Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-10

The White Cross Line Loses its Fourtl
Steamer Within Three Years-The DAME
Steinman, With 1s4 Souls on Board Sink
Almost in Sight Of Port-Only Nine Per
sons Known to be Saved-The Treacherou
>sSisters."
HALIFAX, April 5.
At ten O'Clock Thursday night, during thu
almost impenetrable fog that prevailed
along this coast, the Belgian steamer
Daniel Steinmann of the White Cross
Line drove on the ledge of rocks called
tfThe Sisters" Sambro Island, and then
backed off and sank in about fifty feet OF
water. At four O'Clock yesterday after
noon it was known that nine people had
been saved out of 1873 who had sailed in
her.
THE VOYAGE.
The Daniel Steinmann left Antwerp on
March 20, under the command of Captain
Van Schoonhoven. She carried cargo
of telegraph wire and general merchan-
disc. Her crew numbered thirty-nine
men all told. She carried in the steer
age ninety-four passengers, all Germans,
twenty of whom were to land at Halifax,
and the rest in New York. She was also
to land 800 tons of freight here.
ON THE ROCKS.
The steamer was reported at st. Cath
crimes point. near Antwerp, two days
after leaving. The next thing heard OF
her was when the light-keeper on Sambro
Island heard her whistle as she was going
down. A few rockets were seen from the
shore, but the storm prevented any one
going to her rescue. Seven passengers
came ashore somehow in the night and
weresafely landed through the surf. They
reported that some of the crew were
.clinging to the rigging, part OF which was
above water.
TWO RESCUED.
During the night the weather coutin-
ned too rough to permit anyone going to
the assistance of the men on the wreck,
though it was only 200 yards away: but
at daylight a fisherman named Gilkle
launched a fiatboat and brought OFF Cap
tain Won Schoonhoven and boy who
had been secured on the rigging by the
CAPTAIN, These two were the only ones
left in the rigging. The survivors all re-
main on Sambro Island, twenty miles
from here. The weather has been so
rough and the fog so thick that no one
could pass either to or from Sambro Is
land to the shore.
TUGS TURNED BACK.
1t was not until afternoon that WORD
was received here that disaster had &C.
CURED. As soon as the agents of the
line, Messrs. Gilman Brothers, heard Of
the wreck two tugs were sent to it from
this city, but they were unable to get near
it ON account of -boisterous weather. The
topmasts of the ship were visible above
the water. The tugs will make another
attempt this morning, if the weather per
mits.
PASSENGERS FOR HALIFAX.
The following passengers were to havo
been landed here:
The Hender family, consisting of the
father, aged thirty-two; his wife, Corne.
lis, aged thirty, and their children, Pie
ternella, aged eleven; Audriana, aged
nine; Joanna, aged eight; Joan, aged
four, and Aria Brayenbor. aged one.
The Paulus family, consisting of the ia.
Their, aged thirty-fve; his wife, Maria,
aged thirty-three, and their children, Cor
nelia, aged ten; Hildergrunda, aged
eight; Aria, aged four.
Bart Kranandock.
Martinus Stock, aged sixty.
These were laborers and their families
from Riderkirk.
There were also Sebastian Riedel, ageo
twenty-eight, of Walfordorf, and George
Stiekel, aged twenty-three, of Guntherof.
The last two were for Montreal and the
rest for Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Assaulted by Highwaymen.