Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
DE- PROFUNDIS
Sounded in Woeful Intensity From the
Shores of Far-OT Holland
Coast.
Later News OF the Awful Wreck of
the Steamer Elbe Brings
No Hope
That the Disaster Was Less Fateful
Than Was at First An
ticipated.
The Death List Is Now Conceded to
Number More Than Three
Hundred.
Story OF the Calamity as Told by the
Best Posted of Those Who
Story OF the Calamity as Told by the
Best Posted of Those Who
ESCAPED.

LowEsroFT, Eng. Jan. 81. Bitterly
cold weather is prevailing and lack Of
news from along the coast shows there is
little, if any, hope Of any more survivors
of the EIbe disaster reaching land. The
lifeboat has been washed ashore near
Yarmouth. 1t is believed to be the boat
from which the fishing smack, Wild
Flower, rescued the passenge- who es-
CAPPED from the steamer after the col
lision yesterday morning. The survivors
claimed that the unknown ship which
rammed and sank the Elbe should have
stood by the Eibe, and if she had done
so a great many lives would have been
saved. This. of course, is a matter which
cannot be decided until all the facts are
brought to light by the court of inquiry.
1t is not yet definitely established that
the Crathie was the offending steamer.
There are people who believe that the
second steamer
MAY HAVE BEEN F~OuNDEKEl'.
They base their opinions on the fact
that the Ramsgate lifeboat was put to
sea yesterday evening in answer to a
signal of distress supposed to have come
from the steamer. But the life boat has
not returned. AS she got away in the
binding anowstorm it is believed she is
lost and the steamer she attempted to
assist also went down. Then again the
word "Azonia'' is branded on the oars of
the BOAT stranded near Yarmouth, so
people say it could not be the boat from
which the Wild Flower rescued the sur
vivors OF Elbe. The name Azonia is not
known in shipping circles here. 1t seems
that neither of the two pilots was on the
bridge of the E!be at the time of the col
lision. The German pilot ceased duty
when the Elbe cleared from Weser and
the turn of duty Of the English pilot did
not until the steamship on
tered the waters of the isle of Wight.
The surviving
OFFICERS REFUSE TO SAY
who was in charge of the Elbe when the
collision occurred. but it is supposed to
have been Third Officer Stollberg, one
Of the survivors. Stollberg is under
stood TO nave asserted that the ship
which sank the Elbe was out OF her
course and to have admitted that he
eaw a green light on board the bow OF
the Eibe shortly before the collision.
Chief Engineer Nessell says the stern of
the unknown snip struck the Elbe about
10 feet forward Of the rudder or just
abaft Of the engine rooms. The engines
we're not injured by the collision, but
the water soon poured in although the
steam pumps were put to work in about
three minutes. They became useless,
however, and the engine rooms were
soon deserted Tor the upper deck. The
explanation given by the surviving Of
ticerH as TO the proportion Of the crew
saved to the number Of pass myers saved
is that the following orders were given
b. the officers Of the Elbe: Children
we're 10 be saved first. then the women,
and they we're to be placed il boats on
the starbpard side, where the women
and children were tod To gather. But
almost Immediately after these ordcrE
had been obeyeo the tlbe listed heavily
to gtarboard and the geae swept up the
promanade deck. The etarboard boate
WERE EENDEEED r,ELE3n.
The boat that brought the survivors
away from the Elbe was one II the port
boats and was the last 10 leave the yes
sci. Acting upon orders from Capt.
Won Goessel Third Officer StoIlberg and
the paymaater, who we're in charge u
this boat, took seats ineide her and then
when the water vas creeping over the
deck a rush was made for the boat and
anybody who could get into it did so.
Trinity Pilot Greenham assisted the
crew OF the Eibe in firing rockets. IT ID
understood Greenham has been heard u
express the opinion that the steamer
which collided with the Elbe Was dis
tinctly at fault as she attempted TO cross
the bows of the Elbe.