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NAMES or THE SAVED.


| George VI. Thompson, LIST Engineer do. do. X.
II. Ward, "a Engineer, do. do. John P. Dunn,
passenger Of Brooklyn James Cahill do of New
York A. l.. Smith, do. Of Brooklyn WIN. Ii
Orr, do. do. Samuel Newman, do. do. James
Manning, do of New York (; James Ayers, pas.
senger "A years Of age, residing at No. &c Ham
mond street, taken from the water in greatly
exhausted condition VIM. Graves, deck hand
New London Jerry Flanagan, deck hand, New
London.
An unknown lady who. with her
husband and child, was on board the
propeller was seen in the water after the
accident, with her child in her arms, and
! might have been saved but she would not
relinquish her babe to seize the rope that
was thrown to her, and thus sacrificed her
life to maternal love.
Among the passengers on board the
! Metropolis at the time OF the disaster was
Mr.. George Tappan,--a merchant of New
Bedford he had been subject to fits, and
was on his way south with his wife, for hi,
health. During the intense excitement OIL
board of the boat he became SO excited that
he fell backward in an apoplectic fit, ana
expired almost instantly. lie was about
ij years Of age.
While Capt, Smith was narrating the
affair to the reporters after the arrival OF
the Metropolis at n. Y. an old grey headed
gentleman came into the upper saloon of the
Metropolis, where they were, and walking
up to the captain, reached out his hand,
which was grasped by that of Captain
Smith, who said, How do you do, Mr.
Gordon at the same time averting his
face from that of Mr.. Gordon, (the name of
the old gentleman) to hide the tears which
began to trickle down his face. The old
gentleman in Il tremulous voice, and with.
out answering the Captains interrogatory
said, i came to ask about my daugeter
where is shells she alive or mott She
is gone, replied the Captain, which an
nouncement seemed to much for the poor
man, who, exelaiming, oh, my God, do
you tell me so, is it possible'' sank down
into seat and wept like child for several
minutes, during which time there was not
a dry eye IN the saloon. That meeting,
and the sad intelligence impaired in so few
words, was most impressive indeed, Cap
tain Smith seemed to feel his position most
keenly, for, in addition to losing three
beautiful, promising children of his own,
aged respectively nine. seven, and FIVE, he
had at one fell swoop been compelled to
witness, as it were, the death struggles of
the wives, children, or friends OF some of
his oldest and most intimate associates,
without even the poor consolation having
been afforded him of endeavoring to extend
to them helping hand For some mo-
ments aiterward he could not speak
word, but was obliged to rise from his seat
and walk away from the table, subsequent
to which he had few words more with Mr.
Gordon, IN relation to the sad affair, who
then retired from the cabin, weeping most
bitterly. Capt. Smith then returned to the
table at which the reporters were sitting
and ADDRESSING them, said She was a most
beautiful girl, only Is years Of age, and
only to think her father brought her down
to my boat last evening and gave her into
my charge, to take to her friends in New
London-but now she has gone with my
children, hope to better world