Year: 1878

THE TERRIBLE DISASTER DESCRIBED IN LET


TER FROM MISS MARY cLYMER.


The relatives of the Clymer family residing in
this city have Just received letter from Miss Mary
Clymer, who was board of the lost Pommerania
giving a brief but vivid account of the commotion
that ensued during the disaster This letter is dated
at Dover, England. and reads AS follows:-


1.-The Pommerania left Cherbourg on Monday after
noon, November 25. Mother. Richard and sat up
later than usual that night thinking with pleasure OF
sooner later arriving at Hamburg. We were sit
ting in the cabin. by the dining table, Birdie and
Rose had just left go their berts for the night
Richard and the two young Bodiscos went up on
deck, when, suddenly, there was u grinding
sound and shock. as il the vessel had
struck hard bottom. This was about
a quarter before midnight. Suddenly there came
cries of All men deck!' All men deck! =
All ladies stay below! A few moments elapsed,
deck! l got Rose and Birdie (thc latter almost un-
dressed) and we went up on deck to the port side,
mother following Birdie was very cold and had on
only wrapper Rose gave her waterproof cloak and
i gave Rose coat. When reached the deck there
was the greatest confusion and excitement The
captain was at his post giving orders and stuck to
his duty to the very last. again down INTO the
cabin to get little box containing some yaluables,
and when came back with il l found Richard
bravely AT work freeing iteboat and mother, Birdie
and Rose trembling and very much agitatcd i do
not think mother had very much nope OF being saved
Tor Sne put Ler arms aTOunu our ueckS ana
blessed us, and then got MP the rail of
the vessel Fearing she would fall into the
water below. pulled her down on the deck Next
Richard put rope into my hands and told me in a
voice of command There, sister. hold to this.
Scarcely knowing what it meant / seized the rope;
Richard swung me OF; then the irightful dis
tance below in the water and the next instant
in the bottom of the life boat. When l looked
up l dark something flying through the air.
which thought mothcr it fell into the water by
the side of the boat; pulled it up by the hair; it
Rose Rose was stunned for the moment, but
soon recovered. There room for eight ten
persons more in the boat but it suddenly cut
from it's tastenngs; then the sailors pulled of for
fear OF being swamped by the vessel and in few
moments we heard voice in our boat cry:-'Good
God, they've gone! Pray for their souls meaning
those on the sinking Pommerania) The men pulled
very slowly and did not reach the steamer Glengarry
for the best part of hour, although she very
the polnmerania's signal. We were landed at
Dover, England.


At Dover Mary and Rose Clymer stopped for over
twelve days waiting for tidings from the wreck and
of the recovery OF the bodies of their mother
brother and sister. The body of Richard
cred and sent to this city by the Cimbria On its
arrival at Hoboken it Immediately taken charge
of and sent to Reading. Pa TO be placed in the fam
lily vault for the present. Mary and Rose, by cable
despatch received yesterday it is stated stopping
with their cousins at Paris. the Count and Countess
De Blondell. They will not return to New York be-
fore next spring.