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THR LOST STRINMANN.
Only Nine Saved From The
Wreck.
THE CRASH ON THE SHOALS.
An Awful Night Off Sam
bro Light.
THE LABORS OF CONGRESS.
A Big Order Mapped Out
This Week.
NEW DOMINION.

NEW DOMINION.
The Wreck OF the Steinmann-FUrther
| Details of the Disaster The Vessel
| PIuages BIindIy ON ShOal-A Terrible
Scene ON Board-OnIy Nine OF the Living
| Freight Escape-The Work of Search
| ing for the Bodies:
| HALIFAX, April 6.-Further particulars
of Thursday nights disaster, whereby the
| ocean steamer Daniel Steinmann was lost
with all but nine of the 129 persons on
board. shows that it was the greatest catas-
trophe that has happened hereabouts since
the loss of the Atlantic. There were on the
vessel when she struck on the rocks five
officers, thirty three sailors and ninety one
| passengers, and of these but six of the crew
| and three passengers escaped with their
/ lives. All day Thursday the weather had
been threatening, and as evening came on
the wind gathered slowly in strength and
heavy rain fell. AS darkness set in fash after
aash of vivid lightning iIlumined the night,
| and peal after peal of thunder shook the
| very foundations of the city's buildings !
Toward ten o'clock the thunder and light
hing ceased, but rain fell in torrents until
early morning and the wind blew over the
water with the violence of a mighty gale. It
was about ten o'clock on Thursday night
that the Daniel Steinmann, Captain Schoon-
hoven in command, lowering about the bay
entrance watching for the first safe opportu-
nifty to make the harbor, miscalculatsd her
position and struck with terrible violence on
Mad Rock shoal. Sambro light, which is
the outermost harbor light and serves to
-
one of the most dangerous parts of the coast
of Nova Scotia. was burning brightly at the
time and the foghorn was sounding hoarse
blasts. The light, however, was Invisible to
and the horn unhesrd by those on the ILL
fatsd craft. Imn sdiateIy backing off, with |
torrents of water pouring in below, the Dan
lei Steinmann drifted nearly hundred yards
to the northward, and then, within few |
moments of receiving the first shock, she |
struck on Garden shoal. With second and |
larger hole In her bottom the sea soon |
filled her, and in less than five |
minutes after the first alarm the steam
er was full of water and had sunk.
In the meantime efforts were being made by |
those on deck to launch the lifeboats, but on
~ one of these was successfully hoated In |
to it five Of the crew and two passengers |
jumped. Before others could follow their |
example the boat broke away and drifted |
quickly from the ship. About eleven o'clock |
the men on Sambro Island observed the boat !
making for the shore, and with torchesit was
guided around to a portion of the beach |
facing Maryland, where the water was sone-
what cslmer than elsewhere. A landing was
effected with difficulty, and the boats oceu-
pants, who were all men, were cheerfully
provided with shelter. The frat in
formation of the terrible disaster was |
thus brought to the lighthouse men
and sharp lookout was kept during the |
night for any additional survivors. None
however, appeared. AS daylight broke two
people, man and boy, could be seen
clinging to the topsail yard, the only portion
of the wreck above water, everything else
being submerged. A boat was manned and .
at once put off. and ia short time the two
remaining survivors. badly exhausted and in
a deplorable condition, were brought safely
to land. The man proved to be Captain
Sehoonhoven and the boy was one of the
steamers passengers.
NINE PEOPLE ONLY WERE SAVED
from the wrecked ship, and 100 met with a
watery grave, ninety of them being passen-
gers. The storm had by this time abated
considerably, but a heavy fog still hung
over the water and the sea continued rough.
About nine O'Clock one of the harbor pilot
schooners managed to touch for short time
at Sambro Island, and to one of the pilots on
board Captain Schoenhoven gave the mes
sage, which, received in the afternoon in this
oifu he Tho lot
boat reached the mainland, and word was
telegraphed from the military signal station
to this city. None, of the survivors has
yet separated from the otherF, all remaining
on Sambro, and during the day the water
remained SO turbulent it was impos-
sible for boats to again venture near the
island. I
THE TALE OF THE RESCUED CAPTAIN.
Captain Henry Schoonhoven, the only off
Ger of the unlucky ship net drowned, gives $
the following details of the unfortunate ca s
tastrophe: 'fWe sailed from Antwerp on +
the afternoon of March 20, bound to Hall &
fax and New York With a cargo of general }
and mir ~ immigrant German
passengers and ereW numbering thirty-foGr
men on board We had fine voyage till We
reached the Banks of Newfoundland, which
were crossed in latitude A deg. 43 min,
running through some patches of field ice.
Themes almost continuous fog and rain were u
till the coast of Nova Scotia was q
reached. Our last observations were taken n
IN the morning of the Cd inst About a
o'clock on the evening of April Sd the bear :,
ngs of Chedabucto light by dead reckoning q
md soundines were west half south by COM a
pass distance twenty five miles The steamer A
vas making dead slow Roadway, as heavy h
og and rain prevailed. The course steeTed :,
vas west one-qua1ter south, and soundings
we're taken every hour At about quarter u
past nine in the evening I observed through "
he thick mist faint light about two Ia
points on the starboard bow. 1t disappeared 81
tut q sight at times for four Or d
i've minutes, and taking it for -Chedaoucto fl
Head light steered toward it, At that time e
sounded and found thirty fathoms of water. Y
twenty minutes later sounding and finding
,nly ten fathoms, ! saw it was the fixed light
# Sambro appearing clear. At the same
moment observed faint glimmer OF what
took to be Chedabucto light, about four
points on the starboard. sounded
gain and found twenty-six fathoms- Is
Then I put the wheel hard aport. 1t n
vas too late. The ship struck on the rocks. fl
lust before We twice heard Samhro :,
og whistle. The first shock was light, but y y
he second one was very severe and the y
steering gear was carried away. After this y
he engines could not be got to work. We Il
irifted over rocks and anchored, the ship
ying to pretty steadily and the sea running
'ut little. ordered the cher ana second q
mates to lower the boats and get the children u
md female passengers in them first. One e
boat was already in the vater and the crew b
working with will. then noticed the ship
coming nearer the breakers ran n
Onward to see whether the chain :
,abIe was not broken. Before
,onld reach the forecastle an inn A
nense sea broke over the poop, and in the f
winkling Of an eye every passenger on deck, G
men, women and children, were swept of.
L fearful crash Immediately followed. and
he ship plunged beneath the water like
lash Of liQhfninr going down stern first.