The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-15
WAVES ROLLED
OVER STEAMER
Five Passengers of Cunarder Campa.
MIA Washed Overheard.
MANY OTHERS BADLY HURT
MADAME CALVE IN THE ROLE OF
HEROINE.


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New York, Oct. 14.-An expert >
ence with the same storm which ,
? caused the loss of five passengers >
= on the Campania was reported by ,
. the steamer La SaVOie on her ar '
= rival here today. Last Wednes- ,
4 y day the La SaVOie ran into a ,
= northeast hurricane. Madame ,
7 y CalVe was a passenger on the 2
= steamer and when the storm was ,
= at its height and the passengers ?
? We're locked in the cabins many OF =
, them badly frightened, Madame ?
y CalVe appeared and, announcing ,
= her faith that the storm would De ,
= passed through in safety she sang ,
! = until her fellow passengers were ,
! = again in good spirits.
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New York, Oct. 14-Five lives are
known to have been lost and more
than thirty passengers injured. some 81
them seriously. on the Cunard nae
steamer Campan1, last Wednesday.
when a gigantic wave rolled over The
steamer and swept across a deck thick
with steeTage passengers. So sudden
was the coming of the disaster and Sc
great the confusion which attended and
followed it that even the officers of the
steamer themselves were unable JOd,
upon the vessels arrival here, TO est4-
mate the full extent of the tragedy. 1T
is possible that the five persons known
TO be missing from the steerage may
not constitute the fun number of dead.
When the Campania reached quaran-
tine today ten of the injured oassen-
gers We're still in the ships hospital,
some of them seriously hurt, and a
score of others were nursing minor in
juries.
Five Washed Overheard.
John Graham of Milwaukee was one
OF the passengers washed overheard
and lost. He was travelling in ths
steerage. The others who arc known
TO have lost their lives were two Irish
girls and two other women.
The Campania was plOWing along IN
der full Roadway last Wednesday aft
emoOn. A heavy quartering sea was
running, but the weather conditions
We're far from unpleasant and the big
boats decks were crowded with pas
Sengers. The Steerage deck was COW
cred with merrymakers and there was
nothing 10 indicate the approaching
disaster, when suddenly the big steam
/ er lurcned to port and sCOOped uD an
enormous sea. The wave boarded the
steamer about midships on the port
side and swept clear across the steer
/ age deck completely filling the space
| between that deck and the deck above,
and carrying everything with il. The
j steamers side was buried and pas
sengers on the deck above the steerage
/ were submerged To their waists as The
( immense volume Of water rolled aft
and then surged forward,
Steerage Passengers Helpless.
All the cabin passengers on the upper
deck succeeded in clinging 10 supports
while the waters Surged around them
/ ana We're saved, but the unfOrtunates in
| the steerage deck found themselves ut
terly helpless. The irresistible rush of
waters, sweeping toward the forward part
! of the ship, carried everything before it..
Meetings., heavy ratings and other OBJ
suuctiOns which had been arranged near
/ the ratings TO prevent passengers being
/ washed overheard, served their purpose
I only in part. So great was the volume
| ana force of rushing waters that a door
/ I'M the rail was smashed and through this
opening five of the helpless ones, who
/ had been caught by the wave. We're swept
/ 10 their death. Others dashed against the
I rails and other like Instructions and es-
capped death, but many of them received
I severe injuries. one young woman had
! both legs broken at the thighs, while more
/ than score were bruised ana battered.
Deck strewn With Injured.
/ When the wave cleared the vessel the
forward part of the deck was strewn with
/ injured and for hours DIR. Warden the
ships surgeon, aided by a number of
physicians among the cabin passengers,
/ was busy i'm attending to their hurts In
/ the meantime an inspection of the steer
age was made by the ships Officers and
/ it was learned that five of the passen-
| gers were missing. No further cOnfir-
nation regarding the inspection was Civ
/ en- out.
! From one of the steerage passengers
/ it was learned that the lives of several
children were saved by a stewardess, Miss
/ COtes. and a deck steward. The little
ones were playing about the deck when
/ they were caught in tho swirl of water
and carried aft with the others. On the
return rush OF the wave the children
we're being carried directly toward the
open door, through which the five who
. lest their lives had been carried, when
. Miss COtes and the steward rushed TO
. their rescue and dragged them back TO
safety.
Wednesdays disaster marks the first
time in the Cmard lines history of more
than sixty years that a passenger has
/ been lost from one of its steamers by
accident.
Waves Mountain High.
Although some of the passengers
thought that the Campanta should have
Q
/ We're washed overheard the officers say
that this was practically an impossible
l ity. Both passengers and officers say
that the waves I'm Wednesday afternoons
gale were the highest they have ever
seen. At times they broke as high as
The top of The smoke stacks An hour
before the accident a second officer on
/ the bridge Was struck by the descending
crest of a wave, knocked down and rem
dered unconscious.
Many steerage passengers, upon landing
today fell upon their knees and offered
/ prayers of thanksgiving over their safe
arrival.
In addition TO the name OF John Gra-
| ham, the Cunard line officials today gave
out the following names of steerage pas
sengerS who were washed overheard:
Margaret Cleary. Mary COsgroVe Niels
I EkbeTg and Elizabeth Grunadotter
pASSE NGERE kEpT IhSInE