The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-31
OVER 300 WERE DROWNED.
STEAHSHIP ELBB HAS BEEN SUNK
 OFF THE ENGLISH COAST.

ACCOunbBu EOT-Out wa lhio A'J
 Another Steamer, the Prov of Which
 Crashed Into the Second Cabin and Abaft
 the Engine Room-saiIors Chopped at
 Frozen Ropes and Worked Hard to Get
 the Boats Of-The Occupants of Only One
 Boat Rescued By a Fishing Smack.
 London, Jan. 3O.-The North German Lloyd steamship Elbe, bound from Bremen for New York, was sunk in a collision with small steamer fifty
 miles off Lowestoft early this morning. The Elbe carried 3SO souls. But twen- ty-one survivors have been landed, but a few others may still be afloat in one of the ships small boats
 At 10 o'clock this evening the number of lives lost was given out as $50.
 The survivors of the wreck were landed at Lowestoft by the fishing smack Wild Blower at 5;4o o'clock this evening. They are:
 sollberg, third officer; Naussell, first engineerj Weser, paymaster; Schul- theiss, Lukmeyer and Sitting, assistant paymasters; Furst, chief stoker vioebe, steward; Wenning, Singer and Siebert, sailors; Dreson and Batl1o, or dinary seamen; De Harde, German pilot; Greenham, English pilot; Hoff- man, Lugen. Schlegel and Vevera of Cleveland, O., saloon passengers, and Bolthen, a .steerage passenger, and Miss Bueker.
 Hoffman's home Is in Nebraska. His wife and boy went down with the ship. All the survivors were in pitiable condition. The passengers were but half clothed. Their few garments were frozen stiff, their hair was coated with ice and anxiety and effort had exhaust ed them so completely that they had to be helped ashore. The officers and sailors were fully dressed, but their clothes had been drenched and frozen and they had been almost paralyzed with cold and fatigue. They had been ashore three hours before they had recovered sufficiently to tell the story of the wreck. Their accounts agreed upon the following points:
 The Elbe left Bremen on Tuesday aIleTuOOI. 1ne LEW. hOuES OI lne NOY-I age before the disaster were unevent- ful. At 4 o'clock this morning the wind was blowing hard and a tremen- dous sea was running. The morning was unusually dark Numerous lights were seen in all directions, show ing that many vessels were near by The captain ordered therefore, that rockets should be sent up at regular 1Y1fn 11c Trr1 # oA fO 1-z. out of the way. It was near to 6I o'clock and the Elbe was some fifty miles off Lowestoft, coast of Suffolk, when the lookout man sighted steamer of about 1,500 tons approaching. He gave the word and as a precaution the number of rockets was doubled and they were sent up at short inter- Vals.
 The warning was without effect. The steamer came on with unchecked speed and before the Elbe could change her course or reduce her speed notably there was a terrific crash of the collision. The Elbe was hit abaft her engine room. When the smaller steamer wrenched away an enormous hole was left in the Elbe's side. The water poured through and down into the engine room in a 1 cataract. The room filled almost in- stantly. The engines were stiM and the | big hulk began to settle The passen- gers were in bed. The bitter cold and | rough sea had prevented any early ris- l ing, and none except the officers and | crew on duty were on deck when the | ship was struck. The shock and crash | reused everybody. The steerage was in | a panic in moment, and men, women | and children, undressed or in their night l clothing, came crowding up the com panionways. They clung together in groups, facing the cold and storm, and ] cried aloud for help or prayed on their knees for deliverance. The officers and crew were calm. For a few moments they went among the terror-stricken groups, trying to quiet them and en- couraging them to hope that the vessel might be saved. It was soon apparent, however, that the EIbe was settling 1 steadily. The officers were convinced that she was about to founder and gave orders to lower the boats. In a short | time three boats were got alongside, but the seas were breaking over the steamer with great force and the first boat was swamped before anybody could get into it. The other two boats l lowered at about the same time, were filled quickly with members of the crew and the passengers, but the number was small, as the boats held only twenty persons each.
 The boat carrying the twenty-one per- sons who were landed at Lowestoft put in such haste from the sinking steamer that nobody noticed what became of the other boats The survivors believe, however, that she got away safely. They say that they tossed in the heavy seas for several hours before they sight ed the Wild Flower. The little smack bore down on them at once and took them aboard. They were exhausted from excitement and exposure Several of them were in state of collapse and had to be carried and dragged from one boat to the other.
 Miss Anna Buecker, the only woman in the party was prostrated as soon as they got clear of the Elbe. She lay in the bottom for five hours with the seas breaking over her and the water that had been shipped half covering her body. Although her physical strength was gone she showed true pluck and did not utter a word of complaint and S toJ |