The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-04
SAD SCENES AT THE WRECK.
RECOVERY OF BODIES.
CLASSIFICATION OF PASSENGERS.
The Description of the Fated Steamer
The Scene of the Disaster
Other Great Marine
Disasters.
&c., go. SO.


White Star line have ordered one hundred
collins for the bodies which have ALREADY
foated ashore from the wreck Of the Inflated
Atlantic.
Captain Williams attributes the disaster
to the speed Of the vessel, which must have
oeen more than nine knots for her to have
gotten 80 far out Of her course. The captain
seems overwhelmed with sorrow. He said
to reporter: "To think that, while hun.
dreds OF men were saved, every woman
should have persisted. I. is horrible. III
had been able TO save even one woman
l could bear the disaster, but to lose all-it's
terrible, terrible" He seemed to fully real.
Ice that the world would hold him to strict
account. ~
Inc latest accounts report 413 saved and
$50 lost, including $50 women and children.
The cargo WAS composed generally of fash.
ionabie dry goods, and was valued ut
100000.
NARROWING DETAILS OF TIE AWFUL SCENES
the loss of the steamer continue to
be received. All the women who We're asleep
at the time the ship struck were drowned In
their berths, the heavy sea which constantly
poured over the vessel and filled her pre-
venting them from reaching the deck. Some
of the women, who showed remarkable
presence of mind and appreciation of the
awful situation, succeeded in reaching the
deck, only to be washed into the sea and
drowned. Soon after this six men, who had
reached the shore, wrote OIL a blackboard,
"Cheer up, boats are coming 10 your assist
ance." This announcement was responded
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 of three boat-loads from the out
lying rock. While this boat was engaged in
rescuing these men Captain Williams and
the passengers called loudly to the crew to
come to the ship and take them of first,
as they were in the most imminent danger !;
the captain at the same time 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 the rigging.
Third Officer Brady, who had succeeded
In reaching the shore over line, carried
from the vessel an organized crew and
aided materially in the work of rescue.
New YORK, April 3.-Mr. Freeman D.
Mackwal, cabin passenger on the Atlantic,
sends the following dispatch to the Asso-
ciated Press:
"HalJax, April 8.-say to the friends of
the cabin passengers of the steamer Atlantic
that l will remain with the wreck. until /
have secured all the lost cabin passengers.
have been going to the wreck this morning
to receive the bodies. The bodies of Mrs.
Fisher and Miss Merritt we have. The
bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt, Miss Sey.
mour, and John II. Price, of New York,
have great hopes of securing"
CLASSIFICATION OF THE PASSENGERS.
LONDON, April 3.-Tbe steamship Allan
tic was insured in London companies for one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. There
were seven hundred and sixty steerage pas
sengers OF the Inflated vessel. The paSsen-
gers and crew of the Atlantic us she sailed
from Liverpool were classified rs follows
English, one hundred and ninety-eight men,
seventy-four women, twenty-eight male chill
dreD, and twenty-One female children; Scotch,
seven men and four women; Irish, forty.
three men, eighteen women, and three chill
dren. Of other natioualities there were one
hundred and fifty adult males, thlrty-two
women, nineteen male children, and eight
female children. A large number Of emf
grants embarked at Queenstown, making the
total number of souls upon the steamer when
she sailed from that port nine hundred and
tifty-two.
LONDON, April 3.--Of the passengers on
the Atlantic 200 were booked fromE Cork
and five from Plymouth. Great anxiety eX.
lists in those places US to their fate.
STATEMENT FROM THE AGENTS.
LIVERPOOL, April $40 j. H. Sparks :
The Atlantic's deviation to Halifax is incom.
prehensible. The quantity of coal on board
was nine hundred and sixty.seven tons
against 40 average consumption during eigh-
teen voyages of seven hundred and forty
four tons. [Signed] JsMAY, InYER & Co.
TIE CARGo-sAD SCENES.
New YORK, April 3.--Papers received
from Europe by the agents Of the White Star
Line here state that the Atlantic had l 1886
tons of assorted cargo on board.
Large numbers of poor people, relatives
of the steerage passengers. continue to
throng the passenger agency here In hopes
of further tldings of their friends.
Mrs. Graf, VINO lost her husband and two
children on the Atlantic, is a raving maniac
here, consequent upon her affection.
THE WRECKED SHIP.
The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company,
owners of the White Star Line, to which the
ilLfated Atlantic belonged, is British cor
poration, organized about three years ago
for the purpose Of trading with New York.
It has d wharf in jersey City, adjoining
PavopIa ferry, and IN Office in Broadway
The Atlantic sailed on her first voyage
from Liverpool on the 10Th of June, 1871,
and arrived on the 26th, having made the
run in ten days and few hours. She was
built BY Harland g. Wolf, at Belfast, Ire.
land, in 1870, and was launched, We believe,
in the month of December Of that year. She
was 400 feet in length, 10 feet inches
breadth of beam, and % feet inches depth
of hold proper, and 81 feet TO top oil spar
deck, and measured 1866 tons, custom
house measurement.
The Atlantic was fitted with II boilers and
4 cylinders, on the compound principle-an
improvement In machinery applied only
within the last two years to transatlantic
vessels. The ordinary compound engine
consists Of two cylinders-one high pressure
and the other low pressure but the Atlantic
engines had four cylinders, by means OF
which great economy was effectedln fuei,
the average daily consumption being only 40
IONS of coal. The engines were registered
NJ s 600 horsepower, and were warranted 70
stand pressure of 10 pounds to the quare
inch. ,
The Atlantic was fitted for general
trade. aud was capable of accommodating
l 200 passengers. Her main saloon, extend
log the whole length of the vessel, WIN lts s
gilded cornices, brilliant mountings, Dronzea
statues. and marble chimney pieces carved
furniture, and dark-red cushions, equaile0 J, !,
not surpassed In Its general appearance ana
newness any other vessel in the trafisatian-
tic service. 1t was fitted with electric bells,
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