New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-14
SECOND EDITION.
TRIBUNE OFFICE. a,so An
TILE CITY or WASHINGTON.

AGE PASSENGERS POUND FOR NEw-Y0RK'
IDr TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUNE.l
BOSTON, July f3.-1.he passengers of tn
wrecked steamer City OF Washington, who left Hafa
at O'Clock on Friday morning. arrived in Portland at
O'CLOCK on Saturday afternoon. The cabin passenger
VINO came on the steamer, nine in n,mber, went drectl
to the Eastern Railroad station AID, taking tho 3i
p m. express train for Boston, arrived here at IA
| These were at once taken to the Boston an
Albany station and left by the o'clock express 10
New-fork. Those OF the Storage who were boun
westward were sent of in the evening by the Gram
Trunk Railway. and those whose destinations wer
New-fork and Boston reached this city the regula
| train over the Eastern Road at IL o'clock OF
Saturday evening. The women were provided for "a
hotels III the vicinity and the men spent the night
in ithe station On conversing with the passengers
one mas little to add to the reports already published
The impression received that tho officers were not
only Ignorant Of their whereabouts when they struck
but had Deen so for days that they calm and col
lecteh' out mado no special exerton excepting the
second ohcero secure the safety and comfort of the
seDgers particularly those OF the Storage and refuse
all efforts OF aid and assistance up to the time the pas
sengers were taken of the rocks and that while there
was no evidence Of sefseeking Partially there was
lack OF administrative ability which patent to all.
The sea-weed was pointed out to OF tho officers
Saturday morning with the remark that they must be
near land, by Capt. ]. g. Hammond of Phil
auolPniet an experienced mariner, VINO was
on his way home, having sold his vessel in
London. From sketch made By one OF the passengers
IL appears that Gull Rock Bar is ledge at tho entrance
Of small bay The steamer struck about midway
between two little rocks, which are above the
sea at nigh tide. Close TO the northern rock is o
channel seven feet deep but had the steamer found
that channel and crossed the bar she could not have
got out OF the little bay She struck even keel
and went on with her whole length the rock piercing
hull lust I'm ~ no on
either OF the ISLANDS, another part OF the bar 10 is
hard to see how she could have escaped the fate OF the
Atlantic and her passengers chances OF escape would
have been small indeed Gull Rock Bar is in latitude
4So 49, north and longitude go 4G west Port
lie Bear. where the passengers were landed
is five miles from the bar and the other side OF the
point twenty miles from LOckpor the nearest harbor
us miles from Halifax on one OF the Ragged Islands
The character of the place may be judged by It's NAME
the shoals and reefs being many and located very rrgu
larly The coast Is protected here by the light
houses, each distant about two miles from
the scene OF the disaster, ono TO the east
and the other TO the west, but as
neither fog horns bells whistles have been placed
there, they can be no possible protection in fOggy
weather. When they reached the shore the ladies
among the cabin passengers and most Of the men we're
well cared for by tho Harding and Lewis families, who
spared no pains to make them comfortable The stew
ards, too, although persisting In cooking on
the steamer, which might break in two any
moment, took good to see that the ladies
got enough to eat and they had no
reason for complaint, but BrevetLeut.-Col. VIM. r.
Parnel. U. s. A. who though officer in the United
States Army is Irishman by birth, seems to have
the only cabin passenger who paid tho least atten
ton TO the wants OF the steerage passengers
and although his officers OF assistance
declined by the officers, he insisted on doing
everything he could TO assist the fires
built so that they could dry their wet clothes and
get some warmth in their bodies. Nevertheless they
had hard time the rocks and their faces and persons
still show signs .of their exposure and privations
although they do not have that scared hafcrazed look
that was so noticeable among the surviving emigrants
OF the Atlantic. They principally English and Irish
with rsome Germans, few Swedes, and sprinkling
OF other natonates. THANK God we have our lives"
they say and with few exceptions they do not Voluh
teer any complaints TO those whom they meet or hnd
much fault among themselves far as could OBSERVE
Said an old Irishman, Then rocks was haru 10 nS
on Cir and the bread was like iron ana the
mate nasty. The women and the children couldh
ate It at all and for five days they were shtarVng saving
yvbin some good man gave them bit that was dacent
could was i'll We were jest freezing with IL raining
all the time Some of had piece OF an old sail 10
cover us WITH but MT Of much good to keep out
,ba copd or the rain But none OF dead, and
we are thankful for that, Sir" Many Others do
not take Il 80 philosophcally, however They thlnk
there was food enough and OF better quality than might
have been obtained them from the ship Tor they say
they Jared well enough on the voyage what they ou
get was not only bad the meat being as they claim unn
TO use but it was very scant in quantity For whoie
day all they would get was two or three
hard biscuit and piece OF bad peei
They think too that better shelter might have been
proyded but do say exactly in what way some OF
the women even were absolutely without anything Dut
the rocks to lie upon anything but the thin clothes
thew had on in the steerage them. They think
IL was great hardship too as certainly was
unavoidable TO be obliged at last to walk nVe miles
across the point 10 take the boat for Halifax Another
complaint which shey make, although this does not
appears to be at all general is Of the puroinng OF their
ncrsonal effects "a they alege by the Of the City
of Washington All day Sunday, in pouring RAIN the
crew and passengers were busy removing the baggage
and getting out bedding for the unfortunates WHO
had been obliged TO sleep on tho Daro
ground Tho sailors were utterly heartless' tax
ing no more thought in landing the mattresses
and trunks than If they had been railroad baggage
smashers Miss Church was of the greatest sufferers
their earessness receiving her trunks soaked through
and Through with the salt water most OF her dresses
beng entirely spoiled. tCol. Parneu and Dr. Mllson
were active in providing covering and distributing Deu
clothing that but few were unproyded or on suhuy
night None OF the officers seem to have taken any care
in the matter, though TO any offers OF assistance
the Captain replied, "The officers are atoenolhs W "
that" On Monday the weather was clear ana the
sun shone bright and hot with such an enect tnat niue
ont OF ten OF tho so badly burned that
their faces peeed-Tuesday just such another day
bright sun shining all day from cloudless SKY Ihere
was some trouble threatened at Portland when IL was
proposed to send the passengers on by ooa
but it was avoided by giving them railroad transpora
ton.
The following ia q list Of the steeraRe passengers
Iaff at
noon by special train:
Bridget Pendergrast George Smith. Bridget Wal
lace, John Francis, Bridget MG2y9anan' ws JOnn
wiske Kapleur Bernard McGee, Adam BiOm-
burg. Terence Burns. Patrick Mcguire; Mar, May
Ellen McCartv Anna MIlogalska and children, l.. VIC