The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-10-19
FIVE WASHED OFF LINER.
Huce Sea Freaks Over Cunard
Liner Campania.
OVER THIRTY INJURED.
John Graham of Milwaukee Was One of
the Passengers Who Perished--
Fearful Disaster on Ocean.

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Five 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 gi-
gantic wave rolled over the steamer and
swept across Il deck thick with steerage
passengers.
Milwaukeean Perishes.
John Graham of Milwaukee was one
of the passengers washed overheard and
lost. He was travelling in the Storage.
The others who are known to have lost
their lives We're two Irish girls, Dan
ish boy and a man whose nationality has
not yet been ascertained.
More May Have Persisted.
SO sudden was the coming of the dis
aster and so great the confusion which
attended and followed it, that even the
officers of the steamer themselves were
unable today upon the vessels arrival
here to estimate the full extent of the
tragedy. 1t 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 today ten of the injured pasScn-
some of them seriously hurt and score
OF others were nursing minor injuries.
Scoops Up Enormous Sea.
The Campania was blowing along un.
der full Roadway last Wednesday after
noon. y heavy quartering sea was run
ming, but the weather conditions were
far from unpleasant and the big boats
decks were crowded with passengers.
The Storage deck was covered with
mcrrymakers and there WAS nothing to
indicate the approaching Disaster when
suddenly the hig steamer larchcd to port
and scoOird up IN enormous sea. The
wave boarded the steamer about amid
ships on the port side and swept clear
across the Storage deck, completely fill
ing the space between that deck and
the deck above and carrying everything
with it.
Storage Passengers Helpless.
Tho steamers side was buried so deep
that the passengers on the deck above
the Storage were submerged TO their
waists as the immense volume of water
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
stecrage deck found themselves utterly
helpless
The irresistible rush of waters. sweep
ing toward the forward part of the ship,
carried everything before it. MEETINGS,
heavy ratings and other distractions
which had been arranged near the rail
ings to prevent passengers being washed
overheard, served their purpose only in
part.
Swept to Their Death.
So great was the volume of force of
the rushing waters that a door in the
rail was smashed and through this open
ing five of the helpless ones who had
been caught by the wave were swept 90
their death. Others dashed against the
rails and other like instructions, es-
capped death, but many Of them received
severe injuries. One young woman had
both legs broken at the thigh and sew
cral persons suffered broken arms and
ribs, while more than score were
bruised and battered
Rescue the Injured.
When the wave cleared the vessel the
forward part of the deck was strcwn
with injured and for hours DR.. Nerdcn,
the ships surgeon, aided by number
of physicians among the cabin passcn-
gers, was busy i'll attending to their
hurts. In the meantime an inspection of
the Storage was made by the ships oil
GERS and ii was learned that five Of the
passengers were missing. No further in
formation regarding the result of the in
spection was given out.
Children Are Saved,
From one of the stcerage passengers il
was learned that the lives of several