New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-04
THE SPREE'S SHAFT BROKEN.
A TEMPORARY PANIC ON THE BREMEN
STEAMER.
An UGLY HOLE POUNDED ~ TIE sTERN-sAVED
ny HER wATEITIGHT CoMPARTMENTs-
TowED ONE THOUSAND MILES BACK
TO QUEENSTOWN BY THE
STEAMER LAKE HURON.
STEAMER LAKE HURON.


STEAMER LAKE HURON
London, Dec 3-The Spree arrived at queens
town this afternoon. Her main shaft broke down
nm November 26. Part of the machinery went
through her bottom under the second caoin' WHICH
Immediately filed with water.
The shaft broke at halfpast O'Clock In "'o
morning At that early hour few persons ha'
arison. and when the noise made by the pound
irr of the broken shaft aroused them the pa'S'h-
cers WIRE naturally thrown into stat" of great
alarm Many Of them rushed on deck IN their
night clothing. mothers claspinG their babies IN
their arms, and husbands halfcarryng th"lr
wives. 4 second-cass Passenger named Paul kel-
son was So terribly frightened that he jumped
overboard and was drowned The other paSscn-
oors are all we'll For "A while panic prevailed
Tho wafer couM be heard rushing through thc
hole in the bottom, and i'll short time In" NeSs"l
hogan 10 settle The passengers ran lnther auu
thithcr in the widest confusion, but when theN
saw that the vessel not immedlateN gohs
down the counscs Of the officers ana thc moro
cool headed among their own number preNalleu'
and a scmhance of order was restored LII"
pr.scrvors were in great request and m1W oi
hi, pas,cnr.rs kept them close at han1 even
when il, became known that there was no I'M
mediate danger.
Az soon is the accident occurred th' poalH
crews were pipcd TO their stations, ana every
thing was placed in readiness for tn" abandon
mont of the vessel shonld such course h de"ned
necessary The stewards husicd themselves IN
gcttinr provisions 10 the boats. and everything
that prudent scamanship would dictate was done.
H. was soon seen. however that th" w1t"r-'lght
bulkhcads were answering the pLrpos" for which
they wcre constructed and that, though th" water
WAS pouring into the compartment beneath tie
second cabin little was getting into tn" oth'r
commandments With only one compartment hll''i'
the steamer lost little Of her buoyancy. and when
II WAS stated by the officers that all danger OF
sinking was past the passengers became calm, ana
| iokod one another about the fears they had
entertained
4 dispatch received tins evening from Queens
town say, that the leak in The Spree WAS caused
| bv the broken shaft pounding out portion ol
| rho stern before the cngln" could d" Stopp'h.
some Of the Spices loon passengers ana -
| sacks of her mails will b. forwarded on me
| Cunnrd Line steamer Eimria. which sllls from
| Queenstown for >cw-Norli tomorrow
When the accident Jccurr"l the spree was about
! / 900 miles from Queenstown. HE Lake huron
| took her i'm tow on November 2S and lowed nor
| tho entire distance back. The Spree leaked so
| badly that /; was impossible" for tn" pumps .
gain the water, which u SIM thirty lcet d'eP "
| the after compartment
| The rcprc.ontaiivc Of the Associated Press IN
| this city has received dispatch from Brc.leh
| from tho North German Lloyd Steamship Tom,
| panv s'atinr that the steamer Have" VIII sah
| -he will take cn bond the Spree = passengers and
| mails and convey thcm 10 Ncly-i1rk.
General Howard. General King and Mr. Moody
will proceed by the iiaveI