The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-23 00:00:00

ANOTHER FIREMAN'S STORY.

Rees, a fireman of the Rhone, residing at Freemantle,
said: I went down when we commenced to light up the
fires about half-paat eight, when we were lying at
Peter Island. Three fires were ordered in each
boiler, and we had not been down half an hour
when we were ordered to light up another fire
in each, making all the fires now lighted, and
reaching 151 b. of steam. The gale freshened, and we were
told to get as much steam as we well We got up 201 b.
—all that we could rossibly give her, and she was going
at full speed at the time she went down. What I fancy is
that when she struck first she " kind of seined" a rook
on the port side ; the second time it seemed to lift her,
and she went down " bump," and bumped three or four
times. Of course it drove her sides in, and I believe the
rocks went up at the bottom into her boilers. Seeing the
water coming into the stoke-hole, I got up through the
engine-room ladder ; all that I saw was a boiler-
maker in the engine room, and be went up the ladder
before me. Why u I got on the top, the steam-pipe burst,
and, everything being covered with steam, I lust sight of
all that was going on. As I knew the way out as well in
the dark as in the light, I got hold of the handrail, and
crawled under the steam out of the door. When I got
out I found the forward companion covered with people.
The main deck people were clinging to everything they
saw. I rushed right through them on to the spar deck,
where I was washed off, and overboard, and the bows of
the vessel aunt right round to me. I clung to the fore-
topsail yard, where I stopped from one o'clock in the day
until half-past eight next morning, when I was took off
by a little punt, which picked uo four besides me. It
could only take two at a time. was washed naked. I
saw the chief engineer, Mr. Hooper, clinging to a sky-
light, and was washed by him. He looked at me, and
I looked at him, just as men will do at such times. My
opinion is that more were killed by the knocking about of
the wreck than being drowned. The men in the stoke-hole
had no chance to come up. Two came up, but they were
fearfully scalded ; their names were Lane and Arthur CalL
The things in the gale were flj:ng about like birds. I saw
one lady clinging to her husband by the after-companion,
and I believe she was picked up next morning by the
' doctor of the Solent. The gale seemed to conieon gradually,
and continued getting worse. I did not apprehend danger
before it happened, because I've often been out in roughish
weather. I hadn't been on deck in the wind, but below
this did not appear worse than I've been out in before. I
am a good swimmer, but the next morning the sharks were
lying around us like little fish, and therefore it was useless
to think of swimming in order to get relieved and picked
up.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, HIGH HOLBORN. —This
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religious services for the people, conducted by clergymen
of the established church and evangelical nonconforming
miniaters. The seats, which number 2,000, are all free,
and there is no collection. _ _

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