Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-14
WATER SWEPT DECK OF
 STEAMER CAMPANIA
Five Lives Lost During Last Trip of the Big Cunard Ocean Liner-A Number of Passengers Were Also Injured--Storm Came Suddenly, and Confusion Reigned for Time, Even Among the Officers.

New York, Oct 14.-Fire lives are known to have been lost and more than thirty persons injured, some of them seriously, on the Cunard line steamer Campania, last Wednesday,, when a gigantic wave rolled over the steamer and swept across a deck thick with steerage passengers. So sudden was the coming of the disaster and so great the confusion which attended and fol lowed it that even the officers of the steamer themselves were unable today upon the vessels arrival here to esti- mate the full extent of the tragedy. It is possible that the five persons known to be missing from the steerage may not constitute the full number of dead When the Campania reached quaran- tine to-day ten of the injured passen- gers were still in the ships hospital, some of them seriously hurt, and a score of others were nursing minor in juries.
 John Graham of Milwaukee was one of the passengers washed overheard and lost. He was travelling in the steerage The others who lost their lives were two Irish girls, a Danish boy, and a man whose nationality has not yet been ascertained.
 The Campania was ploughing along under full headway last Wednesday afternoon. A heavy quartering sea was running, but the weather condi- tions were far from unpleasant and the big boats decks were crowded with passengers. The steerage deck was covered with merrymakers. and there was noting to indicate the ap- preaching disaster when suddenly the big steamer lurched to port and scooped up an enormous sea. The wave boarded the steamer about mid ships on the port side and swept clear across the steerage deck. completely filling the space between that deck and the deck above and carrying every thing with 1t. The steamers side was buried so deep that the passengers on the deck above the steerage were sub merged to their waists as the immense volume of water rolled aft and then surged forward. All the cabin pas sengers on the upper deck succeeded in clinging to supports while the waters surged around them and were saved, but the unfortunates on the steerage deck found themselves utterly help less. The irresistible rush of waters, sweeping the forward part\of the ship, carried everything before It.. Net tings, heavy railings and other obstruc- tions which had been arranged near the raillngs to prevent passengers being washed overheard, served their purpose only in part. So great was the volume and force of the rushing waters that door in the rail was smashed and through this opening five of the helpless ones who had been caught by the wave were swept to their death. Others dashed against the rails and other like Instructions, escaped death. but many of them re- ceived severe injuries. One young wO- man had both legs broken at the thigh and several persons suffered broken arms and ribs, while more than score were bruised and battered.
 When the wave cleared the vessel the forward part of the deck was strewn with injured, and for hours Dr Warden, the ships surgeon, aided by a number of physicians among the cabin passengers, was busy In attend ing to their hurts. Tn the meantime an inspection of the steerage was made by the ships officers and 1t was learned that five of the passengers were missing. No further information regarding the result of the inspection was given out.
 From one of the steerage passengers who escaped death or serious injury in the disaster 1t was learned that the lives of several children were saved by the stewardess. Miss COtes, and deck steward. The little ones were playing about the deck when they were caught in the swirl of water and carried aft with the others. On the return rush of the wave the children were being carried directly toward the open door through which the five who lost 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 Cunard lines history of more than sixty years that a pas senger has been lost from one of it's steamers by accident.