St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-31

KRETOO kOB.
FRANK MI$KOLZ
EDWARD MOSKOVIE,. Esperjcs.
ESTHERLA GOLDNER, Esperjes.
Mr.. LOCKHART, New York.a
AUGUST SANDER, Esseol.
PETER POWIERSkI. Kasanitz.
MISS CLARA " WEINGAERTNER, Flehin-
gen.
FRITZ APPEL, of Munich.
HUGO BECKER, Chemnitz.
A. BAUMANN. Berlin.
LOUISE BORNEFELL, London.
Frau ANDREW BRISBACH, Amsterdam.
Mrs. NJ. c. CONNORS, South Dakota.
HENRY n. CASTLE, Honolulu.
DOROTHY CASTLE, Honolulu.
DR.. j. c. DIETRICH, America.
DOMINGO FURER. Guatemala.
Miss FRANK and JACOB FRANK, Amer
lea.
ANTON FISCHER, Washington.
j. F. GERLICHER, Winona, Mind.
THEODORE GEISENHEIMER, New
York
ERNEST HEREIN, New York.
ANNA HOFFMAN, and HENRY UOFF-
MANN, Grand Island, Neb.
From the details now at hand il is
learned that 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.
Suddenly the forward lookout on the
Elbe reported to the officer on deck that
lights of steamer we're close aboard
over the port bow. Before the course
of the EIbe 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 Elbe. For a
/ time the Crathie held the ElDe on her
| nose. but then her engines were re-
Yersed and she backed cut of the aper-
ture she had made. As she did so, the
water rushed into the Elbe in torrent
! and she began Immediately to settle.
| The officer III charge of the ship at
| once SAW that
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
clear of the steamer capszed. and it is
| thought that all occupants were
drowned. The first boat contained The
third officer. chief engineer, purser and
| about twenty of the passengers. These
! are the persons who were picked up by
! the fishing smack and taken to Loves
toft.
From the survivors it is learned that
! as soon as the Crathie backed away
from the Elbe the in-ruShing water
! flooded the ship aft of the engine room
so quickly that nobody below decks in
that part of the ship had an oppor-
/ tunity to escape. The shock of the col
! llsiOn was comparatively slight in view
| of the damage done, but this is ex-
planned BY the fact that it was direct
| cutting blow Nearly all the passengers
were asleep at the time, but many OF
them were awakened by the shock,
! slight as it was.
They could hear the rush of the rapid
| infiowing water, and, with cries of ter
ror, sought to make their way to the
upper deck. The steamer being loaded
by the stern. water naturally rushed
aft, and this allowed many of the pas
sengers forward to reach the deck. III
the case Of the saloon passengers. how
ever, the result was fatal. AS they
rushed from their staterooms into the
saloon they were
Met by the Torrent
against which it was impossible to make
headway. They were caught up and
swept aft toward the cockpit. where
they were probably drowned before the
the ship fOundered. Altogether, about
/ fifty of the passengers reached the deck.
where the widest confusion existed.
| Wild rushes were made for the boats,
but the terrible excitement prevailing
impeded the efforts of those who were
! trying to clear them away. Many heart
| rending scenes were witnessed between
| parents and children in the few mo-
! ments preceding the sinking of the YES
! sci. There is some disagreement among
the survivors as to the number Of boats
that were launched. One survivor.
! Kari A. Hoffman,. declares that only
two boats were launched. One of these
was swamped Instantly, and only
one of its occupants. girl named Anna
Boecker, who was bound for South
hampton. was rescued. She clung to a
piece of wreckage which she grasped SO
tightly that it was only with difficulty
that she was dragged into the second
boat, She was just returning from the
| death bed of her father and mother.
! Il; 10. .I,., Il ~
| doomed vessel for the women and chill
| dren to go over to the other side of the
steamer. away from the port side. in
which was the great gaping hole,
caused by the Crathie. The half-faint-
ing women and terror stricken children
hurried to the starboard side. but they
had scarcely reached the boats when
the huge vessel lifted her bows high in
the air, and then
Slowly and Silently Sank.
stern foremost, beneath the waves, TAX
! ing with her her human freight.
Barely twenty minutes elapsed be-
| tween the collision and the sinking of
the steamer. a heavy sea was running,
and the wind. which was from the east
southeast, was bitterly cold
The small boat containing the surviv-
| Ors tossed about until IL o'clock in the
morning. Several vessels were sighted
in the meantime. but they made no re-
! plies to the signals that were set for
them. The survivors were nearly
frozen, having hardly any clothing, and
! their Suffering5 were intense.
Eventually the fishing smack Wild
Flower saw the signals and bore down
on the boat. In a short time the sur
viYors were taken aboard of her. where
everything possible was done for their
| comfort.
One report has it that there were
| about
400 Persons ON the EIbe,
240 of whom were passengers. 160 off
GERS and crew, and number OF cattle
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