The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-22
AN OCEAN DISASTER.
THE STEAMER clMsRlA GOES DOWN
In calll,lsa with the steamer Sultan. with Nearly
Fire Hundred Souls on BoArd-oaly Firy.slr d.
Reported to DO Saved 50 Far.
Statmsnt or Survivor.

LONDON, January 2l.-The Cimbria left
Hamburg Thursday with $50 passengers
and a crew numbering llO. She ran
ground before leaving Elbe, but got of
with the flood tide with the assistance Of
the steamer Hansa without damage, and
she put to sea at $50 in the afternoon.
Friday morning she came into collision
during thick fog of Bokun, with the
steamer Sultan. The Cimbria sank in
short time. When o boat with
thirty-nine passengers arrived, the COM
pany sent out the steamer Hansa and four
Of the largest available steamers at Cux-
haven TO search for other boats Of the CHM
bria. The West Indian steamer Bavaria
also left during the night with similar
object The steamer Sultan, which suffer-
ed heavy damage in the collision, arrived
in Elbe. .n., .-.. .4a
A dispatch from Hamburg gives the fol-
lowing named passengers as among the
saved: w. Tornemann, P. Confolier, B.
Long, Gessom Wallendori, G. Hamel, w.
Damelwig, R. Hanowitz, F. Schoul, R.
Pienkup and wife, L. Reicher, L. Schutt.
The above names are sent as received
from Hamburg. Several Of them are not
clear. The following named members Of
the crew were saved: Second Officer
Spruth, Third Officer Heyden, Fourth
Officer Yoss, Second Engineer Kop-
man, Assistant Engineers Savorbry
and 0berhiede, First Steward Harder,
Quartermasters Klatt, Wulefker and Tan
heizer, Eryl, rank not stated, FRANKIE, rank
not stated. Between decks, stewards,
Thurow and Anderson, seamen, Veirow,
Alexandersen, Johacsen, Weirin, Mem
chow, Jentzen and boy named Rehn.
HOW THE SHIP WENT DOWN.
HAMBURG, January 2l.-The Cimbria
sustained such severe injuries in the colli-
sion that 1t at once became apparent that
she must sink most Immediately. The
officers therefore did all in their power to
save lives with a moments loss Of time. Life
belts were distributed among the passengers
and the order was given to lower the boats.
This, however, in consequence OF the yes
sells keeling over on her side, was found to.
be very difficult on one side and absolutely
impossible on the other. The second OF.
ficer was still engaged in cutting the spars
loose so there should be as much
DRIFT wood as possible for the
people to cling to, when the inevitable
laundering should occur, when the vessel
went down under his feet He seized
spar but as several other persons clung to
ii he was obliged to let 60, and he swan to
q boat. This boat was subsequently
picked up by the Theta. The second officer
steered the Theta to Cuxhaven. Seven
teen other persons have been saved by the
steamer Diamint from Weser light house,
making fifty.six thus far known to have
been rescued.
SURVIVORS, STATEMENT.
A survivor makes following statement:
The weather was clear up to 1:15 o'clock,
but fog then set in, which continued and
increased in density. The engines Of the
Cimbria were kept at full speed until l:S0,
then at half speed until 2, after which they
were kept atslow speed. 80.
About ten minutes past o'clock the
whistle OF another steamer was heard and
the engines Of the Cipbria were stopped
Instantly. The sultan's green light was,
owing to the fog, not observed until she
was only one hundred and fifty feet of
from the Cimbria. Later she struck
the bulkhead on the port side and she
keeled over to the starboard and speedily
sank. The Theta picked up one Of the
Cimbria's boats at o'clock Saturday after
noon and arrived at Coxhaven about 6. A
reporter boarded the Sultan but both the
Captain and crew absolutely refused to
give him any information. The Captain
has made statement before the British
Consul, but this Is inaccessible. The Sultan
has large hole in her bow seven feet
above the water line.
NEw YoRk, January 2l.-Kunhardt &
Co., agents Of the Hamburg Packet Com
pany, received the following cable from
the officers Of the Company at Hamburg:
The Cambria had % cabin passengers, 362
steerage and % OF crew, So far SO per-
SONS have been landed ut Cuxhaven and
So at the Weser Lighthouse. Names not
yet ascertained. We are preparing list
OF those saved and those missing, which
we will cable to the Associated Press.