Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-08
STEAMSHIP DISASTER.
The schiller Wrecked on SclIE Isle.
Two Hundred Passengers supposed
10 Have Persisted.

LoNDoS, May S,-The Eagle Line
steamship Schiller, Captain Thomas,
which sailed from New York on April
Is, for Hamburg by way Of Plymouth
and ChesbOurg, has been wrecked of the
Seilly Isles, and it is reported that two
hundred persons have persisted.
1880 p.m.-Additional particulars re-
eeived Of the wreck of the steamship
Schiller show that the disaster is fully as
terrible as at first reported. The acct
dent occurred at 10 o'clock last night, at
which hour the steamship struck on dan
gerous retarriere lodges near Bishops
Rock, a heavy fog prevailing atthe time.
A boat belonging to ST. Agnes, the south
ermost Of the Sicily Islands, has landed
some Of the survivors Of the wreck at St.
Mary's Island, another Of the Scillys.
These survivors we're picked up while
swimming with the tide. They had sew
eral narrow escapes from drowning and
we're a number of times washed off the
rock to which they attempted to cling.
They declare the number of lives lost by
the disaster to be two hundred. A fear
full sea is raging, and it is scarcely posi-
BILE for boats engaged in searching for
the survivors to live. The Scilly life
boat has put off Tor the wreck.
lp.m.-Up to this hour, in this city,
! only FIVE passengers and two Of the crew
of the steamship Schiller are known to
have been saved. The captain and Sec
ond mate were drowned. The steam
ship is now lying broadside on the rocks.
Size is under water and her mainmast is
gone. A steamer and several boats are
cruising about the scene Of the wreck.
The disaster wal owing to the dense fog
which prevented either Of the Scilly
lights being seen.
2p.m.-The wreck Of the Schiller
causes great excitement in this city.
Extras are published containing all the
particulars at hand. Later dispatches
hold out the hope that some of the pas
sengers and crew may have reached other
Of the Scilly Islands than those already
mentioned.
2:9O p.m.-Up to this hour it is known
that the following persons have been
saved from the wreck: d. Killers, chief
officer; a seaman, Lempke and Boiling,
stokers; Geuldberg, Wallis, Peterson and
Peck, sailors; Louis Rederer, cabin pas
senger, Of New York; Kern, probably f.
j. Kern, cabin passenger, Of Shenan-
doah, Pa. Kuhn, probably E. Kuhn,
cabin passenger, of New York; Peste,
probably Leo W. Peste, cabin passenger,
Of Philadelphia, and F. S~chillenberg
steerage passenger, of New York. The
bodies of two dead passengers have been
recovered by the steamer and lifeboats
3p.m.-A dispatch inst received here
from P~iersance, Cornwall, says life
boats and a steamer left there al l:3C
pm. for the scene OF the wreck. The
sea is still rough, preventing the small
crafts from going out. The Pietarriert
lodges on which the Schiller struck il
barely . third Of a mile inside o.
Bishop rock, and the steamship should
have heard the Bishop fog bell.
5 p.m.-Twenty-six Of the person.
who we're on board the Schiller, 10 add
ton to those reported saved, have beer
landed at Trescon and Dryer Islands o
the scilly group. Among these are tht
second, third and fourth officers. The
Captain is certainly drowned.
PLYMOUTH, May 8.-The agent at thil
place Of the Eagle Line has proceeded
to Scilly. A gun was heard at 10 o'clocI
this morning near the scene Of the dis
aster.
New YoRK, May s.-The Schille
i, sailed from this port with l49 passen
. gers. The agents here Of the Eagl
Line say that Captain Thomas, Of tbI
Inflated Schiller, wal the oldest CON
/. mander in the Line. He was for man,
years in the service Of the Peninsula
o and Oriental Company, and occupied
A high place among British sailors, an,
was With difficulty induced to leave tn
q British service to enter that Of the Eagl
Line. The Schiller was one of the new
est and best boats in the trans-continen
q tai service, large and strong, and con
. structed on the latest pattern. She wa
built on the Clyde by Robert Napier I
Sons. Her sister ship is the Leasing
s These two vessels left this port for hom
t densely crowded, being the first to TAX
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