LOSS OF A LARGE STEAMER AND 78 LIVES,

Colonist, Volume XVIII, Issue 2016, 6 January 1876, Page 2

LOSS OF A LARGE STEAMER AND 78 LIVES,

London, December 7.—Captain Brickenstein and part of the passengers and crew of the steamship Deutschland have just landed at Yarwich. It is supposed that about 50 of the passengers and crew were drowned. The Deutschland is how on Long Sand, still further towards Essex shore than the Kentish Knock. Two tugs and a lifeboat have proceeded to the scene of the disaster. The Kentish Sands are a few miles off the mouth of the Thames.

Following ia a verbatim copy of Lloyd's telegram from Harwich in regard to the Deutschland :—" The steamer Deutschland, from Bremen to New York with emigrants, grounded on Kentish Knock, at 5 o'clock Monday morning, during a heavy north-east gale. The weather was thick, with snow. Many of the crevr and passengers are drowned. The Deutschland has beaten over the Kentish Knock, and is now in four and one-half fathoms of water ; she bas apparently parted amidships. When Captain Brickenstein left the steamer she was full of water which was rising and falling with the tide. Assistance has been sent to the Deutschland.'"

London, December 10.—The latest estimate makes the total number of lives lost on the steamer Deutschland at seventy-eight. It is now ascertained that the crew numbered ninty-nine, of whom fourteen were drowned. The captain admits that he was an hour and a quarter out of his reckoning. The North German Btenmer Mosel takes the surviving passengers to New York. At the inquest at Harwich yesterday Captain Brickenstein testified that he signalled passing vessels, bat none answered. The jurymen and others admitted that his signals of distress were seen at Harwich. Ooe of the jurymen states that the seamen did not feel bound to risk their lives and go to the rescue, having no life-boat. The Times this morning says the fact, if a plain case, is a disgrace to the English name. The Morning Echo has a despatch from Sheemess, reporting that the Deutschland has broken in half. The Times says that efforts will be made to save the Deutschland. Both the Wezer and Channel pilots were on board when she went on the rock. No definite explanation has yet been given for her deviation from her course, except that a thick snow storm prevailed. Twelve bodies, including those of four nuns, have been brought ashore at Harwich. It is thought that few, if any, of the bodies remain on the wreck,