The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-04-26 00:00:00

THE STOTYRBRIDGE OBSERVER.

PlMP:wee a French boy, born In Farb, his mother being a
Frenchwnman, and living there till hie 16th year, ac-
quiring French manners and French tastes. He entered .
Stony beret in the year TA& as a philosopher—a class of
students not intended for holy orders, those who were
being called "divine.," He had a companion named
Watertiin, nick-nameil "Long Tom." He was longed for a
lee weeks in the main building, but after a short vacation
he was lodged in another building called the seminary, in
which he had a little room where he slept and studied.
He announced his entry at Stony burst in a letter to his
mother. It was to the effect that he entered on the let of
July, and was recesved by the superior, who was a very
agreeable man, arid who showed him over the establish.
meat, lie described it as extensive, with a flue park, and
witil a beautiful avenue of trees, two miles long, arid con-
eluded by saying My health is better ; I gain strength
day by day ; I embrace you with all My heart ; do not
make yourself uneasy about the part papa has taken in
britigleg me here, as any health will be all the better."
Roger at Stonyhurst studied Latin, Greek, and English under
Father Pater geometry and mathematics under Father
%limn ; he attended lectures on philosophy and chemistry hy
Father Bird and religious instruction by Father Etheri ice.
lie was I aremost in the games and am use menta of the place.
There was a game called Stouybrirst cricket, and there was
a game called handy, ni which Roger was pant nlarly fond.
I tell you these details because it ill all Imp ntant that you
shoied ;be acquelifted with them, in ordcr thet you may
and rataxid his iffe and habits, and then appreciate the force
iT some things I shall have to bring before yin. there
were also private th.atricals. and Roger 1 ichliorne appeared
oc Rutin°, in the Castle of Andalusia, and as a villager in
No Dinner, In J une,1046. Roger appeared in the I sr, as well
as in the rueli drama Among his associates were the present
Lord Armidell, of Warelcur, and Mr. Everard Arundell, his
cousin. Pure were also two brothers named Berkeley, one of
whom, John, occupied a room al, king Roger, and unfortu-
n dely el ed. Ile was also acquainted with Si. de Brement and
51. le Braeseur. Lord Bellew was one of his most Intimate
associates, and a small club was formed by them called the
" Snobs' Club," and Gerd Bellew made a sketch of Roger as
Its president. Lord Bellew tattooed Roger Tichboree on the
am with the leitias " R.c.r.," and Roger also tattooed
Liret Bellew with a eevice on the arm, which still remains.
Roger was fond of fishing in the Hodder nnl the Ribble.
He was also fond of smirking, In which he steathily indulged
lie discovered a hedge behind which he smoked, and which
his watchful master discovered. Buil had cut down, lie
afterwards tete rated to a little cabin in a wood, and one day,
thinking to make it more comfortable, they lighted a fire
In it, which the watchful master of Stonyhurst detected.
These were small things, but they Nvere nut likely to be for-
gotten Oe June 15, Thati, he wrote a letter to his mother,
in which he complained of her silence, and expressed his
regret that he had not been sent sooner to Stonyhuret. Here
he alludes to the displeasure of his mother at his goring
Stonyhurst, and his desire to free himself from her
anxiety about his health. It is a good, seuaible letter,
written by a lad to his mother ; and when you come to look
at this as coupled with the correspondence during the whole
of his life, I think you will find that it has a most important
bearing in enabling you to arrive at a conclusion There
is another letter written at about the same period. It
is a letter dated the 10th of July, which calls the atten-
tion of his mother to a circiimettuire which was ex-
ceedingly pain.ul, that Is to say, the family and domestic
enfferences which existed between her and the rent
of the family, which seemed to have been made by her
open matter. of disenseten. (The learned counsel read
the letter and proceeded 'thee letters which I have
read to you will suffice to show the general style
and character of itiger Tichborne at this period of
his life. There are many others in existence which I will
read to you in evidence, and you will find that during
this period of his life he always wrote to his mother in the
same style. There were letters throughout the whole of
his life to Mr. Vincent Gesforth, who was the old and
trust eat of the Tichborrie family. The whole of thrs
cones silence shall be placed before you, because on the
part ot the prosectu ion i do not desire—l do not wish—to
present ems in preference to other letters. If you desire to
refer to any other part of the correspondence, you will have
an opportunity of dollar so. Roger Tiehborue quitted col-
lege on the lst of August, 1848, and there is one matter to
. which I will here call your attention—that Is, that, whilst he
' was at Stenyhuret he always addressed his mother as " Sly
dear mama," and when he left he commenced addressing Mr
,as" My dear mother," and he continued to do an, I merely
mention this for the purpose of pointing out the cireum-
stances I have referred to— viz., that from that date he ceased
to call her mama. When Rcger Tictiborne left Shiny bust
he spent his time in visiting his friends and relatives. In
the whiter of 1-48 he visited at Kinoyle House,
which was the seat of Mr. Seymour, his maternal
grandfather. There he met, and was most inti-
mate with, it. D Soy meta and Alfred Seymour, who although
his uncles, were;nearly his own age. Roger never called them
.• uncle," but adilressed them as "Henry "and "Alfred." He
visited fichburne House, which was always a home for him.
He visited Mr. mid Mrs. W. ilibbert, where he sometimes
stayed for a fortnight at a time, a circumstance which he
c ,uld hardly have forgotten. At all those places he was an
familiar as at his own hime. Ile visited at Brookwood, the
seat of C ilonel and Mrs. Greenwood. Ile visited at Wardour
Cestie, the seat of Loft' Arundel, where he weut every bun.
day for the purpose of attending the R 'man Catholic chapel,
mai stayed as a guest, lie visited Mr and Mrs. toweley
in Lancashire, and in London In 1849 he became a mem-
ber of the Army sail elavy and of the Alfred Clubs. For
tne purpose of illustratiug how Roger permed his time
about this period, I will read a letter, which is written in
English, to his mother, dated Ist January, 1849, ais•l ad-
dressed from Tichborne House. I Read letter which expressed
the obligation of the writer for his mother's kliod offer to
rend him more money if he had sprint the whole of her last
remittance, which he had nearly done. Ile would be obliged
If she would not speak to any one about it. lie spent h s
time pleasantly. lie went out riding and waling, and read
instruenve books. The hut one contaiued a description of
the Holy Land. The author had only one fault, he made his
preface too long. Ile (tiger) would like her to send him
the Life of Louis XVI. Ile had no letter from the Abbe
Salle since he left Faris, he., etc.) Now Roger iichborne had
been edi card in France, and had but a very imperfect
knowledge of Ecglish, and throughout the whom of the
correspondence, although no doubt here anil there grunt-
nyatical errors eceur, it will be found that tiny are not err i rs
due to vulg seisms, but mere to Frenoli idioms.
'the Lord Chi I Justice In the ease of all words e tiding
with the letters e n it, which should have the past [erase
formed by adding ' t " as the final letter, 1 unit that Ire in-
variably spells the word in the present tense, as, for instance,
" send," instead of
,'' sent."

Mr. tlawk.ris : I hat is so, my lord. When I come to call
the attention of the Jury to the special ties of the corres-
pondence, I shall have to pout out peculiarities which are
maz:vellvvlv inip.rtaiit.

he Lord CO of Justice : There are some striking;
pecuiarities of grammar, idioms, and spelling which atruck
use very forcibly.
Mr. Hawkins; Quite so, my lord. I am Instructed that
all these letters have been printed accuiately from the on.
gioalk in ordtr that they may show every defgct and pecu-
liarity which exists. Two eoplas have been furnished to the
other side.

Th 1;:id Chief Justice There should he a seri,' of letters
chronologically arranged for the use of the jury.

Mr. LI;WILlu; seild triiCit should be done.

Dr beliesly Said that it would have been better if they
had been lithograidied.
Mr. Deakins —On Jan. 1, 1849, Roger Tichborne was about
to miter military life, and commenced the studies requisite
for that purpose, as, before he c..uld obtain Malcom mission, it
Was necessary to pass an examination at Sandhurst. Ibis he
did in July, and I fled him the college records that he
passed in history, geography, mathematics, English, French,
and fortification. lie expected he should have to pass
another exammation before he could have Ms commission,
and studied lor that purpose in London, when he lodged in
Upper Grosvenoratrnet. lie wrote a letter from thence to
his old friend, Mr. Gosford, midi g for particulars with
respect to the return of his aunt, Lady Doughty, from Scot-
land, and stated that he was living the life of a misanthrope,
as he was anxious to get on, and that he expected to pas.
his mathematical examination with credit before lie left
Linden. tie afterwards paid a visit to his aunt and
courisin, Lady and Kate Doughty, and on the evening of
the 24th of October, 1,19, tie left Liverpool for Kings-
town, where he arrived on the 26th. He wrote from thence
to Lady DJughty, and stated that lie was about to
pay a visit to Lord tiowth, who was a distant relative.
A carious matter happened In connection with this visit.
Roger Tichborne was more like a Frenchman than as
Englishman, and he was often exposed to practical jokes.
One of these was played when he was going to visit Howth
Castle. Ile was advised to go by heat, instead of going by
land, and the boatman was bribed to put him town short of
the place, awl to land him in the mud, In getting through
which he wont up nearly to his knees, anti in this plight had
to present himself at llowth Castle. lie returned to Dublin,
where he called to premnt hirmelt to his colonel. Colonel
Bickerstaile was cRO Colonel Jackson, and they hearing a
tap at the door. followed by a French voice, thought the
person who presented himself was a French cook, and he was
t'-id to go round to the kitchen before the mistake was dis-
covered. Circumstances of this sort were not likely to be
forgotten i.y a person who was concerned in them. It ,ger
Ticliborne joined his regiment In 1852, arid went to various
places In Ireland, such as C ade Chmmel, and Waterford. lie
visited 'MVOas person. near Dublin, among them Lord liowtis
and Lady Clanricarde. In Novenitier, 1849, he wrote to Linty
Doughty, In which he said he was begirding to know some-
thing of Dublin, and mentioned hit,leg seen the opera of
itani, which he thought suffered by its translation. Ile
had been warned by his aunt against the visits of money-
lenders, and ins letter of December, 1845, he gave an amusing
account of his having been visited for a third time by a Jew,
whom he and a brother officer had forcibly ejected from his
room.
[The Court adjourned shortly after four o'clock.

the third officer, who had succeeded in getting to the shore
previously by the aid of ropes. I got into the boat with
several others, and landed in safety. When I left about 80
persons still remained on the sides of the vessel and the
rigging. Those remaining when I left seemed quite cool,
and confident of bang rescued. I being wet through to the
skin and much exhausted from the cold, crawled, as I could
• carcely walk, to the nearest house, where there were a
greet many persons before me. We were treated with the
greatest kindness. In about an hour after getting warmed
I went down to the wreck, and it was a fearlul sight to
behold. Some were still clinging to the vessel ; others
had been washed up on the beach, which was strewn around
in all directions with dead bodies. I saw one woman who
exerted herself in ip-tting oat of the cabin to the rigging;
not as no one could render her any assistance she free to
death in the rigging. She seemed to have been lashed to
the rigging, as when I saw her from the shore her body
hung downwards. I saw that no more assistance conld be
rendered, so I, with some others, got into a skiff and rowed
to a fisherman's house, where the 13rit, third, and sixth
engineers were, with about 16 others. We took dinner and
afterwards we thought it the best plan to walk to the city,
as the accommodation there was meagre, so many people
being there from the wreck. We started at half-past one
yesterday afternoon. The roads were in a fearful condition
—a foot of snow in most places,—but as we received refresh-
ments hi two places along the road, which helped us, we
arrived in the city at a quarter to eleven o'clock last night ;
saw the Mayor of the city, who directed us to the police'
station, where we were taken care of in a first-elan
manner."

Mr. Simon Camacho, a Spanish gentleman, stated
that he succeeded in getting out on the deck from
the saloon, though in the gangway all was crowded.
The ship presented a scene of very great confusion,
especially at the bow. There the steer.rge psw-
-Beo4ers were pouring out in 1118,8901. He could
we shadows running up and down the deck, and
could hear women shrieking and wailing. He
wished to see how the boats were, but found that
already nearly all were smashed to pieces. He
managed to make his way through a surging mass
of human beings, some of whom were trying
to give orders; others seemed to have completely lost
their senses, and more were sitting down on deck
calmly awaiting their fate. He succeeded in getting
up the riggirg, when the vessel gave a great lurch, and,
looking On the deck, he saw that all the people who
had been a few minutes before screaming and almost
fighting were now gone.

Mr. Bick, a cabin passenger, relates that when he
was yet in the salixin Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were to-
gether. Mrs. Fisher said to her husband, " Go, save
yourself." The husband answered, 'No, we will re-
main together hd meet in a better world. They never
came on deck, and were both drowned,

The following, amongst the evidence was given on
the official inquiry into the loss of the Atlantic :
Mr. Brady said that he was thrown from his berth by the
violence of the shock. fils door was locked, and Fourth
Officer Browne had the key in his pocket. Mr. Brady burst
the partition from his room to the after wheelhouse, and
reached the saloon deck. He there seized an axe from Quarter.
master Fowee's hanes, and cello:Deuced to clear away No. 6
lifeboat. There was a rush made for the boat, and witness
found it necessary to use force to prevent the people from
capsizing the boat in the effort to launch her over the ship's
side. Ile was iu the act of trying to secure some of the female
passengers, and hail already got two into the boat, when the
ship capsized and the fund l shronde end the funnel fell
. over the ship's side to port. He then made his way into
the mizzen rigging. Finding he was of no use there, and
seeing that her bows were fast upon the rocks and her stern
rapidly sinking, he cried out, • Are any of the ship's crew
here V Quartermasters Speakman and Owen responded,
' es we see' Witness then sahl to them, 'We can 010 no
good here for ourselv, is or any other person.' lie made his
way forward outside of the ship. The sea at this time was
making a clean breach over the ship While passing the main
iloging witness heard the voice of the captain, and asked him
when he was going to, but he heard no response. Witness
got forward to the fore riggiug, followed by Speakman and
Owens. After hanging on the rail conic time he made out a
rock about four points on the starboard haw. Ile went for-
ward and uurove the signal halliards from the foremast,
directed Speakman and Owens to unreeve the starboard
foretry.sail vane, anu then brought them down on the bilge
of the ship. Ile then said, 'One of us must go with this line
to the rock' Owens responded, • I will go, Sir, if you will
clear away.' Ile merle the attempt, but failed, and the
others hauled him la:k on the bilge of the ship Witness
suczeeded in reaching the rock with the signal hal-
liards. They hauled the yang on to the rock, and
by this means with a running bowline got some 20 or
30 people upon the rock, which would scarcely hold
100. Toe surf was constantly washing ever the rock, and
the rapidly risk g tide made their position very critical.
speakman and witness then established communication with
Man Island with a line. Ihe latter nearly lost his life by
the chit f steward clingieg to him while being washed off the
rock. Witness gut Min back to the rock and proceeded to
the island The steward was afterwards drowned through
his anxiety to reaeh the Wand, and the passengers crowding
him down. Reaching the island witness communicated with
fisherman Chincey, the only man on the island. He asked
him if there was any means of communicating with Halifax,
as they wanted immediate assistance. He said the only means
was to duvet h a horseman, which was done. By this time
it w. daylight. In the meantime they had rescued
a great manlier of passenger., and ha 's were coming
to them. Witness had arouse I the fishermen in the
vicinity. He heti no means of communicating with the
ship, as the wind was blow-lug hard and the surf
was rolling heavily. Ile kicked off the top of a trunk which
had been washed ashore, and wrote in chalk, • Keep cool ;
boats are c, ming to the rescue.' Tide announcenient was
received with a cheer hem the people on b.derd the ship.
Witness tot k commu,cl of the second boat that was launch, d
from the island, and did all that he could to save the, e upon
the rock and ship. Ile remained to direct anti encourage
the people to save themselves, sometimes in the boat and
sometimes on the rock, whenever he thought his services
were required. Ile remalued by the wreck till everybedy
but the chief officer was rescued. The statement that
Captain Williams was the nineteenth person to leave the
wreck wu false. \Vanua went to the ship expressly to
take the captain off, as he saw he was very much ex.
heusted. Ile !dosed to conic entil witnees had taken more
of the people. When taken off, the captain was perfectly
exhausted. Only 19 people then remained, and several
boats were close by to land them. Witness remained
at the scene of the wreck until every live person was
landed with the exception of the chief ofil,er. Witnes
tried to get a crew among their own men as the fisherman
would not volunteer to go to the rescue. They ref tired
point blank, saying It would be certa'n death. Witness went
to Mr. Clancey's house and reported to the captain. Under
directions he afterwards stinted on horseback for Halifax to
obtain assistance, sing with a kind reception from Mr.
Morrow, the rcpresentstive of the Cunard Line, and every
aid that he could wish was rendered. The prompt despatch
of three steamers to the some of the wreck alleviated a good
deal of suffering. At Halifax witness proceeded on board
the steamship Delta, and then returned to the scene of the
wreck.

The Liverpool Daily Post publishes a long statement
of the Quartermaster of the Atlantic, Mr. Thomas,
who arrived in the Mersey on Monday, with other
members of the crew, in the Allen steamer Korth
Asherteon from Halifax. The following is an extract
therefrom :

" As mono as I heard the man at the look-out sing out
' Ice,' I went outside the wheelhouse, and saw the breakers,
which at first I took to be ice until the ship struck hard and
fact on the land. Thin I went to the wheel, and put my
M Int hard a starboard without orders to do so, after which
I ran to the telegraph under the bridge to reverse the en-
gines. I cannot may I put telegraph to 'reverse 'or not, as I
had not thee to notice in the hurry which way I had put the
signals. When I ran out of the wheelhouse the second mate
came after me, and he was followed by the captain. 1 ran
err to get axes to out away the i.cats, and also to call the third
officer, Mr Brady, who at this time, hewever, had been
roused, When I was going aft for the axis a young widow,
named Mutiney, with whom I W3B acquainted, called out,
Ruherr,where are you?' I told her to wait till [ came back, and
wren I calm forward I took her, another yoeng woman, and
Mrs aluneey's little boy, on to the eat ion deck on the star-
board weirs, and told them to stay there till 1 had got the
boats clear. I then cut away the port and starboard alter
boats, and during the time I was cutting the starboard boat
the ship suddenly listed over, and the two women and the
coy were swept into the sea Toe whole of the port boats
were smashed In or ward ed away. Quartermaster Purdie
said to me, "Are you going to swim ashore with me ?,"
but I told him I wanted ii save the mother mid her baby.
'audio then went down by stifle from the fore davit on the
starboard hoist aft into the water, when a heavy breaker swept
him forward, and that was the last I saw of him. After the
ship listed over, I told the passengers who were congregated at
the alt starboard that I was going ashore. I pul led off nip hoots,
coat, arid guernsey frock, and swam to the Proepeet Island,
a distance of about 200 yards. When I reached the shore 1
heard some one make an appeal from the sea, who turned
out to be a pa.senger-9. printer. I SWBIB out to him a few
strokes, fetched him ashore, and carried him on my back
until we fell do en in the cleft of a rock where there Was
water running through. As soon as We got out I told him
he w .uld have to walk, as I was too tired and too cold to
carry him. We travelled on, not knowing where we were
going to, until we came to some signal posts, a place where
a look out is kept for the flehermen of the island. I
called out for help as loud as I could, and In two
minutes, which I thought was ten hours, two rid men
trained Clancy came to our asalstance. I asked them
if they would give me a line, so that I might swim
to the ship, and see what lives I could save. They
gave me a small line, which was about 100 fathom, in
length, with which 1 went to the beach. From there I /taw
I eight or ten persons clustered on a rick between the beach
i and the ship This would be abort four o'cleck in the
morning. They s tug out to me, but I c mid not tell what
they said, on sent mitt of the roaring of tire surf. I made a
motion with my line, indicating that if any one could swim
towards me I would try to save him Quartermaster Speak-
man Woo the first to come irom this rock, bringing with him
a life b. It arid four she nal holy-lards around his body. IS hen he
got within ten yards of me I hove my line ; the surf was nam-
ing him away, and he would have been drowned had not iny
tine csuOit his hand. Ile laid hold of It, and he was
hauled ashore very much exhausted. I think. Tee
line that Speakman brought 1 made fast with s
piece lif wood in the r. ek, and by this means
90 people reached the shore, having tube pulled up from the
water's edge, a height of between three sad four feet, The
saved principally consisted of stewards, firemen, and pas-
sengers, and also Mn'. Braily,lhe third officer. At nine o'clock
I was relieved by Thos, burin, the steward, and others, when
I had to go to This. Clancry's for rest Afterwards I was
taken to Mr. Rylam, the magistrate, where I was kindly
cared fir tiii I started fer Halifax. The remainder if theme
saved were taken from the wreck and from the rock be
tween the island and the ship by boats which were carried
across the island and laumhed opposite the wreck
By four o'clock, when I returned from Clancey'e
house, it being then about daybreak, owing to the
C -Id there were numbers of the pe. Tie dropping dead
from the r.gging and the rook. The steward, who was on the
rock, was drowns d Mira.° my eyes limns out for the people
to come eshore from the rock one at a time and I would move
them, 'rut occasionally two or three would come together,
and the chief steward mei another man Were drowned at my
feet hr thin w., I being too weak to attempt to rescue them.
The interval between the ship sinking and the time when she
,ver was very brief, and I shall deverforget the terrible
wail which met my ears from all quarters at that moment. A
deathly stilitiess fall .wed "

The quartermaster, In the course of a conversation with
the ropirter, svoled that he had slept hut little, as he no
sooner fell asleep than he awoke with the despabing cry
of that dreadful morning voiding Ili his ears. The charge
as to the ii:arcity of provisions he said was quite false.
The ship, he also stated, was In no way undermanned.

The New York Evening Express of April 8 publishes
the following particulars, given by a newspaper corres-
pondent, who procured a diver's suit, and, with the
permission and under the direction of the wrecker and
lilVtIA who were at work upon the hull, descended
into the interior of the wreck. lie nays:—

" The waters were clear, and every object plainly visible
arenuel the ship where she lay en the reef. I shudder at the
thought of being Immersed so deeply, and how sli,htly an ac-
cident would Insure instant destruction All around .he
objects look weird-like, the glasses In the casque magnifying
thu already bloat.d forms Into twice their size. l'he im-
mense hull lies well down on the port side, which Is broken
In several places from contact with the reef Fish were
swimming around, esuerly devout ing the particles of food
cinch are to be picked up. nting my way towards the
hull. I catch hold of a rope and scramble up the deck.
The place where I have descended is where the ship parted,
and a sectional view of the hull anti cargo is obtained. The
frrward batch is open and I peer clown the bold, rib, what
a spectacle is presented' rhe cargo has broken bulk
and lies heaped up in a confused mass Oodles of men and
women, bruised anti torn, %ere lammed among the cases
and crates It is a horrible sight to look upon, and the
magnify ing powers of ohs throush which I gaze upon it
reeler. it all rio more horriole. Fishes swim in and out
among the bodies and nmee 1 east', g UiOli the he-dies of tie
dead. Limbs are strewn around, having 'woken off from

the body from the continual action of the waters, which,
when agitated, drive against the ugly pieces of the broken
hull that stick up here, and render my movements very
lua.rdous.

"Having seen enough of this part of the sunken horror, I
proceed towards one of the steerage cabins—the one where
all the women and children were drowned as they lay
in their bunks. Scrambling along the deck, guided by the
rope above, and aosisted by one of the divers who had con-
tented to conduct me through the wreck, I reach the com-
panion-way. tithe sight lii the hold among the cargo was
horrible, the one that now met my gaze was ten time, more
so There, lyhig in an immense heap, were a hundred and
more bodies. They looked for all the world as if they were
alive, with arms dislocated, eyes staring wildly, faces grin-
ning as if it were at you, and moving backward and forward
with the undercurrent. Some were dressed, many were half
nude. Children were clinging to their mothers, and stout
npu were clasping their wives, and seeming as if they met
their file with cairn resignati.m. No description of the
bodies brought to the surface could convey an idea of the
horrid sight iu that cabin. I close my eyes and motion to my
c.iuductor to leave. I have seen enough of that charnel-
house, the recollection of which will never fade. My con-
ductor motions me towards the steerage cabin, where the
men were by themselves, and where there was such a rush
for the companion-way. Peering down Into that cabin
I saw a similar picture of death. Bodies of stalwart
men, old and young, were hustled together on the stair-
way, giving from their distended nostrils, gasping
mouths, and staring, glassy eyes—some conception of ,
the terror which seised them as they vainly struggled to
reach the deck, but were prevented by the waves, whi
swept over the ship as she heeled over, and filled the cabin.
From another part 01 the vessel I obtained a view of the
sloe pin apartments. Here, piled up in heaps on the
p .rt side, were numbers of bodies of men, and, strewn
among them, bed clothing of one kind and another.
FI.OIII continual knocking against the stanchions and sharp
jog woodwork, which is splintered and broken from the
liolegs of the bunks, the faces aud limbs of these dead are
more ghastly than I have ever seen. Imagination cannot
picture anything more terrible then what was In this apart-
ment. The flesh is torn from the faces of many of the dead;
others &gainers bruised and battered about their heads and
faces, which are red and bloody, In striking contras: to the
pale, livid features of others, which the action of the water
has not disturbed. While I stood here another of the diver.
descended, and commenced to send up to some f the bodies.
He, however, was more intent upon securing the cargo than
sending up the bodies, and nitty does so now to gain access
I to some boxes and trunks which are ly lug beneath them.
Having seen enough of the horrors .., loath the water on
Ike fatal reef—horrors of the deep which will never be
erased from my vadon decided to go above, and motion
accordingly to the men who were above in the boat, and
primping down to me the necessary supply of air te sustain
life. In a few minutes I was once wore at the surface,
gszing noon the light of heaven, and experiencing a sense-
Bon of relief at having left the chambers of death in the
cabins of the ill-fated Atlantic." •