600 Lives Lost

Halifax, N. S., July 7.- Six hundred persons lost their lives the morning of July 4 as the result of a collision between La Bourgogne and the British ship Cromartyshire, and the Frenen liner lies at the bottom of the sea, a great hole in her sids. The ships met in a dense fog sixty miles foutb of Sable island. It was 5 o'clock in the morning and the feeble rays of the newly risen sun were unable to even partially penétrate the thick white mist that covered the ocean like a garment. The Cromartyshire arrived here today in tow by the Alian line steamer Grecian. A ragged wound in her bow and the absence of two of her masts showed the violence of the impact wlth the sunken vessel. There were 800 souls aboard La Bourgogne. Two hundred of these were saved. The rest, struggling in the water for a short time, soon gave up the unequal battle and went down, never to rise again. The fogs are unususilly heavy in this latitude. Just how the vessels happened to come so near each other without being aware of the terrible danger threatening them, until it was too late, is not yet known. La Bourgogne is one of the best known of all the French liners. She belonged to the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique and has carried thousands of persons to Europe and back without a serious mishap. She left New York last Saturday, bound for Havre. Among those saved were the purser, three engineers and thirty of the crew which manned the luckless liner. All the other officers of the snip wer drowned. Out of all the survivors there wa only one woman. All the other wome on the steamer went to tho bottom almost without making an effcrt to save themselves. Past experience has shown that in such instances collapse of the feminine faculties íollows close upon the announcement of disaster, and the victims are generalij' unconscious before drowning ensues. Capt. Nunan, who is in command of the Alian line steamer Grecian, to whose courtesy the Cromartyshire owed its conduct to a place of safety, declares that La Bourgogne was less than five minutes from th time of the collision in going to the bottom. "It was the ost appalling and most sudden catastrophe it was ever my misfortune to witness," said Capt. Henderson of the Cromartyshire. "There was a crash, the sound of which was indescribable, composed as it was of the rending apart of the stout oaken ribs of the Frenen ship and the snapping sunder of her iron bolts. Many leaped overboard immediately after the meeting of the vessels, but our men were not among the number of those who lost their heads. La Bourgogne turned slowly around two or three times, then seemed to go under with the rapidity of a stone dropping into a pool of water. We were in some danger from the I pool which followed the disappearance oí the transatlantic steamer, but managed to get out of reach of the vortex in time. It, however, engulfed scores of human beings, -whom we could hardly see for the density of the fog, but whose cries of terror we could plainly hear." Capt. Nuncan sailed from Glasgow June 24 for New York. He considers himself fortúnate to have been on hand in time to rescue the Cromartyshire. PASSENGER LIST OF THE YESSEL.. Those Who Took Passage for Earop on the IU-Fated Ship. New York, July 7.- The following is the passenger (firsi cabln) list of La Bourgogne, sunk in collision on July 4. The French line does not register the addresses of its passengers: Mr. E. R. Rundell and wife, Mrs. Edwin F. Osgood, Ed. Osgood, Mrs. James Marshall, Mrs. E. C. Cook, Francis Hess, Mrs. H. H. Knowles, Miss Gertrude Knowles, Miss Eleyn Reeves, Miss Harriet M. Tower, T. A. Wright, Mrs. M. Abrouet, Mrs. L. Bromberg, the Rev. Brother Ambroise, the Rev. Leon Baumann, E. A. Angel, Miss Binss, Antoine Achard, Mr. Gaspard Behr, Mrs. Antoine Achard, Mrs. Bourneville, Mrs. C. Bourquin, Miss Marie Achard, Mrs. J. N. Bronk, Antonine Achard, Ferdinand Brochará, Mrs Ferdinand Brochará and child, Giuseppe Alpi, Master Giovanni Alpi, Miss Louise Brouchard, Mrs. S. Huntzmann, Miss Harriet M. lover, Paul Broyer, Mrs. Paul Broyer, Leon Jacquet, Mrs. Leon Jacquet and child, Miss Barcello, Miss Rose Casazza, Louise Casazza.Giacomo Casazza.Miss C. Janssen, Aimee Jolocat, Mrs. Juliette Clcot, Richard Jaöohs, Mrs. Richard Jacobs and child, W. V. Clark, Mrs. W. V. Clark, Mrs. J. R. Coleman and maid, Rev. A. Kesler. Dr. S. Koppe, Mrs. S .wppe, Mrs. H. S. Crumley, Gustare ure, Mrs. Gustave Cure, Henry. Kraenier.Mrs. J. Kiehl, J. M. Chanut, Os-old Kirner, Pierre Collin, Le Gonideo e Kerdaniel, G. Carbrai, Luii Cuneo, Miss Connor, A. Ca)iat Mrs E. C. Cook, Mrs. Joseph H. Durkee, Mrs. J. F. Dillon, Mrs. DillonOliver and maid, Mrs. Ernest Uelmottee, Sylvan Dumont, Mrs. Dumont, Irs Bosc, S. E. Davis and valet, D. cott Evans, Miss M. Evans, Miss B. Evans, Miss L. Evans, Frank A Fiston, Mrs. Frank A. Fiston, Miss Marie Fiston, Master Giovanni Fellini, Adolph Graf, A. Grandvilliers, Mr. Gini, Mrs. Josephine Germán, Albert Gaidot, Jorge Grieshaber, Mr. Gabriel.Master Gabriel,Edward Halpron, Mrs. A. Hummel and two children, Mrs. James J. Haggerty, Mr Aneon Hednick, R. Hyman, Mrs. R Hyman and child, Miss Francés Hess Miss Anna Poncin, Lorenzo Polcri Enrico Polcri, Master Polcri, Miss Edith Patton, Anthony Pollock, Mrs. Anthony Pollock, Miss Plante, Mrs. Pimson, E. R. Rundell, Mrs. E. R. Rundell Louis Sidebro, Miss Therese Sommer P. J. Sosa, J. A. Sosa, F. P. Steel, G Steel, C. Taeot, Mrs. C. Tacot, John Taitenger, Mr. L. Terland, Mrs. do, Miss Van Cautereu, E. A. Van Cautereu Jerome Vacher, Miss D. Valette, Mrs. H. H. Knowles, Mrs. Gertrude Knowles, Mrs. Henry M. Kidd, Dr. L E. Livingood, A. D. La Casse, Mrs. A. D. La Casse, Emile Le Gros, E. M. Lemarre, Mrs. G. Laurichesse, L. Labret Miss Labret, Mrs. Logas, Mrs. Pauline Langley, Miss A. Langley, Miss M. Laurent, Mr. Laurenoona, Miss Letourneau, Miss Bertïia Mohl, Rev. Bernardin Merlin, Miss E. McFarland, Patrick McKeown, Miss J. Mosse, Regis Mennier, Paul Melin, Miss Binma Mader, Mrs. James Marshall, Miss Morin, Mrs. Osgood and child, Mrs. John Perry, Miss Sadie Perry, Miss Florence Perry, Miss Katherine Perry, A. Perry, Miss Suzanne Perrier, Leon Ponteau, Mrs. Leon Ponteau, Rev. P. L. Pensier. Miss Mary Poney, Mrs. A. Povolni, Miss Evelyn Reeves, Paul Risal, Mrs. .1. Roussel, Miss Caroline Rftter, Jean Roneayol, Mr. Robeli, A. Schultz, Mrs. A. Schultz and maid, C. Schultz, Miss M. Schultz, Mr. Vassal, Mrs. P. Vassal, Ralph Leon Wiüiamms, Rev. W. G. Webster, A. Weiss, E. H. Wurtz and two children, H. E. Weissig, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Whltney, child and maid; Prof. E. L. Watter, H. I. Wind, Otto Zaiger. The log of the Cromartyshire, signed by Capt. Henderson, is as follows: "On July 4 at 5 a. m. dense fog, position of snip sixty miles south of Sable island, ship by wind on the port tack heading about w. n. w., though under reduced canvas going about foui or five knots per hour. Our fog horn was being kept going regularly every minute. "At that time heard a steamer's whistle on our weather side, or port beam, which seemed to be nearing very fast. We blew horn and were swered by steamer's whistle, when all of a sudden she loomed through tha fog on our port bow and crashed into us, going at a terrino speed. Our foretopmast and main topgallant mast came down, bringing with it yards and everything attached. "I immediately ordered the boats out and went to examine the damage. I found that our bows were coinpletely cut off and the plates were twisted. Other ship disappeared through the fog. However, our ship was floating on her collision bulkhead, so there seemed no immediate danger of her sinking. We set to work immediately to clear the wreckage. We heard a steamer blowing her whistle on coming back and we answered with our fog horn. The steamer then threw up a rocket and üred a shot. We also threw up some rockets and fired several shots, but we neither saw nor heard anything more of the steamer. "Shortly after, or about 5:30, the fog lifted somewhat and we saw two boats puiling toward us with the French flag flying. We signaled them to come alongside and found that the steamei iras La Bourgogne from New York for Havre, and that she had gone down. We laid to all day and received on board about 200 survivors from among the passengere and crew, reported to be In all about 800. Several oL the pasEengers were on life rafts without oars and I called for volunteers from among my crew and fche surviving French seamen to bring those rafts alongside the ship. Some oL the passengers and seamen from the sunken steamer assisted us and we jettisoned some thirty-six tong of cargo from our forehold [n order to lighten the ship." About three hours after the Cromartyshire picked up the survivors the Alian line Grecian was sighted and took the Cromartyshire in tow. About 8 o'clock that evening, three miles away, Third Mate Stewart heard guns and saw three rockets go up and a blue light, the signal oL distress, burning. The Grecian signaled to the Cromartyshire that she was going to assist the vessel signaling. In a few minutes, however, the light disappeared and no more guns or rockets were discharged, the vessel certainly having sunk. Prof. La Casse, one of the survivors, is ol the opinión that there was a third vessel in the collision, as he saw the Bourgogne, sink within ten minutes after the colusión. üuoked from Chicago. Chicago, July 7.- The following cabin passengers were booked at the Chicago office for the La Bourgogne: E. R. Rundell, Chicago; Mrs. Edwin S. Osgood, Austin; Master Ed Osgood, Austin; Mrs. John Marshall, Chicago; Mrs. E. C. Cook, Chicago; Miss Francés Hess, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Mies Eleyn Reeves, Chicago; Miss Harriet M. Tower, Chicago; Mrs. H. H. Knowles, Rocktati, 111.; Miss Gertrude Knowles, Aockford. 111.; T. A. Wriht, Chicago,