Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-04-05
One Hundred and Fifteen Lives
Lost.
Only Nine Persons Left to Tell the Ter
rible Tale - Very Meagre Reports
Owing to thesRoughness of the
Water and Thick Fog.
Steamers and Tugs Unable to Reach the
Scene Of the Disaster-The Survivors
Not Yet Heard From,
HALIFAX, n. S., April 4.

HALIFAX, n. s., April 4.
The intelligence that has reached here thu.
far from the wreck of the Daniel Steinmanr
is very meagre. 1t is said that the captain
and five of the crew were the only persons
saved. The steamer had 90 passengers and
crew of "a. Twenty of the passengers, all
Germans. were to land here, and seventy
were for New York. 1t is thought that the
Steinmann struck on the Sisters, of Sambro,
last night, and shortly afterwards sank. Her
masts are now visible from the shore. In
tellegence of the wreck did not reach here
till this afternoon. Considerable of the car.
go was for this port, and the remainder for
New York. The owners of the vessel have
gone to the scene of the wreck.
New YORK, April 4.
The only information received by French.
Edy & Co., agents for the steamer Daniel
Steinmann is dispatch stating that the ves-
sci was lost off Sambro, and Capt. Schoon-
hover and FIVE of the men were saved.
An officer of the company said they could
not imagine how the accident occurred, but
thought it probable that it happened during a
fog or gale. He said that the steamer gen.
orally carried very few cabin passengers. be-
ing chiefly engaged in steerage passenger and
carrying trade, and they had no idea of the
number of passengers or crew. The amount
of cargo on board would probably reach l.
900 tons, 400 tons of which were tor Halifax.
He considered the captain very careful and
painstaking man. The steamer was built in
Antwerp in 1874. She was ls7 feet long, "a
feet beam; and 25 feet depth of hold. Her
gross tonnage was 1885. Her name was for
merly the Khedive She had been running
in the White Cross line since 1878. at one
time she was considered a very successful
vessel, but during the last two or three years
she had met with various mishaps.
HALIFAX, April 4.
Three passengers from the Daniel Stein
mann were saved with the captain and FIVE of
the crew. Their names have not been ascer-
tanned. They are all on Sambro Light Is
land. The only communication with them is
bv signal. The weather is thick and rainy
and it is uncertain if any particulars can be
had tonight. Reporters left for Sambro by
land, but the roads are bad and even when
there their chances of securing information
tonight are small.
The latest regarding the wrecked steamer
is that out of crew of 80 and captain and
90 passengers, only nine reached shore. The
captain, five of the crew and three passen-
gers, who are now on Sambro Island, short
distance from the mainland. Owing to the
heavy sea. it is unlikely that the survivors
will be able to reach the mainland till noon
tomorrow or until the sea becomes calmer.
Steamer Newfield left here at o'clock p
NJ. for the scene of the wreck. but the fog
was so thick that it was impossible to reach
the fatal spot, the captain considering it i'm
prudent TO go nearer than within five miles
of the wreck because of the density of the
fog. Another effort will be made by the
Newfield this morning to reach the spot
Three steam tugs also endeavered to make
their way to the wreck but were compelled
to turn back, being unable to get further
than Herring Cove, some ten miles from the
wreck. A wrecking schooner with a 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 cargo
that can be saved.
A number of reports are in circulation in
regard to where the vessel struck, the most
PLAUSIBLE of which is that she sunk on White
Horse shoal within short distance of Sam
bro Island. The exceeding roughness of the
sea was probably the cause of her rapid break
ing up. The captain of the Steinmann having
only been in this port three times. it is not at
all possible that he was aware of the danger
Gus coast around ambro or OF the awful
peril until too late to avoid the disaster.