The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-25
A SWAMPED STEAMER.
HER VERY HARD TINE. AT SEA
The Borussia Goes Down, Carrying Heu
Captain and n Part of Her Crew aud
Passengers Few Escape 10
Tell the Tale.
steamer u rocked

| Steamer u feeked-
LONDON, Dec. ga portion of the
ships company of the abandoned s,e.me.
Borussia landed At Queenstown to-day. 1,
consisted OF the chief engineer, doctor,
boatswsin and seamen. They were picked
up on the 9th inst in IN open boat. The
Borussia had $50 passengers, of which rum
Der los embarked At Liverpool and IS II
Corunna. Inc crew numbered 81 men.
| Alter leaving Corunna. on the 24lh oil
November, the Borussia perienced terrific
weather. and sprsng . leak on the LIST OF
December. The severity of the weather In.
creasi1g, the vessel WAS abandoned on the
2,d, about $50 miles southwest of Faysl.
The captain aud second officer remained
with the sinking stesm.r. The crew and
passengers left her in eleven boAtA The
surveyors have nQhopes for the other boa,s
Before they were separated one boat sd
capsiz'd and ali the occupants were
drowLed.
The survivors of the Borussis started
i'm nedistely for Liverpool.
1t appears that q panic occurred amuue
the Passengers and crew. The SURVIVORS
state thu no order to launch the boats and
prepare for the abandonment OF the vessel
was given by the officers. The crew them.
selves launched the boat, without waiting
for orders. About dozen passengers 90,
into the boats, with part of the crew. The
remainder Of the passengers went down in
the vessel, with the captain, second mate
three engineers, eleven 6remen, three
stewards, the carpenter ard two boys
O6e boat swamped slongside the steamer
AID its occupants. Five men were drowned.
The survivors state that at 9 O'Clock on
the night Of the abandonment of the vessel
they saw q rocket ascend from the steamer
and soon after her masthead lights end.
denly disappeared.
LATER ACCOUNTS.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 23.-The survivors
from the Borussia report that the captain
and the m. ,rity Of the crew remained on
foard the vessel. Only sixty persons left
in the boats.
A Cork dispatch reports tina. one hundred
and eighty -four persons we're on board the
Boruss g.
The captain, on seeing III t all efforts 10
save the vessel would be useless, ordered
the boats to be ready. Some RATS were
prepared and necesssries provided. The
vessel was abandoned at night, there being
ten or eleven feet of wa.er in the engine
room. Four or five boats were lowered
about the same time, but owing to the
darkness and heavy sea soon Loot sight of
each other.
Ooe of the survivors states that SEVENTH
six passengers embarked at Liverpool.
Ths vessel reached Corruns, Nov. 23rd.
all:well. Alter having shipped come cargo
and embarked about eighty Spanish emf
grants the Borussis proceeded for Havana,
on the 26.h, the winds being light from the
southeast, with calm sea. On Nov. 30 h
the wind freshensd and increased to aIgale.
The following day it suddenly chopped 70
north or the northwest, blowing strong,
with heavy cross-sea, in which she lsbored
heavily. At noon she spang leak amidship.
Efforts at the pu nps were fruitless to keep
the snip free. The water filled the engine
room and stocks holes, putting out the
fires and stopping the engine. The crew
still continued to work at the pumps until
the next day, the 2od inst, when it was
to abandon the vessel. When
they showed off the vessel was not more
than two inches above water. 1t ia SUD.
posed that she must have gone down with
her living freight.