The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-02-17
SPANIARDS HAVE FAINT HOPE OF
FINDING LIVING VICTIMS OF
SHIP DISASTER.
SOLE SURVIVOR Is DEMENTED.
Algerian Customs Official Who Was
Tossed on Rocks Tells Ram
bling Story.
THE DROWNED WILL NUMBER 1856.

PALMA, Island of Majorca, Feb. 10.
Bodies were floating ashore today from
the wreck of the General Chanzy. The
authorities posted men along the coast
to recover the bodies, and also to watch
| for small boats. The last named precau-
ton was undertaken in a desperate hope
that some of those aboard the steamer
might have escaped.
Marcel Rodel, the Algerian customs of
fetal and only known survivor, was still
unable today to give a lucid account OF
! the disaster. AS the vessel went down
on Wednesday night he chung to a piece
of wreckage. and was washed ashore.
When tossed on the rocks he was rem
dered jnsepsible, and remained in this
condition throughout the night. Revivlng
IN the morning, he wandered about aim
lessy most of the day, finally stumbling
into the village of Ciudad Ella thoroughly
exhausted, and almost demented. From
his rambling story the authorities first
learned of the disaster and rushed help
to the nearest land point. They found
only mass of wreckage piled up on the
coast.
The villagers say that even if the small
boats had been launched the tiny craft
would not have lived IN the sea that
ragged Wednesday night The Spanish
officials announce that n powerful light
of Mnorca island in the hope that fur
Their wrecks at this dangerous place may
be avoided.
Owing to the difficulties of communi-
eating between the villages in the alb
sence Of telegraph lines, few additional
details of the wreck reached here today.
Hope remains that others from the YES
sci may have been picked up from the
small boats.
The route of the Algerian boats is par
ticuarly treacherous in bad weather
| The steamers Vile de Rome and the
Isaac Pereire were wrecked on the same
forbidding coast. The Gen. Chanzy
missed the pass between the islands of
Minorca and Majorca, being either blown
out of her course or rendered helpless by
! the break down of her engines or the
loss of her propeller
Dead Number l56.
! One hundred and tifty-six persons per-
ished when the French Transatlantic line
steamer, Gen. Chanzy, crashed in the
night on the treacherous reefs near the
Island Of Minorcq. Only one man os,
capped. The vessel was driven helplessIv
from its course in one of the Widest
storms that has swept the Mediterranean
sea in forty years.
In the ships company there were
| elghty-seveD passengers, of whom thirty
were in the first cabin. The crew mum,
bered seventy. 1t is not believed that
any Americans were aboard the liner.
The ship was under the command of
Capt Cayol one of the most careful
officers of the line. In his long expert
ence he mover before had met with nm
accident lie had intended to retire from
the service in the near future
The Chanzy is a total wreck. Steam
crs have been dispatched from Spain and
from points in the Balearic islands 10
the scene Of the catastrophe.
Among the victims was the celebrated
Partisan music hall singer. Francis
Dufor, as well as other prominent music
hall favorites
The passengers of the Chanzv wero
mostly French officers and officials re.
turning to their posts in Algeria accom-
panied by their wives and children: n
few soldiers, some Italians and Turks,
and one priest.
The Gen. Chanzy struck Mt Q o'cIocl,
Thursday night after Capt CayoI. with
all his experience had been unable to
cope, with the tempest, Other ships had
safely ridden out the storm. but tho
Chanzy was lifted off its course through
the Balearic archipelago and brought In
on the coast of Minorca, in the vicinity
of Ciudadela.
The vessel sailed from Marseillps on
=
rive at Algers Thursday afternoon.
Americans Are Drowned.
PARIS. Feb. 12.-Adyices received to-
day by the French Transatlantic Steam.
ship company say that the loss of the
Gen. Chanzy occurred while the vessel
was running before n terrible storm in
the vicinity of the Balearic islands in the
Mediterranean. When the vessel struck
reef north of the Island of Minorca the
shock was terrific and the ship was lit
orally broken TO pieces.
OF the vaudeville people among the
passengers, Nestor was Frenchman
and the two Strnkleys were Belgians,
according TO theatrical people. The la.
ter say that the only American per
formers were Miss Elsie Henry and he
team known as Dcrenda and Green.
acrobatS.
Considering the seaworthiness OF the
Gen chanzy and the experience Of
Capt Cayol, shipping people believe
that the steamer must have become I'M
manageable through the breaking down
of her engines or Inc loss of her pro
peler. The Gen. Chanzy went ashore
near Bergen in 1896, ut which time she
was hauled off by the German corvette
Griffen For the assistance on that oc-
casion President Fauer subsequently ex-
pressed his thanks to Emperor William.
Among the other victims was Second
Engineer Lorenzetti, who was n sur,
vivor of the La Bourgogna disaster. At
the time he was picked up after having
drifted for days in an open boat Cant,
Cnyol OF the Gen. Chanzy was con
sidered by his employers tho French
Transatlantic Steamship company, as
one OF the most experienced and careful