New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-10
AN OCEAN HORROR.



tive of Mcckcnburg Germany This was his first trip In
the mployment of the kaslo Line.
The Chief Engineer L. Fahrlg who was lost WAS
Prusan about IS years OF age, and bore IN excellent
repniation His wife and two children reside in HAM
burc He formerly served on steamers between Ham
burg and Valparaiso and Hamburg and Zanzibar
f schmet.on the purser, a Hamburg merchant
forty years Of age.
Dr. A. Ball. the ships surgeon. sick in Philadelphia
at Ina time the sailing OF the Schiller and the services
Of DR. A. Sanders OF the W. A. soholten Of the
Observation-Disclosures Steamship Company were OBJ
tanned DR. Sanders considered young man OF
unusual promise. He native of Rotterdam. ana
was graduated at Utrecht. He took this trip on the
Schiller while his own vessel was under repair in New
York.
OF the other officers only little in New York
bat e ncmcn concerted with the Company state that all
were experienced and competent and were consid
cred thoroughly trustworthy by the Company
THE LOST VESSEL AND HER CARGO.
TrrF SCHILLER ONE OF THE FINEST OF ATLANTIC
Observation-Disclosures MAILS, CONSIDERABLE TREAS
URK, AND A GENERAL CARGO CARRIED.
The schiller was the third of eight iron
steamer. built on clyde for the Eagle line. the Others
being the Goethe Herder. Leasing. WIcland. Gellcrt
Klolstock and Werner The lost steamer was built at
Glasgow nv Robert Napier sons. and was launched in
the latter part OF s73 making her first trip IN February,
1874. The dimensions or the schiller were
Length 375 feet BEAM 40 feet; depth Of hold ~ feet
hight of spar deck feet inches hight of lower deck
: feet inches. The schiller of 5000 tons burden
and her machinery of 5000 indicated horsepow
She rated 100 Al at Lloyd's and a Veriias
The steamer was provided with eight large febOats.
and was divided into watertght compartments
The engines powerful and in good condition; the
boilers we're four in number with six furnaces TO each
The screw the H!rsch pattern had four blades, was
diameter, and had 20 feet pitch The ,chlers
stated built according TO the requirements
OF LOyds Marine Insurance, and to have possessed all
The known appliances for safety The vessel Was ir
nshcd with engines besides the working ones and with
n steam steering apparatus The cabins and saloons
large and handsomely fitted mp, while the state
rooms situated fore and aft or the saloons from
which they entirely separated The storage was
eight feet high lighted by side windows and was divided
into sections accommodating from twenty persons.
The schiller ranked with the finest of the Atlantic steam
ers and cost originally $SOOO00 in god. The steamer
was insured for her fun European companies.
THg VESSELS BURDEN.
The following is a list the mails board tho Schll-
cr: For London 81 bags of letters and papers for v-
erpoOl II hays Of letters and papers; for Glasgow
bags Of letters and papers; for Dublin II
bags OF letters and papers for CherbourS and
Paris II bags letters and papers; for Hamburg II
bags and papers. The total number OF letters
Ii 10000 la addition 10 these there was on board the
entire regular transcontinenta mail from Australia and
VI -'.--
bags and eyeral bales Of the recovered by
the steamer Mary which plies between Sciuy and Pen
zancc.
The cargo was Of a general character. Among other
packages there were on board six kegs containing
$500 O0O gold shipped by E s Ballou Co.. BANKERS Of
No "a Exchance-place This fully insured In three
London Companies. Tho following L. complete list OF
the and the Of the shippers Sixty pachgt
merchandise Julius JUnCtlEth 80 bales mere dndlce
Hermann Bros & CO.. Is TcapcTs, barrels wheat 10
boxes Of mowers, and 10 poles. T. Benedict l22 cases
Leaf Il - r
clocks American Clock Company 200 barrels OF Hour
Tedcman d. GafTney 50 cases leaf tObaccOand ! sample,
strohn & RezrnSteln 300 boxes s'arch, t. mari
900 slaves. Sinclair Marvin cases meichan-
disc. Barclay Co; case machinery
NeW-York Knitting Machine Company; - cases
of knitting machines. Khauth. Macleod A hume
10 cases Of merchandise. l.. r. Rose; 50 tlorccs
of cstings Albert Bohme; 293 barrels Of honey Elmen
10 of cabinet organs Mason ~ iahih organ
nails OF blaCng and IS packages W sDnufes
T. ProOst N Co.: 1000 barrels OF corn aud one sample
chants Dispatch Line. on account Of K NJ Wager Co..
81 barrels of shOepeEN ana one sample ArIsuh l'Hy
maxi: - cases OF machinery, JacOD0Wsky ~ mart; -.
mower.. v. \. Wood eases OF hardware. - Ch>H 81
merchandise and forks, MaTkt a Co.; Ia oar
re- of 5hocpr-, A. G. L. O. Icyer; 30 cases o1 Cigars
g. Alexandra sons 2t6 lag iages OF meichauls5 Sin
casks of bark extract, j. H. ROssback; boxes OF ma
cluoyy SAXON SrabnTY 30 bales and packages 0i
merchandise. Levl,Ohn Bros. 900 bales o. cotton Len
Bros. 10 barrels OF casingS mon l@nTi Oh ~
roun; Of Click Bros eases OF merchandise III reap
ers 9jmOWeIs, and 10 harvesters, l.. T. Rose.
The principal company which had insurance on the
cargo is the Atlantic Mutual Fire and Marine Company
at william and Nassau-ts. When applied to- the officers
of the Company stated they unable 10 state at pres
ep What their loss would be- but it would not prove very
heavy IA the cargo was a very light The other
companies which took riSks the cargo are Understood
20 be ia Europe.