The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15
Five of Campania's Pas
 SengerS Drowned.
LINER IN HARD STORM
Decks Strewn With Injured
 After Wave Breaks.
Madame CGlve on La Savoie Sings While the Gale Rages and Restores Fellow Travellers
 to Good Spirits.

l known to have been lost and more than
 thirty persons injured, some of them seriously, on the Cunard steamer Cam
 pania last Wednesday, when a gigantic | wave relied over the steamer and swept across d deck thick with steerage pas
 sengers. So sudden was the coming | of the disaster and so great the con-
 fusion which attended and followed it
 that even the officers of the steamers themselves were unable today. upon
 the vessels arrival here, to estimate 1 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. 1 When the Campania reached quaran- 1 tine today 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 l injuries.
 No warning Given. The Campania was ploughing along under full headway last Wednesday afternoon. "A heavy duartering 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 nothing to indicate the approach ing disaster. when suddenly the big steamer lurched to port and scooped up an enormous sea. The wave boarded the steamer about midships on the port side and swept clear across the steerage deck. completely filling the space be- | tween that deck and the deck above and carrying. everything with it. | The steamers side was buried so deep | that the passengers on the deck above the steerage were submerged to their I waists when the immense volume of l S%.- n4A .~.A rnA ward. All the cabin passengers on the upper deck succeeded in ciinging to supports while the-s waters surged | around them and were saved, but the unfortunates on the steerage deck found themselves utterly helpless. l The irresistible rush Of waters ! sweeping toward the forward part of the ship carried everything before it. Nettfngs, heavy railinBs and other ob- stfhctions which had been arranged near the railings to pFsvent passengers being washed overboMfd, served their purpose only in part. So great was the volume and force of the rushing wa | ters that a door fin the rail was smashed, and through this opening the helpless ones were swept to their death Others were dashed against the rails and other like obstruction and es- capped death, but many of them receiv- ed severe injuries. One young woman | had both legs broken at the thigh, and several persons suffered broken arms and limbs, while more than score were bruised and battered.
 Deck strewn With Injured. When the wave cleared the vessel the forward part of the deck was strewn with injured and for hours Dr. Verden. the ships surgeon, assisted by number of physicians among the cabin passengers, was busy in attend Tw. kGA tsaa o,aNf fr.aN an inspection of the steerage was made by the ships officers, and 1t was learn ed that five of the passengers were missing. No further information re- garding the result of the inspection was given out.
 From one of the steerage passengers 1t was learned that the lives of several children were saved by a 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 oth- CTS. On the return rush of the wave, the children were being carried direct ly toward the open door through which the five who lost their lives had been carried when Miss Cotes and the stew ard rushed to their rescue and drag ged them back to safety.
 r Wednesdays disaster marks the first time in the Cunard lines history of more than sixty years that passenger has been lost from one of It's steamers by accident
 John Graham of Milwaukee was one of the passengers washed overheard and lost. He was travelling In the steerage.
 In addition to the name of John Ora ham, the Cunard line officials today gave out the following names of steer age passengers who were washed over board:
 Margaret Cleary, Mary Cosgrove, Niels Ekberg and Elizabeth Grunadot- ter.
 Impossible to Stop. Although some of the passengers thought that the Campania should have stopped in an attempt to save those who were washed overboard the off cers say that this was practically an impt stability. Both passengers and officers say that the waves in Wednes- day afternoons gale were the highest they have ever seen.
 At times they broke as high as the top of the smoke-stac An hour be- fore the attack a second officer on the bridge was struck by the descending crest of a wave. knocked down and rendered unconscious.
 Captain R. C. Warr was given vote of thanks by the cabin passen- gers for his action during the panic following the disaster. Many steerage passengers upon landing at the dock today fell upon their knees and offered prayers of thanksgiving over their safe arrival.
 A subscription of St.20O was offered to Mrs John Graham, wife of the Mil waukee man who was lost overheard. This amount was raised by the cabin passengers, who contributed $1,500 in all to relieve the sufferings of the steerage passengers. As Mrs. Gra- hams husband was an American. most of the money was given to her.
 description of the accident and the subsequent scenes on board the Cam pania was given by Michael D. O'Con- | nor, a first cabin passenger. when the | steamer arrived at her dock. He said
 Passenger Describes Accident.
 After breakfast Wednesday morn | ing when I was sitting In the cabin | there was a sudden lurch to port. I | looked out of a window and saw the | steeringe promenade deck rail com l pletely buried under the sea. The | gates which were directly opposite to | me. used for allowing the water to |