Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-28
THE LOST POMMERANIA.
Farther Particulars from the III-Fated
Evidence that All was
not square" at the Time
OF her Sinking.

LONDON, November 27-Aunie Vessel
New York; LOUIS Ras.man, Philadelphia; Amelia
Heamann, New York, and Sophie HOFFMAN, remained
at the Sailors home in Dover, last night. All the
survivors left for London or the continent this morn
supposed to have been orphaned by the dlsa.ter
One OF these children Is Martha Miller, aged four
now at Buenos AyFes. The child adds that her
mother, sister Dora and brother Allie were also on
One male aud two female CORPS es from the wreck
of the Pommerania have been landed at Hastings.
One OF thu bodies was apparently that of an officer
of the steamer.
Thomas Blight, a certifcated officer of the Eng
lish mercantile marine, who embarked on the Pom
meranla at Plymouth, was under examination all of
yesterday morning by the receiver OF wrecks and has
been detained at Dover by the board of trade, be
cause of the nature of his evidence. He says the
three-quarter knot speed. There was a good look
He heard no whistle or foshOrn before the steamer
sank. There was time to every life If order had
the latter put on his life-preseryer. He heard no
orders given. 1t was too late for orders. One of
the officers told him the water tight bulkheads were
all open. There was no more sea than in the
Thames, and all could have been saved If the sail
ors had not rushed to the boats.
The Pommerania's maSts Will be taken out to-day.
II is not expected that the vessel will ever be oated
sgan v rhs latest figures show nnsG@r Of the
two passengers out of one hundred and nine.
New York.
New YORK November 27-Ihe following
dispatch received to day regarding Ernest Lucks
wife and three children. passengers on the POmme-
ranla: "Lncke and family wee lost" While sneak
ing to a fIieGd few days before leaving New York,
Lucke sad 81 shall not get of at Plymouth 10 visit
England. but cross the channel direct" His friend
the voyage In vessel after it has touched land
with you" Lucke saId 81 do not mind ancient
superstition, and shall g1 home first"
The following is list of the passengers landed
on Monday at Cherbourg: Mrs. Defriere and family
family of seven persons New York; Mrs. K. Arm
steen and family of five persons. San francisco; L.
Schwartz, Otto KoOnman and Julius Charles, New
York; w. S. Adams, Springfield. Massachusetts.
Total TWENTY-FIVE. Also the following steeraEe-
Mort and Benedict Arm, Colnmbana, Ohio; Phil
Gross. st. Louis; Louis veIth, sa1dusky; Mr..
and D. Scherer, New York; L. Dresmer, New Jersey;
F. Toenges, Hoboken, New Jersey; sam Schenlap,
Columbus, Ohio; c: Kerkeby, Brooklyn Charles APP
pei, Cincinnati. Total, fifteen. Robert Pommer,
s.. Louis; +; Sannier, New York; and Emil Bloch,
A teleqra from Maaslens, in reply to an Inquiry
for Information Of Captain SchWensen, says that e
left Immediately for Rotterdam.
NEW YORK, November PA cable dispatch to
the agent of the Hamburg American line, contains
the following additional names of passengers saved
from the Pommerana, according to the passenger
list: William Jesse, Aorwalk, Connecticut; John
hansen mot on passenger list; Martin Appel New
York; Master E. G. Harder, GreenpOint Long Island;
Jurgen BannocS, Davenport. Iowa; John w. john
Ston, jamestown, New York; George KIaus and NJ.
Kraus. Delaware, Ohio; Fred Patterson, Williams
burg New York; J. 0son OmNShn; James Lock
kieman; Toledo, Ohio; ADJUST Becker Buffalo; Colt
Louis TansRi. BuffaIo; George WeitzenhofeT, New
York; Louis Horndorfer, st. Joseph, Missouri; 3.
G. HanckelEann, Ho6oke I New Jersey H. st5oh,
York; Wilhelm Hegermann, La Crosse.
Rotterdam.
ROTTERDAM, November 27.-It is impos-
sible to converse with Captain Schwensen, who is
under medical treatment, HIS nervous system being
strongly affected. He has received nobody.
The captain of the City Of Amsterdam gives the
following Information; 1T very dark night
when the POmmerania was of POlkstone. Captain
Schwensen left the bridge for moment when he
felt the shock He Immediately returned to the
bridge, but he cannot we'll recollect subsequent
events. The City of Amsterdam, which was passing
at the time, heard cries for help, but could see
nothing; nevertheless, she lowered her lifeboats
and Captain Schwensen was found floating on a
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