The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-12-14 00:00:00

ADDITIn% tt. PARTUTL%A.

At midnight the water came rushing over the ,leek in
huge v0i.11111.... Ailing the saloon, anti making the cabins
floating coffins. Then the women were onLyed up and
instnteted to take to the rigging, hot many of them,
cowed by the wildnew of the ..”1 that now swept the deck
fore and aft, and shuddering before the fury of the toti-
leas sleet-laden ode, refined to leave the .aloon. Then
happened horrilde scenes which the pen ref mois to pour'
tray in their fulness. One woman, driven not with free
anti tlesptir, deliberately hung hersett trent the r.. 11 tot
the saloon. A man, taking out his penknife, .Ing it into
his wrist and worked it about on long as he hail strength,
dying where he fell. Another man, in .herently calling
on the wife and child he had left in tionnany, rushNl
shoot with a liottle in hie hand frantically shouting for
nsn..r and pencil. S itsnly gave him both, and, serif.-
hling • note, he corked it down II a Istttle and threw at
overboard, following it himself a tttttt neut later an a great
Ware came and swept hint overboard.

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There Were use nuns on hoard who, lit' their terror
strieken corphiet, seem to have added greatly t i the
%weirdness 01 the seen.'. They were del( to all entreaties
to leave the saloon, and when, almost he inain force, the
stewardess (whose eindurt throughout was plocky in the
ealreme) managed to get them on to the companion
ladder, they sank down on the steps anti stuldiorniv
refused to go another step. They secousl to haws returned
to the saloon again shortly. for somewhere in the ileasl of
the night, when the, greater part of the crew and pas-wa-
gers were in the rizzing, one was seen with her losly hslf
through the skylight, erying alou.l in is voice heard alsive
the storm. " 0. my God, make it omiek ! in she it vied I-
I At daylight, when the tide had eldsNl, and leaving the
I sleek clear, seine on the rigging went down, and looking
' into tlie cabin SAW the Mtn. float Inc about fa,. tinwnra..
1 all dead. It as, not sr% dark loit that those in the rigging
could distingui.h ea.+ other's features, and thus have the
comfort of coin pleb mship.
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There Peeing to have been a wonderfel ... int of un-
selflishness displayed ; everybody cheering and trying to
hell. everybody else. One of the passengers—a cheery
tattoo, named Adolph Ilemnann took a young
American lady ender him special elnino. awl had lliesitti.•
faction of seeing her off to London on Tuesday aftemonn.
Ile to,k her up the rigging. and hell her on there all
through the night, ant says she was as torsye and as self-
imeisemuml• as if they ha b d een c oinfortah mly u shore. ~,,
me ti iltiring the night an unknown friend passed do am to
him a bottle of whiskey. Th.. nork wi. in the bone, an.l
as be was holding on to the rigging with •one hand and
had the other mend the I ill% there iv:. moue li' I' in
getting at the contents of the liottle. This h.. thiallv
• ha' knocking the neck off. and then fawn' hiniself
in the diligent', of not Is•ina able to eet thoo Is tile r• the
laulv•s th. "You are p.itrina it .t.trei my le. 4:" was
her quiet response to hie first essay, lest in the imul lie
siaccee led in ttttt ing the a hiskey in, tho right direeti•un,
and after taking some I• .If, premed it tie. feeling
retreshe.l. Jitet before this a territol.. ausei•letit myerrusl,
whieh threateeel death Li one or Isoth. The Purser. Wille
11.1.1 1100.1 hinate4f in the rigging smite viols also'e them,
getting i,t,loose•l hi* 11014. 110.1 falling hoc Hong
olown 'truck against the hole and lemnel.• I If into the
nee. But Herrmann kept his lo .14, and thug shock 004
warmly noticed. On s mho a nigh, all Ow ol4igations were
not., as Herrmann gratefully acknowledges, on the one
nide : for when no tof his feet eot niunled, his emu-
trilliums, following his , stamped uon it till circula-
tion was restonal. From their perilinui post, slit naves
oreasionally dashing lip and blinding thou with spray,
they saw none terrible seen.,, het iw. A inan tied Li the
mast nearer the deck had lois heal cult off by the waves. oui
Herrmann sir., though probably a Pee, or A keee sitic
tee.l the agent. Not far ..11, a little hey I, id his leg 'indict'
lit tle. same manner. They comb] hear awl see tint nun
shrinking through the skylight, and when was silenced
the cry ires taken ii,, liv a an wailing from the wheel-
house, "My chill in &awned, toy little one. Adam." At
daylight a sailor, reining nimbly down the 0:0604
reach. I the pion, awl. hemline over, attemeted to eeise
some of thio half .4mwn...1 people who were (loafing about.
Once loi caught a little child by the clothes ; but before
he could secure it a wave carried it out of hit grasts. and
his shrieks were hushed in the roar .4 the *stem At
nine o'clock in the morning sho tide haul in far 0.1.4 that
the deck wan clear, and. coming 110011 f the rigging,
the battered awl shivering survivors began to think of
getting breakfsat. A provident sailor had, whilst it wois
possible. taken up aloft a couple of loaves of Idaek
a ham, awl mine cheese. Them. were reell hnought unit
and fairly dlstribeted. An hour aiol a half later all peril
was rover, awl the gallant mrvivors were idea ttt it ig for
Harwich in the tneh.tat Lirertwtel•
Mr. Adolphe Herrmann, a see.inul.eabin pa.enger, told
a very awl bet antic story of this eatastredie. When
in linemen, Mi. Anita Fett.4.l, elle .1 the holies rescued,
haul been phew, in his charge toy her lirothenindew.
When all the w 1111 l en went ordered to the cabin, Mr.
Hermann MOlll.l not perinit his charge ti leave him. and
he carried her with him up into the rigging, where she
held up 'noel courageously. Strange 04 it may Pound, Mr.
Herrmann thinks he personally is a gainer toy the C 3,04.
tenpin., for, as he say., " Instead of losing loy the shit,-
wreck, I found my own happiness in resolving while there
with her in the rigging to make her my wife, should we
be rescued." Mi. Pets 'hut is a native of Germany. and
resoles with her parents at New York. She arrived in
London on Wednesday morning.

MONDAY.
The Deutschland is fast sinking into the sand on which
she stranded, and will he speedily a total wreck. There is
no chance of saving any of her cargo except such as may
float out of her when she part,.

THZ WHITECHAPEL TRAGEDY.
THREATENING THE wITNILM STOKE
Stoke', the well-known witness in the Wainwright
ease, e plainest at Southwark Felice Court, on S iturday,
that he lad rreeivel a letter and it pod-card threatening
him with death. He hail abet, thrmigh his connection
with the trial, hot one eituatien, and was unable to
obtain another. Here are the precious doeuments
t „et libagard, what beatter at yeu te know a man for
IS or le years, and to be the means of him tiering put to
o early grave. You are a Mansard, and rennettlev the
first chance I git of you you will have what pm don't
expect Yon seampolo you think you will git of. You
make a gre.tt mistake, you ma.: and hiagar.l. How could
you even :meat Wainwright's poor bearbroken wife. Ito
not think you will be let parte without a good byiding,
you bruit, and blagard, and nag."
The poet-eard is:
" What do you think of yourself, you Brnitt, you
scamp. I will have your life.'
The police were dine-tell to take what steps they might
think proper for the itrotection ..f Stokes.
Henry Wainwright had an inierview on Monday with
his soliciter, Mr. Pelham, in the 11Te..111013 of the thuernor
Newgate. Ile maintains the saw tirm demeanour that
has characterise-I I all along, met down to the present
titue has nnt said a single wool that could be construed
into an alinboa .... of Wkilt.
The wife of ThOliroo had an interview with him mi
Tinnelay, previous to his m al to Pentonville, where he
will reinam for twelve usontlis and will then let removed
either to Millhank or to Portland. The interview lastsel
:shout twenty
opportunity if seeing the prisoner again until six months
have expired.
Alice Day, the ballet girl, is engaged upon biography of
her career. and she will ehortly publish it under the title
"Front the Footlights to the Pnson Cell"
A correspondent writes to the Wale that in the trial
there was no adequate unitive for the e. •..ion of the
trite, met suggesbi that it may be found in the fact that
Henry Wainwright may have committed a bigamous
marriage. liViatneo was, he says, given before the
magistrate that a paragraph appeared in a ler Inner of
the marriage of Henry Kieg—the name whieli Henry
Wainwright ass 41 and Harriet Louisa Lane, and it
may have been a threat to expom this criminal proceeding
which led to the lee of 'fanjet 'An°.
Respecting Harriet Lane's children, the grandfather
now offers to adopt and bring them up; hut Miss
supported them while Harriet was mysteriously
missing, during which time the Lane family refu-se
msidatice, desires more than ever to retain the little
derelicts, as she says suhseriptions are coining in trout the
peddle, and this i.ehy the graudfather 1111.. v asks to have
the children transferred to him.
Before Mrs. Waiiiwright, senior, s tec her two sons,
Henry ant 'MIMI., On V% ~Inemlay, the prisoners were
allowed to meet each other for a short time.
Mr. Edmund Martin, corn merchant, of S and lit,
New Rout. Wkitechapel Boa I, raNtie•ta to he allowed t„
shim that be paid Stokes the whole of his wages during
that time the latter atteinle!l the poliee-rourt, the
coroner's impiest, awl the CVl.lllljlti•ni at the Treasury.
At ~ne o'clock on Friday Mr M Mimi Wainwright sate
his unhappy brother Henry, I relented in hi. cell for
alsout an 'tour. the chief carder beilig 'present. Sulee-
,mently, at &hint three in the at termou, Mt,. Wainwright,
ifs of the condemned ~,on, also vidted him, and the
duration of the interview was the ',Mlle as that of the
former meeting between the brothers. While Mrs.
Wainwright WV; a ith her bitsliatel Mr. %Wiley Smith,
the govern ,r, sat in their e nopany. What oecurred is at
pretent kept eroloundly secret
..... a• Vi ainwright remains an Newt-ate picking
oakum. The convict having seen In. hrOtllCr
well as the condemued prisoner Henry Wainwright, will
not be entitled to another interview with any of his
triends till the lapse of six months.
A correspondent writes to C.PILIPIain indignantly that
lord mayors, judges, and ladies are raising a fund for the
support of persous connected with the criminal class.
while there are widows and orphans by the hundred
whoa: liedsunli and fathers have perished while engaged
in hone.t Labour, or io the &few,: of their country, ter
whou nothing is said awl imagine done. Ile expect,
• ant to see the hat sent route' avowedly for "the poor
and ,neksereimj." " Surely," he exelaium, "we have had
leo much of such sensational thorny."
llenry Wainwright has replies' to a letter front Mr.
Amos Roe. of Birmingham. king permission to visit the
condemned criminal, whom he has known for twentY-rix
years, and also offenng to assist hi. wife, who is a Bir-
mingham woman. Wainwright declines to receive the
visit; but expreases a hope that lie. Roe will be able to
something for his wife awl children.

Errs's CoCOA. —6II4TEVI: L AND COIIIVoRTING.—" Br,*
thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the
operations of dige.tion ant nutrition, and by a careful ap-
nlication of the floe propene sof well-selected cocoa. Mr.
I,:ppc has provided our lireakfast tables with a delicately
flavoured beverage whieh. may iiave is. many heavy
doctors' hills. It is by the Judicious um of such articles of
d.et that a eowititutionmay he gradually built up until
strong em nigh hi resi.t. every lesideney to dilease.
unared• of subtle imam:lies are doming around us ready
to attack wherever there hi. a weak point. We may escape
many a fatal shaft by keepami ourselves well fortified with
pure blood and a properly nowishod frame.`—Citil Serried
Odastee.