The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-01-25
THE STEAMS ELBE SUNK
IN a COLLISION.
OYER $50 PEOPLE GO DOWN TO DEATH
The Great ship Almost Cut In Two by
tho British steamer Crathie-Nearly
All the Passengers Were Asleep
Whom che Crash CHme-Coes
Down Like Rock in
twenty Minutes.

man Lloyd steamship Elbe, bound
from Bremen for New York was sunk
i'm q collision with the British steamer
Crathie Gfty miles off Lowestoft
early yesterday morning She car
ed $50 souls. But twenty-one sur-
vivors have been landed but few
others may still be anoat on one Of
the ships small boats.
Among the first and second class
passengers from America who are
missing are:
Frau NJ c. Connors, South Dakota.
DR. J. c. Dettr ch America.
Fraulcin Frank AMI Jacob Franz
America.
Anton Fischer, Washington. ID. c.
j. +. Gerlicher, Winona MINI.
Theodore Geisenherm ,r, New York.
Ernest Herren, New York
Anna Hoffman, aud Henry Iotf-
man, Grand Island, Neb.
Tho CoiIiuon.
The Elba was proceeding along at
her usual rate OF speed and keeping
the ord nary looSouts. The night
was dark, but there was no gale
Suddenly the forward lookout on the
Elbe reported to the otli,er on deck
that the lights of a steamer wsre
close aboard over the port bow he
fore the course of the Elbe could be
changed so as to sheer her of from
the approaching steamer, the latter
struck her ust about the engine
room. going through her plate as
though they were pasteboarl and
sticking her nose almost completely
through the hull of the Elbe For a
time she held the Elbe on her nose,
but then her engines were reversed
and she backed out Of the aperture
she had made As she did 50 the
water rushed into the Elbe in tor
rent and she began Immediately to
settle.
The officer in charge of the ship at
once saw she was doomed and gave
hurried orders to clear away the lii,
boats for launching. Three of the
boats were cleared and lowered bu
one of them shortly after it got cleal
of the steamer capsized and it Il
thought that all occupants were
drowned. The first boats containe'
the third officer, chief engineer
purser, and about twenty of the pas
sengers. They were picked mp by
fishing smack and taken to Lowestoft
Following is "a list of the survivors
Karl Hoffman, Eugene Schlegel, Johl
Yeyora. Anna Boccller, Between Pas
senger Bothep Chief Engineer Neus
fell, Third OficGr Stollberg, Purse
Wester, Herr Dehart, Bremerhaver
piiot; Robert Greenham, an EnglisI
pilot, and ten of the crew.
story OF the SURVIVORS.
From the survivors 1t is learne
that US soon as the Crathie backed
away from the Elbe, the in-rushin,
water flooded the aft of the engin
room so quickly that nobody beloN
decks in that part of the ship had a
opportunity 10 escape. The shock
the collision was comparatively Sigh
I'm view Of the damage done, but thi
is explained by the fact that 1T was
direct cutting blow. Nearly all IN
messengers were asleep at the tlm'
but many of them were awakened b
the shock slight as IT was. lhe
could hear the rush of the rapid II
flowing water and with cries OF teI
ror. sought to make their way to I'll
MINER deck. The steamer bein
loaded by the stern, water naturall
rushe aft, gRd this allowed many g
the passengers forward 10 Feach Ih
deck
In the case OF the saloon passen,
ers however, the result was fata
... from fhair state room
into the saloon they were met by II
torrent, against which il was imposs
Bile for them TO make headway. The
were caught up and swept aft towar
the cock pit, where they were pro
ably drowned before the ship fOu
dered. Altogether, about fifty OF u
messengers reached the deck whe
The widest confusion existed. Wi
PUSHES were made for the boats, hi
the terrible excitement prevalllI
impe led the efforts Of those who we
trying To clear them away. Maj
heart .endipg scenes were witness
between parents and children in q
few moments preceding the sinkiI
of the vessel.
There is some disagreement amol
the survivors as 10 the number
boats that were launched One 81
vi,or, Karl A. Hoffman, declares IA
only two boats were launched. o
of these was swamped instantly, a.
only one Of its occupants,a girl nam
Anna Boeck T., who was bound
southampton, was rescued. she clul
10 a piec, of wreckage which :
rrasped SO tightly that il was on
with difficulty ,hat she was dragg
into the second boat She was j,
returning from the death bel Of
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