six fur-
/ naceS TO each: shafts OF steel eighteen inches
| i'm diameter. Her screw had f0ur hlaleS, was
| nineteen feet in diameter, and had twenty
! nine feet pitch. She is said to have been
/ built according to the requirements Of the
! Lloyd marine insurance, and TO have pos
! SeSSed every known appliance for safety.
! She was valued at seven hundred Thousand
! dollars. and was insured for her FUN va.ue
| Her crew consisted of l24 men, including Of
! hcerS. She carried six kegs, containing
/ 500, 900 gold, shipped by +. s. Balm & Co.
! bankers. of u Exchange Place, in this city.
| 10 +. :. Ballih Il Co, Paris. and 20 mail
| bags, containing the entire continental ma il.
| together with large Australian mail. Her
| cargo consisted OF general merchandise, III
! GLIDING 500 bales of cotton, 2.5l3 barrels OF
| rOSin. 1000 bushels of corn, and a large con-
! signment OF leaf tobacco.
! GRIEF AND TERROR OF THE FRIENDS OF
! THE LOST.
| The offices OF the company IN this city We're
/ besieged during the morning by friends o.
! those who sailed in the vessel. and the scenes
/ Of distress which resulted from cOufrma-
/ ton OF the news that the vessel had been lost
| were pitifUl 10 behold. One man, VINO hal a
| wife and two children on hoard. fell into a
] faintiug fit on being informed OF the fate Of
his family, and loud wallIngS were To be
/ heard on all sides.
AMONG THE CABIN PASSENGERS
! were a large number Of New Workers aud
/ adflphians, including many ladies',
! several western families; also, Mr.. VIM.
Taa e g .,s,sr. a,s
/ Havana; Mrs. VIM. Zach, his wife; Miss
Margaret Zach: also, Miss Caroline VI.
! Crane. Washington, ID. g; Mrs. Lena kircn-
! meier, Baltimore.
List Of the Saved.
LONDON, May ;. go p. NIP 10 this hodr
! II is known that the following perSOas have
/ been saved from the wreck of the Schiller
! II. Killers. chief officer, and a seaman:
! Lemke and Balling stokers; GOuldberg,
/ Wallis, Peterson ana Peck, sal Tors; Louis
Reiderer, caOin passenger OF New YORK;
/ Stern. probably DIR. +. j. Stern. cabin pas
/ senger of Shenandoah, Pa.;) Khun, (pro-
badly Mr.. L. Kuhn, cabin passenger of New
J York; Peste, probably Mr.. Leo WeSte'
! cabin passenger Of Philadelphia.) and r.
/ Schillerberg, q Steerage passenger Of New
| York. Bodies of two dead passengers have
| been landed. Steamers and life boats are
| still searching for survivors or the bodies OF
| the drownded.
The Sea Still Rough.
| LONDON, May 3, p. ma dispatch just
| received here from PenZance, Cornwall, says
|
O'Clock this afternoon for the scene of the
| wreck amid intense excitement. The sea is
| still rough, preventing small craft from going
| out Retarriere lodges. on which the Schil-
| Ter struck, is barely third of mile inside
| of Bishops rock. and the steamship should
| have heard the Bishop fog bell.
Twenty.sfX More Survivors,
LONDON, May 6, p. m.-TwSdty-six of the
| persons who We're on aoafd the Schiller, in
| addition TO those before reported saved, have
f, Landed at Trescow and Buyer islands, be-
/ longing TO the Scilly group. Among these
| are the second, TIL I'd and fourth officers. The
| captain is certainly drowned.
| The SchllIer-s Steerage Passengers.
NEW YORK, May s.-The Schiller's steer
| age passenger list comprised 100 adults, l6
| children between the ages OF one and Ten
! years and four infants.
A Tannery Rurned.
| MCCoNNELLSBURG, PA, May sine Big
| Cove tannery, owned by Parker kerper,
| nine miles north of here, was burned to-day.
| The fire is still raging, and engines have been
| sent from hereto save the adjoining build