The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-22

IN Cuxhaven and seventeen at the Meser-
1ight house. another vessel has landed
eleven, but tbs names of these eleven are
mot vet ascertained The number of lives
lost are estimated at fully three HUNDREDS
The passengers were mostly emfgrants
from East Prussia Among them were six
American Indians. who had been on exhi-
bition at Berlin for some time. The fate
of the remainder of the passengers and
crew is not yet ascertained. The Chip
pewa Indians would have left by an earlier
steamer but for the illness of one of their
party, which delayed their embarking.
Naw YORK, Jan. 20.-J. Ell. Meyer, agent
ofFtho Hamburg American Line, says he
could not understand why The Sultan did
not pick up some of the boats of the
'.Cimbria. He thought it very strange
conduct on her part to leave them 10
perish. He feared great man Wives were
lost for after being struck as she was the
vessel would not have fioated at most more
than fifteen or twenty minutes. The CEN
-tral compartments of the vessel where the
engines and coal are situated arc very large
and are necessarily connected by the pas
sage ways. In event of such accidents rs
the collision thereswould be no time to
close com par1ments and the weight of the
water would sink the vessel at once. Meyer
said it was probable few of the passen-
gers were Americans Returning tourists
generally ship at Havre. Meyer said last
evening that late dispatches from Ham
burg made him fear that no more persons
were 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 the sailors saved he thought was
l.. >~fr..
and holding on to floating pieces of wreck
age. He was confident many more lives
would have been saved if the vessel had
regained an even keel All the uninjurcd
boats could have been used. Meyer said
the Sultan reported when she arrived,
that she had been in collision with a
steamer, probably the 'Cimbria' he must
have known that hundreds of lives were in
peril. He knew she was an emigrant
vessel, and why did he not stop and see
how badly she was injured?s The missing
all told, are 334; safe, far as known. So;
this is as far as the list goes: and makes
the whole number on board 3S7, instead
of 800, a slight discrepancy with the figures
given in the press dispatches, which leads
to the hope that more names of the saved
may yet be received
RAILROAD wRECE--A FRIGaTFUL SCENE.
SAN Francisco. Jan. 21.-A Los Auge- |
los special says, in regard to the
railroad disaster: 1t is now ascertained tnat |
at the time the train broke loose and ran
iown the grade the air brakes had been |
taken off and the men who tended the hand |
brakes were away from their posts, one at |
lending to switching the engine and the |
other relighting his extinguished lamp. |
The train gathered Roadway and was soon |
flashing down the grade at the rate OF a /
nile minute. At sharp curve of the |
Dad the coach and smoker, which were /
Ihead, broke their couplings and separated /
rom The rest of the train, making the turn /
afely The sleepers, mail and express
ars were dashed agains th high bank. then
brown back and rolled down the embank-
nent The lamps and stoves at once set
Ire to the wreck which was instantly in
Harry Connors. news agent, sleeping
n ths baggage car, was awakened by the
novement7of the car and aroused James
baggage-master. just as the
airs make jump. The roof of the Car
pitt open. throwing both men out and
everelyf bruising Connors. While lying
N the ground, unable to render any assist
nee, he saw the train developed in flames, I
leard the shrieks of the dying, and saw
hem vainly endeavoring to struggle from
he burning ruins.
Porter Ashe and wife, who occupied
lone the drawing room of one of the
leepers, were awakened by the crash.
hey succeeded in getting out without in
nry, but of the sixteen other occupants of
he cars not one is believed 20. have
scaped. Meanwhile the occupants of the
oach which kept on down the grade sue
eeded in stopping it, saving the lives of
0me forty occupants of that and the smok
~ car. They Immediately walked back
o the scene of the accident. but found
My the smouldering remains of the tram,
nd the few who had escaped with their
yes lying bruised and bleeding in the
arkness, shivering IN the piercing cold of
ne night air. or rending assistance to each
Their. Relief soon arrived from Tehachapi,
our miles distant, as soon us possible
ledicine attendance was sent from Sumner
nd Bakerfeld. and subsequently, fromj
os Angeles Search for the dead soon
bowed that twenty-one persons had
Eleven were ~ sbeyand-s-~all
scognition, only headless bodies and
haired limbs being found. Of the body
Mrs. DowneY only the head and bustI
,mained recognized by the. jewelry. ALI
ne bodies and fragments were gathered
p and ccffined. The wounded were re-
loved to the baggage ear, and on the arr | 3
val of the relief train from Los Angeles,
crescent to the city. OF the dead, a col
red porter, Wright, was crushed, and ex-
ress messenger Charles Pierson, had his
cad shattered. and five were burnt butt
viz: Miss Mamie E. Souires.