Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-04
THE ATLANTIC HORROR.
Further Details from the Wreck.
zoo Passengers Crushed to Death
Statement Of the Quartermasters
Narrowing Incidents---Rob bing The

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New YORK, April 3.-Harrowing de-
| tails of the awful scenes attending the losl
| Of the steamship Atlantic continue to be
received. All the women, who were ASLEEP
| at the time the ship struck, were drow ned
| in their berths. The heavy seas which
constantly poured over the vessel and tlhed
here, preventing them from reaching The
| deck. Some women who showed remark
able presence of mind and appreciation OF
the awful situation, only reached tho deck
| to be washed into the sea and drowned.
| One woman, following the example OF the
| sailors and stror ger male passengers, took
to the rigging, and was lashed there to keep
her from being swept away. She frcze to
| death In that position soon after.
Six men on shore wrote on black board,
&C Cheer up, boats are coming to your assist
ance, !" and the announcement was respond
ed to by hearty cheers from the ship. After
half an hour of awful suspense, men were
seen on the Island carrying boat over the
rocks, and soon it was launched and took
off three boat loads from the outlying rock.
While rescuing those men, Capt. Williams
and the passengers called loudly to the
crew of the boat to come to the ship and
take them off first, as they We're in the most
imminent danger, the captain saying, will
give five hundred dollars for every boat load
rescued. The boat Afterwards made for
the vessel and took off two boat loads
Half an hour later another boat came and
rescued many of those clinging to ths rig
ging. Third officer Brady, who had sue.
ceeded in reaching shore over line car
ried from the vessel by himself, organized
crew and materially aided in the work of
rescue.
Inquiring for Lost Friends.
A large crowd surrounds the bulletin
board at the cffice of the White Star Line,
eagerly scanning the lists of names of per-
SONS saved from the Atlantic. A continuous
stream of persons passed into the Office all
of the morning, enquiring for the latest par
ticulars of the disaster, that they may know
the fate of friends known or supposed to
have taken passage on the ilEstarred vessel.
The Fatal ssTack,"
The Liverpool agents, this morning, tele-
graphed Mr.. Sparks, the New York agent, as
follows: ssThe Atlantic's deviation to Hall
fax is incomprehensible. The quantity of
coal on board was 967 tons, against an
average consumption during eighteen voy-
ages of 744 TONS"
Without an explicit statement of the en-
gineers, the suppostion is that the vessel, in
consequence of head-winds and rough
weather, was Obliged to burn largely in ex-
cess of the usual amount of coal: hence the
run for Halifax for fresh supply.
A Call fer Charity.
A portion of the passengers saved are ex-
pected in this city Saturday By the steamer
from Halifax, and arrangements are max
ing to obtain subscriptions for their relief.
The steerage passengers are in very des-
titute condition. The steamer Algeria,
which sailed on the 22d of March, will
bring list of the passengers whose passa-
ges were prepaid here; also their destina-
tions.
Papers received from Earope by agents
of the White Star Line state that the At .
lantie had l, ,8S6 tons assorted cargo.
What Might Have Been.
OTTAWA, ONT, April 3.--An appropria- 4
ton was made at the last session Of the
Dominion Parliament for lighthouse at
the point where the Atlantic calamity oe-
CURED, but unhappily the work is not COM
pleied.
Account from London once.
LONDON, April 3-The steamship Allan
tic was insured in London companies for
S150000. She had 760 steerage passan-
gers. The crew and passengers were class
flied as follows at Liverpool: English, l9S
men, IA women, 2S male and q female
children; Scotch, mon and women;
Irish, 43 men, IS women and 3 children;
other natioralit;es, $50 adult males, 81
women, 10 male and Is female children. a
large number of the emigrahts embarked
at Queenstown, making the total number
in the steamer when she sailed from that
port 952.
Of the passengers by the steamer Allan
tic, 200 were booked from Cork and 5
from Plymouth. Great anxiety exists in
those places IS to their fate.
The wreckers.
@sNEw YORK, April 3.-The underwriters
Of this city have dispatched the wrecker
VIM. h, Merritt with divers and full in
structions to Halifax, to take charge of the
wrecked steamer Atlantic, and save the yes
sci and cargo, and make all possible provis-
ions for saving and preserving the bodies of
the lost. The coast wrecking company dis
patched steamer to-day with full wreck
ing company to carry out this object. A
dispatch from Halifax states that the Al
lantic is broken at the foremast. Mails for
Great Britain and France advertised to be
sent by the Atlantic, will be forwarded by
the steamer Weser, Saturday.
The Quartermaster'sS sStafement-.FafaI
Blindness of His SuperiOrs.
HALIFAX, n. S., April 3-EVening-
There is nothing of Importance from the
wreck to-day. Robert Thomas, the quar-
termaster, says: At 2 o'clock went upon
tho bridge with second officer MetcaIf and
told him not to stand ingo the land SO, as
the ship had run her distance to make |
Sambro light from my calculations. He |
told me / was neither captain nor mate. l |
then went to the fourth officer, Brown, and |
asked him if should go on the main yard, |
as he would not see land until be struck on |
it. He told me it was nonsense for me to |
90 up. 1 then relieved the man at the |
wheel, and at 2:30 o'clock the second |
officer told the captain, who was repos-
ing in the chart room, that the weather |
was getting thick. The second officer went |
outside OF the chart-room. The man on
the lookout called out "Ice ahead" They
were among the ice, and shortly after the |