New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-30
r. J. Horner & Go.
THE LOSS OFTHE ROUMANIA.
ONLY NINE OF THE 1872 PERSONS ON
BOARD THE ANCHOR LINER WERE SAVED.

ONLY NINE OF THE 1872 PERSONS ON
BOARD THE ANCHOR LINER WERE SAVED.
WRECKED On BLEAK COAST. LATE AT MONT.
TIE STEAMER BROKEN UF-RusBERY
OF THE BODIES WASHED ASHORE.
Lisbon. Oct. eo.-I has been learned thst OF total
Of lc2 persona. passengers and crew, on toard the
Anchor Line steamer Roumana. wrecked last night al
Peniche, only nine were saved. There arr no HE
sav1ns appliances In the vicinity Of the wreck. and
even II there had been 1t Is doubtful II they could have
been used In the teeth OF the gale amounting almost
70 hurricane. that blowing and the tremendously
high that running.
As soon rs the news reached here that the Roumana
had been wrecked. the Government ordered the gun
Zare pro, cod the mouth OF tie ATe!ho l'er
the scene of. the disaster. The gale blowing ~
furiously however. that the commander o the Laire
unable to take his vessel out Of the haT"T UNI"
this morning. The plac" where the Kounaha VAS
lost is q little TO the northeast VI cape 'nr"'''o'
almos. the extreme westerly point Of f"r'hsa''
Further details from Penclic show that captain
Hamilton Lieutenant Roche AMI several Larars were
saved. newspaper correspondent who has rea'hesi
Pencllo teleGiapfs that Tie wreck ocurreo at u
o'clock on Thursday night. The steamer struck IN
'front.' Of tiny scacoast village cal Cd Grniio. WHICH
between
the wreck Is desolat!on itself Beyond few huts oc
cupicd by miserably poor fishermen. there IS not
agn Of human life In tic region. The coast line Is
barren stretch Of sand he'd By high Cliffs When
thesReamana struck the night was dark and the sea
Wis running high. The steamer had been driven out
of her course By the and had lost her bearings
In the fog by which she WAS surrounded sftcr tho
storm had somewhat abated. She struck on a mas
Of jagged rocks and the broke her to pieces The
whole coast from Otidos TO San Martlnho Is strcwn
with wreakagc
As the news Of the wreck spread. great
crowds OF people, many OF them from Places con-
siderable distance inland gathered along the shore
and seized upon the wrcckage il cam" to the
land. Two floating In the water something
that they thought would prove valuable prize
They rushed into the surf seize il. Just as they
were about to grasp II they were picked up BY re-
ceding wavc and carried into deep water. where
tlcy were drowned In the sight of hundreds of
lockers.
SQUADRON of cavalry Is patrOlling the shore for
several miles each side Of the wreck to prevent the
wholesale robbery Of the dead and Of the cargo that Is
being washed The bOdies Of several children
have been recovered.
1t has been learned here that among tho dead are
Mrs. Beatty an Irish missionary. who was returning
10 her husband In India and Miss McGeorge. medical
missionary Of the Irish Presbyterian Church. II Is
thought that the OF the bodies will be Glow
the current, around the hendand OF Csrvoero are
exchcrous and many of the dead will be carried long
distances from the wreck.
r. ,a,1.,,o ,,o,,. f., IN. t.ct that IN. eleanor
"'r' '"dca''I p"'N'H - '" '~o. ''.' ~, ~. e, :.
believed that many Of them, awakened by the shock.
rlshcS from their stalcrtOs 10 the upper d'ck where
they were caught up by inc seas or"'A'"s orr
the vessel carried overheard and drowned. This
conjecture is horne on, by the fact that the dead
onieS washed ashore arc ''sh'i: '"'"' ~ - 'e
that in the where the bodies were I""d Hakn'
tho a., h,. ,,,, a.. might clotbc, on or else the
,..,, ,. ,,, .,.,nuI ,r IN. hunun vuliures who
had f, possession Of the shores before 'hc so"'''"
arrived and drove them away T.
When the first ncws Of IN" wrcc.. reached Pcniche'
q party Of ,exfsrng men started for tn" Srene OF 'he
disaster The; had 10 MAJ" their wnx over a Long
range Of $andhills. IN Tue FACE 81 o'''''e ''
f1rioms wind On 'n" PINE n,c. o',,c m. rI, h Indian
Amx 9Th ,iy nscar. part OF thr Ro,inlaia's crew.
These men had been completely exhausted BY tnc'r
struggles TO reach IN" shofr. ana mr., ,o r" , w,rr
ocrna sh, The rtuyHcse s:,rncn lifted The pro-,
trsts men ana placed them the backs Of seven OF
their number. vino carried them across me sh ua
70 The town. Lcrc W. n'" III "'' a1nw wrre p,ared
r1son was called To atenn tn'in lhcs W. thsw
IN hed res,ois'ves were "pp'e'' anu '''"" '"''
"'ns su,snsn Rock. and Lascsr abo whose fate
. hsd oedn w sSDe at once taken t" thu hospital
wbere every attention was gvcn mem .,nn u ~. h. .nai
ion ana I'VE or. %tf reriuc Strength they are nil in
.xro"s CONDITION TIlcy say that they hatld with