The New York herald., 1876-01-03
THE DEUTsCHLAND's LOSS.
A GRAPHIC STORY OF THE WRECK.

GRAPHIC STORY OF THE WRECK.
George Frederick young whose residence is
In Albany y Y, and who was born in this country
gave to the Of bis experience the
wreck Of the Deutschland At hafpast o'clock N
the morning Of the 9th OF December ,said Mr. Fredo
rich the Deutschland struck the sands ef Kentsh
KNOCK, near Harwich. Soon aherward the steward
gave orders to all to provide themselves with
life preservers Two boats we're put oil with
three sailors who told to apprise
those on shore Of the condition OF the yes
jump into the boat with these sailors, but he was
struck the hands with iron bolt by one Of the
crew and had to release his hold the boat He was
drowned. After the boat left the crew. who had been
drinking, commenced to quarrel the deck OF the
Deutschland and some Of them severely In the
mcite All the passengers were put to work at the
pumps aud worked un ten O'Clock Monday night
The doctor ofthe vessel told the ladies and children
that they to the arst cabin and when
the water rose too high in the cabin they pro
ceed the upper deck The four feet in the
cabin and the women and children climbed up on the
tables. when it eight feet they found all
egrcss blocked and the kyhght through which they
we're told they might reach the upper deck was fas-
tened down None Of the to the rescue most
OF them that time being in the rigging In the lrst
cabin a man who had been drowned in the cabin
with his ovorcoat, panaloons pockets cut out
At hafpast ten O'Clock Wednesday morning got
on raft on that RAN seventy-Gve persons,
thirty Eve Of whom washed OF. The remainder
were taken on board the steamer Liverpool, Of Har-
wich The sailors for the most part drunk aud
fought Ike demons over the spois they had collected
from the people who drowned the cabin. or
five Franciscan nuns on the Deutschland tour wero
drowned, and when their bodies found II was
discovered that they had been despoed OF several gold
rdE pErTscuiASp's cREw INEFFICIENT
Mr and Mrs Franz Hamm OF Dallas county, Texas,
and their two children we're the III fated Deutsch
land Mrs Hamm and her children at the time Of the
wreck we're in the FIRST cabin with the rest 1.-THE ladies'
aud children, and would have been drowned there
were i not for the excrtions Of Mr.. Hamm He
broke his way through the skyhght, carried
wife. tn ne placed them all in the rigging
where they remained from two O'Clock in the morn
ing tin two O'Clock The afternoon OF the 9th OF
december Whcn they were taken OF they we're al
most frozen. Mr.. Hamm is pronounced in his denunci-
auon OF the management OF the Deutschland. He
that there was no discipline among the crew and
that with the exception Of the Captain, all officers
seemed TO have lost their heads II determined and
organized effort had been made by the cr,w, Mr.
Hamm states, not one woman or chnd would have been
lost
on the Bremen pier Hoboken yesterday morning
was a man named John Rnderer Of No. $40 seventh
avenue, with two friends Mr. Rlnderers wife and
child little girl about years Of age, left for
10 Germany ia September last and started IN the
Deutschland on their return. Mr. Rnderer could get
nothing authentic from the Steamship Compauys OIL
cias or from any other source whether his family
was lost or saved He had With him yesterday morn
ing photographs Of his wife and child and he waited
anxiously. After some time be and his friends
made their way board the saler, the
photographs shown, and were recognized
by several of his eountrymen. Mrs Hamm who had
been fellow passenger Of Mrs Babette knderer on
the steamer Spain, recognized the portraits AZ once
and gently lnfssnod the heart. broken husband and
father that his wife and child she thought had been
drowned In the cabin Nothing had been seen OF them
al Harwiek, neither bad their bodies been discovered
Several other ladies' who knew Mrs Rnderer confirmed
the story and Mr.. Rnderer gave way TO bis grief and
cried like child The women crowded around him,
but the disconsolate broke away. and with The