Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-26
FrlghtfuI Disaster to a Steamer
Of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can Line. Y -"
Collision with a Welsh Bark Last
Night Off the Coast Of England.
Fifty Persons, Including Officers
Lost Ont Of 22O on Board.
Triumphal Progress of British Troops
to the Frontier of Afghanistan.
The InsOleRt Afghans Fleeing Like a
Panlc-StrlCken Mob, sai

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LONDON, November 26. 1.-The steam
ship Pommerania, Captain Schwensen, s
which left New York November IA I
for Hamburg, and arrived at Plymouth ]
at midnight on the Oath, was sunk by
a collision of FolkestOne last night.
Fifty-eight persons are missing, 1872
being saved, The Yesselthe Pomme-
rania came in collision with was
Welsh bark.
LATER. i.
The Hamburg American Line
steamer Pammerania, Captain Schwen-
sen, which sailed from New York on
the 14th Of November for Hamburg
and arrived at Plymouth at midnight
of the oath, came in collision last
night, about midnight, during a fog,
about eight miles southwest of Folker |
stone, with vessel, reported to be the
Welsh bark Mcclellan, of Carnarvon, |
from Rotterdam for Cardiff, in ballast.
The POmmerania at the time was on
her way from Plymouth to Hamburg |
The steamer foundered in about ten
minutes. One hundred and seventy |
two of her passengers and crew were
saved by the iron screw steamer Glen !
garry, of MiddlesborO, and landed at !
Dover. The vessel with which the |
Pommerania came in collision IS an
chored off Folkestone with her bows |
stove and her forward compartment
full of water. A tug has gone to her
assistance.
| LATEST.
12:3Op.m.-A telegram justreceived
by the agents in this city of the Pom
merania says that one hundred and
sixty-two of the persons, on board
were saved and ffty-eight are missing,
including Captain Schwensen. The
collision occurred at lao last night,
during a dense fog. The Pommer7
ania sank in thirty minutes. One
hundred and seventy persons were
saved out of two hundred and twenty
on board. Fifty are believed to Ibe
lost, including Captain Schwenseh,
second officer Fokkes and third officer
Searnow. 80
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The agents here of the Hamburg
and American steamship Company say
that, forty-seven passengers of the
J Pommerania we're to have landed at
I Plymouth and Cherbourg, leaving lO4
! on board. Four second and one third
class passengers embarked at Ply
| mouth, making the total number of
5 passengers on board, when the disas-
ter occurred, 1O9; provided the forty
. seven had landed as intended. The
/ agent at Plymouth says the following
: passengers landed there Miss e.
e Konigs, Miss Wilson, and Messrs
! Brock, Easterbrook, Hunt, Hahker-
Wis, Pearce, Penn, Phillips and Thorn
S as-ten in all
/, A dispatch from Dover says that o.
! Helms, chief engineer, j. Scheiderg,
: doctor, G. Peters, chief steward, and
q two stewardesses are supposed to be
y drowned. A gentleman named
n Schneider and lady named Miss
! Amelia Human were saved.
DISPATCHES UP TO PM.
. LONDON, November ,26,H4 PM
Further particulars of the Pommer-
= ania disaster show that at the time of
3 the disaster she was near Dungeness
it Point, about three miles from shore.
Q She was struck amidships on the star
Z I board side and sank in less than
n twenty minutes. Distress signals
! we're given and responded to by the
k steamer Glengarry, proceeding down
% the channel with all speed toward the
!, scene of disaster.
it There were nine boats on the Pom,
1t merania, four of which were crushed
/ in the collision. Five were got off
p but one being over-crowded with pas,
1f sengers was sunk. All the boat;
A. pulled away from the doomed ship
y leaving the captain, who refused K
y - quit his ship till the last moment
k The last boat to leave was under the
IS chief officer, who did all in his power
to persuade the captain to leave. Af-
ter pulling for half an hour the sur
vivors were picked up by the Glen
- garry.
to One gentleman was taken from the
lg water in ae unconscious state and re
DC stored. The Glengarry stayed neal
70 the scene until daybreak when tn,
t2 Pommerania was seen with her mas
above water. The Glengarry thel
e proceeded to Dover and landed he
os ~ passengers at 8 o'clock, when the,
an were taken to the sailors home an,
breakfasted. The greatest possibl