The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-18
THE IL-FATBD SHIP.
Further Details Of the Awful
Disaster to the Geiser.
NAMES OF LOST AND SAVED
Tho Matter to be Investigated in Co.
penhagcn = Arrival Of Captain
Lamb-His Statement The
Great Loss of Life.

NRw YoRE, August 1.-THE absence
OF news from the Thingvalla caused CON
siderable uneasiness, but a late dispatch
states she was sighted off Halifax this
morning.
The corrected list of the lost is lO5, as
given by Captain Muller, Of the ill.fated
steamship Geiser. The Geiser carried
93 passengers and crew OF l3. OF the
passengers II were saved, and OF the
crew II. This makes the list OF lost 70
passengers and 20 crew.
S. L. Hansen, OF Worcester, Mass. F;
4. E. johnson & Co., OF St. Paul, MINI. /;
A. Mortensen 4 Co., OF Chicago, ILL.,,
and L. Wennestrom, of Philadelphia,
agents OF the line, have been notified to
send on their lists Of the tickets sold on
the Geiser. Mrs. Ida Mangrave, with
her child, lost, bought her tickets in
Worcester. Fourteen and half tickets
were sold in st. Paul, Of which three
were saved. From Chicago torty.one
and half tickets were shipped, OF
which six were saved, and from Phlla-
dclphia one shipped and one saved. The
balance of the tickets, twcnty-thrcc,
were sold at the office, No. 10 State
street, in this city, OF which only three
were saved.
1t was seven hours after thc collision
when the Wieland hove in sight. Peter
Julius JOrgensen, the second officer OF
the Gciser, says: "The only explanation
! can give is that il was raining like hell.
The first officer was OIL the bridge and
the third officer was down on the deck
taking sOundings when the crash came"
Mrs. Lind, the only woman amongthe
survivors OF the Geiser, was rescued
while clinging to portion OF the wreck
age. She has not yet fully recovered
from the nervous shock caused by ex-
citement and exposure, and her mind
wanders ut times. Her husband is Il
carpenter living on East Eighty-fourth
street in this city. Her health has been
so bad that it was thought best to send
her to her home in Sweden, and her
husband sold most OF their furniture TO
secure funds to pay the expenses OF her
and her two children, Il girl aged four
years, and boy baby aged three
months. Both children were drowned.
Martin Wilson, OF Chicago, n passen-
ger on the Thingvalla, says that he was
on the deck Of that vessel when the col
lisiOn occurred. "Whcn the Geiser
swung partially around" he says, "Isaw
her deck covered with wild mob Of
people, passengers and crew mingled,
who were tearing up pieces OF wood to
serve as life prGservers. Many fights re-
suited from this. One crowd OF about
twenty succeeded in loosening the large
life raft Just abaft the main mast, and
then all mounted it, probably thinking
that rs the vessel went down they would
be left floating. Unfortunately the vcs-
sci sank stern first and the raft caught
the main mast and was dragged down
with her. Not n single person in the
crowd escaped. Many others who jump
ed overheard were drawn into the sue
ton OF the sinking steamer and also
drowned"
There is no excitement at the office in
this city, us most OF the passengers were
from the West, The apparent reluctance
OF Third officer Peterson to state the
name oithe officer he was about to re-
lieve when the crash came, arouses a
suspicion that all was not right on the
bridge at that time. There was u rumor
last night that First Officer Brown, who
was among those lost, was below when
Mr.. Peterson came on deck, instead Of
being in his proper place on the bridge.
LATER.
Upon furthcrconsideration the Danish
Consul has concluded that the investiga-
ton will be held by the courts in Copen-
hagen, and not here US at first deter
mined.