The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-10-15
WAVES CARRY )
into THE OCEAN
Decks Of Campania Are Swept
By Heavy Seas
LA SAVOIE ALSO IN GALE
Madame caIve Outlets Passengers BY
Singing While the Storm Was at
Its Height-Eye Witnesses
Describe Disaster.

Nev York. October 14.-Five lives are
known to have been lost and more than
thirty persons injured, some OF them
seriously. on the Cunard steamer Cam
pania last Wednesday. when gigantic
wave rolled over the steamer and swept
across a deck thick with steerage pas
seneers. So sudden was the coming OF the
disaster and so great the confusion which
attended and followed it that even the
ofecers of the steamer themselves were
unable today. upon the vessels arrival
here, to estimate the full extent Oh the
tragedy 1t is possible that the hve per-
sons known to be missing from the
steerage may not constitute the full num-
Der of dead
When the Campania reached quarantine
today ten of the injured passengers were
still in the ships hospital. some OF them
seriously hurt, and score of others were
nursing minor injuries
Goina Under Full Headway.
The Campania was ploughing along un-
der full headway last Wednesday after
noon A heavy quartering sea was run
ming, but the weather conditions We're
far from unpleasant, and the big boat
decks were crowded with passengers. Inc
steerage deck was covered with merry
makers and there was nothing to indicate
the approaching 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
between that deck and the deck above
and carrying everything with it.
Steamers Side Buried.
The steamer $ side was buried SO deep
that the passengers on the deck above
the steerage were submerged to their
waists when the immense volume OF wa
ert rolled aft and then surged forward
All the cabin passengers 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
helpless.
Tbe irresistible rush of waters sweep
ing toward the forward part of the ship
carried everything before it. Nettings,
heavy railngs and other distractions
which had been arranged near the rail-
ings to prevent passengers being washed
ose. 90 80 80. ~ x,a,,,ne and force
pai. oo ..' etsas -, .hat q doo, In the
VI .he iusiS .S, - thronsb +bis oman
ran was ,,,,ss anas wa,sa swent to
their DEATH Others were dashed against
the rails and other like distractions and
escaped death, but many of them received
severe injuries. One young woman had
.poth legs oroken a. 'ne sl,as' s,aa 80
erai persons suiieieu o.ois'- -
,iiiips, VIZ ,4.ar..
pruiseo ana pa',ereu ,. ~ a..
"euhesoay u.s ,,ssa,s h,sto,,, ~ 100
time III .he euiialo my Als'ois - - ~.
ihan siAey years 'na. !" passens na'
been lost from one OF its steamers oy ac-
cioenI
MILWAUKEE, wan LOST.
John Graham, of Milwaukee, was one
of the passengers washed overheard and
lost. He was travelling In the steerage.
The others who are known to have lost
their lives, were two Irish girls, Danish
boy and man whose nationality has not
yet been ascertained.
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: i
Margaret Cleary, Mary Cosgrove, Neils
Eckberg and Elizabeth Grunadotter.
A'nousn sone 81 Tue pass passehsers ,.l
..a ~ ~, attan,,, to sara tbasa n,ho
l .,,ed - o,,arhaord tha ofs,oars co.
xaotioa,,,, o. t,,,ra.s,,oii
' no 10, 10 .ears - aee,aas.
..y. o.n u-o5~asaa, se.a a', S
.ha' ine "a1s on 80. nas.a 49, noon
were 'he e ny - e.n On
AT .iiies .ney oi1no 90 s Us, as e ~, .vl
Oh .ne ~siiohes'aens ~ .s, az noai .ne
accioent ssconu oi,oel ou lne pi,use
was STRUCK py ene uesoe.uins eies' VI
wave, hhocheo oo"h anu iehoeieu ''h-
conscious
Capt. II. =. war; was given vote ol
thanks by the capin passengers LOT ms
action during the panic ioio"ihs the us
aster. Many steerase passengers upon
landing at the COCK tooay ieli upon eneii
knees and offered prayers OF tnahkssiV'
Ing over their safe arrival
"A sqpse' % probono wife of the MiIwau.
Lea man who was lost overheard. This
arnount was raised by the cabin passen-
gers who contributed $780, to relieve the
s,,fea,,n.s of the steerage passengers. As
,Trs f.roban,s husband was an American
r,ost =, the money was given to her.
descr,nt,on Of the accident and the
.,,,,saausnt scenes on board the Campanis
was given by Michael D. O'Connor, 9