The herald., 1895-12-23
No Word Received From the
Missing Strathnevis
COLLISIONS AND STORMS
Bring Death and Damage to Sailors
snd Ships
The Ship Willowbank Sunk and the Steamei
Berlin Damaged-The Cunard Steam.
ship Lucania Overdue

Associated Press Special Wire
LONDON, Dec 22.-The American line
steamship Berlin, Captain Lewis, from
Southampton for New York, collided with
and sank the British ship Willowbank,
Captain Young, of Glasgow, thirty miles
southwest of the Isle of Portland, at 3
o'clock on Sunday morning. The whole
crew numbered thirty-nine.
H. M. S. Blake arrived upon the scene at
z o'clock this morning and picked up
wateflogged lifeboat. She sighted the Ber-
lin, hove to and rescued the crew of one of
the Berlin lifeboats, who had lost control
of her rudder in the heavy SEA.
THE BERLIN DAMAGED.
LONDON, Dec. 22.-The American line
telegraphs from Southampton as follows:
1.-THE Red Star steamer from Antwerp
for New York has returned here with her
bow damaged by q collision with the Will
lowbank, whose crew was saved and are
aboard the Berlin, including the captain
and his wife, but the Falmouth pilot on the
the Willowbank, who went below to save
his clothes, was drowned"
THE SPREE FLoATED.
LONDON, Dec. 22.-The North German
Lloyd steamship Spree was towed off
Warden ledge, near Towland bay, Isle of
Wight, upon which she was run Thursday
last, by four tugs this afternoon and pro.
ceeded to South arnpton. Her officers say
the Spree did not make any water, but she
will be drydocksd and surveyed tomorrow.
LUCANIA OVERDUE
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 22.-The Cunard line
steamship Lucania left the Mersey at IL
o'clock this morning and had not
arrived at midnight. 1t is surmised that
the captain will not risk bringing his vessel
into port during the tempest.
There is a violent gale blowing off the
Irish coast and several small crafts have
been swamped. 1t was owing to the dense
fog that the Lucania was detained in the
mails awaited her at Queenstown the whole
day.
THE MISSING sTRATHNEvIS
Port TOWNSEND, Wn., Dec. 22.-The
fate of the Oriental steamship Strathnevis
and 100 people aboard still remains a
mystery. 1t has been thirty.four days
since she was last spoken and she was
then abou' 500 miles west of Cape Flat
terry under two small leg of mutton sails,
slowly making her way eastward. Since
then two of the widest and severest storms
of the season have been experienced In the
North Pacific. The British flagship Royal
ATluuit WIN utI pOWcIlul scoiCu bEhtS.
steamipg twenty-five knots per hour and
covering distance of fifteen miles either
side, put in week cruising along the
northern coast without discovering any
signs of the lost steamer. The only other
vessel prose cutting the search is the Danube
of Victoria. Tho general opinion among
mariners is is that the Strathnevis has
gone ashore on the southeast coast of
Alaska. In that event, the sutferings and
fatalities of the crew of the sealing schooner
George r. White, which went ashore on
Wood island last April, when eleven of her
crew froze 10 death in the snow, will doubt
lessly be repeated.
The continued absence of the Danube is
the only hope held out for the safety of the
passengers and crew of the Strathnevis.
1t IL argued that if the vessel has gone
ashore on the Alaska coast, some word
would have been received before now, and,
again, the fuel aboard the Danube must be
nearly exhausted.