Show 1 The Cizabria Hamburg 23A most searching 1 official inspection of the steamer Sultan shows the dam ace is far more serious than at first believed I P According to the testimony of competent com-petent seafaring people the crew of i the Sultan displayed marvelous < Zt cleverness and rapidity in stopping 1 the leak and it is scarcely conceivable conceiv-able how the vessel ever reached Hamburg Besides smashed bows and holes in both sides her keel for c twelve or fifteen feet was completely 1 com-pletely split Hamburger Nacht Richter says The captain of the 1 Sultan In his official statement says i I that before the fog set in he had 9 been going nine knots an hour and I 4 during the fog reduced the speed to four knots the lowest rate of < speed consistent with keeping steering t steer-ing way on the vessel He neither heard nor saw any kind if signals 1 mull suddenly at a distance of little mote than two ships lengths the Cinibrias green light appeared He immediately ill accordance with the rules of the road endeavored to give way He thought he should be able to get i clear when some incorrect steering I occurred aboard the Cimbria and suddenly he saw the red light of 1 another steamer It should be re i nakeii here thut the Uitnvrias red l light was probably displayed by the n1rpIAtinn nf hnr nnrsf > A lmnef I simultaneously the appearance of the red light he felt toe shock During the time the leak of his vessel ves-sel was repairing he constantly gave signals by blue lieht and blow it the steam waistle When the repairs i re-pairs had been effected he approached ap-proached as nearly to the scene of the collision as he could without endangering his own vessel Owing to the dense fog he saw nothing He drifted about until 8 oclock Friday morning As a proof of the correctness of his statement he points to the lateness of the time at which he arrived < afterwards at Coxhaven It is considered a great point in the official of-ficial investigation to prove the accuracy I Hi ac-curacy of this statement According Accord-ing to the statements of persons S intimately acquainted with the captain of the Sultan both he and his first officer are thoroughly competent com-petent and careful sailors and specially spe-cially rioted for the maintenance of < striCt discipline Two sisters among the passengers < passen-gers rescued have written relatives in u village near here stating that tlwy lost everything even to their shoes but in spite of their sufferings i suffer-ings they add they mean to try their luck in the next vessel and S hope soon to be able to send their i from Omaha photographs S 00 |