Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-27
In Which the Hamburg American Line
Steamer POmmerania is Lost - One
Hundred and Sixty-TwO
Souls Saved
And Fifty Eight Missing - Statements
Made by Officers, Cabin and Steer
age Passengers as 10 the Cause
of the FFightful Accident.
List of Passengers Lost aid Saved, in
watch Almost All the PrOmi-
nent Cities of the United
States are Represent
ed-Other De-
tails.

LONDON, November 26-The Hamburg
Americ, n line 5teamer PommeIania, Captain
fourteenth Of November for Hamburg, and arrived
at Plymouth at midnight on ths IT, enty fourth came
ABOUT eight miles southwest OF Folkestone, with
vessel reported to be the Welsh ba:k Noel Elian of
The Pommerania at the time vas on her Wy from
Pymo ta 70 hsmouTG bne steamer f fonnaered In
of her passengers and crew were saved by the iron
screw steamer Glengarry, OF Middlesboro, and
mefaia was In collision IS sncSfed o f6 SIX
with her Bows stove in and her forward compaIt-
inerlt full Of water. tug has gone to her assist
ance.
1880 PIMA telegram just received by the agents
In this city OF the PQmme-aria, says that one hun
dred and slsty-two OF the persons on board were
cared and nifty eight are missing Including Captain
t I 1 Iast t , az LOFTY 4Ces
The Pommerania sank in thirty minutes. One hum
dred and seventy persons were saved out 81 Two nun
including Cactein Schwensen, Second Officer Folkes
and Third Officer Searnow.
The agents here of the Hsmburg- American steam
ship company say forty-seyen passengers Of the
PSmmerania were t. have Tended at plymouth and
Four secOndclass and on9 thifd class passenger
embarked at Piyriouth making the total number of
passengers on board when the disaster occurred one
hundred and nine; provided, tue forty-Seven had
as ae age tbar says the
Miss Wilson, and Messrs. Brock, Easterbrook,
hunt, Nankeryls, Pearce, Pearn, Phillips and
dispatch from Doyer. says; 80 Helms, chief
steward and tNo are
drowned. 4. gentleman named Schneider and
lazy amS Miss Amsa N tTa
show that at the time of the disaster she was
Dnngeress Point about three miles from shore She
sank in less than twenty minutes. Signals of dis
Glengarry, proceeding down the channel with all
speed toward the scene of the disaster There were
crushed in the collision Five were got Of but one
being overcrowded with passengers was sunk. All
the boats pulled away from the doomed snip Ieay-
last moment. The last boat to leave was under the
ehlef GINGER /; Who did tin mis- yer to n
the survivors were picked up by the GlengaTy. One
gentleman was taken from the water in an uncon-
near the scene till daybreak, when the Pommerania
was seen with he's mast above water. The Glen
garry then proceeded to Dover and landed the pas
sengers at nine clock, when they were taken TO the
Sailors home anc breakfasted. The greatest pos
sible order under the circumstances was IN intaned
by the officers and crew.
The following is the narrative OF Louis Saumann,
of Akron, Ohio, now at the S5ilor3 home: I'VE
had capital run, got to plymouth about threo
landed some passengers and took some for Ham
burg. and then ran for CheTbourg and landed pas
LEFT were mostly between decks The crew con
sisted OF one hundred and eleven persons l was in
when felt a sudden bump as If the Pommerana
had struck upon a rock. was alarmed, but did
II
kept good lookout, and the captain appeared to be
vsry CAREFUL It was his one hundred and twenty
one hundred and twenty-ffth when he was last at
Hamburg. few seconds after the collision the
and said that sailing bark had run into Us, and
also said that we were to get on deck. went on deck
was SO great that could See nothing else. They
told me the bark had run away This crew were then
ming to sink. In lowering the boats there was great
CONFUSION Everybody was trying 10 crowd IN them
into the water Two others were smashed by the
collision. The boats we're fastened up tight and we
sinking rapidly. There were number of women
among the passengers. | don't know how many,
mother was drowned. Our captain had some fire.
works on board, and let them of. We managed to
about ten minutes when the steamer Glengarrypicked
us up. She cTuised about long time. Our captain
his ship. We saw him when our boat got away from
the steamer standing on the bridge giving COM
he could. In twenty nutes after the collision the
Pommerania went down. She did not keel over,
down never saw at all They tod me she was a
sailing bark and that with the north, or northeast
/ thought until we landed that we had run upon a
rock, the Schiller did, 1t very thick weather
the time she had smart sailors, and there were al
was two the bridge and two on the forepart from
crowded that it very nearly with the water"
$50 p m.-The London, Chatham and Dover rail-
dred anu nine of the Pommeranias survivors. sixty
being seamen and others second and thtfd-claSs
passengers. There were no first-class passengers
and no women among them. They will be forward
ed TO Germany.
saved are at Dover. These are Mary CIymer and
Rose NJ. Clymer, Philadelphia; Alfred Eaber, New
York; Mrs S. Openstel, New York; and c. Pappen-
huren, Hamburg.
The Noel Ealian, magnificent new iron bark
and was built at Sunderland last year What was
her DOW Is now gaping IsSure only her Water-tght
Mrs Ohrenstlei says that she had retired, and
was awakened by a terrific crash. She sprang from
penetrable darkness. The steerage passengers were
crying loudly. She was pushed toward lifebOat
getting S aoat there s seemed little hope for safety
but they soon saw the lights of the Gengarry which
of Captain Schwensen, who on the bridge nearly
all the previous three days and nights. The Pom
twenty-six others at Chsrbourg. Chief officer Fran
ger commanded the last boat As he put of, the
keep as close to the Pommeranfa as possible He
laid to about ten yards from the steamer, but she
went down In few minutes
Officer Franzer says there was thick fog all day
Monday. About foTty-fivs minutes after eleven
ing of the close proximity of vessel, a bark ap-
peared on our starboaTd side and Immediately
crashed into us just abaft the funnel
Captain Pritchard of the bark Noel Ealian, Is very
reticent and refuses to show his log. He says he
On The ae
ing her fog horn all night until the stars vis
board the Noel Eslian were aware of it. The blow
WAS glaucing one The bark bounded and he did
thought she was sinking. The Noel Ealian was too
much disabled to render any assistance, feet
of her bow being carried away. Her lights were
burning brightly at the time and she was sailing
free ON The starbOard tack. The Pommerania ran
across her bows, turning her around completely, and
then went away at full speed. He was not aware
that the Pommerania had sunk until he arrived at
The various accounts of survivors concur In
praiSlDg Captain SehWensen and his officers,
tn he
fusion by their determination to save themselves.
the passengers that the vessel was aground Roder.
lex Schneider, passenger states that the captai1
boats, asked them to stand alongside, when they
shouted 1--WE have waited long enough" He told
them TO pull away little and walt but just then the
vessel sank. As she went down, Captain Sehwansen
threw up his arms and exclaimed: oh Godr'
While the boat was raving about we saw many peo-
pie In the water with life pTeservers wrongfully put
on, the lower part of the body was floating while
the head was under water. The conduct of the sec
ond boatman on board the steamer, in endeavoring
to save the ladies, admirable, and the carpenter
stood by, with Ratchet, threatening to kill any
body who attem pied to rush into the boats. Mary
Clymer says she was in the same berth her sister
Rose; they were awakened by the crash, and rushed
deck half-dTessed to where the boats were being
put of; they were there Joined by their brother who
assisted her. Mary. into the boat, as sailor threw
Rose In, but she fell into the water and had to
dragged out. Young Clymer, who remained on the
steamer seeing the boat full and the sailors trying
TO get aboard thus endangerng the lives of all cut
the ropes and set her adTift, saying Goodbye to
his saved relatives He thought that his mother and
prevented tn m from getting In 1t Is noticeable
fact that one hundred and eight sailors of one
following officers are known to be among The saved
R. FranZer, chief officer; Hillen, probably O'Heims
chief engineer; c. Ne!nz. purser:
Louis RaS5man, or Philadelphia, steeTage paS-
senger who escaped, says that Captain Schwensen's
last words, when the boat was Obliged 10 row aWay
TO avoid being sucked down, were In German Fare
mall wa q oraOd