Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-07
THE I~.sr STEAMER ELBE.

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 Elbe's lights.
"When [ entered the boat they took
ny boy from me- Oh, God! My 7-year-old
darling! Sir, had rot known that 1T 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 mill
tary man and obeyed orders.
ut was all SO sudden. We had ali
been SO happy the night before. There
was young fellow from Berlin bound
for Mobile, Ala, in order to buy cotton
seed OIL He was comical-sang 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 1 saw a
woman floating in the water. I tried to
throw something to her, but somebody
shouted: No! Save ourselves! l 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
name was Anna Bruecker. Poor girl!
She was almost dead with fright and
cold We put her in the bottom OF the
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 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 a smack and did all we could to
signal her, but we failed to attract her
attention. We had cut a piece of can
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 a fresh paroNysm 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:
Handkerchiefs for a Flag.
eve made new flag with our hand
kerchefs and an undershirt which some
body pulled off. I held them up against
the mast and we eventually sighted the
Wildfower. But full, long, terrible
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
into the water and it appeared as if the
thrown to us from the smack's stern
and gradually we were hauled up and
all of us We're transferred to the Wild
flower.
''When I reached her deck, I fell down
exhausted and offered up a prayer to
God for my dead darlings and thanked
Him for having saved me.
ooh, 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, they could lay hands upon, Why,
me the only shirt he had, and 1 have it
OH 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,
excaiming:
ooh, for some kilograms. But she is
dead! And SO is my dear boy, and | can
not go to their grayes!'
First Cabin.
The following is a full list of the first
and second cabin passengers, some of
whom were saved:
APPEL, FRITZ, of Munich.
B BEfKAR R R1THGr q ch he Rdt;n
CONNERS. MRS. NJ, of South Dakota.
CASTLE, HENRY n. of Honolulu.
CASTLE: MISS DOROTHY, of Honolulu.
FuRRER, DoMINGo, of I Guate roslii
HERREN, ERNST, of New York
kLIPEEs MRS. MRs Of hFandNenburg r,,
sGHNE!TT1II,,;, WAITER, Of Dueren.
VINCKE. JOHN b, of st. Charles, Mo.
WIZ, CHARLES, of New York
Second Cabin.
BRIEBACH, MRS. ANDREW, of Am
FRANK. JACOB, of Buffalo, N. Y.
DITTRICH, DIR: Geturn ticket
GOLDNER, IsTERLA, of Eperjes.
HOFFMAN,, CARL, of Grand Island,
'fHnoiFMANN, HENRY, aged 7, of Grand
's MoEMASN, MRS. ANNA, of Grand ISL
ISLAUB, ADOLF, of New York.
KUEHN. MRS. LOUISE. Of New York.
.KLEINSCHMIDT, KURT, of Helena,
SA KER. KREToo.
MosKoViE, EDOUARD, of Eperies.
MISKOLOZ, FRANK.
MASEBERG. ERNST, of Louisiana.
NOLTE. RUDOLPH, of Leipsig
PoWIERSKI PETER; of Kasanitz.
ROSENBAUM. JULIUS, Of Berlin.
RHODES, EUGENE, Of Washington.
RHODES, MRS. SOPHIE, of Washing
ton.
SCHLEGEL, EUGENE, of Fuerth
SANDER, AUGUST sc Esseol.
WAITER, MRS, of Kraanz
VATTIER, ANDREW, of Amsterdam
VEVERA, JAMES.
WEINGASTNER, MISS CLARA, Of Fleh-
ingen.
Those Who We're Saved.
These are the persons who were picked
up by the fishing smack and taken to
Lowestoft:
Baettke, seaman.
Blocker, Miss Anna.
Bothen, steerage passenger
Deharde, Bremerhaven pilot
DreSOw, seaman.
Finger, seaman.
Feurst, chief stoker.
Grpeuham English pilot