The Portland daily press., 1873-04-04
The Wreck Of the Atlantic
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The following additional seer .ne night OF
the loss of the Atlantic are 'Veh ny speclai
dispatches:
Patrick Leahy, youni, irl II. J mailing
from Waterford, was on e ao az . CLOCK, a.
M, and then everything T. gong IN as usual:
He went into the forws S Ssoendse anu haa not
been there but few One Hogan he inst .ast.
~ attempted to gaiR%ay had become eI ho ln a
al Sncb ~" waS ,ba sartling nature of the shock
that + had arom1 passengers out of their
he ,t and thew Shed into the passages before
thew knew or ~ thought of what was the
matter WI, Leahy reached the deck the
shn bad cmoIenced to rock over from side to
s;da ny There were few but the officers and
crow y;s,b lie saw several men iump over
hoard apsink Some of Them did not make
an atte3t to see what the danger was. but as
in ali SEES OF shipwreck became dazed and ven.
t tn the first chance of getting out of the
VOC that presented itself. There were s;x
lifJoats swung to the deck, and these were
ten possession of by men and several cast
z, the others being swept away by the waves
III save one succumbed to the fury of the
waves immediately and the occupants were
drowned. When the water commenced to come
into the Storage the passengers made for the
hurricane deck. The captain shouted for any
men who had life belts or buoys to rush into the
sea or mount the rigging; as those were the on
y chances for life.
Leahy and his chum Immediately assembled
the rigging after much trouble, and from thence
had good view of what was going on. +" Their" "
said he,. II saw the first and an awful sight"
1t was just cleaning day. A large mass of
drifted past the ship on top of a
wave, and then was lost to view on the trough
Of the sea. AS it passed by a moan-it must
have been shrek, but the tempest 1ulled the
IN
which extended over fifty yards of water.
What is that" asked Leahy of one next him.
Sea lions, said the man addressed, probably a
foreigners who did not know that we had none
such on our shores "My God" SAID another
its the women; and SO it was. The sea
swept them out of the Storage, and with their
children to the number of two or three hun
dred they drifted thus to eternity. Leahy was
in the rigging seven hours moving MP and down
to keep hi blood in circulation He saw men
On both sides of him fall from exhaustion.
mostly able-bodied Germans The only chance
If escape was by means of rope to the shore,
which Mr. Brady, the third officer, swan
tshore with. Nearly half those who ran the
sl1 of crossing on this lost their lives.
One man had just secured -four barrel on
eck when he was washed overheard, but not
,efore he had obtained hold on either end,
he bottom being out. The fore, of the waves
vas such, however, that the barrsl was torn
rom the mans grasp, and he disappeared
While his quondam support foated away on the
Old of hugh billow
A little fellow, the only child saved from the
yreck, rushed upon deck with the stream of
assengers, when the first alarm was given
lis parents and other members of his family
yere still below evidently persisted when
he ship filed and fell over on her side. Hust-
I'd about among that struggling mass of ex-
tied humanity, the piteous screams of the
oor little fellow went to the hardest heart
lie ieaped upon the back of one of the men, in
ne hopes of saving himself, but in the fearful
.hnsrs, Where everybody was intent upon saving
the nSH few paid attention to the walls Of
cIinoiSSa, aad the man upon whose back he was
fectaai ss II for dear life, made several inef-
cries of the s1hn 1p to shake the bow off The
the captain poy at last attracted the attention of
ner in which T ha perceiving the tenacious man
out to the men ne was struggling for life caIlad
the boy and The istae if possible t to
ateiy passed over the heads 'e OF Wv was immed
mass and placed in the boat. the struggling
exciting themselves to save their e gu who were
ers lives almost wept for joy as o tSna and 9TH
lad safely landed on shore. 'ney saw the
All the passengers speak in the b;obos.
Of the gallant conduct of the third oce Terms