Another terrible wreck was reported in London on Saturday. The
'Schiller,' a steamer of 3,500 tons, belonging to the Hamburg Steamship Company, left New York on the 28th April, with 268 pas- sengers ands crew of 124 officers and men. On Friday night, the 7th inst., she was in a thick fog off the Scilly Isles, but the Captain, who had been working by dead-reckoning for three days, thought her further off than she was, and kept her on at half-speed, and apparently without soundings, till at 10 o'clock she struck on the Retarrier Ledge. Seven of the eight boats were launched, but four of them were swamped, and one was lost afterwards. Only two survived, and in them were only fifteen passengers, only one a woman, and about twenty-five of the crew. The ship was crowded with women and children ; panic seems to have set in from the first, and the passengers and crew left on the ship were gradually beaten from it by the sea. A pavilion above the saloon was carried away at 2, with most of the women and children ; at 3 the bridge with the Captain and Doctor and a few passengers disappeared, and about 7.30 a.m. on Saturday the masts gave way, and those on the rigging were drowned. The ship was in every way sound, and well provided with boats, and the main cause of her destruction appears to have been the desire of punctuality. If the Captain had waited out the fog she might have been saved. From the moment of the accident he behaved well, but discipline evidently went to pieces.
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