The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-13
FOUR LOST IN OCEAN
REMNANT OF sAIPWREckEp FAM.
iLY NEAR NORFOLK.
AN AWFUL STORY OF DISTRESS
FATHER AND THREE CHILDREN
SANK IN THE SEA.
ALSO THEIR FORTUNE, $4,000


Mother Named Krause and Three
Daughters are Poverty Stricken,
Starving and In Dire Distress Near
Hoskins, Few Miles From Norfolk.
Having lost four of their family in
the bottom of the ocean, together with
all of their worldly possessions, con
sisting Of 100000 in gold and paper
money, n woman named KrausC and
three daughters are destitute and al
most starving in a little house near
lIOsllins, few miles east of Norfolk.
Mrs. BrIChncr, who lives three miles
from Hoskins, was in Norfolk yCstCr.
day afternoon soliciting aid for the
heart broken and poverty stricken wo.
man and daughters, Mrs. Klont2 OF
this city volunteered to aid In gather
ing things for the poor people and
few clothes were taken back by Mrs.
BriChnCr this morning. More aid, how
over, Is badly needed and that at once.
The family were very wealthy ia
Germany and left Hamburg last July,
bound for Wiusido, Ncb Their ship
was wrecked in the Atlantic ocean and
went down. Many of the passengers
sank. Mr.. Krausc, the head of the
family together with two sons and
one daughter, aged twcnty-four, all
went to the bottom of the sea. one
other daughter aged twenty-five, the
oldest of the survivors, nearly sank
into the deep water but managed to
cling to the mast of the vessel and to
keep her head above water until she
was rescued by the shipmcn. The
mother and two other daughters, aged
eighteen and fourteen, were rescued
early in life boats The father, his
two boys and the oldest daughter all
went overheard into the billows and
were swallowed mp by the mighty At
lantic.
Their Money Also Sank
In a chest the family was bring all
of their worldly funds, $4,000 in gold
and paper money TO America. This
chest sank into the ocean WrCCking
crews have ever since been digging
into the depths of the sea for these
lost treasures and have brought up
many chests Of money but that belong.
ing to the Krausc family has lot yet
been recovered, though Mrs Krausc
and her three girls live in constant
hope that it will be brought to the sur
face.
Reduced to Poverty and Distress.
with nothing left but their tickets,
which they carried, and which read
Wnside, Neb., the mother and her or.
phan daughters left New York for this
state. When they arrived at the Win
side station they saw a farmer, whose
name is not learned, and who offered
them little house to live in.
They accepted the kind offer and
are now in this house. The farmers
Of the neighborhood have been good
to them, often bringing in things TO
waer and at, but because Of the ir-
the poor woman and her daughters
have at times been without a mouthful
Of food for days. Other times they
would be overloaded with food.
Weak From Starvation.
The family has been weakened and
made Ill from starvation. Mrs. Brich-
ner says that at one time she invited
the oldest daughter over to her home
to spend the day. The young woman
started to help dry dishes and proved
to be so very weak from starvation
that she fell over backwards.
The distressed mother and her three
daughters are so heart broken that
they can hardly bear to even discuss
their tragedy, sobs drowning their
thoughts and words when they attempt
to tell the story of their awful suffer.
ing.
Mrs. Klentz believes that If Norfolk
people only know of the case, that as
sistance will be Immediately fOrthcom-
Inc