The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-11-28
TuE, POMERANIA DISASTER.
ryrFy FORTY AND FIFTY OF THE
BEL PASSENGERS DROWNED.


....n round Floating on n Piece Of
shr. hr,.od- III. wife Lost. hut his Child Among
~. s.ved-A Four ~ Hear-Old Girl who Lost
.n vo,her. sister aud Brother-The saved.
1oxpoy. Nov. 27.-No more survivors OF
49, -.s,eck Of tho Pomorania have been heard
-, II is now pretty certain that only 2lS per-
pWO w. ali told. were on board the vessel at the
rof,be collision. OF those 107 were passen-
w. and the remaining Ill composed tho OIL
~. and crew. When she left New York she
"a 10 passengors. but OF these forty-ilve were
,.nde1 at Dover. Plymouth, and Cherbourg-
,.sying lO7 on board. OF these. between forty
..d eftv rcmain TO be heard from. 1t is thought
sars hat some Of those now thought to be lost
nav have been rescued by passing vessels and
.srried TO somo French or German port.
.nne Vessel Of New York Louisa Rassmann
1philadelphia. Amalie Ncumann OF New York.
.rd sophie Hoffman. remained at the Sailors
Nm in Dover. last night. All the survivors
Ien for London or the Continent this morning.
.,,h the exception Of three little girls who are
,nnnosed TO have been orphaned By the disaster.
ons of these children is Martha Miller. aged
,ssrs who says she is the daughter OF sea
s,r,,ip. now at Bucnos Ayrcs She says hor
mo,ber sister Dora. and her brother Allie were
a, h,ard with her. but she has not seen them
,inoo The other two. aged respectively years
srd O months, have not been identified. Al
though Capt Schwensen was saved. his vile
nsrshed but his little four-ycar-od child for
unately was among those saved.
II has been nscertnined that the following
esbn passengers were landed at Chorbourg on
Monday: Mr. T.. A. Ward OF New York family
and uurse-seven persons: Mr. and Mrs. E.
Irnsten Of San Francisco. family and nurse
Eve persons: Mrs. Clemcntine s. de Freire Of
washington. and family-six persons l.. =.
sebwartz Of New York W. S. Adams Of Spring
Acid. Mass and Otto Kornemann OF New York {;
Julius Charles Of New York.
The following steeragc passengers were also
landed at the same port: John Braun Of Quincy.
III. Friedrich Mori Of Columbiana Ohio; Ben
edlct Arm Of Columbiana. Ohio; Charles Joseph
Gulllemoto II New York; Phil Gross OF ST. Louis
Louis Yrth oi Keokuk. Iowa; John NJ. Walz OF
sandusky. Ohio c. Kerkeby OF Brooklyn. n.
Y.M. Alexandra Of Paris. Samuel Schlucp OF
Columbus ohio; Charles Appel OF Cincinnati.
Ohio: Heinrich Geiger Of New YORK; DagoOert
scheren Of New York; l.. Dresmer OF Bergen
County " j.. and T. Toengc Of Hoboken, n. j.
Acleeram from Maaslens. in reply to an in
ouiry sent there for information Of Capt
s.hwsns says he left Immediately for Rottsr
dam.
LovnoN Nov 2s.-One female and two male
eorpse. from tn wreck Of the Pomerania have
been landed at Hastings. One Of the bodies ID
apparently that 81 an officer OF the steamer.
Thomas Blight. cerihcated officer o
the English mercantile marine. who ON
barked on the Pomernnia at Plymouth
vas under exam nation gil Yesterday
Frps sn ana M eS5F at Dover BY TTS'Bbs Es Boar dH
Trad becau-e of the nature Of his evidence
f. SAYS thc lommerania WAS going al nan L
5sit ioos.oai and and The lights we're burning
and was not foggy He heard no whistle 1
fog-horn. Before ,tho steamer sank there wa
tAned. H. was beside tho Captain when th'
latter put On his iiie-bet He heard no order
i was too m-e for orders. One Of III
Officers told him the doors ot tn'
Marnight bulkh"n - -, wrrc a., an III omen omen
All could hnv. hr"u saved li the sailors had no
rushed 10 the boats.
The Pomeraniu . mas VIII he taHen op' 70
day. l. p not cNpHet. t.W the vessel W..l eve
Inc atcs, figures show that "a II the crcy
were saved cut oi III and y passengers out o
Tho following passcneers who were save,
have .ren sent o. London. fuH, Becker; Bur
Berger Markare I'.enski, Mcizrnhoefei
korndurfer. ami Sirlnwnn.
ROTTERDAM Nov 21-lt is imposs iblc to con
verse with Capt Sfuwruscn. who l- under medi
cal altrentmeut, his nervous -y stem belug sirOngl
affected. H. has rec wed nobody. The Captat
oi the city Of Amsterdam gives the following Il
formation: II Wa N'ry dark night Nhe
the Pomerania WAS III FO.kestone CAPT. 'h~en
sen le'i lAc bridge ilr a moment When he ic
IT, -Al * helmmel lluic.y returned the hridg
hut ha cannot well r-rolleHt the suhsCqucr
events. The city o. Amsterdam. which WI
colll Sc n,tling. N.vrrtAeless. she lowere
hr h'nboais. which found Capt. ; law nse
f,i'nE 9n piece OF woid. II was Then apol
bs.pY- az ~ clock.