Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-02-06

were lowered They were too proud
on that ship-painting ropes which should
have been oiled, they would have been
limper
Il saw no other vessel and no other
light except the Elbes lights
'When / entered the boat they took
ny boy from me. Oh, God! My 7-year-old
darling! Sir, had [ not known that it was
the captain VINO ordered the women and
children to the starboard side of the boat
they never would have taken them from
me. But you see l was formerly a mill
tary man and obeyed orders.
ut was all SO sudden We had all
been SO happy the night before. There
was a young fellow from Berlin bound
for Mobile, Ala, in order to buy cotton
seed oil. He was comical-sGng and told
funny jokes in the saloon.
Story of the Lifeboat's Trip.
''When the boat got away with a great
| deal of trouble, the Elbe being right on
top of us at first, we had hardly gotten
100 yards from the ship when I saw a
woman floating in the water. [ tried to
shouted: No! Save ourselves!' / could
| not do that, sir. Finally they got the
boat up to her and with the help Of an
other man [ drew her into the boat,
which was an ordinary ships boat about
fifteen feet long. Later found that her
name was Anna Bruecker; Poor girl!
She was almost dead with fright and
cold. We put her in the bottom of the
I boat and did all we could to help her
We were all wet with water, which was
pouring in at our collars and descending
into our boots.
I'VE first tried to row; but we found
we made no Roadway, and therefore
rugged up a sort of mast, and with small
sail tried to keep the bow Of the boat
to the wind and seas. After a while we
saw smack and did all we could to
signal her, but we failed to attract her
attention. We had cut a piece of can
vas and made q small flag, which we
used for signaling, and soon after we
failed to make the smack know of our
distress, the flag blew away and the
smack sailed off, causing us to despair
Here fresh paroXysm OF grief over
took the unhappy man and he bewailed
the loss of his wife and child. his utter
ances were almost choked with grief
Some minutes elapsed before Mr.. Hoff-
man was able to resume his story, and
then he said:
Eandkerchiefs for Flag.
eve made a new flag with our hand
kerchiefs and an undershirt which some
body pulled off. 1 held them up against
the mast and we eventually sighted the
hour elapsed before we were taken
aboard She had her nets out and it was
difficult to approach her on account of
the heavy seas. After five Of the persons
in our boat had been transferred to the
smack the lifeboat seemed to slide back
others must be lost But a rope was
thrown TO us from the smacl1s stern
and gradually we were hauled up and
all Of US were transferred to the Wild
flower.
"When reached her deck, I fell down
10 off
God for my dead darlings and thanked
Him for having saved me.
"Oh, sir, they were SO kind to US on
that smack, although they were only poor
fsherfolk. They soon had some not tea
ready, and covered us up with everything
warm warn, they could lay hands upon. Why,
one of those poor fishermen actually gave
me the only shirt he had, and I have it
on now God bless him.
"As for poor Miss Bruecker, I have
tended her as mother might have done"
Mr.. Hoffman concluded with asking
whether anything had been heard of the
other boat, his eyes shooting a piteous,
appealing glance at the reporter and then
the poor man sank back upon his pillow,
eXclaiming:
dead! And so is my dear boy, and [ can.
not go to their gravesp
First Cabin.
The following is a full list of the first
and second cabin passengers, some of
whom were saved:
APPEL. FRITZ, of Munich.
BAUNAN, DIRECTOR, of Berlin.
GoSN NI T MRS NJ of South 4dn Dakota
GAAssTTtE HISS 6oRof e HO of Honolulu
FISCHER, ANTON, of Washington.
FHRRER, DOMINGO, Of Guatemala.
HERREN, ERNST ,FnS Of Ne New York
SANDERS, MRS. HERMINE, of Fal-
ii SCHNE Ell WALTER, of Dueren.
THEWETT, LOUIS, of Vienna.
VINCKE. JOHN B., of st. Charles, Mo.
WIX, CHARLES. of New York
Second Cabin.
BRIEBACH, MRS. ANDREW, of Am
FRANK, JACOB, of Buffalo, N Y
DITTRICH, DIR. (return ticket.
GOLDNER, ISTERLA, of Eperjes.
| H HORN :; T. CARL, of Grand Island,
! THHoFMANN. HENRY. aged Z, of Grand
II HoFMANN, MRS ANNA, of Grand ISL
TSLAUB, ADOLF, of New York
KUEHN, MRS. LOUISE, of New York.
| KLEINSCRMIDT, KURT, Of Helena,
KER. KREToo
LoCsKaa4AAIRIT, M Nh Of New W York Tn1,os
| MASEBERG. ERNST, of Lo uisiana
| NOLTE, RUDOLPH, of Leipsfg.
| POWIERSKI, PETER. OF kasanitz
| ROSENBAUM, JULIUS, of Berlin.
| RHODES, EUGENE. of Washington.
| RHODES, MRS. SOPHIE, Of Washing
! ton.
| SCHLEGEL, MISS EMMA, of Fuerth.
| SCHLEGEL, EUGENE, of Fuerth.
| SANDER. AUGUST, &c 91sseol.
| WAITER, MRS, Of Kraanz.
| WAITER, ANDREW, Of Amsterdam.
| VEVERA. JAMES
| WEINGASTNER, MISS CLARA, of Fleh-
| ingen.
/ Those Who Were Saved.
| These are the persons who were picked
up by the fishing smack and taken to
Lowestoft
Baettke, seaman.
| Becker Miss Anna.
| Bothen, steerage passenger
| Deharde, Bremerhayen pilot.
| DreSow, seaman.
| Finger, seaman.
| FeurSt chief stoker.
| Greenham, English pilot.
| Hoffman, Carl, of Grand Island, NeD.
| Koebe steward.
! Iinkmeyer, assistant purSer.
| Meussell first engineer.
| Schlutins, assistant purser.
| Schlegel, Eugene passenger.
| Sittig -, assistant purser