Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1892-12-10 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

INF .  ACCIDENT TO AN ATLANTIC LINER.  PANIC AMONGST THE PASSENGERS.  The North German Lloyd eteamer Spree, Loand from Bre...en on. Southampton to New York, with 131 ea,0.,r., 221 etcond cabin, and 151 eteentle tries euro, and 405 big, of mails, woe towed into Queereman on Saturday eveniug with her main ..haft broken, and a`..out 30it of water in her after. compartnent. k p,rtiou of her machinery had punctured a hole he Om bottom of the vessel, , anl S olud the china setiond-eabio compartment, drivine the pumpers on deck in a state of panic, moat of them wiih hfe-belte on. The accident °cannel on the 26th ult., at 6 a.m., in lat. 58 North. lour. thl West, the sea beirg moderate at the time. At two win. on the 28th a Beaver Line steamer wee sighted, sod she took the Spree in tow, and towed her to Quecuatowc.  One p.n.:tees emmitted suicide. Two eassengers have been removed to the hospital with broken limbs owed by the rolling of the ship, and two females biome crazy.  Mr. John Woodbam, of Stockbridge, • saloon passenger on board the Spree, in a very graphic narrative states that the tremendous shock of the accident caused the vesel's enormous frame to shake from stem to stern. Men and women rushed t the deck in their sleeping garment.; and when it was reported that the vessel won affirm rapidly, the excitement became iotenee. Officials and men worked in gallant manner to locate the mischief, but nothing could (Impel the fear that the vessel was foundering. The die trees of the passengers: was sent.; in feet, a panic prevailed. Two females were so terror-stricken that they lost their reason, and had to be placed under eve:runt, and tab. sequently a young man named Paul Kelm!), • second Celtic pmseoger, belonging to Vienna, also loft him n mon, and committed suicide by jumping overboard. So eeriesta had matters become that Captain Willigerod gave orders to prepare and provision the lifeboat.. The passengers from the eecondmlaes cabin meanwhile were rushing on deck with life-belts on, reporting that the water had then three feet above their cabin deck, mid that they were flooded out. In a few bourn the water had eompletely filled the after part of the ship, ootwithotandieg that the vessel's steam pumps were kept at work, sod the Preach and Italian mails were imam...red beyond recovery. The eaptein, having quartered the passengers in the saloon, sounled the pump. of the other compartment', to assure the people that there was hope, ant furthermore explained that being in the tract at the traneatlantie liners, assistance would seen be at hand. Notwithstanding that the eteamer was now very low in the water at the stern, this advice had the desired effect, and the removal of everything thh:ible forward was speedily earned out, but mono Mumma could not be receverel. After drifting all day sail was set at dusk, awl considerable headway was made northward. The vessel rolled, however, to an awfal extent, and the passengers were thrown violeurly t 3 the deck. One lady had her arm broken Roekets were fired all through the night, and fire. sere burned on deck with a view to linnet the ethntbm of passing remote. The peseengere, who would not retire to bed, ruinously watched with the crew for succour. In this way the dreary night was spent. The next day (Sunday) promhed no relief; nod Mr. Moody, the well.kn4wn evanwelist, ace' General Howard read prayers to a weepieg amiably, making to be released from their perilous enrrounOinge. On Smutty night the rockets were ueed without success, and the offieers lit a tar barrel on the promenade deck nod than attracted the attenti do of the eteanter Lake Huron. The officere net crew of the Spree rusted epleadi .Iy, anti-oh bited great coAncee. The promenades will pecc..l to New York by the Etruria and Havel. The young Austrian who jumped overboard and was drowned is stated to have left Vienna withoat his primate consent, and it was noticed that after the breaking of the shaft his mind append to become unbalanced. .