Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1895 — BENEATH THE WAVES. [ARTICLE]

BENEATH THE WAVES.

Wreck of tho North German Lloyd Steamer Elbe. tlore Than Three Hundred People Believed to Have Been Lost—Th* Accident Caused by a Collision. A London Jan. 30, says: The Ex:hange Telegraph Company says that the North German Lloyd Elbe steamship has been run down off Lowestoft and sank. Three hundred persons are reported to have been drowned, and only nineteen arc ;aid to have been saved. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Lowestoft, forty miles rom Ipswich, says that the (North Gernan Lloyd steamship Elbe has been run iown off that place, and that only nlne;cen persons out of 350 were saved. The Elbe foundered. No further particulars tre obtainable just at present. Lloyd’s has received the following dispatch from Lowestoft, dated 6:12 p. m.: *The Elbe was sunk in the North Sea ifter having been in collision with anothir steamer. Twenty people who were on ioard of her have been landed here by ishing smacks. The persons saved intludc the second officer and pilot. It is feared that the loss of life is gaeat.” Later dispatches to tho Exchange Telsgraph Company and to Lloyd’s confirmed ihe report of tho loss of the steamer, and still later it was learned the Crathle, which was tho steamer that sunk the Elbe, had put into Maas Luis, Holland, to a damaged condition. She renorted ;hat she had been in collision with an unknown steamer. From tho details now at hand it was earned that the Elbe was proceeding slong at her usual rate of spo-coand keeptog the ordinary lookouts. The night was lark but there was no gale. Suddenly ihe forward lookout on the Elbe reported to the officer on deck that the lights of a iteamer were close aboard over the port bow. Before the course of the Elbe could be changed so as to sheer off from the approaching steamer the latter struck her Inst about the engine ro >in, going through irr plates as though they were pasteboard and sticking her nom almost completely through tho hull of the Eibe. For i time the Crathle held ihe Ellie on her aose. butthen her engines were reversed and she backed out of the aperture she aad made. As she did so the water rushed into the Elbe in a torrent and she began immediately to settle and went down in twenty minutes. The North German-Lloyd steamship Elbe was commanded by Captain Von lossel. She arrived at Bremen, Jan. 29 (or Southampton and New York. She was built in 1881 at Glasgow and was of 1.510 gross tonnage. She was 420 feet long, had forty-five foot beam and the depth ol >er hold was thirty-six feet five inches; The Ellie was a four-masted screw steam-. »r, and was owned by the North GormanLloyd Steamship Company. At the Old South Church they iave a very unique and valuable set jf communion ware, which Is used jnly once a year, at the January »a.crament. It is composed of a larye number of cups and flagons, some bf the cups being very large and some very small. One of them is more than two hundred years old. —Boston Transcript.