The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-05
SURVIVORS LEFT
STORY Of WRECK
tlohtIhued !rom F'iFst Fage,)


snow storm that ragged over the East
frn States lest night came narrowing
tales Of shlpWrecks at sea. thrilling
rescues. increased loss of ufe and
DANA Ga e property
Eight men, the survivors OF the
I crew nj - of the steamer Julia
Luc kenbach. which was rammed and
sunk by The British tramp Indra-
kuata. I'm Chesapeake bay arrived In
Newport News today and after be-
ing revived started for New York.
The eight men chung to the rig
ring for six hours unul they were
taken OFT by the crew OF the steam
snip Pennsylvania. The IndrakuaIa
was badly damaged, and had to be
beaehed She lies about two miles
from the I4ucRcn back, whose spars
alone are Visible, rising out of forty
iNe foet of water near Tangier sound,
Eight Survivors
J. he eight survivors of the Lucken-
bach are t. Il. Hunt. first officer:
" lllians Bruhn. second officer; George
41tNe, first assistant engineer, George
Doyle. third assistant engineer:
George DAVIS, quartermastcr; Billy
I Hoffman, fireman, Theodore Iosher.
seasman. and T., Anderson, seaman.
Describing his experience, Davis
/ said tonight: none of va knew what
/ had hit us= was kn hooked down and
/ when / got UP water was pouring
/ over ufc. ! saw men climbing into
the rig8ings and ! followed | saw
Captain Gilbert swimming around the
ship calling for MS wife. who was an
! invalid Both we're lost Waves that
appeared to be two hundred feet high
! broke over the snip, and she sank In
hurry LifGheaLz- XII s-a--- ..4-4It--t---e.
from the lndrakuala. bat none came
towards us the ship turned her nose
around ana started for the beach
The wind was SO strong it tore
our clothing to shreds Biiiy HoT-
man said he was freezing to death.
ana l saw blood streaming down his
arm. He was almost naked"
Plcud for Help.
We pleaded and cried for help"
said Theodore Losher bat we were
either unheard OF ignored The In
drakuala was less than hundred
Yards away when she started for the
beach. I thought every minute we
would be blown into the sea. The
wind was terrific. our chief engineer,
KRIS Kundsen, told me he could no
hold OH much longer. because bis
hands were frozen told him to
stick II out a little longer, When the
Danish steamer Pennsylvania hove In
sight ] called so hlm. but ne was
gone.
We were six hours r. that rigging
hut there were men or the pennsyi-
vania. When they SAW our sighals AZ
- frsSa thFt t'Jft isietsyF- il, strait haaf.a
III spite OF the tremendous seas The
boats would get near Us and then be
carried AltI- fat the s+r-sn the
crest OF a wave and lost to sight but
shANa E4fs,+l
Of us off First Odcer Hunt was I'M
conscious when they reached him.
He had been hanging 70 the rigging
with one hand and holding an un-
conscious man on his perch with the
other"
The IndrakuaIa is commanded by
Captain Smith, but the ship does not
carry wireless station. and no state
meRt from him was o6taiuable to-
light.
Other NcssIs Damaged.
The steamer Columbia, Of the Della
ware River transportation company.
put into Trenton This afternoon TWEEN
ty hours la,e from Philadelphia. after
wid night on the Delaware river.
She was bGffeled about for ten hours
and several times nearly capslzed She
carried. besides her crew, eight pas
sergers four 81 whom were women.
Several cities report tonight that
street railway traffic and wire com
municatioG, crippled by last nights
storm. hsAe NOT yet betn restored. At
Rochester ~ y. kilograms were sent
To thor addresses hv special delivery
mail Rochester reports two deaths,
George Letea. eighty-:yyo years old,
having frozen 10 death in snow
bank. and hrcEep electric light wire
killing an Italian lahorcr