Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-31
Only Twenty-One Persons of a Total of Four Hundred
 Reach Land.
A Collision Which Resulted in Terrible DiSaSter-The Experience of Those
 Rescued.

LONDON, Jan. 3o.-The North German Lloyd steamship Elbe, bound from Bremen Tor New York, was sunk in collision with small ste ner fifty miles of Lowestoft early this morning.
 She carried 3S0 souls. Twenty one sur vivors have been landed, but 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.
 WHO WE'RE SAVED.
 The survivors of the wreck were landed at Lowestoft by the fishing smack Wild Flower at 5:40 o'clock this evening. They are:
 STOLLBERG, third officer.
 NEUSSEL, first engineer.
 WISER, paymaster.
 6CHULTHEISS, assistant paymaster.
 L1NKMEYER, assistant paymaster.
 SITTING, assistant paymaster.
 HURST, chief stoker.
 VlOOBE, steward.
 WHINING, sailor.
 SINGER, sailor.
 SEIBERr, sailor.
 DRESON, seaman.
 BALKO, ordinary seaman.
 DEHARDE, German pilot.
 GREENHAM, English pilot.
 HOOFMAN, saloon passenger, Grand LUGEN, saloon passenger, Cleveland, o. sCHLEGET, .saloon passenger, Cleve- NzIi vEiyERA, tlloon passenger. olsvs- 'Is B6LfHEN, s!ssrage gsssen ger.
 Hoffman's tome is in Nebraska. His wife and boy ,went> down with the ship. All of the rescued were in a pitiable con- yun hnf holf clothed. Their few garments were frozen stiff; their hair was coated with ice, and anxiety and effort had exhausted 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 all most paralyzed with cold and fatigue. They had been ashore three hours before they recovered sufficiently to tell the story of the wreck. Their accounts agree upon the following points:
 STORY OF THK WRECK.
 The EIbe left Bremen on Tuesday after noon. The few hours of the voyage before the disaster were uneventfuI. At O clock this morning the wind was blowing very hard and tremendous sea was running. The morning was unusually dark. Various steamers lights were seen in all directions, showing that many vessels were near by. The captain therefore ordered that rockets shouId be sent up at regular intervals to warn the craft to keep out of the Elbe's course. It was near to o'clock and the Elbe was some fifty miles off Lowestoft, coast of Suffolk, when the lookout man sighted a steamer of about 1500 tons ap- proaching. He gave the word, and, as precaution, the number of rockets was doubled and they were sent up at short intervals.
 THE WARNING WAS WITHOUT EFFECT. The steamer came with unchecked speed, and before the Elbe could change ner course or reduce her speed noticeabIy there was the terrific crash of the collision. rhe Elbe was hit abaft her engine room. When the small 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 cataract. The room filled almost instantly. The engines were still, and the
 BIG HULK BEGAN TO SETTLE.
 The passengers were in bed. The bitter cold and rough sea had prevented any early rising, and none except the officers and crew on duty were on deck when the ship was struck. The shock and crash reused every body. The steerage was in a panic in a moment, and men, women and children, half dressed or in their night clothes, came crowding up the companion ways. They had heard the sound of rush. ing water as the other steamer backed off, and had felt the Elbe lurch and settle. They had grasped the fact that it was life or death with them, and almost to man had succumbed to their terror. 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 lew moments they went among the terror strickeu groups trying to quiet them aud encourage them to hope that the vessel might be saved. It was soon apparent, however, that the Elbe was settling. The officers were convinced that she was about to founder and gave orders to lower the boats.
 ONLY TWO BOATS aET AWAY.
 In short time three boats were got alongside, but the seas were breaking over the steamer with~areat force and the first. boat X0l