Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-23
Additional Details Of the COL
liSiOn and Sinking Of the
Cimbria.
The Terrible Struggles Of the
Drowning Hundreds De-
scribed by Survivors.
The Officers and Grew Of the
Sultan Arrested and
Jailed.
Ths Steamer Seized by tho Govern
msnt and IN Investigation
Ordered.

LOST ON IL STEAMER.
Nj" YORK, January 80 During
the da many people called at the Off
ces OF me Hamburg. American steam
ship lme in this city, making inquiries
CONCERNING those on board of the ILL
fated steamer Cimbria. All the dis
patches but one came through the Az
ISOLATED press. 1t was learned in this
city that among the Loaf pnssen gsrs
were three singers, two brothers aud
a sister named Schuberth, who were
under engsg ,ment with Roster and
Biole.
THE CONDUCT OF II SULTAN.
j. +. Meyer, agent of the Hamburg
American line, says he could not I'M
derstand why the Sultan did not
pick up some of the boats Of the CHM
bria. He thought 1t very strange con-
duct on her part to leave them TO per-
ish. He feared q great many lives
were lost, for after being struck a. she
was the vessel would not have hoated
more than fifteen or twenty minutes.
The central compartments of tho YES.
sci, where the engines and coal bunkers
are situated, are very large aud are
necessarily connected by passage
ways. In the event of such an acct
dent as q collision there would be no
time to close the compartments, and
the weight of water would sink the
vessel at once. Meyer said 1t was
probably fear of the passengers, who
were Americans and returning tour
ists, who generally ship at Havre,
Meyer said last evening that later dis
patches from Hamburg made him feGr
that no more persons we're saved than
those already heard from. He thought
it probable, from the dispatches, that
not more than two boats got away
from the Cimbria. The large proper
ton of sailors who were saved he
thought was due to their better
knowledge Of swimming and holding
on to any floating piece of wreckage,
He was confident that many more
lives would have been saved il thieves
eel had remained on an even keel
Tho Sultan reported when she arrived
that she had been in collision with
steamer, probably the Cimbria. "If,'
he said, "the captain of the Sultar
suspected he had been In collision
9th tho Cimbria he must have know
That hundreds OF lives were In peril
He knew she was an emigrant vesss
and why did no not stop and soc hov
badly she was iDjured2'
Out of 23 cabin passengers wer'
saved. They were only a flight o
stairs from the deck and had q bette
chance of escape than the steersg'
passengers, who were two flights down
Three women were saved, Miss Atten
dorf of the cabin and Mrs. Pfreife
Ropf and Miss Sprout of the steerage
George, August and Katenka Romme
who we're in the second cabin and ar
among the missing, were we'll know
through Germany as the "Snsbial
Nightingales." They sang South Ger
man songs. They were billed to ap
pear at Balls and Roster next week
Roster engaged them three weeks ago
He showed their photographs to man.
sympathizing friends last evening, ant
George Rommer was 20 years of age
He and his sisters were in Biberache
Wurtemberg. Katenka, who wa
, 10 years of age and very pref
| ty, sang before the emperors 0
Germany and Austria when she wa
seven years of age. Augusta was Il
Her brother played q either accom-
paniment to his sisters singing.
. The cargo of the Cimbria consists
of miscellaneous foreign merchandise
and sss very valuable. The vesst
was insured partly by the insuranc
fund line and partly in the insuranc
. companies. Inquiries were made q
, the docks In Hoboken by people VIII
expected friends on the Olmbria. Tn
| Rugia, Ct the line, wasi at the doc
{ preparing to sail next Thursday. On
, of her officers said there war a stron
/ possibility that some of the boats {
the Cimbria had been picked up b
a sailing vessels and taken to chann'
ports, where they will soon be hear
q from. The place of COLLATION. was |
) the ocean highway and much FIR,
a quented by all kinds of vessels. TIL
chief officer of the Clmbria, +. Kal
:. Iona, he said, was a single man.
{ He was glad to learn the second
i third and fourth officers had bee
q saved. A sailor of the Rugia said th
4 Cimbria had been one Of the stauncf
a est vessels on the line. She had fou
n quartermasters - Plat, Wulfen, LaI
heiser and Henry Bernstein, OF whol
all but Bernstein were reported saved
He was a native of Prussia and has
family. The Cimbria had eight boat
four large ones aud four smaller one
These could not possible accemmodat
AT people aboard even if they had ha
ample time to embark. The larl
buat had been known on a pinch
q hold forty men, and the small boa
perhaps twenty or thirty men, 30 thi
at most only $50 persons could hay
got into tho boats. There was I
time to rig rats or other convenience
or TO get half Of the boats aloat. III
boats always contained a supply
= foth water, and barrels of bread a
n kept ready in case Of emergenc.
J. The cseW are drilled for action In tin
OF accident aud go to their fixed pla'
n when tho necessity occurs. Each bot
d has a mast ard set Of sails 80 that II
crew would not bs entirely dependel
d on the oars. The boats are strong
l. made and could stand a great deal
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