Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-04

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EVERY
BOAT-LOAD RESCUED.
The boat afterward made for the vessel
and took off two boat-loads. Hall an
hour later another boat came and res
cued many of those clinging to the rig,
pinp. Third Officer Brady, who had
Succeeded fn reaching the shore over a
line carried from the vessel by himself,
organized crew, and materially aided
in the work of rescue.
THE oUARTERMAsTER's STATEMENT.
HALIFAX, n. S., April S.-There is
nothing of Importance from the wreck
to .day. Robert Thomas, the quarter
master. saws: "At two o'clock l went
mon the bridge with the second officer;
met the captain, and told him not to
stand into land, as the ship had run her
distance TO make Sambro light, from
NV calculations. He told me was
neither captain nor mate. then
went to the fourth officer, Brown, and
asked him if should go on the main
wards. as he would not see land until he
Struck on it. He told me it was no use
for me to 90 up. / then relieved the
man at the wheel, and at half-past two
O'clock the second officer told the cap
tain, who was reposing in the chart
room, that the weather was getting
thick. The second officer went outside
| of the chart-room. The man on LOOKOUT
called out, "Ice aheadW We were
among ice, and, shortly after, the ship
| struck. The time was quarter past
three O'Clock. i put the helm hard star
| board, and reversed the engines TO iuli
speed astern. / left the wheeihouse ana
went to the after wheelhouse, ana dls-
! tributed axes for the purpose OF cuttlhg
wav Gear about the boat. A little boy
and hismother named Munney, both
steerage passengers, with her brother
| Alfred Munney, all from London, were
| lost. She called to me after she came
ont of after steerage and said to me,
| feRobert, where are you;n / said, 81 am
bere.n she said, 'iSave mew took the
mother and child on the saloon deck
and told her to stay there until L could
get the boats clear to put her and the
boy into. The shipped suddenly listed
over, and they lost their hold on the
railing and were swept overheard, and
sunk to rise no more. think
they have some friends or relatives at
Yonkers, Westchesterc county, New York,
as I received an address to the above ef-
feet. William Hurdy, quartermaster,
was the first who attempted to swim
ashore; but when going he said, Good
hive. Thomas; will you come with me?"
! l replied that | wanted to save the boy
and his mother; then l saw that the
bov and his mother were swept away.
I swan on shore, and when / landed on
| a rock a passenger called out, "Save
mer' which did. jumped from rock TO
rock, sometimes falling from exhaUs-
| ton, with the man with me, until /
found favorable place which fishermen
have to signal boats. | then called
ont for help. Two old men and boy
came to our assistance, and | went to
! the house with them and procured a
| line and then retraced my steps to the
beach, where I saw lot of the passen-
gers and crew upon the rock. Speak
man, the quartermaster, swan toward
me with a line from the rock, and /
| threw my line, caught him and pulled
! him ashore. AS soon as [ had done
| so, we hauled in the line which he had
! from the rock and made it fast to the
end Of my line, so as to make it strong
er. AS soon as / got the line made fast
| | told those on the rock to come ashore
one by one, as would save
them. The first man that was saved
in this way l do not know, but the
second was Mr.. Brady, the third officer.
| saved in this manner about seventy.
! In some instances, as the line was some
distance overhead and the persons too
exhausted, had t. reach down and
pull them up, some had to go into the
water for, which was out of my depth,
with a line around my waist. In these
cases, the two old men would drag me
fl,n I raCQnnH : a.
mained there from four o'clock till nine,
when fell down through exhaustion.
| One of the stewards and somebody else
relieved me and ] was carried to house
where l was kindly cared for. As
soon as 1 recovered sufficient strength
[ was conveyed on the boat to the main
land, and went to Mr.. Ryars, the mag
istrate, by whom 1 was kindly treated
and attended to, as / had the cramp.
The chief steward, and another man,
who threw his arm around the stew
ards neck, when coming ashore on the
rope, We're drowned at my feet The
reason that l could not render assistance
in this case was that the two old men
went away with a man had rescued, as
they feared he would perish; therefore,
there was no one present to haul
me ashore, if l had jumped off the
rocks after them. Quarter master Ray
lances says about twenty minutes after
three o'clock Il have the log, the ship
at that time was going at the rate
of twelve knots per hour. | went into
the aft wheelhouse and was looking
through one of the windows when l
faneied saw breakers on the starboard
side. then ran forward to the look
out man on the bridge and asked him if
he did not think there were
breakers on the starboard side.
He reported to the second officer
who telegraphed to the engine-rOom
to reverse the engines full speed. We
both then jumped off the bridge together
on deck; then he gave me the order to
call all hands on deck. l ran forward
and burst open the quartermasters'
room with my foot, and all of them,
three in number, got out through the
panel of the door; then | and one OF
them went aft and got out the rockets,
and fired about eight, when the rocket
box rolled away from US. The captain
gave orders to get the boats clear and
save the passengers. The captain and
l went to No. 8 boat, and were
getting her clear, when he asked
me if the plugs were in her. | told him
ln6N were nul3 dS TIC pdSScuSClS were
huddled together in the bottom of the
boat, all crying, / could not get the
plugs in, and the captain then passed
the order around for every one to look
after themselves. / then, with the cap
tain and a passenger, got into the main
rigging and stopped there. I afterward
heard the captain ask if any of the
quartermasters were in the rigging.
answered eyes; here is one of them"
|. / then went aloft by the main tOpmasl
rigging, as the captain ordered heave Of
the signal halyards to heave ashore
When 1 got up aloft the maintopsail
!, brace was carried away and | had tC
come down again. At that time the
lines were ashore and l assisted the
captain in getting to the forward rig
ging. The captain and / cut the fore
brace, and passed it to Mr. Brown,
fourth officer, who sent it on and passed
, it ashore by one of the other lines
ACTION OF UNDERWRITERS.
NEW YORK, April 3.-The under.
writers, of New York, have dispatched
the wrecker, William II. Marritt, witt
divers, and full instructions, to Halifax
} to take charge of the wrecked steamer
. Atlantic, and save the vessel and cargo
and make all possible provision for the
saving and preserving the bodies of the
lost. The coast wreeking company dis
patched a steamer to-day, with a full
wrecking company to carry out this OBJ
ject. A dispatch from Halifax states
, that the Atlantic is broken at fore-mast
The mails for Great Britain and France
advertised to be sent by the Atlantic
win be forwarded by the steamer Weser
: Saturday.
NEW YORK PRESS SPECIALS.
The SIM furnishes the following addi
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