DEUTSCHLAND LOSES A MAN.
The Swift Liner Buffeted by Storms All the Way Across.
The record-holder Deutschland of the Hamburg-American Line had nothing but weather on the voyage she finished yesterday from Hamburg, Southampton, and Cherbourg. The disturbance began just after she left Cherbourg and kept up almost until she got within sight of the coast of Yankeeland. Despite wind and sea she made an hourly average of 21.16 knots, covering a course of 3,058 knots in 6 days and 33 minutes, thus establishing a reputation as a storm-defier.
While she was plunging through the crested seas at 7 o’clock on Wednesday night a part of the crew were ordered forward to put things shipshape. Eugen Sarazin, an able seaman of Russia, 19 years old, was the first man to respond to the order. As he got out on the open deck the Deutschland plunged into a giant comber. The forward deck of the ship looked for a moment like the beach of Coney Island on a stormy day. The young Russian was caught in the swirl and swept overboard. Shipmates who saw him disappear raised an alarm and the great liner was stopped. A lifeboat with four volunteer seamen, under Second Officer Franck, was lowered. It cruised about in the blackness nearly half an hour and found no trace of the luckless tar.
Passengers aboard the liner crowded to the rails and peered into the night hopefully while the lifeboat was searching for Sarazin. When it got back with no news of him a sympathetic passenger suggested that a purse should be raised for Sarazin’s family. Three contribution boxes were put up in the ship, and passengers filled them with gold, silver, and paper money. By this system of subscription, new in nautical annals, the left hand knew not what the right hand did. The contents of the boxes will be counted to-day.
Capt. Albers of the Deutschland said the voyage was one of the roughest on record for September. The women passengers didn’t have much pleasure. The ship was at times reduced to fifteen knots. The mighty combers through which she smashed scraped the paint off her bows.
Among the big liner’s passengers were: George C. Boldt, Leonard Lewisohn, Rud and Henry Kunhardt, Dr. William Tod Helmuth, Charles Dupont Coudert, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spilker.—N. Y. Sun.
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