New-York tribune., 1909-06-12
THE SLAVONIA A WRECK
STRANDED OFF Flores
ISLAND, IN AZORES.
CunGder's 40 Passengers We're
Sared by Nearby Liners-Was
Bound for Naples.

Through q private cable message news
reached here yesterday afternoon that the
Cunard liner SlavOnia bearing 10 cabin pas
sengers and 300 in the steerage stranded yester-
day off Flores Island. of the Azores group After
having steamed successfully more than half wav
across the Atlantic, the vessel, which left this
port for Naples June g. was almost a com
plete wreck last night. But through the time
ly aid rendered by North German Lloyd and
Hamburg American liners that were near by
every passenger, according to the most authen-
tic reports. taken off in safety
The liners which gave aid to the Slavonia in
her time of distress were the Princess Irene. of
the North German Lloyd. and the Hamburg
American liner Batavia. Both were also bound
for Naples.
First reports that the Cunarder had run
aground reached here shortly before 4 o'clock
in the afternoon in a message to the North Ger
man LLOYD from Captain Petersen of the
Princess Irene, saving briefly:
Took on board Princess Irene 10 cabin pas-
sengers from steamship SIavonia at southwest
of Flores Island. The three hundred steerage
passengers on Batavia. Slavonia probably total
wreck.
When this message was received the Cunard
Line had no advice3 whatsoever and heard first
of the accident through the North German
Lloyd.
given out by the Cunard Line in this city.
contains no addresses. but the first class pas
sengers are practically all Americans among
them fifteen or twenty in a tourist party.
Among the few whose addresses could be
learned last night were Professor and Mrs
George Griffin BrowneH and Miss Brownell Of
Alabama. Professor BrowneH has been at
tached to the University of Alabama at Tusca-
loosa since 1898 Another passenger was Miss
Mary Q. Ware, thought To be from Birming
ham, Ala.
Among the other passengers on the stranded
steamer are Mrs. John l. Mitchell. widow Of
ex-senator Mitchell. Of Wisconsin, and her
three daughters and one son.
Flores Island, off which the Slavonia stranded
is the most westerly of the Azores group, with
dangerous and precipitous cliffs. The founder
ing Of vessel there can he easily imagined, hut
by good fortune the two other liners, the Prin-
zess Irene and the Batavia. which left New
York on June and June ,. respectively. were
close by and the laconic message Of Captain
Peterson would seem to indicate there was no
loss OF life injury to any one. The transfer
Of passengers was. however NO doubt accom-
plished with the usual thrills and dangers At
tendant the shifting OF nervous human beings
The Slavonia is twiu-screw steamship ot
1oGoG gross tonnage 5lo feet long witt "a
foot beam. and is - feet deep. Her commander
is Captain \. q. Dunnng The vessel - COM
paratIvcly new having been built at Sunder
land England In 1903.
To-day's sea drama served To illustrate the
professional friendship between the North Ger
man Lloyd and the Cunard Line, and recalls 10
mind an instance of dozen or fifteen years
ago when the FuIda. of the North German Lloyd
Line stood by the Cunard liner oregon and
saved all the passengers and crew
The complete saloon passenger list Of the Sla-
vonia AS printed by the Cunard Line. follows