The Portland daily press., 1873-04-07

third officer BRADY as he wished to have the
distance run by the ship from one P. M to mid.
night Brady was at the time on his rounds of
the ship The captain afterwards came on the
bridge and told me he placed the ship .0ur
miles south of Sambro Light then went be-
low. The captains orders were to keep good
lookout for loose ice, and in the event of seeing
the light, to get it two points in the port bow
and call him immediately and under any cir
cumstances to call him not later than three
O'CLOCK II Ihese orders l conveyed to the second
officer. The lead was not thrown over at ALL
The lead was ready on the bridge The 1.-THE
rest has been frequently repeated
1t was, in my opinion. impossible to have
launched the boat spoken of by Mr. Allen. 1t
was carried away about daylight, l have had
with great many masters and found captain
Williams all that could be expected of ono in
his position. L have been a shipmaster myself
largely engaged in the Indian trade. There
could not have been any attemps to keep the
Steerage passengers below, as the companion
ways were open. L cannot give any opinion as
to the quantity of coal she had or whether it
was enough or not. 1 joined the steamer in the
morning and left few hours later Besides, l
might have been told that there was 900 tons of
coal on board, but that would hot prove it.
100 often short quauty of coal IS put in. /
considered that there was not the slightest risk
when went to bed at twelve o'clock In the
morning the ship was kept in her course for
three hours longer. The course was intended to
take us about live miles east of Sambro Light
The point on which she struck is, learn, about
seven miles west of the light 1 can account
for the disaster in no other way than that there
was strong curreut setting to the north and
west which we did not know Of The lead was
hove regularly every two hours. On two or
three days during the passage when we had no
observations our lead reckoning was found cor
rect. The chief steward had reported short
supply OF provisions that night, because we took
on board more passengers than we expected
This completed the chief officers statement and
the court then adjourned till ten o'clock Mon
day.
HALIFAX, April 6.-Fourteen bodies were re-
covered Yesterday, all by graphing. To-day
the weather being very favorable, the divers
worked for the purpose of finding bodies and
~, all apparently steerage passengers were
recovered. Many of them had considerable
sums of money. A few packages of goods
were brought up The divers crew numbers
65 men. The only bodies now remaining un-
cofined on shore are those found to-day, all
the others having been buried or coffinei ready
for burial. Those recognized by prayer books
as Roman Catholics was taken to Torrance
Bay, a few miles distant, aud buried in the
Catholic cemetery. The remainder have been
bnred in the Episcobal cemetery at Prospect.
Some of the bodies brought up to-day show
that they died by suffocatiOn, not by drowning.
AS the bodies are brought up by the divers they
were placed in a boat under the charge of Geo. |
Longard, justice of the peace, and conveyed
to the hill side on Ryan's Island, where Ed
ward hyrn, another magistrate, receives them
and takes from them all money and valuables,
noting all IN a book, with such marks of iden-
titicatlon as can be found The bodies of Mrs.
davidson and her daughter were found wit hin |
a short time of each other.