The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-25

Inc stedHler Nleianu. OF the liam
| urg American Steamship Line, has just
| brought to New York news of a collision
| of Sable Island between the Geiser and
the Thingvalla, of the Thingvalla Line
which occurred at O'Clock on the
| morning of August a. The Geiser
sank IN five minutes after the collision,
| and l05 persons were drowned. The
1hlngyalla was SO disabled that she had
to put INTO Halifax after transferring all
her passengers TO the Wieand. The
Geiser had eighty-six passengers
aboard, seYenty-two of whom were
drowned or killed iii the collision
| anti lourteen were taken first on the
Ihlngralla and then on the Wieland.
The Geiser's crew numbered fifty; sew
enteen were saved and thirty-three
were drowned. Capt. Mueller, of the
Gelser, was among those savad. The
passengers the ThingValla transferred
| to the Wieland numbered four hundred
and forty-iive
The Geiser left New York on August
III bound for Stettin. The Thingvalla
was on her way hither. and was adver-
| tlsed to leave New York on August %.
y very heavy sea and dense foa were
experienced through the night and
early morning of August a. 1t is said
an object could not be distinguished
fifty feet away by reason of the log.
Stories differ as to where the fault lies,
If not wholly due to the fog and
heavy sea; but the Thingvalla struck
| the Geiser on the starboard side,
amidships, close on to O'Clock in the
morning. The boats then parted and
| within five minutes the Geiser sank.
% Of 1n Il IL Al,
could to save the Geiser's crew and pas
sengers, while still in doubt as to
| whether the Thingvalla was not dan
gerously disabled but owing to the
heavy sea only thirty-one were saved.
No other vessel was near at the time
The Wleland, on her wav to New York
was 100 miles away. At IL 80 o'clock on
the morning of the 18th the Wieland
was sighted. Signals of distress were
| made by the Thingvalla and a transfer
| of the passengers began. The sea was
then very heavy, but no mishaps oc-
Cured in the transfer of passengers.
The Geiser was one of four vessels
owned by the Thingvalla line, and was
considered their crack ship. Most OF
the passengers were Western people
who were booked by A. Mortensen &
Co., the general agents of the line at
Chicago. Mortensen is at present in
Copenhagen.
The Geiser was an iron screw steam
ship of ISIS tons burden. She was
324.4 feet long, 1913 beam, and % feet
depth of hold. She was built at the
yards of Burmeister x Vain, at Copen-
hagen, in 1881. She had three masts,
and was fitted with compound inverted
engines, with four cylinders of 50 and
y inches in diameter and 42-inch
stroke.
The Thingvalla is somewhat smaller
than the Inflated Geiser, being 30l. 3
feet long and 37.4 feet beam. She is
registered at $50 tons burden, and WAS
built at Burmeister's yards, Copen-
hagen, in 1874.
The list of those who took passage
from the Chicago office is about as fol-
lows: Andrew Ingebreesen, Mary In
grebregsen, and their daughter Ida
Mary; A. G. Jonsen, l.. p Petersen, his
wife Hedwig and two children; Solfert
Peterson, John Broersen, Mrs. Jensen,
Julius Fredericksen and his wife Julia
and his daughter Annie; I. Z. Jehn,
Charles Carlson, kittie Hullekson, Peter
II. Morstad, Peter Hanson, John
Ehlquitt, Mrs. John S. Jansen and
child, L. j. Johansen, Christ Elieson,
Magnua Anderson, Mrs. Johnson and
infants, o. IL. Lie, c. c. Braaten, Eliza
Hammer, John Tenyold, Ole Christ
ohsen, Caroline, Carl and Fritz Christ
ensen, Annie and Oscar Wicker, Hilda
Soldberg, Louis Anderson, Lauritz Rum
mendahl, Annie Thompson, MAIDS. Han
sen, Gust. Adler, Paul Paulsen, Annie
and Kristen Sovensen, Miss +. NJ. Pc
tersOn.
HALIFAX, n. s., Aug. 1.-THE Danish
steamer Thingvalla was signaled off
the harbor at O'Clock this morning in
charge of Pilot William White of boat
No. 2. She crawled along at the rate of
two miles an hour and three hours
elapsed before she arrived at the
wharf of Bickford & Black, her agents.
Meanwhile crowds of people lined the
water front.
Capt. Lamb made the following state
ment: Il was in bed on the morning
of the 18th. The second officer re-
lieved the first officer on the bridge at
O'Clock in the morning. About 4:30
l was awakened by hearin, the second
officer shout out Port helm A
moment later the telegraph bell
out of bed and rushed on
deck in my night clothes. Just as | ar
rived on deck there was tremendous
crash. We had collided with large
steamer and struck her amidships just
below the mainmast. For a moment
all was confusion and the loud shrieks
came from the people on board the
ships. then ordered my crew to pre-
pare boats for launching.
by the time l returned to the
bridge we bad disentangled ourselves
from the strange ship. l found on the
bridge the second officer OF the vessel
we had collided with. From him l
learned that she was our sister ship,
the Geiser, Capt. Mueller.
"The Thingvaila had cut into the
Geiser clean to the mates stateroom.
That officer was asleep at the time He
rolled out of his bunk and grasped the
chains of our anchor. My first duty
was to look after my ship and quiet my
passengers. This | did.
Daylight was just breaking and there
was no fog, but 1t was hazy and there
was slight shower of rain"