The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-01-27
Sunk at Sea.


LONDON ENG, January 81.
The steamer Cimbria, from Hamburg for
New York was sunk in the German ocean by
q collision with the Sultan on Friday night.
Details of the disaster show that the loss
of life must have been fearful. A dispatch
from Hamburg, sent by the Hamburg Ameri.
can Steamship Company says so far fifty six
persons from tho Cimbria have been landed
A number of them are at Meser light house.
The names of these are not yet asccrtained
The Cimbria left Hamburg on Thursday
with $50 passengers and Il crew numbering
ITO. She ran aground before leaving the Elbe.
but got off with the flood tide, with the assist
ance OF the steamer Hansa, without damage,
and she put to sea at $50 in the afternoon.
Friday morning she came into coil sion dur
Ing thick fog, Off BOrkam with the steamer
Sultan. The Cmbria sank in short time.
When the boat with thirty nine passengers
arrived the company sent out the steamer
liansa and the four largest available steam
ers Mt CoXhaVen to search for the other boats
OF the Cimbria. The West India steamer Ba.
va,ia also left during the night with sim.
liar object The steamer Sultan, which snt-
fcred heavy damage in the collision has ar.
rN ell in the Elbe.
The Cimbria sustained such severe injuries
In the collision that 1t at once became an
parent she must sink Almost immediately
the officers therefore, did all in their power
to save lives. Without a moments loss of
time the life belts were distributed among the
passengers and the order was given to lower
the boats This, however, in consequence of
the vessels Keeling over on her side, was
found to be very difficult on one side and alb .
solutely impossible on the other
AS the second officer was still engaged cut
ting the spars loose, so there would be as
much driftwood as possible for the people to
cling to when the inevitable founderine
should occur, the vessel went down under his
feet He seized a spar, but as several other
persons chung to it was obliged to let go. He
swan to a boat. This boat was subsequently
picked up by the Theta. Seventeen other
persons have been saved by the steamer Dia
mant from the Wcser light, house, making
fifty. six thus far known to be rescued.
A reporter boarded the Sultan, but both
captain and crew absolutely refused to give
him any Information. The captain has made
a statement before the British Consul but this
is inaccessible. The Sultan has large hole
in her bow seven feet above the water line.
A survivor makes the following state.
ment
The weather was clear up to 10 o. clock, but
a fog then set in, which continued and in
creased in density. The engines of the Gin
bria were kept at full speed until 80, then
half speed until 2, after which they were kept
at slow speed. About ten minutes past two
the whistle of another steamer was heard and
the engines of the Cimbria we're stopped.
The Sultan's green light was. owing to the
fog, not observed until she was only $50 feet
of from the Cimbria. The latter was struck
abaft the first collision bulkhead on the port
side, and she keeled over to starboard and
speedily sank. The Theta picked mp one OF
the Cimbria's boats at two O'Clock Saturday
afternoon, and arrived ut Coxhayen about
six