The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-18
SINKING OF THE GEISER.
TIE THINGVALLA'S CAPTAIN DIS
CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY.

lie says the Lost Vessel Steered TO
starboard When She Should Have
Ported Her Helm in Passing-Strange
Statement of the Geiser's Second
officer.
New YORK, Aug. 17-Capt. Muller of
the ill-fated steamer Geiser gives corrected
list of the lest 105. The Geiser carried ninety
three passengers and a crow of forty-three.
OF the passengers fourteen were savei and
of the crew seventeen. This makes the lost
seventy-nine passengers and twenty-six of
the crew.
Peter Julius Jorgensen, second officer OF
the Geiser, says; THE only explanation
| can give is that it was raining like h.
The tirsl officer was on the bridge and the
third officer was down on the deck, taking
soundings when the crash came"
Capt. Muller of the Geissr fled his report
of the collision with the Danish consul this
afternoon. Nothing further will be done in
tine matter until the report of the captain
of the Thingvalla is filed An investigation
will be held BY the courts in Cop9nhagen
and not here, as at first determined. The
survivors of the crow and such of the
passengers a, wish will leave tomorrow by
the Slavonia. The estimated loss on
G yes el is $3.50, ,00J, and the loss on the
cargo is about $l2O,O00. The insurance is
not yet fully known. The company, it is
said, will as far as in their power indemnify
the survivors.
THE THINGVALLA AT HALIFAX.
HALIFAX, n. S, August 1.-THE Danish
steamer Thingvalla, which collided with
the Geiser, arrived off this harbor at 6
O'Clock this morning and at the wharf at
O'clock
The Thingvalla presents strange spec
tacle with nearly the whole of her bow
torn away, leaving an immense hole ex-
posed to view. A long piece of the bow hangs
over the hole, which reaches back into
the sides of tho ship for fifteen feet. A
projecting piece hangs over the water like
an outstretChed arm and shows where the
powerful iron plates were broken through
and snapped off as if they were pipe-steuls.
Crowds hocked to the wharf to see tbs
steamer, and wonder is expressed that she
ever reached port. No persons were allowed
on board.
CAPT. LAMBS STATEMENT.
Capt. Lamb has made statement which
in its essentials does not differ from those
already published coming from the people
who reached New York on the WieiaHd
He says: After the Geiser disappeared we
began to work 10 keep things afoat. The
crew aud passengers worked side by side
throwing overheard what was brought
out of the hold. What was jetti-
soned consisted solely of wood and
provisions. There was not much wind
but a heavy swell. Between and 10
o'clock we reached the forward buikhead,
TO work snoring up the compartment. We
were leaking badly in the forehold and
kept the pumps going all the time SO that
the water had no time to gain on us.
TRANSFERRING THE PASSENGERS.
''At II o'clock the steamer Wieland, for
New York, hove in sight, and we trans
ferred ali the rescued passengers as we'll as
our own $50 passengers to her The VIE
land proceeded about 3 o'clock In the after
noon, leaving us also steering for New
York. We continued the work of snoring
up the compartments, but after awhile, on
account of the wind and sea increasing,
we found it impossible to keep on for New
York, and decided to head for Halifax At
this time it still looked very much az if we
might sink, and some of the crew had
refused to work, wanting to be transferred
to the Wieland before she left us.
SLOW TRAVELLING.
1--WE went as slow as two knots an hour
and sometimes found that too much. We
had to just crawl, that was all. On
Wednesday afternoon fishing vessel hove
in sight and we bore down for her. She
proved to be the schooner Capes of LaHave,
Capt. Clevensey, and engaged her TO stand
by and accompany the steamer
to Halifax so as to be able
TO help US in case she should
go down Last night the sea was 80 heavy
| had to turn the steamer around, running
stern foremost and steering by the schooner,
which was connected by hawser with the
steamers bow We ran against the wind
this way all right. We did not know on
the Thingvalla what steamer we struck till
the second officer of the Geiser jumped on
our deck.
THE LIGHTS BURNING.
When l reached the deck, Immediately
after the shock, the lights on both steamers
were burning all right; of that l am GER
tain. The Geissr had been seen by our first
officer several minutes before the collision.
She was nearly ahead of U.S. but little bit
on the port bow. She starboarded to get
out of the way, and we ported. She should
have ported likewise. Our whistle was not
blowing at the time, as there was no need
for it."
A HUSBANDS GRIEF
CHICAGO, Aug. H.-Marion Sachuas, a
Scandinavian, whose wife was lost on the
Geiser, was found by reporter this morn.
ing at his home. On the announcement of
the sad news the bereaved husband burst
into tears, and anxiously inquired for par
ticulars. 1--WE were married five years
ago he said, brushing aside his tears, 'at
Christiania, her home. Her father is a
Lutheran minister of that city Eight days
after the welding we started for Chicago.
She was going to visit her home for the
first time since then. She had premonition
that she would not reacn home, and talked
of waiting until the nextseamer. ins sted
that she should go on this ono to avoid the
fall storms. / wish / had not / dreamed
last night that tbs vessel she was on had
sunk. She was the hae' @wimmer In the
Christiania natiatot um, but cannot CLEAN
much hope from thai q. u woman IN the
oceans waves is bat II feather / still hope
that she may be saved She wrote me a
letter from New York fun of happy
thoughts. Miss Soulberg Of this city was
on the Geiser with her. She, too, l suppose,
is lost