Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-01-23
NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED.
LIVES SACRIFICED. Il
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON
FHES0UTHERN pacific. g
THE SCANDAL MONGERS
LEAVE LANGTRY FOR
MISS MELVILLE.
TerrIbI e Ocean Disaster.

LONDON, Jan. 2l.-The details of the
| Cambria disaster show that the loss of
| lie. must have been fear full. A dispatch
from Hamburg, sent by the Hamburg
| American Steamship Company. says
that so far tifty-six persons from the
the Clmbria have been landed, and a
number of them are at A1eser Lign t.
house.
The Cimbria left Hamburg Thursday
with $50 passengers and crew of ITO.
She ran aground before leaving EIb,
! but got off with the food tide with the
assistance Of the steamer Hansa with
out damage, and she put to sea at 2:3O
in the afternoon. Friday morning she
came into collision, during the thick fog
Of Borkum, with the steamer Sultan.
The Cimbria sank in a short time.
When boat with thirty-nine passen-
gers arrived, the company sent out the
steamer Hausa and four OF the largest
available steamers at Cox Haven TO
search for other boats of the Clmbria.
The West Indian steamer Bavaria also
eft during the night with a similar OBJ
ect. The steamer SULTAN, which snt-
cred heavy damage in the collision. has
arrived in Eib.
A dispatch from Hamburg gives the
following. named passengers as among
the saved ". Foreman, P. Controller
B. Lorfza, Cess ON W. Allendorff. G
Hamel, w. Damentwig. L. Hanowirtz,
Fred. Schoul. X. Peitenkopf and wife,
L. Reicher, L. Scutt, - Bourgeass,
AMI Calm Uohrets. The above names
| are sen. as received from Ham
burg, and several OF them are
not clear. The following named
| msmbe OF the crew were saved: Sec
ond Officer Spurth, Third Officer Hell
| den, Fourth Officer Vass, Second En-
gineer koppman, Assistant Engineers
Sauerbrey and Oberheide. Steward
| Harden, Quartermasters klast, Wulef-
ken and LauheizeI;. Engel. rank not
stated; FRANKIE, rank not stated; be-
tween decks stewards Thuron and
Sanderson, Seamen Viewu, Alexander
son, Joheczen, Meyrln, Menchow, Jent-
zen and boy named REIN.
HAMBURG, Jan. s2l.-The Cimbria
sustained such severe injuries in the
collision that it at once became appar-
ent that she must sink Immediately,
The officers and crew did all in their
power to save rhe lives of the passen-
gers. and without q moments loss of time
life belts were given the passengers
and orders given to lower the boats.
This. hnwever, III consequence of the
vessels keeling over Oh her side, was
found to he very difficult on one side,
and absolutely impossible on the other,
as the second officer was still engaged
in cutting spars loose, so there should
be az much drift wood as possible to
cling to when inevitable laundering
should occur. The vessel went down
under his feet. He seized a spar, but
as several other persons clung TO 1t he
was obliged to let GO. and he swan to a
boat. This was the boat Subsequently
picksd up by the Theta. The second
officer steered the Theta to Cox Haven.
Seventeen other persons We're saved
by the steamer D,amant, from Weser
Lighthouse, making 56 thus far know
to be rescued. A survivor makes the
following statement: The weather was
clear up to HIS o'clock, but
the fog then set ir, which con-
tinued ana increased III density.
The engines of the Cimbria were kept
at full speed until l:30, alter which
they were kept at slow speed. About
ten minutes past , the whistle OF
another steamer was heard, and the
engines of the Cimbria were stopped
INSTANTLY. The SultaI's green light
was, owing to the fog. noe observed
until she was only $50 feet feet off
from the Cimbria. The latter struck
abaft the first collision bplkbead on
the port side, and she keeled over to
starboard and speedily sank. The
Theta picked up one of the Cimbria's
boats at o'clock Saturday afternoon,
and arrived at Cox Haven about 6.
CHICAGO, Jan. 81. 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
about seven feet above the water line.
New YORK, Jan. %. -kuaeart s. Co,
general agents of the Ham burg
can Packet TO, received the following
cablegram from the office of the COM
pany at Hamburg: tine Cimbria had
% cabin passengers, 362 storage pas
sengsrs and d crew OF %. So far 80
persons nave been landed at Cox Haven
and y at Wes-r Light-hous-. We are
preparing lisr OF those saved and
these missing, which we will cable to
10 the Asscciat Press
NEW YORK, Jan. % The Cimbria
had eight boats, four large ones and four
smaller ones. These could not possibly
accommodate the Al people aboard.
even il they had had ample time to EN-. |
bark. The large boats have been known.
on a pinch, to hold forty men and the /
smaller boats perhaps twenty or thirty |
men. so that at most only $50 persons |
could have got inso the boats. There
was no time to rig rats or other CON |
trivances of the kind. There, was not |
time to get half the boats af ,at. The
bats always contained supply of fresh ,
water, aud barrels Of bread are keps
ready in case of an emergency. The
crew are drilled for action in time OF
accident and go to their fixed place
when necessity occur. E Oh boat has
} mast and set of sails, 80 that the