The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-05

both. The purser, who had fixed him
self in the rigging some yards above
them, getting numbed, loosed his hold,
and falling headlong down struck against
the lady and bounded off into the sea.
But Hermann kept his hold, and the
shock was scarcely noticed. On such q
night all the obligations were rot, as
Hermann gratefully acknowledges, on
the other side; for when one Of his feet
got numbed his companion, following his
direction, stamped on it till circulation
was restored. From their rerilous post,
with waves occasionally dashing up and
binding them with spray, they saw some
terrible scenes. A man tied to the mast
nearer the deck had his head cut off by
the waves, as Herman says, though
probably rope or loose spar was the
agent. Not far 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
silenced, the cry was taken up by a wo-
man wailing from the wheelhouse, MY
child is drowned; my little one, Adam"
At daylight a sailor, running nimbly
down the rigging, reached the poop, and
bending over attempted to seize some Of
the half drowned people who were float
ing about. Once he caught little child
by the clothes, but before he. could Sc,
cure it, wave carried 1t out Of his grasp,
and his shrieks we're hushed in the roar
Of the waters. At 8 o'clock yesterday
morning the tide had so far ebbed that
the deck was clear, and coming
down from the rigging, the
battered and shivering sur
vivors began to think Of getting break
fast. A provident sailor mad, while it
was possible, taken up aloft a couple Of
loavcs of black bread. ham and some
cheese. These were now brought out and
fairly distributed. An hour and half
later and all peril was over, and the gal
liant survivors were steaming for Harwich
in the tug boat Liverpool.
Charles Dietrich, 4 first-class passenger,
says: At S IL o'clock on Monday
morning he felt two shocks. lie was in
bed at the time, but fearing that some
'taing had gone wrong he 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 and fourth officers on the
bridge; he heard the order given to re.
verse the engines, but the screw broke al
most Immediately afterward, and the
shocks became more frequent and violent.
The passengers, who had by this time
come on deck, became greatly terrified,
but the Captain Gained them by ordering
life. prcservers to be distributed. The
shock continued until the afternoon Of
Monday. There vas then no water in
the forepart Of the ship, but there was
aft. The weather was dreadful; dense,
violent snow-storm prevailed all day. We
worked at the pumps on Monday, and at
10 in the morning commenced Tightening
the ship by throwing cargo overheard.
Tcpsa,ls and two big sails were then
set, and the ship moved somewhat of the
said bank 1--WE were only ship IS length
from deepwater. The stewards and
cooks provided every body with eatables
at o'clock in the afternoon. The shocks
commenced at 6. At high water The YES.
sci began to fill. At 7 the pumps be.
came useless, and then the captain or
dered all the ladies into the first cabin
ION deck.) But here the water had al
ready reached up to the tables, and the
poor creatures chung in desperation to
the rafters, and fresh waves, breaking
over the vessel, filled the cabin higher
and higher. Five Roman Catholic nuns
from Paderborn were among the women
they prayed aloud that God would send
them speedy death, and so end their
misery. A big wave rushed over the
vessel. Nearly all those in the cabin
were drowned; many passengers were
swept away and thus persisted. re.
manned in the rigging until two o'clock in
the morning; then, with ebb tide, the
decks becoming free from water, we again
descended to the deck, where we remained
until rescued by the tug. The women
Fifteen IN number) and the children (six
in number) were first of all transferred
to the tug, and then the men. am sure
that no living person was left on board
after we sailed away from Harwick.
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