Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 February 1895 — Page 6

FOCTHEE DETAILS Of the Lose of tho Steamship Elbe in the North Sea. Story of the Diiuter Told by the En;fU«h Pilot. Who 1*7Actions the S»wd, and of the Kescae by the Wild flower. London, Feb. 1.—*The loss of the North German Lloyd steamship Elbe, With over 300 lives, is the absorbing1 topic of conversation and comment in all circles. The latest information as to the number of liveslost places it at 374, at least that is thenumber piissing, and there is very little hope entertained that any of these will eventually be heart! from alive. It is true, however, that some Yarmouth and Lowestoft fishing smacks which are out on cruises in the vicinity where the Wildflower picked up the Elbe's boat containing the twenty survivors, have not yet returned to their home ports, so that THKRK STILL REMAINS A POSSIBILITY that one or inore of them may have rescued some of the unfortunates of the lost steamer. On the other hand, the weather is unfavorable to the survival of castaways for any considerable length of time. A heavy northeast gale prevails on the North sea and the weather thereabouts is very cold. The gale is increasing to almost a hurricane, and is accompanied by a blinding snow storm. Notwithstanding the

•discomforts involved, however, the coast guard and customs officers are exerting themselves to the utmost and are leaving no means untried IK THE 8KARCH FOB POS8IBLE SURVIVORS, or even for signs of any kind indicating that more of the Elbe’s people escaped than have been yet heard froth. Thus far no article of woodwork Or furniture belonging to the vessel has been washed ashore on the Suffolk coast, a fact in itself regarded by experts as proving the sudden completeness of the disaster, and tending to diminish the probabilities of further salvage of life being reported. A life boat of the Elbe, it is true, washed ashore at Yarmouth Wednesday evening, pars and liie bhoys being found in it; but this is undoubtedly the boat from which THE WU.DKIOWER RESCUED. THE* SURVIVORS, and which was left adrift after its occupants had been taken off, so that its discovery on shore furnishes no addi■Sfctional news or encouragement. . The offices in London of the North German Lloyds Steamship Go. are besieged by anxious inquiries, but the officials ar^without information or details beyond the news published in the press, and can do nothing to allay the anxiety of the relatives and friends of the Elbe’s passengers. The company is refunding fares to the survivors and paying the expenses, of their return to •Germany or to whatever point they select as thfeir destination. ApDITIONAL VICTIMS. It is learned that the following, in addition to those named in the list of first-cabin passengers already published, w^re drowned. Their names did not appear on the printed list beaus e they did npt take through passage, but intended to go only so far as Southampton^ Schrifre Dornan, An- • ton Fischer and a family named Iviisselaertz, consisting of-^two adults and two children. . Mr. Laker And his wife, who were ■among the steerage passengers lost, '-w(ere English people, who went to Bremen to take steerage passage ^there for .Ne# York. A tug has been sent out by the Loyds “from Lowestoft to cruise around in search of siYryiyocs. TIIE VESSEL THAT CAU8ED IT. The owner, at Aberdeen, of the steamship Crajfchie, which ran ihto-'find sank the Elbe, has received a brief telegram from the captain at Maas Luis, stating that the Craihie’s bow was terribly crushed by the impdet of the vessel with the Elbe, and that the Crathie was in a sinking condition when she reached Maas Luis. The captain was below at the time of the collision, the mate being in charge of the vessel. The latter has made a statement to the captain that he has no knowledge whatever as to the identity of the vessel with which the Crathie collided. His, own vessel was so terribly damaged that its condition called for the undivided attention of the officers and the entire crew, all of whom had to lend their energies to , SAVING THEIR SHIP 4£fD THEIR OWN LIVES.

There was, the mate adds, a dense fog at thp time of theaccidefht, and the •vessel with which the Crathie had collided was lost in the mist alfnost imme- • diately after the crash. < Mr. Carl Hoffman, of Grand' Island, Neb., who is among the saved, refutes "this statement by making the assertion, in addition to his statement .already published, that if the vessel which came into collision with the 331be had stood by the sinking ship a ■majority of her passengers might have been saved, as the Elbe stood perfectly still for many minutes after the impact. In fact she remained motionless until. v thk wateb which was pocbisg into 1IEE HOLD caused her to lurch violently, after which was all confusion on board. Prior to this, however,"1 discipline was maintained apd there could have been -®o difficulty in transfering the' passengers in an orderly manner. ^ The survivors who were brought to Lowestoft are all recovering from the effects of the shock and exposure. Miss Ahha Buecker, the only womes known to have been saved, has so fa.* recovered that she will be able to proceed to .Southampton. The surviving officers of the Elbe ;*re very reticent in regard to the disaster, reserving their statements pending an official inquiry into the circumstances; but it transpires that an officer M the Elbe SAW A GREEN LIGHT ON THE PORT BOW frpDingiwp- to an unknown vessel which,

It is alleged, was tryiiag to cat across the £llbe’s bows. This light evidently belonged to the Crathie.. A dispatch to Lloyds from Rotterdam says the Cathie left Maas Luis at 10 o’clock on the nigh t of January 29 for Aoerdeen, and returned to Maas Lnis at 1:25-p. m., Jan aary 30damaged. She reported havingtbeen in collision with a large unknown steamer/ which her officers, thought was probably an American liner. The Crathie’s stem ; was completely gone above the water 1 line, having been carried away to the third'fraine. BUT SHE WAS PEE rECTLY TIGHT and had made no water. The collision! j according to the officers of the Crathie, | occurred beween>*5 and 6 o’clock on the ! morning of January 20. One of the ; crow of the Crathie was injured by the I collision. The name of the tug which has started from ^wesioft to search for any possible survivors of the Elbe is the Dispatch. The search will be made in the vicinity of the Hook of jlolland. A blizzard-like snow-storm is prevailing this forenoon, off Lowestoft and Yarmouth, rendering the sea invisible from the shore. Coasting traffic is wholly suspended. I> UNAVAILING SEARCH.

London, Jan. The life boat of the life-saving station at Ramgate has returned after being oat fifteen hours searching for possible survivors of the Elbe, but found no trace of cither boat or wreckage. The Broadstairs life boat has also returned. Upon nearing the station the boat whs blown ashore by a violent gale and the crew were dashed into the surf. Several of them were inured. A blinding snowstorm is raging at the mouth of tfie Thames and navigation is suspended. DRIVEN BACK BY A BUNDING STORM: ' The tremendous wind and heavy sea and blinding snow-storm drove the tug Dispatch back to Lowestoft after she had proceeded only a short distance on her way to\earch for survivors of the Elbe. The storm moderated somewhat after her returh, and in the afternoon she started agaim Additional dispatches from Rotterdam say that the officers of the Crathie report that the ship with which the Crathie was in collision was a large steamer with two funnels. PILOT GREENHAM’S STORY. . Capfc. Greenham, the English pilot on the Elbe, who was one of the survivors, said in the course of an interview: “When I came on deck of the Elbe the captain was in charge. The first order given was: ‘Swings the bqg£s out; don’t lower.’ The next was: uSverybody on deck; crewf to their stations.’ This was followed by: ‘Women and children to the starboard boats, to be saved first;’-’ “These orders were given by the captain himself, and were repeated by the chief officer. The next order was ‘Lower the boats!* There was no confusion whatever among the erew or in the giving of order?, nor was there a panic among the passengers. A high sea was running and there was a strong east-southeast wind. There had beer an average of 19 degrees below the freezing point since the morning. The lanyards of the boat grips Were frozen and were chopped away in order to save time. The ship went down two minutes after we left her.” SKIPPER WRIGHT OF THE WILDFLOWKB. William Wright, the skipper of the fishing smack Wildflower, says: “We were ^east-southeast of Lowestoft with our trawling, gear down when; about 11 o’clock yesterday morning, I saw a ship's life-boat a mile away. The boat's mast was nalysd, but I saw something flu t teriug ffrom her stern. The water was breaking over her bows. I watched the boat closely. Her occupants seemed to think I was going to leave them, so ;I waved my hat. It took us half an hour to get up our traveling gear and in -the meantime the. boat was drifting away from us. When we got close to them I CAST THEM A ROPE, but tbey were so cold, wet and purab that they could not make it fast for some-time. We pulled them around to the side of the smack, and about half of them jumped aboard, but the strain caused by jthe heavy sea parted,’ the rope, and the remainder once more drifted away. Eventually we made another line fast,~and four more of the unfortunates were dragged in, leaving a women and four men in the boat. The woman lay in the water in the bottom of- the boat. She wore a long coat, but HAD ON NEITHER BOOTS NOR DRESS. _ Pilot Greenham helped her to get on board the smaqk. Just as all had boarded the smaek the line again parted and the life boat was lost. I got the,, woman below and asked all the others to go to the engine room while she took off her clothes and wrapped herself in dry blankets.

A FRUITLESS SEARCH v' 1 For Survivors 'from the Last Elbe—Adverse Comment. Londojt, Jan. 31.—The tug Dispatch returned to Lowestoft this afternoon, haring proceeded' forty-five miles in her search for any persons , who may have been fortunate enough to get away from the Elbe in the missing boat or by clinging to wreckage. The Dispatch reports that nothing whatever was seen of boat or wreckage. The storm is now raging more wildly than ever, and it is ' impossible that any small boat can hare lived in [ the heavy sea; or if it should have I weathered the gale that any .of its oc- | cupants can have survived exposure to ; the bitter cold until this time. A great deal of adverse comment is | caused by the fact that of the twenty { persons saved, from the Elbe, fifteen of them belong to the ship’s crew, and, that the boat in which they saved themselves contained only one woman and n°o children. . Attempts have been made by some of the survivor!!, to account for this, bat in no case in a satisfactory way. Even the solitary woman whs was saved was not originally taken into ths boat, but was picked up in the water. -

TILLAGE'S SEKMON Opportunity One of the Versatile Words in Our Language. At One* One of tk« LorellMt ana One of the Moot Awful—The Scriptural MicniMcanrc of the Word ~ Expounded. Her. T. DeWTtt Talmage delivered the following sermon on ‘^Opportunity” in the Academy of Music, New York city, basing it .on the text: As we have therefore -opportunity, let us do good.—Galatians ri., 10. At Denver, Col., years ago, an audience had assembled for divine worship. The -pastor of the ehureh, for whom I was to preach that night, interested in the seating of the people, stood in the pulpit booking from side to side, and when nounore people conkl be crowded within the walls he turned me and said,with startling emphasis: ‘•What an opportunity!” Immediately that word began to enlarge, and white

a hymn was being1 sung. at every stanza the word “opportunity'’ swiftly and mightily unfolded, and while the opening prayer was being made, the word piled up into Alps and Himalayas of meaning, and spread out into other latitudes and longitudes of significance until it became hemispheric, and it stiltgrew in altitude and circumference until it encircled other worlds, and swept out, and on. and around until it was as big as eternity. Never since have I read or heard that word without being thrilled with its magnitude and momentum. Opportunity! Although in the text, to some it may seem a mild and quiet note, m the great Gospel harmony it is a staccato passage. It is one of the loveliest and awfulest words in our language of more than one hundred thousand words of English vocabulary. “As we have opportunity, let us do good. ” What is an opportunity? The lexicographer would coolly tell you it is a Conjunction of favorable circumstances for accomplishing a purpose; but words can not tell what it is. Take a thousand years to manufacture a definition, and you could'nojt successfully describe it. Opportunity! The measuring rod with which the Angel of the Apocalypse measured Heaven could hot measure this pivotitj. word of my text. Stand on the>dgt| of the precipice of all time and let down the fathoming line hand under|»hand. and lower down and lowerVjyvand for a qnintillion of years let it sink, and the lead will not strike bottom. Opportunity! But while I do not attempt to measure or define the word, I will, God helping me, take the responsibility of telling you something about opportunity. , First, it is very swift in its motions. Sometimes within one minute it starts from the throne of God, sweeps around the earth, and reascends the throne from which it started. Within less than sixty" seconds it fulfilled its mission.' In the second place opportunity ntjver comes back. Perhaps an opportunity very much like it may arrive, but that one never. Naturalists tell us of insects which, are born, fulfill their mission and expire in "an hour, but many opportunities die so soon after they are born that their brevity of life is incalculable. What most aipazes me is that opportunities do such overshadowing, far-reaching and tremendous work in such short earthly allowance. You are a business man of large experience. The past eighteen months have been* hard on business men. A young merchant at his wits’ .end came into your office Or your house, and you said: “Times are hard now, but better days will come. I have seen things as-bad, or worse, but we got out, and we will get out of this. The brightest days that this country ever saw are yet to come.” The young man to whoea-ydu said that was ready for suicide, or something worse, namely, a fraudulent turn to get out of his despairful position. Your hopefulness inspired him for all time, and thirty years after you are ifead he will be reaping the advantage of your optimism. Your opportunity to do that one thing for that

young man was not hail as long astne time I hare taken to rehearse it. In yonder third gallery yon sit, a man of the world, hut you wish everybotjywell. While!the clerks-are standing round in yoikr store, or the men in your faetorj/ are taking their noon spell, some one says: “Have you heard that one of oar men has been converted at the revival meeting in the Methodist church?" While it is being talked over you say: “Well, I do not believe in revivals. Those things do not last. People get excited, and join the church, and are no better than they were before. I wish our men would keep away from those meetings." you know, oh man, what yon did in that minute of depreciation? There were two young men in that group who that night would have gone to those meetings and been saved for this world and the nejft, bat yon decided them not to go. They are social natures. They already drink more than is good few them, and are disposed to be wild. From the time they heard yon say that they accelerated their steps on the downward road. In ten years they will De through with their dissipations, and pass into the Great Beyond. That little talk of yours decided their destiny for this world and the next. You had an opportunity that you misimproved, and how will you feel when you confront those two immprtals in - the last judgment, and they tell yoh of that unfortunate talk of yours that\ flung them over the precipice? Oh, man of the world, why did you not say in that noon spell of conversation: “Good! I am glad that man has got religion. I wish I had it myself. Let us all go tonight, Come <m;i{ will meet you at the church door at eight o'clock.” Yon see, you would have taken them .all to Heaven, and you would have got there yourself. Opportuaity missed forever! We all recoermze that commercial and literary ana political successes depend taking advantage of oppor

tnmty. The great snrgeons of Eci gland feared to touch the tumor of j George IV. Sir Astley Cooper looked !. at it and gald to the king: *T will cut your majesty as though you were a plowman." That was Sir Astley]* opportunity. Lord Clive^vas his fathers dismay, climbing church steeples and doing reckless things. His father sent him to Madras, India, ds a clerk in the service of an English officer. Clive watched his time, and wheh the war broke out came to the chief of the host that saved India for England. That was Lord Clive's opportunity. FauI line Lucca, the almost matchless ; singer, was but little recognised | until in the absence of the soloist ; in the German choir she took her place | and began the enchantment of the | world. That was Lucca's opportunity. John Scott, who afterward became Lord Eldon, had stumbled his way along in the practice of law until the case of Ackroyd vs. Smithson was to be tried, and his speech, that day opened

all avenues,of success. 1 hat was Lord Eldon's opportunity. William II. Seward was given by his father a thousand dollars to get a collegiate education. That money soon gone his father said: “Now you must tight your own way,” and he did, until guWrnatorial chair and United States senatorial chair were his, with a right . to the presidential chair, if the meanness of American politics had not swiindled him out of it. The day when his father told him to fight his own way was William H. Seward's opportunity. A city missionary in. the lower parts of the city found a young woman in wretchedness and sin. He said: “Why do yon not go home?” She said: “They would not receive me at home.” He said: “What is your father's name, and where does ha *live?” Having obtained the address and written to the father, the city missionary* got a peply, on the outside of the letter the word “immediate” underscored. It was the heartiest -possible invitation for the waifderer to come home. That was the city missionary's opportunity. And there are opportunities all ;rbout you, and on them written by the hand of the God who will bless you, and bless those whom you.help, in capitals of light, the word “immediate.” A military officer very profane is his habits was going down into a mine at Cornwall, England' with a Christian minery^for many of those miners are Christies. The officer used profane language while the cage going down. >\s they were coming up out of the mine^ the profane officer said: “If it be soffar down to your work, how much farther would it be to the bottomless pit?1 The Christian miner responded: “Pdo not know how far ,jt is down to that place, but if this ro^e should break you would be there in a mSSmfce.” It was the Christian miner's'opportunity. Many years ago a clergyman was on a sloop on our Hudson river, and hearing a man utter a blasphemy, the clergyman said: “You have, spoken against my best friend, Jesus Christ.” Seven years later this same clergyman was on his way to the General Assembly of the, Presbyterian church at Philadelphia, when a young minister addressed him and asked him if he was not on a sloop on the Hudson river seven, years before? The reply was in the affirmative? “Well,” said the young minister, “I was the man whom you corrected for uttering tile oath. It led me to think and repent, and I am trying to atone somewhat for my early behavior. I am a preacher of the Gospel and a delegate to the general assembly.” Seven years bgfore on that Hudson river sloop was the clergyman's opportunity. f lI stand this minute in the presence of many heads of families. I wonder if they all realize^that the opportunity of influencing the household for Christ and heaven is brief, and will’ soon be gone? For a while the Louse is full of the voices and footsteps; of children. You sometimes feel that you can hardly stand the racket. Yqju say: “Do be quiet! It seems as if my head would split with all this noise/V And things got broken and rained, and it is: “Where's my hat?” “Who took my books?” “Who has been busy with my playthings?” And it is

a-rusning this way, and a-rushmg that, until father and mother are well-nigh beside themselves. It is astonishing . how much noise five or six children ^ean rnalje and not lialf try. But the years glide swiftly away. After awhile the voices are not so many, and those which stay are njore sedate. First this room gets quiet, and then that room. Deal a takes some, and marriage takes others, until after awhile the house is awfully still. That, man yonder would give all he is worth to have that boy who is gone away forever rush into the room once more with shout that was once thought too boisterous. That mother who was once tried because her little girl, now gone forever, with careless scissors, cut up something really valuable, would like to have the child come- back, willing to put in her hands the most valuable wardrobe y> cut as she pleases. -Yes! Yes! The house noisy now will soon be still enough, I warrant you; lend as when - you begato housekeeping, there were iust two again; • Oh, the alarming brevity of injfancy and childhood! The ; opportunity is glorious, , but it s*x>n passes. Parents may say at the close of life: “What a pity we did not do more for the religious welfare of our children while we had them with us!” But the lamentation wiU be of no avail. The opportunity* had wings and it vanished. When your child gets out of the cradle let it climb into the outstretched arms of the beautiful Christ. “Come thou and all thy house into the ark,” ' . ' But there is one opportunity so much brighter than any other; so much more inviting, and so superior to all others that there# are innumerable fingers pointing tout, and it is haloed with a glory ail its own. It is yours! • It iis mine! It is the present hour! It jit the now. We shall never have iit again. While I speak and yon listen the opportunity is restlesss as if to be gone. You can9 not

chain It down. Ton can not imprison it You can not make it stay. All its pulses are throbbing- with a haste that can not be hindered or eontroled. It is tli,e opportunity of invitation on my part, ami acceptance on your part The door of the palace of God's mercy is* wide open. Go in. Sit down, and be kings and queens onto God forever. “Well,’? you say, “I am not ready.” You are ready. “Are you a sinner?” “Yes.” “Do you want to be saved now and forever?” “Yes.” “Do you believe that Christ is abTe and willing to do the work?" “Yes.” Then you are saved. 'You are inside the palace door of God’s me rey already. looked changed. ; You are changed^ “Hallelujah, ’tis i done!” Did you ever see anything I done so quickly? Invitation offered and accepted in less than a minute by my watch or that clock.- Sir Edward Creiisy wrote a book called: “The Fifteenth Decisive Hatties of the I World; from Marathon , to Water- ! loo.” But the most decisive battle that you will ever fight, and I the greatest victory you will never . gain, is this moment , when” you eon* | quer first yourself, and then all the j hindering myrmidons of perdition by j saying: “Lord Jesus, here I am. nn* i done and helpless, to be saved by Thee, and Thee alone.” That makes a panic in hell- That makes celebration in Heaven. Opportunity! Oh the 11th of January, 1S66, a collier- brig ran into the rocks near Walmer beach, England. Simon Pritchard t standing cm the bedch threw oflT^his coat and said: “Who will help me save

that erew?” Twenty men shouted: “I will,” though only *even were needed. Through the awful surf the boat dashed, and in fifteen minutes from the time Pritchard threw off his eoat all the shipwrecked crew were safe on the land. Quicker work to-day. Half that time more than necessary to get all this assemblage into the lifeboat of. the Gospel, and ashore, standing both feet on the Rook of Ages. By the two strong oars of faith and prayer first pull for the wreck and then pull for the shore. Opportunity! * %Over the city went the cry. Jesus, of Nazareth, passeth by.> Let the world go. It has abused yon enough, and cheated you enough, nind slandered ^ou enough, and damaged you enough. Even those from whom you expected better things turned out your assailants; as when Napoleon in hisla^ will and testament left five thousand francs to the man who shot at Welling^m in „ the streetsjof Farm. Oh, it is a mean swfMd.^ Take* the glorious Lorcl^ for ybmr companionship. I like "~what tne good man said to one who had every,thing but religion. The affluent man boasted of what he owned, and of his splendors of surrounding, putting* into insignificance, as he taought, the Christian's possession's. “A i!*’ said the Christian, “map, I have something you have not.’’ “What is that?” said the w or felling. The answer was: “Pbace!” And yon may all have it, peaee with God; peace with the past; peace with the future, a peaee that all the assaults of the world and all the bombardments satanic can not interfere with. A Scotch shepheM was dying and had the pastor called in. The dying shepherd said to his wife; “Mary, please go into the next room, for I want to see the minister alone.” When the two were alone the dying shepherd said: “I have known the Bible all my life, but 1 am going, and I am ‘afeered to dee.’ ” Then the pastor quoted the .Psalm: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” “Yes, j mon,” said the shepherd, “I was familiar with that before you were bora, but I'm a-goin', and I am afeered to | dee.” Then sqid the pastor: “You know that the Psalm says, ‘Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil.’” “Yes,” said the dying shepherd, “I hnew that before you were born, but it does n<j>t help me.” Then said the pastor:«

/‘Don’t you know that sometimes when you were driving1 the sheep down through |!he vaMeys and the revines there yrould be shadows all about yon, while there was plenty of .sunshine on the hills above? You are in the shadows now,but it issunshine higher up.” Then said the dying °shepard: “Ah! that is good. I never saw it that way before. All is well. Though I pass through the valley of the^hadow of death, Thou art with me. Shadows here, but herd got peace. Diving and dying may we have the same peace! Opportunity! Under the arch of that spfeudid word letethe multitude of my hearers pass into the pardon,; and hope, and triumph of the GospeL Go by companies of a hundred each. Go by regiments of a thousand each. The aged leaning on the staff; the middleaged throwing off their burdens as they pass; and the young to have their present joys augmented by more glorious satisfactions. Forward into the kingdom! As soon as you pass the dividing^ dine there will be shouting all up and down the heavens. The crowned immortals will look down and cheer. Jesus of the many scars will rejoice at the resnlt of His earthly sacrifices.' Departed saints will be gladdened that their prayers are answered. • An order will be given for the .spreading of a banquet at which you will be the honored guest. From the imperial gardens the wreaths will be twisted forydur brow, and from the halls of eternal music the harpers will bring their harps, and trumpeters their trumpet*,, and all up and downr the amethystine stairway of the castles, and in 'all the rooms of the house of many mansions, it will be talked over with holy glee that this day while one plain man stood on the platform of this vast building giving the Gospel call, an assemblage made up from all parts of the earth and piled up in these galleries* chose Christ as their portion, and started for Heaven as their everlasting home. Ring all the bells of Heaven at the tidings! Strike all the cymbals at the joy! Wave all the palm branches at the triumph! Victory! Victory!

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