Show sweeping five persons into the sea and injuring many others mountain of water submerged the decks of the ship new york oct U alve lives are known to have been lost and more than thirty persons injured some of them seriously on the cunard unc steamer campania last wednesday when a gigantic wave rolled over the steamer and swept across a deck thick with steerage passengers so sudden was tho coming ot the disaster and so great the confusion which attended and followed it that even the officers of the steamer themselves were unable today upon the vessella arrival here to estl mato the full extent of the tragedy it is possible that the five persons known to be missing from the steerage may not constitute the full number of dead when the campania reached quarantine today ten of the injured passengers were still in the ships hospital some of them seriously hurt and a scora of others were nursing minor injuries john graham of milwaukee was ono of the passengers washed overboard and lost he was traveling in the steerage the others who are known to have lost their lives were two irish girls a danish boy and a man whose nationality has not been ascertained tho campania was sloughing ploughing hing along under full headway last wednesday afternoon A heavy quartering sea was running but the weather conditions were far from unpleasant and the big boats decks vere crowded with passengers the steerage deck was covered with merrymakers merry makers and thero was nothing to indicate the approaching disaster when suddenly the big steamer lurched to port and scooped up an enormous sea tha wave boarded tho steamer about mid ships on the port side and swept clear across the steerage deck completely filling the space between that deck and the deck above and carrying everything ery thing with it the steamers side was burled and passengers on the deck above the steerage were submerged to their waists as the immense volume ot water rolled aft and then surged forward all the cabin passengers on the upper deck succeeded in clinging to supports amlo ano waters surged around them and yere saved but the unfortunates in the steerage deck found themselves utterly helpless the irresistible rush of waters sweeping toward the forward part of the ship carried everything before it gettings nettings Net tings heavy failings railings rai lings and other obstructions which bad been arranged near the failings railings rai lings to prevent passengers being washed overboard served their purpose only in part so great was the volume ana force ot the rushing waters that a the rail was smashed and through this opening five of the helpless ones who had been caught by the wave were swept to their death others dashed against the rails and other like obstructions and escaped death but many of them received severe injuries one young woman had both legs broken at the thigh and several persons suffered broken arms and ribs while more than a score were bruised and battered when the wave cleared the vessel the forward part of the deck was with injured and for hours dr varden the ships surgeon aided by a number of the cabin passengers was busy in attending to their hurts in the meantime an inspection of the steerage was made by the ships officers and it was learned that five of the passengers were missing ko further confirmation regarding abo inspection was given out from first steerage passengers it was learned that the lives of several children were saved by a stewardess miss cotes and a deck steward the little ones wore playing about the deck when they caught in the swirl of water and carried aft with the others on jthn return rush of the wave the children were being carried directly toward the open door through which the alvo who lost their lives had been carried when miss cotes and the steward rushed to their rescue and dragged them back to safety wednesdays disaster marks tho first timo in the cunard lines history of more than sixty years that a passenger has been lost from one of its steamers by accident although some of the passengers thought that the campania should have stopped in an attempt to save who washed overboard the officers say that this was practically an impossibility both passengers and officers say that the waves in wednesday afternoons gale were the highest they ever have seen at times the broke as high as the top of the smoke stacks an hour before the accident a second officer on the bridga wa struck by the descending crest of p wave knocked down and rendered unconscious t steerage passengers upon flauding lauding today fell upon knee and offered prayers ot thanksgiving over their sate arrival in addition to the name of john graham the cunard line officials today aavo out the following names of steerage passengers who were washed over board margarct claary mary cosgrove Cos grovo niela ekberg tr r A COTTON INSURANCE WAR kew york oct U the cotton insurance ranco association represent lne tho combined of 43 leading alro companies luct here to lw to consider tbt subject of insurance of cotton and tho advisability ot increasing the associations to marine cotton trouble of long standing prevails between the companies operating in the south and the marine companies for control of the business tho marine companies r 1 said lake iha short nd of he coibion risk chii placing a on coi on from ohp moman it leaves the gin until it Is landed in tho hands of foreign consumers the domestic concerns contend that they are entitled to tho short end of the insurance and on this the threatened war involving all the cotton ansur anse business in the south binges |