The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-30
OCEAN HORROR.
North German Lloyd Ocean
Liner Run Into.
Sunk in the North Sea Off Lowe
stoft, England.
Two Hundred of the Passengers
and Crew
PERISH BY DROWNING.
Only Nineteen People Are Re-
ported Saved
The Worst Ocean Disaster for
Many Years.

LONDON. Jan. S0.-The Exchange Tel
egraph company says that the North
German steamship Elbe has been
run down off Lowestoft and
sunk. Two hundred persons are
reported to have been drowned and only
nineteen are said to have been saved.
Later.
LONDON, Jan. 3O-Lloyds has received
the following dispatch from Lowestoft
dated 6:12 p. m:
"The Elbe was sunk in the North
sea after collidiRg with another
steamer. Twenty people who were
on board of her have been landed
here by fish smacks The persons saved
include the second officer and pilot. 1t
is feared that the loss of life is great
New York People Dumfounded.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3O.-The first tidings
of distress to the Elbe, which reached
the North German Lloyd office
in this city were carried there
at 2:3O this afternoon by repre-
sentatives of the Associated Press news
papers. The first information indicated
that the Elbe had been sunk off Lowe
stoft and working upon this bulletin. the
steamship people Immediately got down
their maps and soon located the fishing
town of LoWeStOft
"Whv, how is that, she was off there
when she left Bremen yesterday and is
due to sail from southampton today?"
asked one of the steamship officials as he
! bent over the line of the English coast
of the big map and measuring with q
! lead pencil the distance from Bremen to
| Lowestoft.
No one was able to answer the inquiry
| at that moment and officials and clerks in
the first interest and anxiety of the occa-
4 sion stood about Iooking into each others
faces and wondering how it could have
happened.
Loss of Life Much Greater.
LONDON. Jan. 30.-Dlspatches from
Lowestoft, Suffolk, late this afternoon
say that large steamer had been sunk
at sea with terrible loss of life.
Later a dispatch from Lowestoft to the
Exchange Telegraph says that the
North German Lloyd steamship Elbe,
which sailed from Bremen yesterday.
/ had been run down off that place and
only nineteen persons out of 800 were
saved.
The reception of this news caused
great excitement everywhere as soon
it became known through the ticker o.
the Exchange Telegraph compah
in the clubs and other places
of public resort, and the
agents of the company and others were
soon at work doing everything possible
to obtain the facts in the case
It was believed that the Elbe had about
$50 persons, passengers and crew.
on board, and although the first reports
had it that only about twenty people
were saved it was hoped that the loss of
life would be shown to be exaggerated,
and that the steamer with which the Elbe
collided would eventually be shown to
have saved number of the people who
were on board the Elbe.
But as time passed and no additional
news was obtainabie, people became con-
I vinced that the first stories must be cor
rect.
Something About the EIbe.
New YORK, Jan. 30.-The North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Elbe was command
ed by Capt. Won Gosset She arrived al
Bremen from New York on Jan. 20, and
sailed from Bremen yesterday fol
Southampton and New York. She was
42O feet long. The Elbe was four
masted screw steamer and was owned
by the North German Lloyd steamship
company.
The following is the list of the officer
of the Elbe: Captain, Won Gosset; chic
officer, G. Wilhelms; chief engineer, A
Nusell; purser, w: l. Louhmiller; pnysi
clan. Dr. A Reichart; chief steward, II
Pfichuder.