New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-28
ARARK AND NINE AEN LOST
THE GERMANIA, FROM STETTIN, WRECKED
AT LONG BRANCHI
FIVE SAILORS sAvEp-THE CAPTAIN s"f-'
r ovyRBoARp AS HE PULLED A REVoLVh"
TO SHOOT THE MAN At THE WHEEL
NY TELEGRAPH TO THE Tribune

p.nob Nov 27AThe Germania
hark went ashore of the west Emu Nons
Rrancb opposite the West Ehd iio'eA w.
CT ,,os discovered aground at oHo
h's -. as immediately taken TO the
', ,;.e Co,;ny Station. distant quarter OF
- .u, tho scene of the wreck Inc lie
.ar;ng crew WAS absent AT haH-pasU 'ne
on tho inner bar. and not more than
ono hundred wards from shore "heh 'ne nio-
,ru creyv arrived one spar only was s'anuihs, W
easIS GA. 81 six sailors were clngipg. The life
H.. ,y.s fred from the Lyle gun within three
,n;n,,.s from the time of the crews arrival
De-, a. the same instant a heavy wave struck the
,,-rsck carried off the last remaining spar and
e.. .ab,n broke the vessel up. and before the
live reached the wreck she had sunk into the
sestbinc waters. A furious wind was blowing
from the southeast, and the waves were rolling
bigb The sailors who had been seen on the
rrec}x were next discovered floating on empty
barrels and broken Spars. five OF them redcheu
the shore One of them, when dragged from the
surf was almost dead, but was saved by quick
and energetic action.
The men were taken TO the lfe-saving station,
where CAPTAIN Wardel. who had superintended the
rescue attended to the wants of the exhausted
sailors. who were Germans and Norwegians Ono
OF them H. Doyer, the first mate OF the vessel
lie could speak English fairly well. and told the
story Of the wreck The vessel belonged IN
Bremerhaven, and sailed. the mate said from
Stettin and Christiania. She carried cargo OF
empty barrels, cement rags and wood pulp ana
was consigned to Theodore Ruger ~ Co, OF New
York. She was old. and was Ill 81
dilapidated a condition that she went to
pieces almost Immediately on going ashore. Al
the time of the disaster Captain WlndhOrst was
sailing the vessel. The mate was Delow' anu
was only thus saved from being washed OIL the
deck when the captain and the majority oil 'he
crew were carried off by the waves.
One of the rescued men, named GustaVc, was Oh
the deck at the time. and says that the captain
and some Of the men were intoxicated "heh cnc
vessel struck the captain drew revolver 10 shoo'
the man at the wheel, but was swept from the
deck. The mate SAYS there was plenty oil run
aboard. but he does not know whether the captain
was drunk or not
There were fourteen in the crew. oil whom tne
following were lost: Captain WindnorsU' VIII
lam Baltz. Ernest Bolter, Gustav Holdenhalher'
Richard Wittenberg, Arthur Braner, John ochu-
macher Frantz Viarrossin and Gustav Bergehheih'
sailors: the cook, whose name Is not kho"h'
Great bonfires were lighted along the oeacn anu
scores of men are watching tonight Tor 'he poueS
and wreckage that may be washed up up Of the be
bonres is carried in clouds by the VINO wmlTH -
momentarily increasing. The sea IS eonI rotln =
heavily but not sufficiently to wIecK Vessel ~
pronerly sailed No bodies have yet Deen r.
eeoyereI though the beach is lined with wreck-
ace Of all kinds The loss of life attending is th;s
wreck is greater than at any single wrch on 'i''
49,, ~ the coast for ten years past -.
PoT7ab r. Germania was built in Glasgow IN 1879.
vha IL owned by D. H. Waten q Co., of Bremen,
nd was 500 tons burden.