Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-05
A MIRACLE ONEY
Can Save the Elder from Be-
coming a Total Wreck
Is the Opinion of Local Mari
time Experts.

Company Doing All In Their Power to
Relieve the Wrecked Vessel, and Still
| Hopeful of Saving Her-The Treasure
Saved-Defects of the Life Saving Crew.
LONDON, Feb. 5.-Work upon the
stranded steamship Elder, ashore off
Atherfeld, Isle of Wight, was continued
Thursday morning. The agents of the
company are still hopeful of being able
to save her from becoming total
wreck, if the weather continues moder-
ate. The local maritime experts who
have examined the Elder do not
agree with the agents of the North
German Lloyd company; they say that
the steamship is in hopeless condition,
and that only miracle will ever float
her.
The salvage people are working like
beavers to relieve the Elder of her cargo,
but as some portions of the freight at
the very bottom of her lower hold has
already washed ashore it is feared that
there must be terrible hole in her bot
tom.
The Treasure Safe.
Captain Heinecke and his body guard
of twenty-five men are supervising and
assisting in the work of unloading
the Elder, but now that the specie is all
ashore, as having been exclusively de-
tailed in these dispatches, under the di-
rection of Captain Robert ID. B. Bruce,
of the Invincible, the coast-guard battle
ship in Southampton water, the agents
of the company feel somewhat relieved.
The work of rescuing the treasure
was carried on by a strong detachment
of coast guardsmen, who were paid $50
trip for this extra duty. The treaaure
upon arrival ashore was turned over to
force of coast guardsmen and police,
the latter being under the command Of
Chief Inspector Gibson, of the Isle of
Wight constabulary. The police and
coast guardsmen had hard job in get
ting the boxes of bullion up the cliffs,
but the task was completed at late
hour Wednesday night. This rescued
treasure was then placed in wagons and
conveyed to Newport, where it was landed
upon special train and taken to Cowes.
AT that point the bullion was transferred
to special steamer in waiting and was
ferried across the Solent to Southamp-
ton, where another special train was in
waiting to convey the specie to London.
on board the Elder is variously stated
to have been from 100000 to 500 900,
and about 600 bags of mail matter.
There We're also a number of dispatch
bags, intended for the United States
consulate in Europe.
The Queen Interested.
The queen took so much interest in
the fate of tie Elder and of her passen-
gers and crew that she caused hourly
dispatches to be sent to her, giving de-
tails as to the work of rescue. Her
majesty also sent a telegram of congrat-
ulation to the three lifeboat crews en-
gagged in taking the Elders passengers
and crew ashore.
In addition, Queen Victoria three
times sent the Marquis of Lorne from
Osborn to Atherfeld, in order that 70
might give her majesty full personal
account of the state of the steamship
and of her endangered passengers and
crew.
Needs Improving.
The Marquis of Lorne, in an inter-
view in The Daily Graphic, has made
some very sensible suggestions as to i'm
proving the coast-guard and life-saving
service. In the first place, the marquis
speaks III UHe nlRHeSU Uer1IS Oh UU6
staunch manner in which the Elder was
constructed (by John Elder e. Company,
of Glasgow; this is the preliminary lit
tie boom for the British ship builder.
Admirable diplomat that he IL, he syn
pathizes with the officers and crew Of
The Elder, AMI warmly praises the North
German Lloyd Steamsip company for
the plentiful and choice cuisine provid-
ed on their steamers and for the disci-
pline displayed by the German officers.
The marquis gives the coast guard
service a bad showing up, and intimates
that there was some delay in rendering
assistance to the Elder when she first
went ashore at about 10 o'clock on last
Sunday night.
He earnestly urged that the coast
guard stations all round the British isles,
should be connected by telegraph wire,
with each other so that in future, ships
wrecked off Atherfeld and other places
may obtain prompt assistance, instead of
waiting four hours before help reaches
them.
Now that the Marquis of Lorne, ex-
governor general Of Canada, husband of
Princess Louise; the fourth daughter of
Queen Victoria; eldest son of the Duke
of Argyle, and auther of 'The Psalms
Literally Rendered in Verse;" ETC., has
called attention to the fact that the
coast-guards tations are not connected by
wire, it is possible that the long and ur-
gently needed reform may be inaugu-
rated.