Show TELEGEA3P1IG d Tea 5 ciHBBiA CASOALT Y Arrest rilie Saitaaa Oilicera Frankfort 22The ItenkFurter Journal says the offiosra of the iteantr Sultan hara been placed in jail London 2SA despatch from Ham burg lay the iieKmerSulUK was seized bj the jiolke Her captain asserts that he waited at the icons of the disaster twelve hour after the collUio New York 23The Herald Ham burl According the latest information 445 liyea were loit In the Oimbria dia aster There were 402 puiienfftra and ninetyfour officers and crew on board Of there only fifty six ic far bare been rescued Of six steamers sent out by the HamburgAmerican Steamboat Company on Saturday night four have not yet returned but ar two which returned re-turned found nothing there is scarcely any hope left that more of the unfortunates unfor-tunates are alive When the Sultan nrrired at 6 oclock Saturday atar noon the managers of the Hamburg American Company tent in ipecturs to see the captain and the latter admitted the collision and said he did not know with what ship but said tbera is a quantity of wreckage on my bog left by the other vessel examine itt They did so immediately by some mall enameled ulaea peculiar to reuea on this line with inscriptions in three annuals they recognized the Cimbria al the unfortunate vessel Hamburg < 22The Deamant one of the steamers sent to search for the passengers pas-sengers and craw of the Cimbria arrived rived this afternoon with 16 passengers and a fireman or the illfated vessel The rescued passengers state bat after baying left tbd Cimbria their boat capsized and they sought refuge in some ringing of the Cimbria still above water They remained re-mained in this position ten hours freezing freez-ing from cold and expecting every minute min-ute to be the last till rescued by a boat from the Doamant Many of those in he boat whenit left the Uimbriu were drowned upon the capsizing and many others after reaching the rigging who were obliged to release their hold and were drowned The survivors describe ho icenes as horrible and heartrending All of them praise in the highest terms the conduct of th captain and crew of he Cimbria who never moved from their posts ad did everything in the power of man to ave life till they themselves were engulphed in the waves The rescued passengers affirm that while 10 the ringing the lights of the sultan wre clearly visible and that cries ftr help must h + vy been heard on board the Sultan which instead of coming to there the-re cue steamed away Most ol the survivors sur-vivors present a m serablp Appearance hating tuet everything Since landing here every thir g possible has been done ft r hem S ruu btvo LOIn sent to their homes and the remainder will continue the voyage 01 Wednrsnay R C Lowrenze of F ankfot one of the rescued give me a long account of terrible scene Though the officers did their duty nobly they were unable maintain order Men women and chld ren were mad with fear Those wto secured places had a violent struggle to keep the boat from being swamped The six Indians ware driven away by some sailors by axe blows on their bands Dapl Hansen stayed tin the last moment on the bridge but could have no control over the 500 terror stricken human be ne beneath him Men women and children whole families clung together In despair One young married couple prepared to meet death quickly by cut ting each others veins Ship Doctor Herr JFeize some of the stewards and the stewardess a Bavarian and some officers distributed life saving belts to the last moment but those thus provided were not benefited for tbs most of them died from s vere cold Thu survivors who escaped in the boats say when they rowed swy the water was covered with dead bodies held up by life belts Only a few were alive when they left and of these as many were taken into the boat 8P pocsiblo No complaint has been made against the Cimbrias crew although of the saved twentyt belong to this class Captain Hansen stood on the bridge till the ship sank First officer offi-cer Kariowa worked tor the benefit of the passengers to tbe last moment Second officer Spruizen with an axewas cutting off the wood work for rafts for passengers passen-gers while the ship was going under water wa-ter and after sinking be was picked up by one of the boats One thing is certain cer-tain however that there never was the slightest theme of saving a third of the people bv means of the boats even had all been launched and great and presumably presu-mably just as is the indignation against the captain of the Suitao there will doubtless be a searching inquiry instituted institu-ted as to the duty of the steamship company com-pany in providing suffieeatifacilities for tbe escape of every passenger on board Hamburg 23 According to a statement state-ment of another survivor of the disaster to the steamship Oimbria at 2 oclock on Friday morning Captain Hanson re cecived a report that tha Cimbrias lights were all burning properly The breach made by the collision was so great that the Ctmrtaimrriedialely lay right over with a portion of her deck under water The thirtynine persons brought into Cuxhivn had ben occupants of two boats the other seventeen persons saved were brought by the Ihcla Hamburg 23No more persons landed from the Cimbria Sailing vessel ves-sel passing westward may have picked some The four teamers have not yet returned London 23Proofs of the Hamburg papers received hereshow that the Cim bria was struck forty feet from her bow After making the breach the Sultan scraped nlong tha Cimbria and completely r com-pletely rolled up her iron plate It is i evident the blow must have been tremendous tre-mendous The papers also print a brie report of what ha transpired of the I statement made by the captain of the Sultan before the British consul giving the part laying the blamo on the Cim bria in large type with notes of exclamation exclama-tion One of the boats rescued by the l Theta contained thirty persons the ocher only nine the latter had been tossing tos-sing about nine hours and was waterlogged water-logged All the occupants could do WE to Keep themselves from being washed away by grasping the thwarts The statement concerning the death of Captain Hansen who was seen on the bridge to the last and the first officer who was seen swimming after I him when the Cimbria had sunk con I eludes with the words Tien Bis zum to de faithful until death |