The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-01 00:00:00

WRECK OF AN ATLANTIC LINER.

LOSS OF FIVE LIVES.

The owners of the White Cross Transatlantic liner
Plantyn, which has for 10020 week. past been given up for
I at, with the whole of her passensere and crew, hare
received details respecting the lose of their ship and the
rescue of those on board. It wins from the telegrams
received (ram C retain Scott, one of the survivors at
Oporto, that on November 17, while in Istituto 44 north,
longitude 42 wawa, and while running Issfcre a tsrrific west-
south-oat gale, a tremindous sea broke over the vessel,
smutting the poop, breaking the engine skylight, carrying
away the bridge. the boots, and nearly all the life rafts,
lo fact, the sm made a clean sweep of the decks, and left
the Marilyn a complete wreck. Worse than this, how.
ever, pea dist we poured inte the unfortunate vessel,
extlnguialaing tbs engin* tree. All control over
the vessel waa loot, lift,' water was reported in the hold,
and this subsequently increased to 13ft Pumping was
kept op loosessotly, and to prevent the ship foundering
er.th nil an hoard, no lees than 400 Cana of cargo was
thrown overboard. the bilk of which was grain. The
position of those on board was one of the greatest peril,
list t passengers worked with the crew, and. by pinny-
ins and Sailing tight and day, the serest W 44 kept afloat
until December 6, when 104 brigantine GI. D. I. hove in
sight, and managed to take at all those Oa b.rl, sad
land thins at Oporto. The psreons rescued are 21 pea-
Sonars and 32 of the crew. Friar sailors and one of the
pa...angers perished. and Dr. Frays... and four sailors
w.re hurt, one of whom soccumised to his injuries on lb.
1111 inst.

EXPLOSION ON BOARD A MAIL STEAMER.

L 4 iSS OF NINE LIVM.

The ft via Mail steamer Nile, which strived at Ports.
mouth oh Fritts), night, brings particular* of the fetel
ex I aloe On hard the setae c empany's steamer Severn at
Ge-t h.e.ms lest month. The 8 2rern wee one of toe R
Mal Company'. int-rmedi tte screw retinsht, and ley
qua, the punrnan t itt Capt tio T. R mull, on the Iltb of
September last, w th intik I .r B trhs lots, and carer. and
p ttuncer. for oth. r Wevt iii a pot., an well al Omits.'
America and the N Ytti ant S ttet Pacific. Towtirde the
end of Mt...tuber the Is .'tic it t euggeetore wordy were
telegraphed by t;.ptelo R "Tall my wife I'm un-
injured ;" itt no intetPie ati ,n of title d•tpatch arrived
till the morning of the s't Deceisbet, when me co,
pa,e's secretary to Led 'a roe iced • omega., giving the
name. of Moe tutnamp.on men killed. It menu that
the vessel meg leseint Cm,thMten• ..12 her homeward
Torus. Savimillt being her nege port, when the stoke-
and ...gime-room opidenly became filled with steam,
which r pulp. c,ndmeed int too int rain drops, t truing
tho taw - int • hecatomb. Kr Pacer. the third engineer,
hat charge of the watch, and he rushed nut of the engine-
torn alt, wet through with It, rap up, but appsrentlr DOI
molt infired. Ito igh it transpire I thtt he I. ti inhaled
the 'team, with results that p oval fatal in a few hours.
Mr. Scet., cok not h her n board, was pausing from a
side cabin by Meet elt. -bele ii or lota at the moment ot the
ident, and whilet he we. only ocalded about the neck,
be, to,, inhaled 'teem to sorb an runt that he we. soon
numbered among the dud. The water and etearn bad
rushed throogh the furnace doors of the pore holler, pelt-
ing eut the fine, and killing all within reach, their
hod's' being found in and about the stoke-hole.
A combustion chamber Mei le the boiler had e'en v.y.
hut the boiler itself was not injured in any appreciable
degree, the ship bertelf bring mathlees. Mr. Prosy had
berm in converettion with Mr. Shelton, the chief en-
gineer, only a few minor.., before the accident, and the
next heist of him wee when he roc running att. He
woe get to his b•rth. and the darter of the yawl did all
be could for hint, pow Pao ey bring crud by Kr. Sholtin
to cheer up, he being still alive, ebilet the. °thin wer•
dead. Some boom overeat tire& entertained that he would
mac test, bat &bolt nine o'cleck a change .ocidenly vet in,
sal he peacefully pawed away. All the bodies ware
I interred next morning In tog one tery at Carthagens, the
grand burial service of the Church .tt goxland being lm•
yr...airily read over their tcravu by Captain Rewsell. A
woolen craw and • board containing the names of the
decrued mark the sp t which had so suddenly become
their lut ratting Place. Mr. Pseey woe unmarried, but
Ritchins, fireman, leaves • widow sod six children, a
number likely to be shortly added to ; , store-
keeper, leaves • widow and seven children, and Payne,
Orman, a widow similarly circumetuusel.
At about ten n'clock nn Thuraday night a young gentle-
man, mimed Frederick William Sedleir. Clerk in Usti
°film of the Hibernian Bible S eddy, shot himself in kle
residence, belneter-egnare, R•thostees. lie d •
pistol through his hires it,ltitileting • dre al !eatri.
entire flesh being etrippcd off, leaving the tem. be,