Milford chronicle., 1883-02-16

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had an awful time Of it, but now is in
elincd TO treat it as an ordinary exper
, ienca. He is farm hand. He said b,
was fast asleep on that memorable night
/ when he WAS awakened, not 10y th,
shock Of the collision but by the scream,
/ of the other passengers. He jumped
{ out Of his berth, put on his wooden
shoes and went on deck. When he saw
what the matter was he went below
again to get coat, when he found the
steerage full of water aud noticed "bie
hole in the ship He lost very little
time in getting on deck once more. and
saw some of the officers trying to lower
boat The ship was then lying on her
side He helped to cut the ropes, and
down went the boat getting half full Of
water. There were half dozen Indians
on the Cimbria, and one of them got into
the boat with other passengers. Ganske
was about to make an effort to reach the
boat when he saw her turn over on her
side and all in her went under He
thought that there must have been TWEEN
ty-fve, but many Of them reappeared
and swan to a mast to which he himself
had clung when the ship sank Seven
teen persons clung to that mast with all
the tenacity that fear of death gave.
When the Sultan had gone off, there
was not light to be seen; all was dark
ness, aud wave after wave was dashiug
over them. For eleven hours he and
several others continued to keep their
hold, but many in despair succmbed
Many cry of agony went up in those
eleven hours, and stout-hearted as young
Ganske was himself, he thought at one
time that he must let go. Some OF the
unfortunates were seized with cramps,
he said, and asking piteously for help,
would sink into the waves never to rise
again. Others were seized with fits and
commissions, and dropped into the sea.
One poor man was slipping off when a
stranger caught him and held him, but
in less than an hour he weakened, and
both went down. When morning
dawned, not q sail was in sight, and the
number clinging to the mast was fast
diminishing. Ganske thought it was
owing to his having on all his under |
clothing and his overcoat that he was
able to stand the exposure. They went |
drifting about till somewhere about
noon, when a ship hove in view to glad
den the hearts Of the survivors. 1t was
the Diamond, which as soon as the mast
and its human freight were seen lowered
a boat and pulled to the rescue. They
anchored at the Weser lighthouse and
to Hamburg. Next day
little tugboat took them to Costmunde,
where they stopped at a hotel, the pro-
prietor of which treated them most gen
erously. OF the seventeen who had
,lung to the mast, only about half We're
saved.
REPULsED FROM THE BOAT.
Robert Schutt is twenty-one years of
Lge, a stoutly built, ruddy-faced young
armer. His good-natured face was .
louded with care. He had lost mother, !
,rother (nineteen years old and sister
sixteen years), who were bound for
3uffalo, Ind, where one Of his uncles {
vas expecting them. Another uncle met 1
i'm recently at Hoboken. Schutt, it e
GEMS, had a desperate fight for life and I
ras repeatedly denied the means of t
scape from drowning. He, too, was c
sleep at the moment of the collision, +
nd when reused rushed ON deck half v
ressed.
All the boats were already in the water e
nd life-preservers he never dreamed Of, Il
ven if there were any. He saw there f.
as nothing for it but to jump, and he e
id so, striking out for a boat Who a
as in command he did not know, but o
ne of the officers drove him away. He "
as lifted on q wave and again found g
imself near the boat and clutched It, /
ONE of the sailors tore his hands from
le gunwales and the boat left him be- II
ind. IN
Feeling another wave coming, he made i
third and superhuman effort and again :,
utched the side In his own words, he i;
,roze on to the boat and the oecu- 7
lnts, feeling that they might venture %
take him in, did so There were i,
rec officers and thirty-nine men. No :.
oner was he taken in than another man
ught the stern and was towed along :
about an hours time, he said, the
,hts Of an English ship we're seen, but
st as they were being saved by the
sw the oor man at the stern let go,
d W drowned
John NJ C. Gildensopf, a steerage pas
nger by the Westphalia, told the re-
rter that he was in Hamburg when the
rviyors of the Cimbria arrived He
IS staying at an emigrant boarding
use and thither came the saved Such
yoe-begone company, he said, he had
yer seen. Some We're without caps,
lsrs without coats and others without
Des and stockings, and all without
my. Yet the boarding house pro-
etor refused to give them a supper, to
'e them anything, in fact, without
ii down. We're it not for some kind
lrted citizens who came forward and
d, they would have had nothing to