The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-14
PASSENGERS LOST
IN HEAVY SEAS
Huge Wave Sweeps Five to Death
from the Liner Cam g.. .
pania.
More Than Thirty Injured by Sud
den Rush of Water Across
Decks.

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 81
pantic wave rolled over the, steamer
and swept across deck thick with
steerage passengers.
So Sudden was the coming OF the
disaster and so great the confusion
which attended and followed 1t tn NAV
the officers of the steamer were uhaole
to estimate the full extent of the TRACE
DIV. It is possible that the five per
sons known to be missing from Inc
steerage may not constitute the 1ull
number of dead
When the Campania reached quaran-
tine today, ten of the injured passen-
gers were still in the ships hosp1tai,
Some Of them seriously hurt. and
score of others were nursing minor IN
juries.
Milwaukee Man Lost.
John Graham of Milwaukee was pas
senqer washed overheard and lost. he
was travelling in the steerage. Inc
others who are known to have lost their
lives were two Irish girls, DANISH
boy and man whose nationality mas
not yet been ascertalned.
der full Roadway last "Wednesday after
noon. A heavy quartering sea was run
ing, but the weather conditions were
far from unpleasant and the decks were
crowded with passengers. The steerage
deck was covered with merrymakers
and there was nothing to indicate the
approaching disaster.
scooped Up Enormous Sea.
Suddenly the steamer lurched to Port
and scooped up an enormous sea. The
wave boarded the steamer about MID.
shin on the port side and swept clear
across the steerage deck, completely I'LL;
ing the space between that deck and
the deck above and carrying everything
with it.
The steamers side was buried sc
deep that the passengers on the deck
their waists as the immense volume OF
water. rolled aft and then surged Tor
Ali the cabin. passengers on the up
per deck succeeded in clinging to sup
ports while the waters surged arounc
them and were saved; but the unfor
Inmates on the steerage deck toune
themselves utterly helpless. The IRE
sistible rush Of waters sweeping towart
the forward part of the ship carried
everything before it. MEETINGS, heav,
ratings and other obstructions which
had been arranged near the ratings t.
prevent passengers being washed over
board served their purpose only IN part
Swept to Their Death.
So great was the volume and fore
of the rushing waters that door IN tn
rail was smashed, ana thru Inls oPe3pln
five Of the helpless ones, who had pee
caught by the wave were swept to thel
death.
Others, dashed against the rails an
other like obstruction, escaped deatf
but many of them received severe lnJr
ries. One young woman had both leg
broken at the thigh, and several PEI
sons suffered broken arms and rib
while more than a score were bruise
and battered.
When the wave cleared the vesst
the forward part Of the deck wa
strewn with injured and for hours D
Verden, the ships surgeon, aided b
physicians among the cabin passenger
was busy in attending to their hurts
In the meantime an inspection Of TT
steerage was made by the ship g office:
ard it was learned that five Of the pa
sengers were missing: No further i
formation regarding the result Of the il
spection was given out.
SteWardesS saved Lives.
From one of the steerage passenge
it was learned that the lives of sever
children were saved by. Stewards
Miss Cotes, and deck steward. I'll
. little ones were playing about tt
deck when they were caught in the swi
of water, and carried aft with tt
Others. On the return rush Of tt
wave, the children were being carrie
directly toward the open door, tn
which the five which lost their liv
had been carried, when Miss Cotes al
the steward rushed to their rescue al
dragged them back to safety.
Wednesdays disaster marks the fiji
time i'm the Cunard line IS history
more than sixty years that a passeng
has been lost from one of it's 'steame
by accident.
of thanks by the cabin passengers
his action during the panic followi
the disaster. Many steerage pase
gers, on landing at the dock today,
on their knees and offered prayers
thanks over their safe arrival.
nTTDNTAIN NKn TC