The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-04-04
THE ILL-FATED ATLANTIC.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE APPALL-
ING CATASTROPHE.

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE APPALL-
ING CATASTROPHE.
The List OF Saved and Missing-Excuses
OF the Captain and the Liverpool
ARents-Wails of the Widowed and
Fatherless.
NEW YORK, APRIL 8.
The agents Of the White Star Line have or
dered one hundred cofins for the bodies that
have already foated ashore from the Atlantic
wreck.
The captain OF the Atlantic attributes the
disaster to the speed OF the vessel, which
must have made more than niue knots an
hour to get 30 far out of her course. He seems
overwhelmed with sorrow, and said to re-
porter: ITO think that, while hundreds ot
men were saved, every woman should have
perlshed-it's horrible Had 1 been able to
save even one woman, could bear the disas-
ter, but to lose ALL 1t s terrible, terrible y He
seemed to fully realize that the world would
hold him to strict account.
The latest accounts report four hundred
and thirteen saved and five hundred and
sixty lost, Including three hundred and
fifty women and children. The cargo
consisted of fashionable dry goods, amount
Ing in value to half million dollars.
Narrowing details of The awful scene con-
tInpe to be received. Ali the women, who
were asleep when the ship struck, were
drowned In their berLhs. The heavy sea con
stantly poured over the vessel and filled her,
and prevented them from escaping to the
deck. Some females, who showed great pres-
ence of mind and appreciation OF the disaster,
only reached the deck to be washed overheard
Into the foamlng trough of the sea. Soon
after, six men on the shore wrote 10 huge let
ters on blackboard, the words, "Cheer up;
the boats are coming to your assistance
which announcement was received with hearty
cheers from the ship. After an awful sus-
pense of half an hour, some men were seen
on the Island, carrying boa, over the rocks;
thisRas soon launched and took off three
boat loads from the outaylng wreck. While
rescuing these men, Captain Williams aud the
passengers called ltudly for the boats crew to
come to the ship and take them of, as they
were In most Imminent danger. The captain
cried, NJ aon glue fue hundred dollars for
every boat load rescued" Tia boat afterwards
made for the vessel and look off two loGds.
Half an hour later another boat came and res
cued many Of those ciinglng to the rigging.
Third Officer Brady, who had succeeded In
reaching the shore b7 al overtime, carried
from the vessel by himself an organized crew,
and materially aided the work Of rescuipg the
passengers.
Tho Nationalities of the Passengers-
Nine Hundred and Fifty Emigrants
Aboard when the Atlantic Left
Queenstown-The Corpscs Of the vlc-
Tins.
NEW YORK, April 8.
The steamship Atlantic was Insured in Lon
don companies for one huadred and fifty
thousand dollars (pounds?) There were
seven hundred and sixty steerage pas
sengers on the ill.fated vessel. The passen-
gers and crew of the Atlantic, as she sailed
from Liverpool, were classified as follows:
English, one hundred and nine-eight men and
seventy-lour women, twenty-eight male chill.
dren and twenty-one female children.
Scotch, seven men and four women. Irish,
forty-three men, ell :hteen women aud three
children. Other nationallties, one hundred
and fifty adult ma es, thlrty-two women, nine'
teen male children, and eighteen female chill
dren. A large number Of emigrants embark
ed at Queenstown, making the total number
of souls, when she sailed from that port, nine
hundred and flty-iwo.
Mr.. Frank D. Mackeval, cabin passenger.
sends the following dispatch to the Associated
Press:
EJ "HALIFA1, April 8.
ssSsy to the friends of the cabin passengers
of the steamer Atlantic that will remain with
the wreck until / have secured all the lost
cabin passengers. have boats going to the
wreck this morning to receive the bodies.
The bodies OF Mr.. Fisher and Miss Merritt We
have. The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt,
Miss Scrymser aud John H. Price, OF New
York, have great hopes of recovering"
The Elild Protest OF the Liverpool
Agent-A Rnving Maniac Crying for
Vengeance.
NEW YORK, April 8.
A dispatch from Ismsy & Co., the agents 10
Liverpool Of the White Star Line, says that
the deviations of the Atlantic Ia Incompetent.
Eible. She had about nine hundred and sixty
seven tons of coal against an average COZ
sumption, during eighteen voyages, OF seven
hundred and iorty.four tons. She had 1886
tons OF assorted cargo. Crowds of poor rela-
tives Of the steerage passengers throng the
rooms Of the agency here. Mrs. Groi, who
lost her husband and two children on the
wreck, has become ravlng maniac.