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Show PASSENGERS TAKEN 'I OFF GERMAN LINER 1 Not a Life Lost and Not a Case of ! Rj Panic on Stranded Prinzess m Irene.; iff); RECORD MADE BY SAVERS ! l Big- Steamer Likely to Remain ; if Hard and Fast in Sand for ' f a Week. . - I j ' . 'If?; LONE HILL, Long Island. Llfo-Sav- ing Station. April 7. In five hours and f ' ten minutes this afternoon the 1720 ' , ; r i cabin and steerage passengers on the t 1 stranded North German-Lloyd liner .' Prinzess Irene were transferred to the t i deck of the Prlnz Frederick Wllholm, , ' I - ' and one hour after nightfall they were ' ' ! on their way to New York. ' The feat Is unparalleled in the history ; ! of marine disasters. . i Not a life was lost, not a case of panic was reported. The first passengor : ' - oft was a woman and tho second a baby. ; ' i The cabin passengers, masters of the '.t situation, generously gave precedence to ' 1 the more timorous steerage. j As for tho liner on tho bar. nightfall " I showed her hard and fast in the grip J of the sands and Captain Goddard of '? ! the Lone Hill saving station estimates A she will bo prisoner at least a week. SI perhaps a fortnight. In the thirty-six . R . hours since she struck, she has been fa- j vored by comparatively light weather. I but a stiff blow from the southwest ' might open her plates, crush in her bulk- bonds and wrench apart her stout steel ' frame. Ten small boats, two tugs and the re- J lief ship took part in the rescue, while , ( a rovenue euller and a derelict destroyer , ' . stood by. The steerage passengers were , , j led down by tho forward companionway, thence clambered down a rope ladder in- - to small boats. From these they were ' i transferred to the tugs John J. Tlmmlns '( ' and John Nichols, which lay safe In the . lee of the liner. ' With tho steerage out of the way and the wind and sea down, the tugs made ( i fast alongside and took the cabin pas- sengcrs directly aboard from a rear companionway. ?m All In all. it was a day in tho annals M'i' of life-saving service of which three li crews who look part In it feel Justly proud. They believe It a record. I- ' When tho work was over. Captain God- fr i dnrd, tho veteran of tho Lone Hill sta- fj lion, said he never handled a more docile 'J'. lot of passengers. L;.,., ' Tho llfo-savers had fearod hysteria, or P possibly panic, among the steerage pas- ' sengors. mostly Greeks and Italians, but ; ! they camo aboard cheerfully and oven !. Jokingly. v 1, Tonight Captain Letten von Peterson ,1 is still standing by his ship with his ?i ( crow of .ISO men. Ho repeats that he : cannot understand how he happened to ;,"'.( be standing ten miles off his course when '.- ho struck. ' " ' ; if |