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

| the ship, which was the lee side. The
maj ority of the passengers crowded to
| the starboard side, however, while a
| high wind was raging. do not know
| who ordered them there; did not hear
| the captain give any such order. But
the officers did their best to reassure us,
saying that there was plenty of room
| for everybody in the boats
The Captain Talks.
The captain of the fishing smack
Wdldfower, which picked up the sur
vivors OF the Elbe, said in an inter
view:
'eThe Wildfower was east southeast
of Lowestoft with our TRAVELLING gear
down at II a. m. on Wednesday, when
! we sighted a ships boat with some
thing futtering from it's masts. 1
boat.
could see water breaking into the
when we got near enough we threw
them a ropes end; but the men in the
boat were so numb with cold that they
could not hold on to it. We finally
made fast to them and hauled the
boat up to the smack When half
Of the persons rescued had jumped ON
! board, the rope parted and the re-
Tnainder of them were again adrift in
the heavy sea. After much difficulty,
another line was made fast to the boat
and all on board Of her were taken
aboard the Wildfiower. There was "a
woman lying in the bottom Of the boat
with a long coat on, and no shoes on
| her feet. She had no dress under
meath the coat and was terribly cold.
am sure that in another hour several
OF the persons we rescued would have
been frozen stiff"
| To the Rescue.
The WildAower is not dlstingufshable
from the the thousands of snlacks De
| longing to the Herring Fleet Of which
She is No. 377.
| The WildfoWer's cook was bhe first
person to sight the mast of the Elbe's
boat. When the smack rode on the
crest of the next wave the boat was
clearly seen about mile away. The
skipper of the WilddoWer Immediately
ordered the rubber to be hauled up and
hot chocolate to be prepared, as he had
no doubt but that the boat contained
ShipWrecked people. He could see that
! the lifeboat's head was being kept to
sea i'm such a manner that the Wild
flower would be able to save those on
| board of her. This handling, which un-
doubtedly saved the hives Of all those
who were taken from the boat, was
owing to the fact that the English Trim
4ty pilot was on board OF her, and it is
cushioned ito the handling Of small boats
in heavy weather could have enabled
her 10 live through such a sea.
when the Wtldflower got alongside
the life boat, four men were dragged
on board the smack, leaving the Wo-
man, Miss Anna Blocker, and some Of
the others still in the boat. Skipper
! Wright, Of the WilddoWer, seeing Miss
! Blocker lying in the bottom of the boat,
partly covered with waiter, shouted to
the Trinity pilot, 'You are an English
man, help the woman out" This was
done and the others followed. The oc-
cupants of the EDbe's lifeboat were evil
IDENTIFY in the last extremity and were
| hardly able to control the small craft,
as they were stiff with cold. Some idea
of the weather experienced by the ship
wrecked people may be gathered when
| it is added the salt water had frozen
as it sprayed on board and there was q
! foot of ice on the weather gunwale.
A dispatch received here from Var
mouth this afternoon says that the
Trawler Flora has returned to port
from the fishing grounds and When
asked whether they had seen anything
of the missing lifebOat Of the Elbe or
her crew, replied that they knew abso-
lutely nothing of the disaster,
/ Bodies at Sea.
When one of the crew of the Flora
would do if they picked UP dead bodies
at sea, he replied that they would
throw them overheard again. The res
cued officers of the Elbe started for
London at $40. Before they left the
correspondent Of the Associated Press
showed them the statement of Captain
Gordon, of the Crathie. Third officer
Stollberg promptly denied that no sig
nails of distress were made from the
-I1s+ n
blue rockets were fired after the col
lision and that they shot up so high
in the air that it was impossible for
the Crathie not to see or not to under
stand them. A dispatch from Rams
gate this afternoon announces that the
missing lifeboat of that place has re-
turned after having been fifteen hours
at sea looking for survivors of the
EIbe. No trace Of either the missing
lifeboat or Wreckage was found and
people here believe that the rockets
seen by the Ramsgate life savers were
those thrown up by the Elbe. The
Broad Stairs lifeboat also returned to
, her station this morning, and was
nearly wrecked while working through
the surf. She was overturned and her
crew were severely buffeted, several of
them being injured.
Yet Has Hope.
New York, Jan. 91-AH night long
, the office of the North German Lloyd
Steamship company at Bowling Green,
was open and the clerks We're there,
eager to learn any news of the lost
; steamer. About midnight, a cable
, gram was sent to the home office of
5 the company, requesting that a COM
2 plete list of the steerage passengers be
! forwarded at once. There were com
| paratively few inquiries for missing
: ones after o'clock this morning. II
was 1880 O'Clock when the steerage list
was received.
? Manager SchWab, after scanning the
J. passenger list, said ::
I There is hope yet that good news
r may be received from points along the
Dutch coast. If the second boat
/ which probably contained forty OF
l fifty passengers, was not picked up by
I fishing vessels in the vicinity, it may
drift towards the Dutch coast. am
confident that the loss of life will be
! very much lessened. To say that not
much heroism was shown. does not
bear out the story of Jam Vevera, one
of the saved. The fact that nearly all
of the watch were lost is proof con-
, elusive that the men stuck to their
posts to the last"
The Doomed Ship.
4 The Elbe was valued at $3.50, 900
! which loss will fall entirely upon the
steamship company, which insured
, large portion of its own ships
t The company has received hundreds
: of kilograms from friends and relatives
f of the passengers of the Elbe, enquirine
: for news of the Elbe.
: All these kilograms We're answered by