The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-02-18
FROM The FATHERLAND
General Mourning Over lhs Terrible
Disaster on The Brandelnars
LETTER FROM THE EMPEROR
He Expresses Ills Sympathy and
Appreciation and viii Erect
a Tablet to the Memory
OF the Victims.



BERLIN, Feb. l7.-The emperor is send.
ing large wreath which will be displayed
at the funeral of the victims of tho Bran
dcaburg disaster. Tue Brandenburs has
been towed into the harbor. and this
morning the chief engineer, who has been
missing since the explosion. was found
dead and three more of the injured aruh-
GERS have died, bringing the total of the
dead up 70 A. The RsjchS AasCiJ5T pub
lshed an official account Of the explosion.
This account says the accident happened
through the breaking away of the fastcn-
Ing apparatus for turning of the steam uf
the starboard engine, and the steam from
all the boilers thus found free ingress into
the engine room iilled with people. Sc5ld-
ing steam penetrated through the door
leading TO the port engine room and
thence through tue stairways into, the
upper rooms. continuing the work OF de-
slruction. Almost every person busily en-
gagged IN these rooms must have met in
slant death. as the steam was pouring
from the boilers at u temperature OF lsJ
reamur. Nothing is yet known as to tho
cause OF the brcakaGe. The admiralty de-
partment has dispatched chief con-
structor to KEEL with instructions to asccr-
tain the cause of the disaster. The en-
peror has sent the following telegram TO
Captain Boudemann:
"The heroic death which the victims met
in tho faithful performance OF their duty
insurcs them forever place Of honor in
tho memory OF their sovereign and In tho
annals of the German navy. In firm
trust in God we must submit 20 the work.
Ing of His inscrutable will and look to tho
future 10 be consoled and comforted.
will cause tablet TO be placed in the gar
rson church at kiel in mcmery of the
killed. For the rest. full steam ahead"
A dispatch from Kicl tonight says the
engineer on board states that at the mo-
ment of the explosion 7.22o horse power
on previous trips SO much rs 10000 horse
power had been reached. A now copper
tube was inserted before tho disastrous
trip by tho vulkan company, tho build
ers OF the vessel. who had tho greatest in-
terest in showing the capacity OF the en-
gines at their best. because the vessel had
not yet been taken over by the govern
mcnt. The spectacle in the engine room.
after the disaster. was horrifyinr. the
dead we're benped one u,on another. de.
void OF clo,hinr. the peeIed flesh hanging
In rolls. while foam was To be seen at
their ,nou,bs
princ, A,cnber, rcpor,ci n n bud,et
committee that ,he commi,te. had ar.
rived at the conclusion ,ha, the central
administration was responsiblc for the re-.
cen, African trouhIcs and must in iutur,
exercise greater Judgment in the choice Of
ogIci,ls Tor ,frIc,. paboI yesterday made
a asav,ge and sarcastic attack upon tho adj.
ministr,tiop oF cos, Afrlc, and denounced
The pre,ended ciytlizatlor by a mission of
colonial cn,busias,s. Unon rcsu,ninp the
debate today. In, mcmbcrs wero aston.
isbed 10 find up,n the table Of tho house
snocinaps ~ vhins made ou, of rhiuoccros
b.b, and other innlen,nts. IN, casti.
gation which. according 10 Bebel. was
used by German officials in east Africa to
lash tho nm fortunate Dnbomeyans. Richter
urged Germany In shandon It's nos,rss-
ions in sou,he,s, Africa and be content
u,i,h ro.,i,;,, tho portbern nossossto,s
In ren,v IN the criticism thar ihere Il too
,nuch nili,,ryism i'm tho m, napemcnt n.
the colonies. Canrivi admitted that IA. i'm.
fnsion of n trading element is highly de.
sirahIo bu, unfortunately. people of at.
,ainmon, and means were seldom inclined
a, 80. a., ,Lo coIo,ios MTsb,ns orcur,ol