The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-17
A COLLISION AT SEA.
One Hundred and Five Peg.
sons Drowned or Killed.
"RE-TRAGIC EVENT NARRATED.
Various Account, of the Dfsasfer-
Complete List of the
Victims
Disastrous Collision at Sea

1
. NV YoRK, August I6.-The steame
, Westand, OF the Hamburg America
steamship line has jnst brought tn
tie news OF collision Off Sable ISLAM
between the Geiser and Thingvalla, O
the fhingvala line, which occurred 8
o'clock s.m. August 18th. Til
GeiSer sunk in iva minutes after tn
collision and los persons were drowned
The ThingOaItG was go disabled that sh
bad 30 put into Halifax after transfer
ring all her passengers to the Wicland
Ghe Geiser had elghty.six passenger.
aboard, se7enty-two of whom ser.
drowned Or killed in the collision aud
fourteen were taken first on the
IhtngUdLtG and then on the Geiser, Tn
Gstser'S crew numbered fifty, thirty
three were drowned and seventeen
saved. Captain Mo Ter, of the Gsise,
WAS among those saved. The passep
ezra ~ the 1hinyU0jkt transferred o.,
the " seLond numbered $50 The Gsise,
lett this port August 1lth bound fol
Stelton and tins IhihgvdlLd was on her
way 10 this city and was advertised to
leave them here on August 25.h. A
| ysry heavy sea and dense fog
were experienced through the nigh
| and early on the morning of the i4th.
the 1hingcGLG struck the 4eiser on the
dtarborrd side amid ships. The boats
dapartet then AMI within five minutes
the GeiSer sank. The crew of the Thin1
uIltG dill all they could to save the
GeISsr'S crew ana passengers, while still
in doubt as to whether TbmgraLu was
not da ogerously disab led, but owing to
the heavy sea only thlrty-one were
saved. No other vessel was near at
The time. The lVIeland. on her way to
this port, was 100 miles away
at IL 30 clock. On the morning of
the IA n, the Wieidnd was sighted.
signs of distress were made BY the
ThiRgvatta and and a transfer OF pas
sengers began. The sea was very
heavy, but no mishaps occurred in the
transfer OF passengers. The folio wing
is list OF the passengers saved from
the Geiser's cabio: Mrs. Hilda Lind
New York to Carlsham, Sweden: steer
age, johann Larson, New York to
Riser, Norway; Alfred Anderson. New
foIk to Grimsllnd. Norway; Caris-
TOPPER Eiazer, Chicago 20 Bergen, Nor
way; Peter Johansen, st. Paul to Cos |
berg, Sweden; John 6. Johansen,
Iron Mountain, Michlge \. to Stockholm. |
Paul Olsen, Ironwood, Mich, to Copeu- |
hagen, Denmark; Frs W Ise, Minneap-
alis, to Christiana, Norway; John Ten
wuld. Hudson. Wis, to Thondbiey
Norway; Fred Hanson, Perth, Amboy. |
to Copenhagen; Fens Andersen, Phila
deIphis, to Christiana, Norway; Anuers
G. Petersen, st. Paul, TO Gosborg, Swe
den; Lowritz Romeriehl, Lansing,
Mich, to Copenhagen, Denmark:
Jchsn ADJUST. Iron Mountaia'
Michigan, TO Orland, Finland;
List of the ciew-Captain. Carl Wi
helm Moller; second officer, Peter
Fuliere Fergenson; third officer, Peter
son; physician, DIR. Peer Dincke;
officers, Berry, Louis, Dorm0hyills, De
LACQUER; assistant ensigns, Hans Berlet
sin, Mat. Frank. Oscar Peterson; lamp
man, Fritz Holm; sailor, Andros
young man, Wldemar
head fireman, Axel Ander
sou fireman, Peter t'redericksep. Han.
Christensen, Joe Hansen. NiIspir.
julius Nelson, John Albert Elkstrom
Carl ohansen. Eli
The officers of the company were un.
able ton ght to give list of the lost.
Captain A. Albars, of the Wrelond ,
.ells the following story: AT 10
} clock On the morning of August I4th !
We passed some wreckage floating in ,
he aea, and suspected an sccideut had :
somewhere near up. A little r
ater We sailed through a sea of oil and !
lighted a broken boat of the Geiser, J
About 11.30 we sighted a steamer to >
he northward, about six miles off, and !
eeing she had flag of distress I
Up we ran down to- her. 1t o
proved to be the ThingvaLIa, and Cap .
ain Lamb, OF that vessel, came to us in +
small boat and begged US to take off p
lis passengers and those he had saved h
rom the GeiSer. He said his own yes-1 q
ell was so badly mi .red that he ex-1 a
ected her to sink any moment. His +,
inward compartment had been carried s.
way from half down the deck to below II
he water line. We sent out three of 2
ur boats and the TaingvatIa lowered q
ers. and in five hours we had trans p
:rreo the saved passengers and crew d
the GeiSer and also 455 passen- Id
ers OF the ThinquaIto. The sea f.,
as very rough and the work of trans EC
srring he passengers was very great =,
n immense hole in the ThinoydlEn's n
ow was then patched up as well as e
ossible and she started for Halifax. q
The collision, so far as known, was a.
aused by the fog and the chief officer n
each vessel was on deck at the time r,
the collision and the third officer, -,
eters, told much the same story of the ~
occurrence. He said, "the fog was u
cry dense through the night "
nd had fallen at intervals and V
le first we knew of the vessels q,
pproach, she vas upon us. She ap II
cared on the starboard side, both n,
essels ATTEMPTED to steer off the head 4
ne. The Geiser was struck opposite II
le engine room amidship. the Geiser f,
eng heavily loaded was low in the IS
alter. The Thingvalla carried her own u
on the upper part of her u
ow ram over the decks of the Geiser. Il
le decks houses were carried away "
I'd the state rooms smashed in and
ne occupants killed. He heard the re-
eli ringing ia the Geissr's e CINE 81
lom but could not tell what 10