The Mena weekly star., 1906-11-29
ATLANTIC L|N[RS COLLIDE.
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse and Orinoco Meet With Accident
 Near Cherbourg, France.
THIRTEEN ARE DEAD AND MANY INJURED

vessels Met Head-on While Going at
 Rapid Rate-The Kaiser Wilhelm Had
 a Hole I2 Feet in Diameter Made in
 Her side While the Orinoco suffered
 Injuries to Her Bows.
 Cherbourg, Nov. 23-Details of the collision between the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse and the British Royal Mail steamer Orinoco show that it oc cured at o'clock Wednesday night. The Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse, and Orinoco were both outward bound from Southampton, via Cherbourg. for New York and the West Indian ports respectively. The shock is de- scribed as having been terrific, caus- ing panics among the passengers of the two vessels, especially among the emigrants. On the Orinoco three men and woman were killed, SIX women and a man were injured and five persons were knocked overheard and drowned.
 Of the two steamers, the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse is said to have sustained the most damage but be- yond the fact that she has hole in one side of her, the nature of
 CT injuries has not been ascertained. Four of the crew of the Kaiser Will ! elm Der Crosse are reported to have been killed and 12 injured, but the exact number of the Killed and wounded on that vessel have not been reported here.
 The damage to the Orinoco was confined to her bows. Both vessels remain in the roadstead here.
 When the collision occurred the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse was steaming at the rate of IT knots an hour from Cherbourg after having ouched here on her voyage out. The Orinoco was bound for this port when the accident happened. The commander of the Orinoco claims that he signalled that he was goins to starboard of the North German Lloyd vessel but that the latter held her course across the Orinoco's bows and only went to port of the Orinoco when it was too late. The engines of the Orinoco, it is added, were re yersed as soon as it appeared likely that an accident would occur but she crashed into the starboard bow of the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse. making breach 12 feet wide. The stem of the Orinoco above the water line was carried away as the yes. sels cleared after the collision. The shock threw all of the passengers n the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse off their feet and the grinding of the Orinoco's bow into the steerage of the German vessel instantly killed four persons, disembowelling a girl II years old
 The captain of the Orinoco ordered boats to be cleared away but the panic on board of her was genera, Some of the crew jumped into and launched two of her boats and sev. eral frenzied women attempted to get into them as they were being lowered over the side. One boat was swamped when it struck the water.
 As soon as the accident occurred a number of small boats from Cher bourg put out to the scene of tho collision and succeeded in rescuing some of the sailors and passengers who were struggling in the waves, but five of the crew of the Orinoco are believed to have been drowned.
 Some of the bodies of the persons drowned were recovered during the day.
 The pilot. Lesage, had just left the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse when the accident occurred.
 Paris. Nov. 23.--At the offices of the North German Lloyd Steamship company here, it is stated that as the injuries to the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse by her collision with the Orinoco will make 1t impossible for her to proceed, the passengers will be transferred to the American liner St. Paul and the French line steamer La Lorraine, leaving respectively. Southampton and Cherbourg and Havre, November 24.
 London, Nov. 23.-The report of the collision between the Kaiser Wil- helm Der Crosse and the Orinoco, received by the North German Lloyd Steamship company here says that the formers starbcard bow is dam aged, that several of her plates were pierced between decks and that four steerage passengers were killed and five injured.
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