Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-04-09
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THE RESCUED OF THE ATLANTIC.
Their Arrival in New York City.
Terrible Storm and Loss of Life in Iowa
Fire at MurfreesborOugh, Tennessee.
Important Victory Gained by Cubans.
rm and Loss of Life in Iowa
| MurfreesborOugh, Tennessee.
THE LOST STEAMER.
Efforts Of the White Star Company 20 AIIe-
viate Distress,
ExertiOns Made TO Recover the Bodies OF
the Drowned.

Exertions Made to Recover the Bodies of
the Drowned.
HALIFAX, April A steamer has lust
arrived from the wreck of the Atlantic.
The ship is almost intact. Only a few
packages of her cargo have come ashore.
The captain says the stories of the mutila-
ton of bodies by the crew are false and the
reports of robberies are largely exaggerated.
He says the people at Prospect did all they
could for the living and the dead, but ow-
ing to the crowds who focled to the place
from the surrounding country, there were
some who rilcd the bodies whenever they
could get chance.
Captain Williams and assistants search
ed the islands around the wreck thorough
ly last night and picked out from among
the many bodies and brought ashore those
reported this morning, which have been
telegraphed for by friends. The bodies re-
ported recovered this morning have been
dressed and placed in metallic collins and
await the arrival of friends and relatives
to take them in charge. 1t is thought the
bodies will hardly remain in a condition
to be examined and the collins have been
sealed and made tight. Another trip will
be made to the wreck tomorrow.
Additional Details of the Disaster.
NEW YORK, April 5.-Among the
w. Wick, of North Carolina, and a
Frenchman named Simon Carracho, who
had his legs frozen. They were in the rig
ging eight hours. The passengers report
that from three to five hundred souls on
the Atlantic must have persisted within
ten minutes after the boat struck the Sec
ond time.
In conversation with a reporter yester-
day evening, at Halifax, Captain Williams
said he spent the most of Thursday night,at
Marrs, Island and personally examined the
bodies but found none of them mutilated,
but believed many bodies had been robbed.
He said the Atlantic was sufficiently coal
ed before leaving Liverpool, if it had not
been for the three days of heavy weather
experienced, while we were out of our po
sition, not solely on account of the current,
which must have had northerly set as
well as westerly and he allowed eight de-
gTees eastward, 10 offset it, believing that
to be ample.
Cn Monday he was quite sure Of his po-
sition, both the barometers agreeing, but
the northerly set proved greater than al
lowed for, for two or three days preceding.
He had found the ship set to southwark
and eastward of her position. Capt. VIII
liams was in the chart room or saloon deck,
less than thirty feet from the bridge when
the ship struck. All the leads and lines
were in order but they had not been used,
not deeming them necessary. He consid-
cred officer Metcalf, in charge of the deck
at the time of the disaster, thoroughly COM
petent.
Statement of n QuarternRster.
Richard Reynolds, from Queenstown,
who kept diary during the ferriage,
charges that many of the crew acted very
cowardly. He says that one of the men
who escaped by port hole was wedged in
for several minutes, unable to move either
way, but finally escaped. He tReynolds)
lifted by the hair through port hole the
lad John Henley,
New YORK, April 6.-Three hundred
and five survivors of the Atlantic arrived
here this morning by the steamer New
port. 1t being generally known they were
coming, as early as o'clock the anxious
gathered around the pier and the widest
excitement prevailed. AS soon as the New
port neared the dock the pier was closed
and none but the employees and members
of the press were admitted inside the gates,
meanwhile the commissioners of immigra-
ton had the tug Thomas Fletcher
chartered, and to avoid large crowds out
side the pier, ran her up close to Newport
and took the unfortunate passengers on
board and steamed down to Castle Garden,
where the scene battles description. Thou
sands of men, women and children of al
most every nation were gathered together,
and it was with the greatest difficulty they
could be kept from forcing their way
through the gates. The poor fellows
looked starved, wretched and miserably
clad and seemed to be very much disheart-
ened. On arrival ut Castle Garden they
were registered as usual, after which
friends who were waiting i'm the informa-
ton room sent in the names of those
whom they sought. AS wife and chill
dren, sister or brother recognized one of
the unfortunate men whom they deemed
lost, the scene was touching. Men gave
way entirely and the women either
swooned or screamed for joy. Even out
side the gates men and women who were
gathered in groups sobbed and cried Bit
terly.
After short time breakfast was laid,
consisting of coffee, boiled eggs, tongue,
ham, white bread, butter and boiled beef,
of which the starving men partook plenti-
fully. During the day they seemed to be-
come more reconcied TO their fate. Ats =.
NJ. dinner was served of soup, roast beef,
corned beef, potatoes, bread, pie and cake.
About one hundred of the passengers will
leave tonight on the Erie line at o'clock
and the remainder will leave in few days.
The majority of the men speak disparag-
ingiy of the captain and crew, and com
plain that after being two or three days at
sea their food WAS cut shor..l