Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-23


A steward was the next man TO be
brought ashore. He was quite cheerful
and shouted gaily in reply to inquir-
les: My name is Fisher" He seems
to have stood the terrible ordeal the
best of all. Then came woman, her
face covered with a blanket, but her
long, dark hair streaming over her Pill
low and a terribly frostbitten hand
hanging Imply over the side of the
stretcher
Eventually the IL survivors so rar-
rowly snatched from death. were ten
derby removed to the Amerilia hotel,
and when the prince consort came
ashore his face was radiant with CRATE
ful joy. Every Dutchman present for
feited his national reputation for sto-
lidity by joining in a roaring cheer.
The hotel, in the meantime. was 50
besieged by the crowd anxious to
catch a glimpse Of the survivors, that
the police had TO resort to vigorous
measures to clecr the premises and al
low the doctors uninterrupted con-
troll. SeVc"ai of the nurses We're SO af-
fected b ~ G:ght OF the survivors
that tho lars; into ;ears. Several
anxious Re. .tiI - succeeding in fOiCing
an entrance 70 til hotel and there We're
some scenes Of bitter disappointment
when they discovered that the members
Of their families We're not among the
rescued.
The names Of the passengers saved
follow:
Mr.. Young. Mr.. Broodersen, Frauelin
Buttel, Frauelin Gabler, Frau Schraed-
er (all three Of these women belong to
the Opera Coz: 2 man whose name is
rot known and five members OF the
crew.
Only two women and a child are now
left on the wreck. OF these the two
Women are known to be Frauelin
Thiele and Frau Weinberg. The hus-
band OF the last mentioned woman lies
dead in the morgue here.
Under the revlving influence of food
the survivors soon became COMPARE
lively cheerful. The representative of
The Associated Press interviewed
Trauelin Buttel and Frau Schroeder.
Frauelin Gabler was too i'll to talk. She
had suffered frightfully on tn, wreck
and was delrious when brought ashore.
Frauelin Buttel and Frau Schroeder,
although practically starving and with
their hands and feet terribly frostbit-
ten, showed remarkable cheerfulness.
The first words uttered on shore by
Eau Schraeder We're: "Oh, we are so
hungry"
Relating her experiences Frau
ScEraeder said:
II can never forget the terrible hours
Of anguish and despair We passed
through while watching with our
IL, orf1x
Of the crew of the lifeboat and tugs to
snatch US from the jaws of death. On
Thursday night our anguish reached its
height. Then the gale seemed fiercer
than ever. Mountainous, death cold bill
lows broke over the ship every min
ute. and the dense binding blizzard hid
from us the comforting lights of the
Hook. About half past five in the morn
ing we heard the siren of the incoming
Great Western steamer Vienna and
Frauelin Battel in a frenzy of despair
shouted to the bowling winds: 'Wir
sind hier' eve are hear)
"Whenover we saw or heard the pass
irg craft we shouted. fearing that the
reoDIe on board would think all was
over.
II saw Frau Bertram and indeed
nearly all Of my friends carried away to
sea ard drowned.
we watched the operations of our
rcscuers with GREATNESS anxiety but
when we finally understood their ac-
tons and saw there was a chance OF
life we could hardly belive our eyes.
Exhaustion. hunger and fear had
made US 50 miserable that even the
Joy of life brought no smile to our
faces and no words to our lips.
The first thing we did after the res
cue was to tear off our freezing cloth
ing"
According to the steward. Fisher,
the two women. F'rauelin Thiele ana
Frau Weinberg, We're alive when the
tug came out, but died before the work
of rescue was complete. Continuing.
Fisher said:
when I left the wreck the en-
gineer was scarcely breathing. and
there is no hope of getting him off
alive.
I'VE had a terrible time. When the
steamer broke in twain % of us took
refuge in a recess behind the smoke
room. By this morning only Is of this
number remained alive.
I'VE could get no good sleep; we
We're too busy lodging the waves that
kept flooding the smoke room. We
shouted to attract the attention of
every passing ship. We all sat cheek
to cheek to keep ourselves warm, but
we had to cling to what we could when
a big wave came aboard and flooded
US. We could see the people who put
n n IL ~
watch the work of those searching for
bodies in the sea-
1t now appears certain that after the