The Portland daily press., 1884-04-05
WRECKED OFF SAMBRO.
Another Ocean Steamship Gone
to the Bottom.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY.ONE
PERSONS LOST.
Meagre Details of the breadth
Disaster.

BOSTON, April A. 1t is here reported that the
steamer Daniel Steinman, Antwerp for New York
wa Halifax, is sunk off Sambro about I6 miles
from Halifax and 100 lives lost
LATER.
HALIFAX, April 4.-Intelllgenee received here
thus far from the wreck of the Daniel Stejnmann
is very meagre, is said that the captain and five
OF the crew were the only persons saved. The
steamer had 80 passengers and crew of a. TWEEN
ty of the passengers all Germans were to land here
and 70 were for New York. 1t is thought that the
Steinmann struck on the Sisters off Sambro last
night and shortly afterward sank. Her masts are
now visitle from the shore. Intelligence of the
wreck did not reach here until this afternoon Con-
siderable OF her cargo was for this port and the re-
mainder for New York. The owners of the vessel
have gone to the scene of the wreck.
NEW YORK, April 4.-The only information re
ceived by Funch Edge Co., agents, for the steam
or Daniel Stenmann is brief des patch stating that
the vessel had been lost off Sambro and that Capt,
-Schoonhayen and five of the crew were saved Off
GERS of the company said they could not imagine
how the accident occurred but thought it probable
that it happened during fog or gale. He said the
steamer generally carried but very few cabin
passengers, being chiefly engaged in the Storage
passenger and freight carrying trade. He had no
idea Of the number of passengers or crew. The
amount of cargo ON board would probably reach
1000 tons 400 tons of which was for Halifax. He
considered Capt, Schoonhaven very careful and
panstaking man.
The Steinmann was built at Antwerp in 1874.
She was 1T feet in length, "a feet beam and %
feet depth of hold and her gross tonnage was 1875
tons. Her name was formerly the Khedive and she
had been running in the White Gross Line since
A che
cessful vessel, bat during the last two or three
years she had met with various mishaps.
HALIFAX, N. S., April 4.-Three passengers
from the Daniel Steinmann were saved with the cap
tain and five of their crew but their names have not
yet been ascertained. They are all on Sambro
Light Island, the only comm unication with which
is by signal in rough weather. Tonight the wealth
er is thick and rainy and it is uncertain if any fur
ther particulars can be had. Reporters have left
for Sambro by land but the roads are bad and even
when there their chances of securing information
tonight are small.
Latest intelligence regarding the wrecked steam
er is that out of a of SO and the captain and
ninety passengers onl nine reached the .shore-the
captain, five OF the crew and three passengers who
are now on Sambro Island a short distance from the
main land. Owing to the heavy sea that prevailed
in the neghborhood of the Island, it lis is unlikely
that the survivor will be able to reach the main
land till 1oon tomorrow or until the sea becomes
calmer.
The steamer Newfeld left this city at 8 O'Clock
this afternoon for the scene of the wreck but the
fog thick it impossible to reach the fatal
spot. The captain considering it unsafe to launch
asurfboat on account of the roughnsss of the sea
and imprudent to go nearer than within five miles
of the wreck because of the density of the fog.
Another effort will be made by
the NewfeN tomorrow to reach the spot.
Three steam tugs also endeavored to make their
way to the sunken steamer, but were compelled to
turn back being unable to get further than Herring
Cove, some ten miles from the wreck. wrecking
schooner, with well equipped crew of divers, will
leave here in the morning for the wreck, to raise
the bodies of the drowned and whatever of the car
go can be saved. number of reports
are in circulation in regard to where the
vessel struck, the most plausible of which is
that she sunk Whitehouse Shoal within short
distance Of ssslnpro Island. The exceeding rough
ness of the win probably cause her to rapidly
break up. The captain of the Steinmann having
only been in this port three tines it is not at all
probable that he was aware of the dangerous coast
around Sambro of his awful peril until too late
to avoid the disaster.