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Show SURVIVORS 1 AWFUL TALE Eight M e n Rescued From Steamer Tell of Six-Hour Battle Newport News, Ya , Jan 4. Bight survivors of the steamer Julia Luck-1 ennach which was rammed and sunk in Chesapeake bay yesterday by tbe British tramp Indrakuala. arrived her? today and told how twenty-two of their number had gone down In tbe icy waters without a chance for life. The eight, after a six-hour battle with the terrific gale, which swept the whole coast, were taken from the rigging rig-ging of their sunken ship bv the Danish Dan-ish steamer Pennsylvania and brouiiht here. The Luckenbach, from Port Tampa Tam-pa to Baltimore, was about to anchor off the Tangier j;as buoy at the mouth of the Potomac early yesterday when the Indrakuala caught her and cut her practically in two in the line of her No " hold She went down like a rock and only the men on deck had a chance for life. British Steamer Beached. The IndraKuala. badly damaged and in danger of sinking, drew off and beached to save herself Captain ;tl I bert of the Luckenbach and bis w ife vere among the lost The survivors 'had little more than taken to the top-! top-! most parts of tbe rigging of the sub-J sub-J merged hulk when the sweeping gale I of yesterday passed ov er the bay and ! lor six hours they fought for life, j while some of their number, exhaust-I exhaust-I ed. dropped off one by one to death Engineer Goes Down Exhausted. With a wind blowing at cyclonic velocity and waves beating against them, the hardiest ones held fast uu-11I uu-11I their clothes were torn to shreds and they were on the verge of exhaustion exhaus-tion Chief Engineer Christ Knudson was one of those in the rigging. He endured the gale until bis bands were bleeding from gripping the ropes. He I became exhausted and went down be fore assistance came. 1 The Danish steamer Pennsylvania, which came to their assistance, could not roacb them at first, even wllh lifeboats, because of the heavy Bea. After many unsuccessful attempts, life lines were run to the struggling mon ami they were taken off one at a time. More than two hours were required to get oil" the eight saved, when taken on board the Pennsylvan- 1 ia: some were unconscious. According to thy survivors, Captain Gilbert ami the first and second officers offi-cers were standing on tho hridge when the collision occurred. There waa uo opportunity to give alarm to! those below Captain Gilbert made a desperate effort to reach his wife and when last seen was swimming aft jof the sinking ship. Ship Sank Quickly. 'I don't know how I escaped." said 'Chief Officer Hunt Alter the ship went down I found myself danclint; in the rigging and there I stayed Not a lifeboat was to be had. so quleklv did the Luckenbach o down. I never nev-er suffered such torture in my life as 1 did those six hours 1 hung there. My clothes were torn to shreds by the high winds and tho seas beat me almost al-most to Insensibility. Too much cannot can-not be said in praise of the daring bravery displayed bv the officers And 'crew of the Pennsylvania, who I rescued us." The Luckenbach now lies in about fifty-two feet of water. Known Survivors. The known survivors of the LUCk-en LUCk-en bach's crew are. F. K. Hunt, Baltimore, chief officer. offi-cer. William Bruun. New York, second officer. George Urtle. New York, first assistant as-sistant engineer. Geore Doyle. Philadelphia, third I assistant engineer, ' V sailor, a quartermaott?r, a firo- v man and a carpenter, whose names H bave not been learned. Everybody else on board Is believed to have been lost. iH One seaman hurried up the Luck- H enbach's funnel stays as she went H down. Finally he reached the rim of II the s'a. and was safe foi a moment. I jafl Then, as the ship lurched, her fun-nel fun-nel broke loose and he was lost. jH 00- 1 |