Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-12
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
The Germanic Had Two Holes
Stove in Her Hull.
ADRIATIC TO BRING Her PASSENGERS
ForecastIe of the Cambrae Visible
at Low Tide.
UNLIKE THE ELBE AFFAIR

LIVERPOOL, December 12.-The officials
Of the White Star line say it is impossible
to fully ascertain the dlnage done to the
Germanic by her collision With the Scotch
steamer Cambrae yesterday, which resulted
in the sinking of the latter vessel, until she
has been placed in dry dock
In addition to the large hole, nine feet by
seven which was stove in the how of the
Germanic above her water line second
hole has been discovered right through the
bows of the steamship. two feet in diam
eter. The Ceramics stern is also dam
aged.
The White Star line officials have decided
to dispatch the Adriatic of their line to
New York tonight with the steerage pas
sengers of the Germanic and those Of her
saloon passengers who may be DESTROYS OF
takin passage in her.
The Cambrae Is lying in dangerous po-
sition in the track of vessels. Her forecas-
lie Is visible at low tide.
The Cunard line steamship Umbrta, which
leaves Liverpool Saturday for New York,
Is to take the mail of the Germanic. The
Umbria will also take fifty of the German
les passengers. who were to have boarded
her at Queer stowE.
The collision took place at the mouth of
the river Mersey in dense fog:
Both vessels were going dead slow.
About an hour after the Germanic started
she had an extra lookout man, but it was
impossible to avoid the collision.
Had the Germanic been running at or
binary speed nothing could have prevented
a repetition of the terrible Elbe disaster.
The Germanic drove into the fore part
of the Cambrae, and remained wedged
there until thirty Of the Cambraes pas
sengers and twenty-eight Of her crew had
clambered aboard the Gernlanic or been
rescued In boats. One lady sustained
broken rib.
The cries of the Cambrae passengers
were heartrending when they supposed the
vessel was sinking.
The Ceramics bulkheads were imme-
diately closed, so very little water pene-
trated the hull.
A volunteer crew from the Germanic and
the Cambrae started to draw the fires and
to save tie valuables on board the Cam
brae, but she sank before they reached
her. This crew. thus left behind, lost
traces of the Germanic, but fortunately
their cries attracted a tug, which rescued
them.
When the Germanic became disengaged
the Cambrae foundered. The Germanic
then returned to Liverpool, where the pas
sengers were landed and sent TO hotels.
Lord Dunraven was on board the Ger
manic, on his way to New u ork to partici-
pate in the inquiry into his allegations
of fraud in the Observation-Disclosures race.
had landed, said he felt very little shock
from the collision, and that there was no
excitement
Everybody did his duty with the ut
most coolness," said his lordship.
The GermaniC has crossed the ocean
about 435 times. She has had career re-
markedly free from accidents. One of her
most eventful trips was completed On Sep
TENDER 10, when she arrived at New York.
During the voyage the chief officer wrench
ed his foot, a passenger committed suicide
by cutting his throat, and another paSSen-
ger fell to the deck and broke his arm.