St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-31
Sank The ELBE.
Collision in the North Sea
Most Horrible in It's
Results.
ONLY NINETEEN SAVED
From a List Of Over $50 Pas
sengers and the
Crew.
HIP FAIRLY CUT IN TWO
bv the Crathie, Which Ar
rives st Rotterdam Badly
Disabled.
LONG LISTS OF MISSING.
!or Whom There Is Hardly a
Hope That Any Have
Been Rescued.
LONG LISTS OF MISSING.

man Lloyd steamer Elbe, Captain Won
Gossel. from Bremen yesterday for
New York via Southampton, has been
sunk in collision with the British
steamer Crathp. bound from Rotterdam
for Aberdeen. At the time of sending
this dispatch the exact loss Of life is un-
known, but report has it that it was
enormous. The disaster occurred be-
fore daylight this morning at a point
some thirty miles from the Hook of
Holland.
The first intimation of the disaster
came from L0westOft, Suffolk, one of
the chief English fishing ports. Late
tais afternoon a dispatch was received
from that place saying that it was re-
ported there that transatlantic line
steamer had been sunk in the North
sea and that the loss of life was very
grear. The first dispatches stated that
there had been $50 persons on the Elbe
and that
Only Nineteen Had Eeen Saved,
the rescued having been landed at
L0westoft by fishing smacks. Later
dispatches to the Exchange Telegraph
company and to Lloyds confirmed the
report of the loss of the steamer, and
still later it was learned that the Cra-
THE, the steamer that sunk the Eibe,
had put into Mas Luis, Holland. in a
damaged condition. She reported that
she had been in collision with all un-
known ocean steamer. Towards even
ing the agents in this city of the North
German Lloyd Steamship company re-
ceiycd the following cable message:
Most deploraOle news from Lowe
stott. 1t states Elbe sunk through col
lision six this morning Boat No. 3,
with Third Officer Stallburgh. Purser
Weser Engineer Neussell AMI nineteen
persons landed at Lowestott. No fur
ther news so far"
When the news ofthe disaster became
nerally known through the mediums
of the tckers of the Exchange Tele-
graph company in the clubs and places
Of public resort, the excitement was
intense. Cable dispatches were at once
forwarded to all the principal European
cities, and soon flood of return dis
patches were received, asking for fur
iher information, which at that time it
was impossible to obtain. The agents
here Of the company did everything
possible to learn the facts, and as soon
as any new Information was received it
was at once cabled to the various Euro
pean capitals.
The dispatches from Germany show
that the news caused the
Greatest Excitement and Sorrow,
most all the officers and crew of the lost
steamer and a majority Of the passen-
gers being Germans.
l. was at first hoped that the reports
of the disaster had been exaggerated,
and that most, if not all, of the passen~
gers and crew had escaped. either by
means of the ships boats or bY being
picked uD by passing vessels. But, as
time wore on, it was apparent that the
first reports OF the sinking of the steam
er had minimized the horrors of the dis
aster. Many dispatches were forwarded
to Mas Luis to the commander of the
Crathie asking him if he had rescued
any of the EIbe's passengers. Up to
late hour however, no answers were re-
ceiyed to these dispatches. and the be-
lief grew that the Crathie, after the ac-
cident, had rather sought her own safe
tv tnan to rescue the people on the
doomed EIbe.
Following is a corrected list of the
survivors:
Cabin Passengers.
KARL HOFFMAN,.
EUGENE SCHLEGEL.
JOHN VERERA.
ANNA BOECKNER.
BOTHEN, betWeen- deck passenger.
CHIEF ENGINEER A. NEUSFELL.
THIRD OFFICER STOLLBERG-
PURSER WESTER.
HERR DE HART, Bremenhaven pilot
ROBERT GRENNUAM. an English pilot.
and ten of The cerw
They arrived at Lowestoft at half
past ) O'Clock this afternoon.
Missing Passengers.
The following is a list of f,et and
second~class passengers who are miss
Ing:
MRS. HERMINES SANDERS, Falmouth,
Mass
JOHN B. yINCKE, St. Charles Mo.
CHAKLES WIX, New York.
MRS. KLIPFEL, Brandenburg,
LOUIS THEY'VE TT. Vienna
WALTHER SCHNELL. Oueren.
ERNST HEREN, New York
MRS. LUIS KUEHN, New York
EUGENE SCHLEGEL. Fuerth.
MISS EMMA SCHLEGEL, Fuerth.