Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-02-07

cited state that little more conld I
gathered from him than exclamat,os.
Of horror He repeated time srs
again. Il wtas terrible; 1t was i.
rible."
"Poor women and children won.
down without hardly being able !
utter prayer The steamship mu..
have been full OF dead bodies. ThaS
were caught like rats In tran !,
can't tell you any more about Ii. An
that know Is that l heard terrbls
crash and 1t was followed by an Al
full sound Of rushing water and a.
Gaping steam. 1t was very dark dow,
below where was, but, somehow
managed to push my way on dect
The ship resounded with heart.reua.
s1S,-eries from all quarters, although
the officers seemed to be doing an
that they could to calm the people
saw lot of sailors making a rl,sb
for boat and joined in with them
Somehow the boat was lowered and
managed to scramble into it, ALTHOUGH
1t seemed to me as If about hundred
pushed some of them away for it was
utterly impossible to load the boat any
more and we could see that the Ellie
was doomed. She was rolling terribly
and settling down on one side in
manner which seemed to threaten
turning her over entirely. Somehow
or other we got away and a number
of people were drowned as they
jumped into the sea and swan after
us. OF course we could not put back
for anybody or we should have been
pulled under by people who were al
ready struggling in the water. Some
time later, cannot say how long, for
/ was tco Mortified to think, the Elbe
gave d fearful lurch sideways and
sank with bursting sound. 1t seemed
to me as If something blew up on
board of her as she went down |
don't know what became of the vessel
that ran into us. saw light some.
where in the distance and supposed
that 1t was her; but cannot say any.
thing for certain. had brother on
board who was from Germany, like
myself We were Oh our way to the
United States where we have rela-
tives. / don't know how many peopl,
drowned, but should think
there were at least three
hundred persons went down. There
was another boat lowered at about
the same time that we got away, but
1t sank soon afterwards. think that
1t was so crowded with people that 1t
could not float. The chief engineer,
who had charge Of our boat, did all
that he could for us while we drifted
about. He says that he is certain
that a third boat was lowered from
the Elbe and that he believes that she
was surely able to reach the coast Of
Holland in safety. He wanted the
English fishing smacks to take us to
the German coast, but the fishermen
insisted upon bringing US here"
A still later dispatch received from
Lowestoft, at about 1920 p. M, seems
TO indicate that the disaster was even
more serious than first out
lined. 1t is now said that there were
about four hundred people on board
the Tlbe, two hundred and forty pass
engers and a crew of about ole hun
dred md sixty, besides number of
cattlemen returning to the United
States. OF this number it is now an
nounced that only five passengers, the
first engineer. the third officer, four
pay-masters, seven seamen and two
polots were landed by the fishing
smacks. The remainder went down al
most Immediately with the steamship.
New York. Jan. 31.-The following
list of saved has been cabled to Del
richs & Co.: Eugene Schlegel,Jan Yer
era, Anna Blocker, Bothen, steerage,
Third Officer Stolberg, First Engineer
Meussell, Purser Wefer, Assistant
Purser Schlutins, Assistant Purser
Ldnkmeyer. Assistant Purser Sittig,
Chief Stoker Feurst, Steward Koebe,
Seaman Winning, Seaman Finger, Sea-
man SeEbert. Seaman Dresow, Seaman
Baettke, Pilot Deparde, Pilot Green
ham, Karl Hoffman.
The name of Anna Blocker does not
appear on the list of the passengers
and officers Of the North German Lloyd
say that it may be Hugo Becker, q
first cabin passenger.
New York, Jan. 31-The following IS
the complete list Of first and second
cabin passengers on the Elbe: FIRST
cabin-Fritz Appel. Munich; Hugo
Becker, Chemnitz; Director Bauman,
Berlin: Mrs. Hermine Sanders, Fal-
mouth, Mass; Anton Fischer, Washing
ton: John B. Vicke, st. Charles, Mo-;
Charles Wix, New York; Mrs. NJ.
Corners. South Dakota: Henry Castle,
Honolulu; Dorothy Castle, America,
Mrs. Knippfea, BrandenDurg; LOUIS
Thwett, Vienna; Walter Schnell, Due
rem; Ernest Heeren, New YORK.
Domingo Furrer, Guatemala.
Louise BernefelI, London; Frau and
Rev Brisbach, Amsterdam; Fraulein
Frank, Jacob Frank, America; j. y.
Ga,.tiol,ar XVinnna Mimi: Theodore