The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-04-08 00:00:00

Pampsbirc.

Pritaut.La Beware —Tee will and oodkril ol Kin
Elizabeth Sibley, of Hall Plum West ikon, 8301h-
harapton, eras proved on the 24th ult., ths pommel
estate being swore nada' £25,000. The testatrix has
bequeathed flea 13e. 44. Console to the patron sod
refi:or of West Neon upoa trust, to apply the divideed
In *sendoff one of the bells of the rid pariah elevurele
he rung for ever hereafter at lx a.m. nod eight p.m.
from Ludy Day to Illeohosintr, sod at seven am. nod
sight p.m. from Iflobaelmas to Lady Day,and,in edrittion,
to ring out the day of the month on ons bill every
day after morning sod evening ringing.
Wisoasena COLUMN. —Vivoount Events, and Kr.
John Bonham Carter, M. P bars been oppointed as
the governing body of Winehester College, to MI the
vases:Wen nominated by the resignation of the Earl of
Derby and Su Staff ,rd Northoote.

FEARFOL WRECK OF AN AMERICAN
MAIL STEAMER.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
saw You, April I.—The it.... skip Atianda bag
been wrecked. Well. putting lath HaWet short of
oath, she ran ashore on Meagher's Head, Al miles off
Halifax.
The Atlantic struck it two am.
Captain Williams had retired at midnight, jadging
tha &cobra light to be N.N.W , 29 miles. The weather
was dark, but not thlek. Tete shin streak
times. Captain Williams and Kr. Bred 7 lestaistly
rushed on desk sad attempted to out sway the bents,
but only moo wee Isenemad. in which two women had
last been placed, when the men rushed In, filling it.
The steamer thou suddenly heeled over on her beam
ends, and guar • few minutes after striking, carrying
the boat down with all on board.
Portions of the slolp's rigging remained above the
water, over whioh, and by ropes, 250 men *leaped to
• low rash, 700 persons remaining on the steamer, meet
of whom were lost, the majority being in their berths.
Not a woman or • child was saved, and the survivors
narrowly esaisped, as the rising tide threatened to drown
thous on the rook, when fortunately they were rescued
by the sshertnen from the shore.
The vernal and cargo are • total lost.
Three or tour of the °shin passengers on board the
Atlantis were saved.
A steerage pass,a ger William Hlgao, stet that
when th• vessel drat skunk, the batches were ordered
to he closed, bet the passengers burst them open and
rushed for the deck. It appears, however, that the
oompanion.wave were choked by the crowd. Thoee la
the lower steerage were drowned almost immediately.
Cries were heard for little more than two mirmtea, and
were then smothered. When the vessel broke, many
of the deal, principally women, were washed oat be
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Some of the passengers in the upper etiserage saved
theinselves by ells:ring ti the bunks which were out of
the water, got out by the part-holes, and held on te
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starboard boat. when • heavy sea swept them off. caned
the mime rigging. At daylight there were thirty twe
cshrthers with him, including a woman and a boy.
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noon the w.man died.
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more or less aeons, upon mine portion at the rigging,
which appeared above the water, were continued with.
out Intermission; sod even then • portion of the half.
drowned, half.frosen men—more fortunate than many
of their companion., who had from shoe exhaustion he
relax their peep upon the slippery spars and ropes
were eatensfal in getting on to the rack, the horrom
of this night were only augmented. Strong men, it Is
said, became as.childrn, naming bitterly, sad Mies
way to despair, and the.) beeeme still More helpless,
being driven into median sad idlokey through hew
Added to this, so difloult wee it to maintain a foothold
on the searteed.sovered ledge of reek, that the penmen
referred to states numbers, one after another, fell isle
the sea without those who were in better poson
being able to stir head or foot to help them. Other,
seals, through templet* lose of streagtb, died as the
spot, In which they bed manged to climb from the
rigging of the steamer. The Athletic sank between II
and 3 o'clock in the warner, and it was not seta
over three weary anxious boors had paned away that
the bow of the Ina bed from the shore bla
assistance was semi approaning the reek ott
'living and deed are mingled together. Al the Mae
when relief some there were Mal sassy of the
puesosers clinging, thoegb with fast hope of life, to
the span of the desater. Amongst these wee lb.
Firth, the first °Mow, who owes his life, ash. himself
acknowledge., to the gallant conduct of • elergymes of
Lb. Church of Zarin& the Rm. Mr. Ancient, who
mounded in a small boat to the wren, and sealing the
, succeeded to throwing a rope within rents ofrtil'irth, who, grasping it, and attaching it to his body
jamped into the water and was eveatnally draggled she
beat and carried ashore.
Aosording to • statement made by Mr. Thomas, the
quartermaeter, he warned the moon d °Hoer at two
o'slatik in the morning not to stead so aloes is shore, as
the ship had ran her diseases to make Sambre IVA.
Herein with • rebuff, the quartermaster ant *eked
the fourth officer if ha Moult go into the mainTarda to
look out. The assmr was that It would be of no ass.
After the rem& streak, one of the barite filled with
passeagen, was yearly ready tor launching, when Is
was discovered that the pings were ont. The ire '4 this was so great that they could not bent In. Twenty
meite_rere killed on the venal by the fore-boom
Ii s fastealags and swinging round. It is
elsTeThM many of be married paemagers ooald ham seesped te the rigging, bat they would not quit their
wives, sod perished with them.
It is said that the onw was a very bad one, end with
dillsally kept under control daring the whole voyage.
Tim men ateempted to break open the spirit-room in •
Mere en the 27M. When the fishermen came off to the
wren, the sailers honked down the pessenme and
Maid the boats.
Keay oases of robbery of the dead are reported.
The vessel is brakes la two near the foremart,
The captain of the Auntie explains thst the disaster
to the vessel ocenred through • misealenlation of the
surreal and the vessers speed. He asserts that 410
miles off Seedy Hoek he had only 117 Wee of on& Be
deities the mutilation of bodies by the mew. The
reported robberies are emanated. The onw are
awned of inasbordhlation. The ship Is still bank the
swell promoting the divers from working. If the
weather is fine meet of the auto will be saved. 164
bodies have been found, moan( then the seend
ofiloer sad the nada paesectgere. Hewitt, Prise, Merritt.
sad Bomar. The surviving °Moors have bees ordered
to make • report.
The letter of the managing ewers dispelling the
Idea that tba steamer was sent out short of seal has
even greet relief In commereial strides is Liverreed,
the eseptelon of such • sown having ben adopted fie
anoomy's sake being quite against the repatatioa of
liseers. Limey, not only in their North Asinine
trade, bet to their long-etabliehed ootaraeres with
the south-west one of Araerioa end the Pacifis ports.
The testimony of the motets supporting the aesertioes
of the owners, every confided*, is felt that the forth.
coming Board of Trade inquiry into the ices of the
eplendki steamer will setsillish the feet Mutt it was net
In say way owing to her onstrasticie or notelet.
A. wee( or the Walla notiene in the • Wag
unshaken, in spite of the catastrophe, it may be men-
tioned that the Adriatis on Thursday took out fres
Liverpool DO fewer than 95 saloon aad 834 steerage
passengers, sod no withdrawals tooklplemi.
Th• Atlantic he • White Star steamer. The
captain's name is Janet A. Willjeseg, Re bee bees
mead. The total his wee 934 souls, which sommeind
32 saloon Postendlek 762 tittertlits, and 144 new. The
saloon passenger, wars meetly Ameriesna returning to
the States, sad among the steerage wore maw Germans and French, IN well II Irish.
She we. on her nineteenth voyage fro& Llvaremi,
having galled on March 90.
She was hatilt at Belfast by 11144ww. Remised sad
Woolf in 1371, sod was 490 feet lose and SOO hone.
Power. Her veto* was about • hasdred amend
Pomade, whin fa oblell=red by tannage with the
Leaden and Liverpool I estrum Clesapsalea, eed
Lloyds..
The wren lass ranged great exalleenteall at Csek ea
mann of th• number of Irish pmesagers ce board.
She called at Qameatewn os Friday wen. sad em-
barked two handred
tenon and aflame. passengers, inelmilif Item,
From Captain Williams's ',Mann, with whin the
Inquiry into the loss of the Atlanta has sommeased,
we learn that be had entirely misedealseed the whom
shouts of his ship. that whim she Aran be wee asleep
below, and that had his Aims ailed with preireptitade
when they maw deafer ahead, the ealamity might ham
been averted. Hs dielastly re-slimes, as his mattes .
for Patting halo Halifax, that the ship wee srgigen of
stern, coals. and proldelons."
The City Conseil of Halifax hae anderMkes the
duty of limns the dead.
rm.' Beare we learn that 312 of the stemma pee.
susgme Wm wired Mien. They were meg ho the
'Mime and is amen of pass. esaikaikol to Passel
ari with ampAs brewed.