Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-02-08
THE ELBE SUNK.
An Awful Steamship Disaster
in the North Sea-.
over 300 LIVES LOST
On,y twenty -One Persons KNOW"
to Have Been Saved-The our
vIvors Nearly Frozen-Life-
boats Swamped.

boats SWdiIpCN'
The North German Lloyd s.eamor Ii'''
Cantain Won Gossel from Bremen Tor Nc"
York via southampton, has been sunk in COL
lsion with the British steamer Crathle, Ooun"
from Rotterdam for Aberdeen AT the "ln'
Of sending this dispatch the exact loss ol h'o
i, unknown. but report has 1t that II was
enormous. The disaster occurred pelore uay'
light at point some thirty miles from INC
Hook OF Holland.
The first iutimation OF the disaster came
from Lowestoft. Suffolk, one ofthc chiel Eng-
ll-h fishing ports. Late in the afternoon" "
dispatch was received from that pla'e Saying
hat II was reported there that Tran AT
antic line steiner had beel SUNK IN the
North sea. and that the loss OF life was very
yreat. The first dispatches stated thar tnere
had been $50 persons on the Elite, ana mat
only nineteen bal been saved, the rescueu
having BEEN landed at Lowesto!s by ish'hs
smacks.
Later dispatches to the Exchange Iele-
graph Company and 10 Lloyd's conhrmeu 'no
report OF the loss of the steamer, ana sun
LATER il was learned that the Cralhie, the
steamer tina. sunk the Ebe, had put ln'o
Maa,luis HOLLAND. In damaged condition.
She reported that she had beoa In c''ilS'0"
with an unknown ocean steamer.
Toward evening the agents in London OF
The North German Lloyd Steamship Nom-
pauy received the 70 lowing cable message
.'Lost derlorabe news from Lowesto't' II
states Elbe sunk through collision SIX Ih tuo
mornin, Boat No. 3, with ThirI Oi"cot
Stallburgh, Purser Weser, Engineer Neussei'
and nineteen persons, landed at Lowes'on
No further news so far"
When the news OF the disaster became gem
orally known through the medium OF 'no
tickers of the Exchange Telegraph Company
in the clubs and places Of pubic resort 'he
excitement was intense. Gable dispatches
we're at oncs forwarded to the prime pal
European cities, aud soon a flood OF return
di.patches we're received asking for iurther
in ,ormation. which at that time it was I'M
possible 10 obtain.
TIE agents OF the company did everything
nossibIe TO learn all the fac:s. and as soon rs
anv new information was receive 1t was at
once cabled to the various European capi-
tails.
The dispatches from Germany show that
the news caused tho greatest excitement anu
sorrow. most all the officers and crew oi toe
lost steamer and majority OF tho passen-
gers being Germans
1t was at first hoped that the reports OF tho
disaster had been exaggerated aud that most,
if not all, OF tho passengers and crew mad
escaped either by means OF the SHIPS DoatS
or by being picked up ly passing vessels.
But as time wore ol it was apparent that
the first reports OF he sinking OF the steamer
had minimized the horrors OF the disaster.
Many dispatches were forwarded to Maasuls
to the commander OF the steamer Crathie,
asking him if he had rescued any OF the
Elbe's passengers. However, no answers
we're received to these dispatches and the
bel eff grow that tho CraithIe after the acci-
/ dent had rather sought her own safety Than
TO rescue the people on the doomed Elbe
One report has it that there were about
400 persons on the Elbe, $40 Of whom were
8 passengers. 100 officers and crew and num-
!. Der of cattlemen who were returning to the
t United States.
THE COLLISION.
I From the detailssnow at hand it is learne /
Il that tho Ebe was proceeding along at her
"a usual rate Of speed an keeping the ordinary
n ,ookouts The nigh. was darb, but there
n was no gale. Suddenly the forward lookout
;; = on the E be reported to the officer on deck
q that the lights of steamer we're close aboard
9 over the port bow.
: Before the course OF the Elbs could be
n changed so as to sheer her of from the ap
n pr. aching steamer the latter struck her just
'r abaft the engineroom, going through ne
plates as though they were paste-board, an
sticking her nose almost through the hull
the Elbe. For a time the Craithe held th
Flbe on her nose. but then her engines wer
reversed and she backed out OF the apertur
she had made. AS she dill SO the watel
Is rushed into the L be in torrent and sh'
teyan Immediately to settle.
The most energetic efforts on tuo pa"
in ..o North German L oyI Steamship Com
be aonv r. find any ad !iional survivors OF III
I. T.os,er to the Elbe have proved unsucce''
he r., and it is Irobable that the twenty POI
CONS sO landed at Lowcstoft, on the northeastern
le, oorror Of sulr,lk county, England, are I"
in ,nat are now living Of those who were o
aoord tho Elbe when she was in collis'o
m D',th the British steamer Crlthie in tn
hui Moth aaa
ILL Tbo officers OF tbs Moth German 10y
his have given for publication the foil 'w'n9 Ii
wn uro3 as the total number OF persons Oh ooa'
~ the Elbe:
Foi First ca bin passengers s.......''''''''''
0u' Second cabin. ........''' '''''''''''''
Ctaeraoe ..,...............' ''''''''' .
Officers and crow w........''''''''''''''
The Total on board Observation-Disclosures
the R escued ''''''''''''''''
an
ants | Tat ............'''''' ''''''''
Two additional battalions OF Italian tro'
left Naples for Mossowah, Egypt. This is
- 80, ANN Nnf "A