New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-24
By Telegraph.
The Lake Erie Catastrophe.
BrFFAIo. MONDAY. August go.

The following are additional names Of
parties saved from the Atlantic:
THOMAS TAYLOR, wife and four children, Albany.
T G. Barron aud F. BRIrroN, Walp)e, N. II.
Mrs. E. B. BLAcKMoRE. Jericho, W.
EUGENE MARSHALL North Bridgewater Mass.
WI. BURsT, Schirs, Y.
Mrs RUNCEE, Montgomery, NY.
JPooGooD and wife, Rensselaer, Co.. NJ Y.
GEO. FISHER, New Thsyer. Vermont.
PETER CAsTELLA, ABRAHAM MCCAIN, MARY Nc
CAM, WILLIAM JEWELL and wife, Oneida Co., N. \.
THOMAS MYERS and ELLEN L. CHAPMAN, Monroe
Co, n. Y.
CA1HARIxE, ELLEN and MARGARET ONEIL, West
Troy.
JOHN THOMPSON, Oxbrldge, Mass
BIZ FIELD wife and two children, reported lost are
all ely saved, having been picked up, floating
on portion of the wreck
Among ttose lost are, Mrs. THOMAS LEWIS, of De-
trolt vh )se body with that of little girl was picked
ND Yesterday by the steamer st. Louis. Mrs. LEWIS s
recosnized by ring she wore. Also, Mrs. Marks,
Wbitestown Miss ELIZABETH VAN HoGESBURGH,
Hslfrnoop, Saratoga Co.; Mrs. WILLIAMS and Mr.. and
Mrs SPANKs Ne~York.
A little girl years DID, from New York was going 10
friendsiu Milwaukee, and put ander The charge OF
a strange gentleman. When retiring for the night she
told the chsmtermad she was very nervous travelling
With her mamma, and asked her If the boats
agsps. each other the lake they dii In rivers,
(alludpg TO the loss Of the Henry Clay)
The chambermad told her she on the lake all the
time, and never met with an accident yet The child
then consented lie down but would not be undressed
She was never seen after the collision and Ia supposed
to have seen drowned In her BERTH Is supposed she
I.fA Il.
Ing.
Mr. and Mira LYMAN BIRCH, Mr.. and Miss VAN Hov-
ENBURGH and Mi.s PHosBE BIRCH were all on board
After the collision they took FIVE life preserving stools,
and ~. HzcH eXhorted them all 10 be camn and told
them the stools and DOT 60 into the water
un,s Re told Them. Mas BIRCH was nearly dead with
terror but when the signal given plunged into the
water and regained her presence OF mind when sts
found she could toa: well With the STOOL The others
Of the party followed.
Mrs. BIRCH lost her stool and chung 10 Miss VAN Ho-
vENRuRGH. Dir. BIRCH Immediately tried to assist
them, when all three vent down and were lost Xr
Van H. ind Mis-. BIRCH we're saved
Mr. ALXoN COFFIN, late OF Geneva NY had
miraculous escape He cast Into the water at IRIS.
by tie collision aud could not swim but got hold of
rope and hung 70 It, soon fifty or sixty persons
came pouring the side of the 5oss on to his head
He sunk, but again rose aud got hold Of the rope he
then felt his legs cluched by dozen hands under the
water, and re bears the marks of scratches and
wounds wherein nails Of the dying were buried 10 hi,
fesh. He subsequently fell from the rope exhausted
and knows not how he was pulled icso the boat
'ehoor er loaded with lumber for cofios and dead
house, together with steamer and small sloop, have
been dispatched to the of the Gala nifty By the
owners OF the Atlantic, TO pick up and bury the ua
known dead, and preserve the bodies which may bet
recognized Numbers have also proceeded TO the spo
IN hopes CT finding their missing friends
Wnen The collision took place, ths first mate was il
oed-he sprung up, and when he found the boat wa.
was cut night down 10 the hold he seized the lead TO
cast Tor soundngs-hs horror great hnd the rope
zip through hi. hands a,aom after fatho n anti n tas
dark be rthsarge h,sen a,hom 10 ais hand and then
hso touched 10 bottom. lie did wait TO pull ms
rope In again.