The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-28
THE LOST STEAMSHIP.
FURTHER r. ARTFCULARs OFF TMh
SINKING OF THE POMERANHA.
The HeF0fsna nj gapt. schwenZeS-A AAsS
of the O tffacer=, Grew HFaa Passem"
ger & RuestvR To He saved.


LONDON, Nov 27.-Mr. Poppenhausan,. q
passenger ON the Pomerania. states that he
had gone ho bed and was wakened by o crash;
He thou Ebt there had been o collision, and
the doc nr, who said: ''4ou had betterput on
life-p rsserver," which ne did with the doc
tors b slp. Tie did not ettempt to savo any OF
MS eF tscts, but got INTO 2 boat, Wnlch was was
boat. It was followed so closely by Q
thirf boat that they nearly sWamped
eact / other. The Pomerhnia lanneh 1ohIbeeH
tlrf class and twenty-sx other pnssMenghrs M rd aI
81 dc, abaft the funnel making large apeI
t. are. The survivors were Landed 10 RGaes, nh o1e
,hief officer commanding the last. Inc Ghp
fain CALLED to him ae he put off, &nd ne laid by
fen wards distant few minutes, at the end i,, OF
which time the Pomerania went down. inc
last boat had four passengers aIid rescue Ln oi
the foating persons was l,nposslol?. ~ ~ ~ ~ -
Iight the foT,rnast Of the POmeranla ana 1he
rnajnyards were visible, but yntennnted' "A
+TuaI'ter of an hour after tho collision the
steamer sank the captain, who had q, manluily
stuck to the bridge, going down WIN Z hea,
All accounts accord to Capt. Schwenzeh
marked bravery and GOODNESS, hy when aos2-
late discipline was secured. His last as wordS'
as he sank in the abyss, were, FareWell'
gers clung to him, crying for help, and thus
Feseeching succor the ship sank and the wa
ters rolled over the struggling and drowning.
The captain Of the Noel Elaine Is 11 ietleene
'S1DS'
was proceeding through the log live knots per
hour. He claims to have been sounding h,1oug
horn all night md was So badly damaged he
feared he would sink. ,
The following are known to be among the
saved officers and crew: r. Franzen, chief
officer; HiIlen (probably O, Helms, CHIEF m en-
gineer; G. Neins, pur5ar; 9teWarllSI3eGtk- Tatz
man. Kruger Huczar, Miaki, Lemcol1, HarH
-Fieggler and KoraIskv; HmmTmann, trim
mer; Horndorfer. cnrpenter lnnclln1S,s,n
Rose, Bakar and Warch; buildsors-Full
Bogg and Thes; quortormasters-B9m 9mbuGh, ~
Echtbrocht, Budow, Krozzamann and P!ehn;
engineers Bernhard Hiuth and Walthhr;
firemerl-Ho Hollzstoin. .Talavsky, Ltndai, Knrt,
CLAM, Else and Wigaud cooks Hurtllg, Un-
ger, Ranfeld and IInlf: senmen-folhou5Ai''
man, Patterson. Kprno, Steinkon, Kidewe'ter
Krugger, Beatgar Gind, Horz, Voge, Hor-
mann Motif, SChlage, Josa. Richter, We've,
Kerseer, Mouun, Boyer, Richard, steer
JOINS, Scharmacher, Hollasch,, Ha5tr91p
Deechen, Eschenbach, sieboIt, Klang valid
der, Ginckler and Bernheim.
The following is list of the saved as far as
known: Emil Block, Clarksville; John Loss
st. Louis; Anton Schoen, New York; Rober1
Pommer, St. Louis; Louis Raabe, tustayt
s5churr Chicago; Simon Moucho, New York
C. Rauch, Newark, N j.; Fr. Pauke. ,Nyer
smith, Ad Thiel, Chicago; Frederick Zudse
New York; Louis Lnuman Akron, OHIO NG'
on iist-Gottfried Berger, Black Hills; 9. II
Westpha, Lacrosse, Wis; william Schrofde
MINI; W. Juschinsky, New York; Ell. stroh
Phi H. Gross, st. Louis; John Hauck, Chi.
cago; Henry Schmidt. A. Raffeld, wife and
two children, Carl Samp, New York. ana the
hausen, Hamburg; Alfred Faber, Mrs. Sophie
Ohrenstiel, New York; Mary Clymer ant
Rose Clymer, Philadelphia.