Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-02-07
VATERY GRAVES.
The North German Lloyd Steam
ship Sunk In q Collision.
THREE HUNDRED and ODD DROWNED

About Twenty -oAs Persons savsd--Wlld
Rushes Made for the Boats-Terribls
6afsrings Of the Survivor
from ths Bitter Cold
LONDON, Jan. 3i.-The North German
Lloyd steamship Elbe, bound from
Bremen for New York, was sunk In o
collision with the British steamer
Crathie fifty miles off Lowestoft early
yesterday morning She carried $50
souls. But twenty-one survivors have
been landed, but few others may
still be aaoat in one Of the ships small
boats.
From the details now at hand 1t Is
learned the Elbe was proceeding along
at her usual rate Of speed and keeping
the ordinary lookouts The night was
dark, but there was no gale Sudden
ly the forward lookout on the Elbe re-
ported TO the officer on deck that the
lights Of a steamer were close aboard
over the port bow. Before the course
Of the Elbe could be changed so as to
sheer her off from the approaching
steamer the latter struck her Just
about the engine room, going through
her plates as though they were paste
board and sticking her nose almost
completely through the hull Of the
Elbe. For time she held the Elbc on
her nose but then her engines were re-
versed and she backed out Of the aper-
ture she had made. As she did 70
the water rushed into the Elbe in a
torrent 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
life boats for launching. Three Of the
boats were cleared and lowered but one
Of them shortly after it got clearo of the
steamer, capsized and 1t Is thought that
all occupants were drowned. The first
ooal contained lhe thlra olhcer' chlei
engineer, purser and about twenty Of
the passengers. They were picked up
by fishing smack and taken to Lowe
stofk
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ss Soo,' "s ,"e or"''i'c oacncu away
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allowed many OF the passengers Tor
waru 10 feach tho uecR
IN Tue case OF the saloon passengers
however 'he result was la'a'' as 'hey
r"s"e" ,ro"i 'ne'' s'a.o roon'S lhoo INC
S"iooh 'h'y were eh"shl ny the torrent,
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'"ein 10 MAKE neaaway lhey wore
caught up anu swept ait toward the
cock pl' wnere 'hey were drowned pe'
iore lhe sup 'oul1efen' hiIoRether,
apoul ulty oi the PASSENGERS reacncu
'ne aeeH wilere 'ne w'iocat confusion
existed VIA rusnes were maze ior
the pon's put 'no 'crrlplc eSc'telneh'
pfeVal'ihB iihpeueo tiie eiiorls OF 'hose
VINO were lry'"R 10 ciear 'ncn' away
Many he"rV'renu'nR scenes were wiz
hesseu between parch's una cniiafeh
III INC rev iipineh's procuring .ho sihh'
There /, some disagreement amonQ
the survivors rs 10 the number Of
boats that were launched. One sur.
vivor. Kari A. Hoffman declares that
only two boats we're launched. One Of
these was swamneI Instantly and oplv
ana Of IFS oeeupants n yirl named
ANN Boccker who was bound foy
Southanpton. was rescued. She clunp
to a piece of wreckape which she
so tightly that IL was only
with difficulty that she was dragged
in,o fla. eoeond bont She yas inst re.