The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-04
Julia Luckenback Goes TO
Bottom In Chesapeake
Bay During Raging
Storm
Captain and Wife Among
the Drowned - British
Vessel, Which Rammed
the Lost Ship, Disappear
ed In Fog,Leaving Wreck
ed Mariners to Meet Their
Doom-Terrible Expert
ence of the Rescued.

Baltimore, Jan. Not less than ~
and possibly % persons lost their lives
when the steamer Julia Ldrc1eubscf
was sent to the bottom by the British
steamer Indralzuala, near Tansier Is
land Light at Z o'clock yesterday
morning. It bs known that Ffrgt Of
ficer Hunt and six seamen were res
cued from the Luckenback. At tfe
offices of the line here. however, there
is doubt whether there were q or -
men in the complement Of the Inflated
steamer The only passenger lost was
Mrs. H E. Gilbert, wife OF the cap
tain of the Luckenbaclx, who was ac-
cornpanying him in the vessel
Those saved were taken on By the
Danish steamer Pennsylvania The
whereat- puts OF the British steamer is
unknown. One report said that sifs
own steam with the revenue cutter
Apache standing by. Another said
that she would try to make NeWport
News, while still a third declared tnat
the steamer had made SO much water
that an effort would be made to beach
her some miles from the scene
The Luckenback sank five minu-ea
after the Indrakualas coming out Ci
the fog, dealt her death blow Only
those on the top deck had time TO
escape. First Of1cer Fred r. Hunt
and seven members of the crew CLIMB
e7 1fr7fo the rierfue and hung there
for six hours IN tt- terrible cold
until the Danish liner PennsyIvanla.
The others caught below drowned
without knowing what had happened
The Indrakuala, with a big hole IN
her side backed away from the sink
ing ship and headed for the beach
around Tangier Sound. She was
grounded in time for all OF her crew
to be saved.
and the seven men lashed to the rig
ging tried to attract the attention q
the ship that had rammed them IL
disappeared in the fog
The fog did not lift until after 3
O'Clock. From then until I O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, the men nuns
in the rigging trying to sight a snip
The wind increased in its fury and
swayed the topmast to which they
cIung Boats ordinarily on the bay
an hour after noon, the Penusy Ivarlla.
hove in sight She put off boats and
the eight men were taken from the
spar and hauled up the side Of the
SURVIVORS REACH PORT.
Newport News. Va. Jan 4.-FOur
members of the crew Of the Julia
Luckenback and four officers were
all the survivors brought in here, to-
day, by the Danish liner Peunsyi-
vania. The four officers were F. r
Hunt chief officer; William Braun
second officer; George Little, first as
assistant engineer.
The four of the crew included =
sailor, "a quartermaster, fireman ana
a carpenter.
Norfolk. Va. Jan. 4.-Wire1ess re-
ports here. this afternoon, placed the
dead in the Luckenback wreck at %
men and one woman, out of the crew
of 81. The high seas swamped the
Luckenback's 1ifebOats throwing all q
the survivors out. Seven men and
the first officer managed to cling to
wreckage until picked up, suffefiug
terribly from exposure in the icT
waters.
The Merritt-Chapman COmpauT'B
tug Rescue is speeding to search GcE
bodies and to aid the Apache in TAX
ing care of the Indrakuala, the Brit
ish steamer which raTnmed the Luck
enback. She was beached by heE
captain. The survivors are expected
here this afternoon.
Washington, Jan. -4.-Eariy this
afternoon revenue officials received =
wireless despatch from the cutter
Apache, then euroute at full speed 70
search for possible survivors Of the
Julia Luckenback disaster, saying 8El8
had spoken to the steamer Florida
and that vessel reported another ship
sunk off Smith Point, at the mOutn
of the Potomac river.
1t was assumed here that this wz1
the beached steamer IndrazuaIa-