Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-06
WRECKOFTHE STEINM.ANN
ONLY NINE SURVIVORS OUT OF
SO PEOPLE ON BOARD.

| The Captain Unable to take Observa-
/ tiOns for Two Days on Account of an
Impenetrable FOg-In Ignorance OF
! His Whereabouts When the Steamer
/ Struck.
| BOSTON, April "a special from Hall
| fax, N. s., received late last night saws
the steamer Daniel Steinmann struck
about 10 o'clock Thursday night on Mead
| Rock Shoal, about 200 yards distant from
Tambro light, during a terrific gale and
dense fog. She Immediately backed of.
and the next moment struck on the Gard
ner Shoals. An immense hole was knocked
in her bottom and she speedily filed.
! and within few minutes went down, So
far as it is at present known but one life
boat was launche but how many il at
first contained is not known.
About midnight the men at Tambro
Island observed a boat making for the
shore, and guided it with the help of
torches around to Call cove, where the
occupants, seven in number, landed.
Ihey were five Of the crew and two
passengers. After daylight broke two
persons could be made out clingiug to the
rigging Oh the sunken ship. A boat put
out from the lighthouse, and rescued them
from their perilOus position. They proved
70 De capt. SchoOnhOren and a boy
passenger.
A MESSAGE FROM THE CAPTAIN.
About9 . O'Clock Friday morning Charles
Martln, the pilot of boat No. 4, touched at
lamDro Island and received the above
meagre facts and then proceeded to the
mainland with the following message to
Chlpman Bros, agents of the White Cross
line, IN Halifax:
'Ihe Belgian steamer Daniel Steinmann
was wrecked on the Sd OF April about 10
O'Clock at night between the rocks off
Iambro: Ninety passengers and thirty
Iour OF the crew were drowned. Five of
the crew, three passengers and the Cap
tam were saved. "H. SCHOONHOREN.v
After Pilot Martin left the island the
sea became so rough that it was impossi-
Ole lOr the boat to again reach il from the
MAINLAND, which is three miles distant.
Efforts were made all day from
Camperdown Station to obtain in
formation by use of the Morse
signal system, but the fog. was
so dense that one station was not visible
TO those at the other. The names of the
survivors consequently are not vet
known. There are no females among
them.
ONLY EHHTY-sIX OUT FROM ANTWERP.
ANTWERP, April 5.-The steamer
Daniel Steinmann left Antwerp with fifty
passengers and having crew Of thirty
six.
BUT NINE SURVIVORS.
HALIFAX, April 5, M.-The agent
OF the wrecked steamer Steinmann with
dlhiculty effected landing on Tambro
Island, and found nine survivors of the
wreck. The Captain said that he had
been unable TO take observations for two
nFHRn6Tnn hn
heavy fog. At 10 O'Clock on the night of
the Sd instant he sighted what he sup
posed to be ChibuctO light, and before
Ine mistake could be rectified the ship
had struck the rocks, and went down
stern tIst in a few minutes, but seven
persons escaping in the boat. The Cap
tam and one passenger clung to the rig
gIng until rescued in the morning.
THE SURVIVORS REACHED.
HALIFAX, April 8, P. M.-The gov
ernmentsteamer NeWfieId lett this morn
ing for Jambro Island for the purpose of
getting off the crew and securing all pos
slOle information concerning the lost
steamer Steinmann. Running within a
few hundred yards of the island she cast
anchor between it and Bull rock and
proceeded to make the island. A boat
was soon launched with an anxious crew
and the men pulled for the spot at which
the survivors were awaiting relief. Upon
landing the weather beaten sailors and
passengers who had escaped the horrors
of watery grave were interviewed bv
the rescuing party.
THE SURVIVORS.
The surviving passengers and seamen
of the ill-fated steamer are
Henri SchOOnhOven, of Antwerp.
Capt. Eugene Nickolela, of Mutfert,
Luxemberg.
Lacoi Nicola Vincezo of Salemo, Italy.
John Nederman, of Echenhofen.
0ber Bayen.
- Otto Kranz, of wiltchendorf, near
Tchwazburg.
Frank FlOrentine Disseri, of Antwerp.
Charles Van Louis. of Antwerp,
Petro PingenS, of Antwerp.
Fritz Wick, Of Stralsund, Prussia.
A MAN WHO WATCHED THE WRECK.
Alexander Clinic, brother of the light
house keeper, who resides upon the island,
gave the annexed statement:
The lookout man sighted the steamer about
mile south by east Of the light. He called
me and saw that she was lying to- heading
about east northeast. She laid there about
10 minutes Whlle looked at her, after which
she ran ahead about a mile and stopped, and
then started ahead again and went about $50
yards and again stopped. | think she then
struck on Broad Beaver Shoals, for she began
10 Dack asJern. IL was dark, and | Judged her
motions by her lights. About % minutes after
she began to back. This time she struck again
on Mad Rock, or the northeast shoal
She then let go an anchor, but this did not
seem to hold her, and she drifted up across
the sho2l and sank between 300 and 400 yards
from the shore Of the island NV brother
Stewart and L then got into boat and at
tempted TO put out to the steamer, but the
boat was. too small, and we were forced to-
turn back. We then went uD and burned
lights upon the rocks and lit bon1res along
the shore to warn any boats that might b5
afoat against the dangerous coasts. We also
waved blue lights in the direction
OF the Cove as signal to such
boats TO keep safe distance from the island
and also as guide to enable them to keen
comparatively free from danger, SO that they
could land without risk. In the course OF
an hour boat came in sight. which proved
to be one OF the boats Of the steamer, contain
ing seven men. We succeeded in guiding
them INTO place where they might land
We kept lights burning along tae shore all
night. but saw nothing more until daybreak,
when we observed two persons clinGng to the
forward rigging; lowered a boat and quitting
out to the wreck rescued and safely landed