The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-29

self moment later as great wave came
and swept him overheard. There were five
nuns on board, who, by their terror stricken
conduct, seem to have added greatly to the
weirdness OF the scene They we're deaf 10
all entreaties to leave the saloon. and when,
almost by main force, the stewsrdsss (whose
conduct throughout was plucky In the ex-
treme) managed 10 get them on TO the COM
psnion ladder,
THEY SANK DOWN ON THB STEPS
and stubbornly refused to go another step.
They seemed 20 have returned to the aloon
again shortly, for somewhere In the dead Of
the night, when the greater part of the crew
and passengers were in the rigging, one was
seen with her body half through the sky
light, crying aloud In voice heard above
the storm, "0h. my God, make IL quick!
make it quickT At daylight yesterday
morning, when the tide had ebbed, ard
leaving the deck clear, some on the rigging
went down, and looking into the cabin saw
the nuns floating about face upward, all
dead. 1t was not 30 dark but that those in
tire rigging could distinguish each others
f. atures, aud thus have the comfort OF COM
panioDship. There seems TO have been
wonderful amount of uuselfishness dis
played; everybody cheering and trying to.
help every body else. One OF the passengers
"A CHEEKY TeutoD, named Adolph herman
took young American lady under his
seeing her of to London this afternoon. He
took Ter up the rigging and held her on
there all through the night, and says she
was a. brave and as self possessed as fthey
had been comfortably on shore. Some time
during the night an unknown friend
passed down TO him bottle of Risky. The
cork was In tbs bottle, and as he was Lod-
log on to the rigging with one hand gud had
the other round the lady, there some
difficulty In getting at the content OF the
bottle. This he finally solved by , rockiDg
the neck off, aud then found himself in the
dilemma of not being able to get the bottle
to tue lady's mouth. "You are pouring IL
down my neck, ~ was her quiet response to
his first essay, but in the end he succeeded
in aiming the whisky Ia the right direction,
aud after taking some himself, passed it on,
feeling much refreshed. Just before this
terrible accident occurred, which threatened
death TO one or both. The purser, who bad
| fixed himself In the rigging some yards
above them, getting numbed, lOosed his
! hold, and falling teadlong down struck
against the lady and bounded off into the
sea. But Hermann kept his bold, and the
shock was scarcely noticed. On such a night
| all the obligations we're not, as Hermann
gratefully acknowledge, on the one side /:
for when one OF his feet got numbed his
companions. following lis direction,
| stamped on it TIL circulation was restored.
From their perilous post, with waves occa-
sioBslly dashing mp and binding them with
spray, they saw some
TERRIBLE SCENES BELOW.
A man tied to the mast nearer the deck
had his head cut off by the waves, as Herr
mann ssye, though probably rope or a loose
spar was the agent. Not tar off, little boy
had his leg broken in the same manner.
They could hear and see the nun shrieking
through the skylight, and when she was
HI fo hNy
wailiDg from the wbeelhouse. "My child is
drowned, my little one, ADAM" At lay
| light sailor running nimbly down the
| rigging, reached The poop, and bending over
| attempted to sitZs some OF the halt
drowned people who were floating about.
Once he caught little child by the clothes,
but before he could secure IL a wave carried
IL out OF bis grasp, and his shrieks were
hustled in the roar OF the waters. At nine
O'Clock yesterday morning the tide had so
far ebbed that the deck was clear,
aud coming down from the rigging, the bat
tered and shivering survivors be-
gan to think of getting breakfast.
A provident sailor had, while it was
possible, taken up aloft q couple of loaves
Of black bread, a ham, and some cheese.
These were now broug ht out aud iairly dis
Eributed. An hour and halt later all peril
was over, and the gallant survivors were
steaming tor HaIwich 10 the tug-boat Liver
pool Charles Dietrich, tirsJ-olsss pa ssn-
ger, says: At So on Monday morning he
felt two shocks. He was in bed a. the time,
but fearing something had gone wrong ne
rushed on deck. He had seen the men
throwing out the lead during the evening
previous. He saw, on coming on deck, the
captain, the first, second aud fourth officers
on the bridge; be heard the order given TO
reverse tie engines, but the screw broke
| almost Immediately afterward, aud the
shocks became more frequent and violent.
The passengers, VINO bad by this time come
on deck, became greatly terrified, but the
captain Gained them by ordering life-pre-
servers to be distributed. The shocks con-
tinued until the afternoon of Monday.
There was then no water in the foreEart OF
the ship, but there was ait, The weather
! was dreadful;
| A DENSE, VIOLENT sNow-sIoRM
prevailed ell day. We worked at the pumps
on Monday, but at 10 in the morning com.
menced to tighten the ship by throwing
lcargo overheard. Topsai's aud two big sails
| were then ses, and the ship moved some
what of the saDdbank; we were only a
ships length from deep water. The stew.
ards and cooks provided every body with
esi ables az three O'Clock in the afternoon.
The shocks recommended at o'clock. AT
high water the vessel began to fill. AT Z
o'clock the pumps became useless, and then
the captain ordered all the ladies into the
first cabin Ton decB) But here the water
tai already reached up o the tables, and
the poor creatures chung in despei alton to
the rsfters, and fresh waves, breaking over
the vessel, filed the cabin higher and higher
Five Roman Catholic nuns from Paderborn
were among the women; they prayed aloud
That God would send them q speedy death
and so end their misery. A big wave rushed
over the vessel, Nearly all those in The
cabin were diowBei: many passengers were
swept away, and thus persisted. 1 remained
Ia the rigging until o'clock in the morn
ingi then with the ebb tide, the decks be-.
coming Tree from water, we again descended
to the deck, where we remained until res
} cued by the tug. Tho women Us in number
and the children (six In number) were frs
of all transferred to the tug, and then tn,
men. L am sure that no living person wa,
left on board after we sailed away fol
Hsrwich.
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