New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-09
DISASTER.


be heard on Monday.
DISASTER.
The Steamship Schiller, of the Eagle Line
Wrecked of the SciIly Islands, and
Two Hundred Lives Lost.
LONDON. May S.-In,elli ,ence of shock
| ing marine disaster has just reached this
city. The Eagle Line steamship Schiller
| Captain Thomas. which sailed from New
York on April 49, for Hamburg, by way OF
! Plymouth and Cherbourg, has been wrecked
| off the Scilly Isles. 1t is believed that 20C
| persons have persisted.
Particulars thus far received of the wreck
of the steamship Schiller show that the dis
| aster is fully as terrible as at first reported.
| The accident occurred at ten o'clock last
| night, at which hour the steamship struck
] on the dangerous. .Rebarriere lodges, near
| Bishops Rock. A fog prevailed at the time.
| A boat belonging the Stagnes, the most
! southern of the Sicily islands, has landed
| some Of the survivors Of the wreck at st.
Mary's island. another of the Settles.
These survivors we're picked up while
| swimming with the tide. They had sew
| eral narrow escapes from drowning, and
were a number Of times washed off rock.
; Theysdeclare the number of lives lost by
| the disaster is two hundred. a fearful sea
is raging, and it is scarcely possible for the
boats engaged in searching for survivors to
live. The Scilly liteboat has put OF for the
wreck.
l'P. M.-Up to this hour five passengers
and two Of the crew of the steamship
Schiller are known to have been saved 1t
Is known that the captain and second mate
were drowned.
The steamship is now lying broadside
On the rocks. She is under water and her
mainmast is gone. A steamer and several
boats are cruising about the scene OF the
wreck searching for the survivors. The
disaster was owing TO a dense fog which
prevented either OF the Scilly lights being
seen.
p. M.-The wreck of the steamship
Schiller has caused great excitement in
this city. Extras cont aiming all particulars
at hand OF the disaster have been issued by
the several newspapers. Later dispatches
hold out the hope That some persons may
have escaped and reached some of the
Sciily islands.
2:30 ?. Mp to this hour it is known
the following persons have been saved from
the wreck OF the Schiller:
H. Hilliers. chief officer, and a seaman;
Lemke and Balling, suokers; Gould. Berg,
Wallis, Peters and Peck, sailors; l. Reid
erer, cabin passenger; Hern, probably; DR..
r. j. Kern, Ca bin passenger. OF Shenandoah,
P1ennsylvania; Kuhn, probably; Mr.. E.
Kuhn, CABIN passenger, OF New York; Peste,
probably; Mr. Leo Weste, cabin passenger,
OF Philadelphia. and +. Schillenberg.
The bodies Of two dead passengers have
been landed. Steamers and life boats are
still searching for the survivors or the
bodies of the drowned.
Twentysix of the persons who were on
board the Schiller, in addition to those be.
fore reported saved, have landed at Tres
san and Rrvor iSIa ho1op a.
Sciliy group. Among these are the second,
third and fourth officers. The captain is
certainly drowned;
dispatch just received here from YEN
zance, Cornwall, says liieboat and steamer
left there at half past one o'clock this even
ing tor the scene of the wreck amid intense
excitement. Tne sea is still rough, pre-.
venting small craft from going out. The |
Retarriere ledges, ON which the Schiller |
Bishops rock, and the ship should have |
heard the Bishops fog bell.
The Latest from the Scene of Disaster
Forty-three Lives saved.
LONDON, May 8, 9 P. Mp to this hour
but forty three in all of the persons who |
" ere on board the Schiller are known to be |
saved. twenty-five sacks of the steam
ships mail have also been saved. Several
corpses have heen picked up, floating near
the scene of the wreck. Among them was
q woman with Child in her arms.
Later from the Wreck.
A dispatch just received says that Richard
Williams and Charles Henry Percy, both
1t New York. steerage passengers ON the
steamship Schiller; were saved. Nineteen |
,orpses aud some bales Of hay and various
other articles of the cargo of the steamship
nave been recovered. The survivors and
! portion of the mails recovered have
cached Penzance and will be forwarded
rom. that place to Plymouth by the first
rain this Sunday morning. Those who
ire going to Cherbourg and Hamburg will
,e sent to their destinations by the steam.
hip Pommerania, OF the Hamburg-Amer-
FORK, and which is expected to reach Ply
mouth sometime during to-day.
The Passenger List and Mail.
The Schiller's steerage passenger list COM
rised 100 adults, sixteen children between |
he ages OF one and ten years and four in |
ants. In addition to the regular transat- |
4ntic mail from Australia and New Zealand,
Which comprised 1862 bags, the Schiller had,
or London. tbirty-two bags OF letters and
apers; for Liverpool, eleven bags of letters
nd papers; for Cherbourg and Paris, twelve
ags Uf letters and papers; for Hamburg.
eventeen bags OF letters and papers; for
'nDIln. Twelve Dag5 C1 letters ana papers |
he total number OF letters is 5000. 7
The cargo Ut general merchandise of the
chilier, exclusive Of the specie, was valued
t about sl50,000. The company have
even steamers of the same dimension and
apacity named after the German poets.
The ship and her Commander. :
New YORK, May 8-The agents of the {
agile line say that Captain Thomas, of the
thlIier, was the Ndest commander in the
ne: He was for many years in the employ 6
The Peninsular and Oriental Company, :
'd occupied high place among British :
'il1rs. He was with great difficulty in
1oed to leave the British service to enter r
lat of the Eagle line.
The Schiller was one of the newest and !,
sst GOATS in the Trans Continental service. .
~ was large and strong and constructed
J the latest pattern She was built on the |
lyde by Robert Napier & Sons. Her sister =
Zip is the Leasing These two vessels left :
ls port for home densely crowded, being 8
70 first to take advantage OF the opening =
the epring travel to EuaOpe. They were
q last swo steamers that sailed under tho :
ag Of theEagle line, which had been con.