New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-02


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These may be taken the final figures. II any
people had been picked UP by fishing smacks or
other vessels they would In all probability have been
landed where word would have been received from
them Hy this time. II bitterly cold
when the accident, happened that no person could
live long In the Icy wafer and so there Is almost no
hope that people who caught pieces OF wrecKaSe
or life buoys as the ship went down could have
survived long enough TO be picked up BY a passing
vessel
Gustav II. Schwab said yesterday that he had 1T
tie 10 adj TO the already published regarding
the disaster lie spoke strongly regarding the con-
duct Of the steamer Crathe, and said ne hoped that
criminal proceedings would be begun against ner
captain.
When asked If law requiring al officers and
sailors of vessels to learn TO swim would not De
a good thing. men able to swim WOULD proodoy
not so easily panic-stricken In case OF disaster
he said: 81 do think 1t would make any diher-
ence a seafaring man knows that MS ao'hty 10
swim would be of little to him In an ICY sea or
a great storm All men. however. are supposed
10 be abe to swim. Both officers and men serve III
the navy before they enter our service Ihere may
be few who have not served in the navy because
OF not being able TO meet the physical requirements
but they are few In the German Navy everybody
is taught swimming"
Emil Seneca, who was lost In the Elbe was nrst
sergeant Of Company of the 18th Infantry now
stationed at Governors Island. He was thrty-hve
years Old and leaves a wife and two children When
the death Of her husband was broken to Mrs SEN
eca Thursday night she tainted, and for while
fatal results were feared Seneca left here seven
weeks ago to visit his mother In Bremen several
times before ne had applied for furlough 10 go 10
Germany to see his mother. but gave It up, as he
had dread of crossing the ocean. Finally he PAID
up his life insurance which was slightly In arrears.
and started on the journey. lie was Storage
passenger
The name Of Mrs. Waiter which appeared on
the second-cabin list should have been Mrs. Waiter
Crane Mrs. Crane formerly an inspectress
in the customs service at this port she married
an officer of one Of the ships Of the Netherlands
American Line and has a child three years Oh
She formerly lived In Hoboken. but year ago
she took her child and went TO visit her mother,
Mrs. Andrew Berbeck. in Baden. She was return
Ing with her mother on the Ebe IL Is thought the
child not with them
Miss Clara Weingartner. who was lost. was the
s.ster-in-law of NJ Lowensten. OF the Nassau
Smelling and Refining Company. in West Sixteenth
ST. She was coming over on visit to him.
dispatch was received from Bremen by the
North German Lloyd agents in this city saying
that Domingo Furrer whose name appeared in the
6r.tcabn passenger list OF the Elbe. did not sail
on that vessel. The name OF Milton C. Conners the
ex-Mayor Of Spearnsh. S. D.. did not appear on the
passenger list Of the Elbe. although that OF Mrs
Milton c. Corners did This gave rise 10 some doubt
as to the identity Of the Mrs Corners on the list
dispatch received here yesterday explained the
matter. Mr.. Corners died at German heath re-
sort and Mrs Conners her way home with
her husbands body.
There Is apprehension on Jersey City Heights that
| the J. H. Hahn who Is among the missing or the
Elbe' s. passengers a man who was well known
l on the Heights Of that name went from
the Heights some months ago TO take possession OF
| an inheritance. II has been reported that he was
made co-legatee with his brother Louis Hahn. also
formerly OF the Heights to a fortune OF sl5Nco. II
has been expected in Jersey City that the brothers
would return.
The agents Of the North German Lloyd Line yes
terday received the following from Bremen:
To-day's London Standsrd says good deal OF
comment has been made on the fact that out Of the
survivors fewer fhan Kteen are officers and sea
men OF the Elbe. and that OF the five passengers
saved there Is only one woman and no children
the belief that all the women and children or at
any rate the majority Of them. would have been
saved had there been time enough 10 lower star
board feboats. The captain did consider that there
time, and by his orders the women and chill
dren all gathered the starboard side OF the
steamer while the male passengers shifted for them
after the two boats had got clear from the port
side II found impossible to lower the lifeboats
the starboard side owing to the deep list OF the
vessel. caused by the enormous weight OF water
which had poured into her and which continued to
rush In In vast volume Attention then turned
TO the other boats but the steamer had then com
the women and children were hudd.ed together on
the starboard side with the captain directing the
operations for their succor when the Elbe foundered
Another influential London paper namely. The
Morning Post. speaks In similar terms this
point saying this disproportion Is due to the merest