River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-04-04

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| Nus ~ flHHHh, AUCKLAND March 80.
TI//LX\O.-I MfV Secretary of ne Nary
IWIfA - Washing on: Hurricane
" at Apa, March IS,
ADMIRAL KIMBERLEY. Every vessel in harbor
on shore except English man-of-war calliope,
which got to sea. Trenton and Nandalia
total losses. Nipsic beached; rudder gone
May be saved Chances against il. WIN send
her TO Auckland II possible.
'Nandalia lost four officers and thirty-nine
men, namely: Captain Sehoonmaker, Paymas-
ter Arms, Lieutenant OF Marines Sutton, Pay
Clerk John Roach, Henry Baker Frank Jones,
George Jordan, NJ. II. Joseph. John Kelly.
Thomas Kelly y. Kinsella, w. Brisbane, Will
lam Brown, Quartermaster Michael Cashen, NJ.
Cragiu, ID. F. Davis, T G. DOwney NJ. Ericsson,
5. c. Ghring, AdoIph Goldner. George German,
U. B. Green, Joseph CIR fin, E. NJ Ham
incur, john Ha1ehelt c. H. Hawkins, w.
Howatt c. z. Krutzer, Charles Grams, FIR.
Lessman, George Merrage Aylmer Montgom-
cry. Thomas Riley. II. p. StaIlman. c. G. Stan
ford, John ms, C. II. Wells, John Milford
Henry " xter, All Kow, All PecE, Peudang,
Trechor
The NiTsie lost seven men, namely: George
W. Callan, John Gill Josiah Heah, Thomas
johnson, David kelleher, Henry PoutselL Will
lam Watson.
"All saved from the Trenton. Trenton ana
u Z
! All stores possible saved"
German ships Adler and Olga total losses.
| Olga beached; may be saved German losses,
n nety-s X.
important to send 800 llen home at once.
| Shall charter steamer? Coa charter IN Auek-
/ land. Lieutenant w lson VIII remain in Auck-
land TO obey your orders. Fuller accounts by
mail. KIMBERLEY"
KIMBERLEY AUTHORIZED TO ACT.
| WASHINGTON. April THE following
| dispatch has been sent to Lieutenant Wilson
| for Admiral Kimberly, care American Con
sui, Auckland:
Take such steps with regard to Nipsic
and wrecks and sending men home as you
may deem prorer Full power gwen you
Monongahela sailed for Ap:a February II.
TRACY"
/ The Secretary also sent kilograms to the
relatives of the dead officers of the Van
/ dalia informing them OF the sad affair. The
/ dispatch concerning Captain Schoonmaker
was sent to his wife at Kingston, N u,
where his brother, John Schoonmaker, of
the Inter State Commerce Commission, also
I resides
1 The immediate relatives of those who lost
/ their lives in the wreck will be entitled to
/ pensions under the general law. The pen
/ sion is So a month for seaman's widow and
/ 81 a month for each child under 10 years
/ of age In the case of widows of
officers it is prOportionately larger. Pa
/ rents of the dead persons will have to prove
/ that they were dependent upon their
/ sons for support TO entitle them to pensions
! Congress will also probably pass a special
/ act making reimbursement for the effects
and baggage of officers and men lost in the
wreck This was done in the case of the
! Huron, which went down on the Hatteras
/ coast about fifteen years ago.
/ ff,asa loo
/ cabled from Berlin to Secretary Blaine a
confirmation of the news of the disaster at
/ Apia as follows:
| THE foreign ONCE has been ofncially in
/ formed of the typhoon at Apia. The Eber and
/ the Adler we're totally lost. Ninety dead
/ The olga stranded. No losses. Three Ameri-
/ can and all mercantile vessels in the port lost.
/ ST xty Americans dead. The English war ship
! CalliOpe damaged and gone 10 Sydnes.
PENDLEToN"
| QUEEN yICToRIAs SYMPATHY.
! Queen Victoria cabled through Lord
/ Salisbury to the British legation in this
/ city Sunday directing that her earnest
/ sympathy be expressed to the President of
/ the United States for the terrible naval
misfortune at Samoa and the deplorable
1 loss of life Mr. Edwardes, the British
| Charge, accompanied by the Secretary
| of State waited upon the President Sunday
afternoon and read to him the Queens mes
sage President Harrison expressed his
warm appreciation and that of the whole
/ people of this country for the Queens coll-
| siderate sympathy in the calamity that had
| overwhelmed ouI naval crews at Samoa.
/ An informal Ieplv to the Queens message
would be made, the President said, through
| the Department Of State.
ALoNDoN ACCOUNT.
/ LONDON. April Particulars of the dis
aster to the German and American war
vessels at Samoa have been received as fol-
I lows: The Eber was blown ashore and
struck the reef first, at an early hour in the
morning She sank almost Immediately in
| deep water. Nearly all of the men who
were below were drowned When the Adler
/ struck her masts were shivered and her
rigging parted. Several Of her crew swan
through the surf and were saved, among
them tle Captain and few officers. After
/ the Nipsic grounded her crew succeeded in
! lowering boats, but six men were
drowned by the capsizing of a
/ boat i'm the surf The Captain of
/ the Yandalia was stunned by being
thrown against a gun and was washed over
board before he became conscious. Several
| others were washed overheard by the
/ waves while others were drowned in their
/ endeavor to swim ashore. Many of the Van
| dallas crew chung to the rigging and the
| Samoans and others ON shore tried in vain
to rescue them The bottom Of the
Vandalia was completely stove in, and
| the Trenton was thrown upon the
Vandalias wreck The Olga withstood the
fury of the gale for day and night, but
at the dawn of the following day she went
ashore Three officers of the Eber were
4 lost and with them seventy-six men. The
Nipsic lost seven men. The Vandalia lost
her Captain four officers and forty men.
| The Adler lost fifteen men. The Nipsic
/ grounded on a sand bank.
Still another account says: The hurri-
cane burst upon the harbor suddenly.
| The German man-of-war Eber was the first
vessel TO drag her anchor. She became UNI
manageable, and was driven helplessly ON
| the reef which runs around the harb0r. She
struck broadside on, at o'clock in the
| morning. The shock caused her to lurch
! and to stagger back, and she sunk in mo-
ment in deep water. Most of her men were
under matches and scarcely a soul of them
escaped The German war-ship Adler was
| the next to succumb. She was lifted bodily
| by a gigantic wave and cast on her
/ beam ends in the reef terrible
! struggle for life ensued among the officers
and sailors aboard. Many plunged into the
raging surf and struck out, some reaching
| the shore in safety Others chung TO the
/ rigging until the masts fell OF those in
the rigging only two gained the shore. The
/ Captain of the Adler and several other
/ officers were saved.
Meanwhile the United States ship Nipsic
/ had been dragging her anchors and drift
/ ing toward the shore. The Captain, how
| ever. managed to keep control. and ran her
/ on a sand-bank Boats were Immediately
1 lowered and the whole company was saved
| with the exception of six men. These were
drowned by the capsizing of boat.
The United States steamer Nandaiia vas
carried before the gale right upon the reef.
| She struck with a terrible shock, hurting
the Captain againsta gatling gun and he fell
stunned Before he could recover great
wave swept the deck and washed him and
others away into the sea The vessel sunk
fifty yards from the Nipsic, and several of the
officers and men went down with her.
Others persisted while making desperate
efforts TO swim to the shore. Some Of the
ships company tried to save themselves by
clinging to tine rigging but heavy and swift
running waves dashed over them, and one
by one they were swept away.
BY this time night had set in. Many ma
tiyes and Europeans had gathered on the
shore, all anxious TO render assistance 10
the unfortunate crews. but 9wtng to the
darkness they were wholly unable 70 be OF
service.