Show SIXTY LIVES WERE LOST blas kitic of on iziver kibe elbe borrow sorrow in litany 1101 nee the steamship primus of hamburg a cut in two and eunit sunk by the tug hansi on the river elbe estimates of the number of lives lost vary from 50 to CO 60 the primus was an sureloa steamer from buxtehude Baxt ehude province ci 0 Ilan prussia the disaster di easter occurred between and aten among the pare engers were the tile members of the eilbeck male aisle choral society A terrible panic that occurred on the tile primus when tho the giansa struck her rendered the tile efforts to save lier her paa pan sengara almost useless fortio fortunately it tely the steamer colpin came up immediately and succeeded in saving 1 sixty of those on oil boord the sinking steamer while other boais assisted in the work of rescue some of tl survivors furnish graphic descriptions of the awful suddenness of the disaster according to their a story tory the band ncr and many couples were dancing on deck when the crash of the collision came carne like a thunderbolt the vessel gava g a great list hir her deck taking an angle that it was impossible for the p disben aaben taben gera gers to keep their feet 1 I hose below scrambled up the companion ways ft but most of the tile persons in the saloon were drowned men fought for their own safety regardless of others in the tile midst of the tile confusion the boilers exploded adding to the horrors of the scene and inny persons are said to have been injured by lying flying splinters of matil met ti |