Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-23
RESCUED THE WOMEN
LAST OF THE BERLIN SURVIVORS
SAFE ON LAND.

HOOK OF HOLLAND, Holland, Febru-
airy 23.-In the early hours of the morning
the three remaining survivors were taken
off the wreck of the British steamer Berlin
by the same life-boat crew which has done
such splendid work during the past forty
eight hours. All three are women-Frau
Weintbergher, her sixteen-year-old nurse
girl, Nina Ripler, and Fraulein Theile. This
makes the number of saved fifteen out of
the 143 who were on board the vessel
The life savers watched the wreck all
night long for chance to get alongside,
but they had to wait until low water, at
about 1 o'clock this morning, when they
put of on board the tug Wodan, which
had raft in tow for the use Of the res
cuers On getting as near the wreck as
possible Capt. sperling of the lifeboat crew
boarded the raft, which was allowed to
drift alongside the Berlin, and the captain
managed to Chamber on board by means of
a line. He then lowered the helpless, half
dead women one by one to the raft, whence
they were conveyed to the Wodan.
Survivors Reach Land.
The last survivors of the wrecked
steamer arrived at the Hook of Holland at
3 o'clock this morning and were taken to
the America Hotel, where everything was
in readiness for their accommodation and
relief.
The German minister, Herr ven Schloezer,
1aft Ia Hook nd
this morning to visit in the name of the
German empress the German subjects
who have been saved from the wreck of
the Berlin and to express to the relatives
majesty's deep sympathy.
Crew of Eighteen Lost.
COPENHAGEN, February pa dis
patch received here from Lemvig. Jutland,
today. says that the three-masted Norwe-
gian vessel which went ashore off Fjal-
tring, on the west coast of Jutland, yester-
day, was the Timaru, of 1,2O6 tons, bound
from Flushing to Christiania. She was
totally lost, and all her crew, numbering
eighteen, were drowned.
Steamboat Burns Four Drowned.
CHARLESTOWN, 8. C., February 22.-
The steamboat Marion, plying between
Charleston and Beaufort. burned today
while in the Wadmalaw river, and four col
ored passengers were drowned.
A Modest Hero.
Capt Sperling, who went out to the
f1,a f1yoo loo
is the master of ship now in this harbor
from Dordrecht. The captain, with two of
his nephews, volunteered to assist the life
boat men in the attempt which ended so
successfully. In an interview after the
rescue Of the three women Sperling spoke
in the most modest terms of his exploit.
He said:
'The women were lying there alive. We
could not abandon them without further
attempt to get them ashore. As we neared
the wreck the seas were still high, wash
ing three or four feet over the breakwaters.
Myself, my nephews and another man
jumped on the raft and took her along
side the beacon light. I succeeded in
reaching the breakwater, to which I
mOored the raft with rope. From the
DreaRWater we ci1mDed on Doard the REM
nant of the Berlin and found the three
women huddled under the hurricane deck,
surrounded by ten or twelve corpses.
In Pitiable Plight.
THE women were in pitiabie plight,
screaming and crying Historically as they
chung to US. beseeching us not to desert
them. They were furnishing and stiff with
cold; their clothing was soaked with icy
water and they were unable to walk The
nurse. Fraulein Ripler. insisted that her
companions should be first saved before she
was removed frsm the wreck. so I carried
Fraulein Thefle to she aide fastened her