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Show SIXTY LIVI-.S Wl HE LOUT. en, tine aiesmlili m KI.er f.lhe I'snsea ..rr,i la r II. .m The alaaiuship I'riinus of Hamburg. wcut luto and -link by tha tug llaua on the riv. r Kibe. Kstlmalea of the niitnlier of lives lost vary from fto to (V). The I'rimua waa an excursion steamer from lluslebiide, province of Hanover, 1'ruesia. The disaster oc-corred oc-corred between jllanltenr. ami Nictu'.-dlen. Nictu'.-dlen. Among the iasengera were the meuibere of the KllleU Male Choral eoclely. A terrible panic that occurred on the Primus whan the llanaa struck her rendered the efforts to aave her passengers pas-sengers almost useless. Fortunately tha ateumer llolpin came up Immediately Imme-diately and succeeded in saving alaty of thoae on board the sinking aleamar, while other boats assisted In tha work of rescue. Home of th survivors furnish graphic descriptions of the awful suddenness of the disaster. According to Inelr lory, the bend waa playing and many fouplee w' denclng on deck when the crash of the collision earn Ilk a thunderbolt. Th reesel geve a great list, her deck taking auch an angle that It waa Impossible fur the passengers passen-gers to keep their feel. Those below scrsinhled up the companion ways, but moat of the parsons In the saloon war drowned. Men fought for Ihelr own safety regardless of others. In the ml'Mof Ihe confusion the hollars eaploded, addiug lotbs horrors of the acena. ami nvmr parsons are aid to have been Injured by Hying splinters of melal. |