Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-03
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DEATH ON THE DEEP 7!
PARTICULARS OF THE LOSS OF THE
STEAMER ATLANTIC.
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Anxious Inquiries of the Fate Of Pas
SeDserS by Their Friends.
Cause OF the Terrible Disaster Not
Yet
TEEE OCEAN EsOEACAUST.

Ihe Disaster the Topic oil conversations
| NEW YORK, April mo reliable de-
tails of disaster have been received
The City of Montreal due to-day brings a
duplicate list of the Atlantic's passengers
The company has sent an agent to pro.
vide for and report the names of the sur.
vivOrs.
Among the passengers lost OH board the
steamer Atlantic, the only ones now known
are VIM. S. Merritt and wife, of New
| York, Miss Merritt, his sister and Miss
Scryinser, his sister-in-law.
| No copy or list of passengers lost on the
steamship Atlantic has been received in
this city. The agent of the line here says
| his dispatches from Halifax received last
| night, state that none Of the Atlantic's
cargo had floated, which he considers as
evidence that the steamers hull is NOT
| broken. @--s.g xssa, &
Friends Anxious for Iaformaficn.
People who had friends on board the III
fated steamer crowded the offices of
the White Star line this morning hoping
to learn names ofsurvivors, but as no list
had been received, no Information could
be given them. Ef,....--N
This terrible disaster is the only topic
this morning and full investigation is de-
manded by the public and the people that
the responsibility for the disaster be fixed
ON proper parties. srsrsTT era FL SO
BosToN,7 April 1t is reported that
Russell Sturges and Franklin w. Smith
were passengers Oh the Atlantic. azsL1S
LONDON, April 2.-The Atlantic disaster
is universal theme The offices of the
agents of both cities are thronged with
friends of the passengers. 1oJ I8o@st
HALIFAX, April 2.-The steamship Del
tn, dispatched to the scene of the disaster
to theAtlantic had not returned and no later
information has been received from Hall
fax. The Atlantic had nine hundred steer
age and fifty cabin passengers Not q sin
gle woman or child was saved. .--;----.
There is nothing in the shape Of -doclI-
ments saved from the Atlantic. A list Of
passengers will be obtained possibleupon
the return Of the steamersTfronl the
wreck. :
BosToN, April @2.-The report that
Russell Sturges and Franklin NJ. Smith
We're passengers on the Atlantic is ineor-
rect. They took another steamer.
Cause of the Disastcr-List af Cabin Pas.
scnSers.
Ii NEW York, April, 1.-Two more agents
of the Star Line sent to succor the survi-
vors of the Atlantic. The officers Of the
Company think the disaster was caused
by mistaking the lights, and attach no
blame to the captain or officers for mis-
management. Captain Williams has been
in the transatlantic trade for about
dozen years, and being connected with
the Williams & GUN line before the
White Star Line was organized.
LONDON, April 1.-The following list Of
names of cabin passengers of the steam
ship Atlantic have been obtained from the
agents of the White Star Line: Mr.. n.
Brandt, Jno. Price, III. Kruger, S. L.
Week, Albert Sumner, j. Hewitt, Spencer
Jones, HI. Wellington, w. Gardener,
James Brown, r. Camacks, J. Marchwald,
III. Hirsch, B. Richmonds, w. Merritt
w. Sheat, III. Sheat, Charles Allen, "A.
Jugla, John Brindley, Il. Levinson, Mrs.
Davidson, Mrs. Merritt, Mrs. Sheat, Miss
Davidson, Miss Raudon, Miss Brodye,
Miss Barker, Miss Merrett, Miss Sheat
and two Misses Rose. g;E.D,EBf
Meager Details of the Casualty. !
HALIFAX, April 2.-Only three OF four
cabin passengers were saved from the
wreck of the Atlantic-one Englishman
and two or three Frenchmen. Only one
lady passenger attempted to save herself.
She was frozen to death in the rigging and
fell into the water. Purser is among the
lost. Some of the passengers arrived in
this city to-day and gave borrowing de-
fcers or passengers saved are not known
as yet. Relief steamers are expected up at
. o'clock. -
The Atlantic had eight hundred and fifty
steerage and thirty saloon passengers.
There had been two births during the voy-,
age. The crew numbered one hundred
and forty-two, and there were fourteen
stow-aways discovered. Three hundred in
all were saved out of the total number of
one thousand and thirty-eights 4
officers of the Line s,! Active in Aforains
Mr.. McDermott and his children were
among the pas sengers of the lost steam
ship Atlantic. Mrs. McDermott..is matron
of Fifth Avenue Hotel. 1t is also stated
that John H. Pricet a lawyer of this city,
with two ladies in his charge, and Peter
Brindley, agent of Barclay street firm,
in this city were passengers. Inquiries
were also made for three steerage ,passen-
gers from Ireland consigned to- relatives
here
h The agents of the line have been in
structed to omit nothing that will relief
the distress of those saved and forward
them to their destination.
Statement of Storage Passenger,
HALIFAX, April "A Storage passen-
ger makes the following statement: 81
turned into nv berth about IL O'Clock,
Monday night. The night was dark, but
starlight and the weather was fine. /
knew the ship was going into Halifax for
coal. The last L remember was that two
bells O'Clock struck, I then went to sleep
and 1 woke up with a shock, and remark
ed to my mate ''There goes anchor.D /
thought of course we. were safe in Halifax
harbor, but as soon as she made a second
plunge, said: Good God, she is ashore
With that we got up and dressed.
The companionway was hronged with
lower Storage passengers and seeing that
the sea was commencing to break over the