The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-01

Lowestoft. England. Jan 31.-Bi6terly
cold weather is prevailing and lack OF
news from along the coast show that
there is little if any hope of any sur
vivors of the EIbe disaster reaching
land. y life boat has been washed
ashore near Yarmouth. 1t is believed
to be the boat from which the fishing
smack WndfOwer rescued the few pas
sengers who escaped from the steamers
after the collision yesterday morning.
Should Have stood By Her.
The survivors claim that the un-
known ship (which rammed and sunk
the Elbe should have stood by the Elbe,
and if she had done so d great many
lives would have been saved. This, Of
course, is a matter which cannot be de-
cided until al the facts are brought to-
light by the court of inquiry. 1t is not
definitely established that the CrathiS
was the offending steamer. There are
people who believe the steamer may be
foundered. They base their opinions
on the fact that the Ramsgate Hfeboat
was put TO sea yesterday evening in
answer to signals of distress supposed
TO have come from the steamer. Bu6
the lifeboat has not returned and as shs
got away in binding snow storm it
is believed she is lost and that the
steamer she attempted to assist also
Went down. Then the word "AZonta''
is branded on the oars of a boat strand
ed near Yarmouth, so people say it
could not be the boat from which the
WifdhOwer rescued The survivors of the
Eide The name '.Azonia" is noS
known in shipping circles here
Both Pilots Absent.
# seems that neither OF the two
plots was on the bridge of the Eide
at the time of the collision. The Ger
man pilot ceased duty when the EIbs
cleared from the Weser and the turn
Of duty OF the Trinity or English pilOU
did not commence until the steamship
entered the waters Of the Isle OF
Wight.
The surviving officers refuse to say
who was in charge of the Elbe when
the collision occurred; but it is sup
posed to have been the third officer,
St0lTberg, one of the survivors StoIl-
berg Is understood to have asserted
that the ship which sank the Eibe was
out Of her course, and TO have admit
ted that he saw a green light on the
port bow Of the Efbe shorty before the
collision.
Chief Engineer Neusell says the stem
of the unknown ship struck the Elbe
about $50 feet forward the rudder, or
just about the engine rooms. The en-
gines were not DANA ged by the COLI
SIGN, but the water soon poured in and.
although the steam pumps were put TO
work in about three minutes. it became
useless and the engine rooms were soon
deserted for the upper deck.
The Pilots story.
Later in the day at the request Of the
agents Of the North German Lloyd
company, Gresnham, the Trinity pilot,
made the following statement: When
L came on deck with some passengers,
Captain Won GCessel was in charge.
| The first order given was to swing tho
boats out. but not TO lower them until
! further orders. The next order was for
| everybody to come ON deck and for the
! crew TO go to their stations. Then fol-
| owed an order for the women and chill
dren to go to the StarbOard boats. in
which it was proposed to save them
The first of these orders was given by
! Captain Won Goessel and repeated by
| Chief officer Thelms. The captain was
on the bridge and I believe he went
down with the ship
1.-THE next order 1 heard given was To-
| lower the boats. There was no con-
fusion whatever, nor was there a panic.
! Every order was executed with the
! greatest calmness and promptitude.
AT the time of the collision, there
was q, high sea running and strong
wind was blowing from east-South-east-
1t was bitterly cold. The lanyards and
boats grips and falls were frozen and
the lanyards securing the falls had to
! be chopped in order to save time, but
| that would have been done in any case
in the event of a collision. The Elbs
went down about two minutes after
we left her side"
Boats Rendered Useless.
The explanation given by the sur
/ viving officers as to the proportion OF
the crew saved to the number of pas
sengers saved is that the following or
darS were given by the officers of the
! ETbe: The children were to be saved
first and then the women, and they
were to be placed in the boats on star
board, where the women and children
were told to gather. But almost imme-
diately after these orders had been
obeyed, the Elbe listed heavily to star
board and the sea swent up to the
promenade deck, SO the staTbOard
boats were rendered useless. The boat
which brought the survivors away from
the Elbe was one of the port boats and
was last to leave the vessel. Acting
upon the orders Of Captain Won GOesSel,
Third Officer StoIIberS and the pay
master, who were in charge of this
:. boat, took their seats inside her and
then, when the water was creeping over
deck, a rush was made for the boat
and anybody who could get into it did
so. The Trinity pilot, Greenham, as
sisted the crew of the Elbe in firing
the rockets It IS understood that
Il Greenham had been heard to express
the opinion that the steamer which