Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-03
Additional Particulars OF the
Wreck of the Atlantic-MOst
Disastrous Accident on
Land or Sea.
Three Hundred Women and Chill
dren Awake from Sleep to
Grapple with Death in
the Ocean.
Desperate Struggle Between
Drowning and Freezing
Certain Death by One or
the Other.
Appalling Incidents Detailed by
Observation-Disclosures and
SufferingS Beggar De-
ScriptiOn.

SufferingS Beggar De-
ScriptiOn.
New YORK, April 2.-The White
Star company, last evening, on receiv-
ing the news of the disaster to the At
lantic, dispatched an agent to relieve the
survivors, and instructed him to tele-
graph their names to all important
points. Two other agents left for Hall
fax this morning, to forward the survi-
yors to their destinations. The steam
shin CITY of Montreal, which sailed on
the same day with the Atlantic March
25th), has a duplicate list of the Allan
ties passengers, both cabin and steer
age. She is expected to-day. The com-
pany says the catastrophe was caused
by missing lights on the coast, and not
by any negligence on the part OF
the vessel; that Captain Will
Hams was an experienced and excel
lent seaman. He has been about twelve
wears in the transatlantic trade, and has
been with the White Star line since its
organization. At one time he COM
manded the steamship Colorado, which,
after he retired from her. was sunk by a
collision in Mersey. Further than the
dispatch announcing the wreck, the
company have not received any lntelll-
gence as TO the number of passengers
lost. Those rescued are on their way to
Halifax; but as the journey VIII have
TO be made in wagons, they are not eX-
pected to reach there before tve
O'Clock this afternoon. The captains
statement, and whatever particulars can
be obtained, will be at once sent TO the
company's Office in the city.
Boston, April 1.-The following is a
specisl 70 the EUeRiRg Traveller:
HALIFAX, April Only three or
four cabin passengers were saved from
the wreck of the Alantic-One English
man and two or three FTenchmen. Only
one lady passenger attempted TO save
herself She was frozen TO death in the
rigging, and fell into the water. The
pHTSer is among the lost. Some of the
Passengers arrived in this city to-day
and gave narrowing details Of the
calamity. The Atlantic had eight
hundred and fifty steerage pas
sengers and thirty sailors. There
had been two births during the voyage.
The crew numbered fOrty-twO, and four
teen stowaways were discovered. Three
hundred in all were saved out of q total
number of one thousand and thirty
eight persons. A steerage passenger
makes the following statement:
81 turned into my berth about eleven
o'clock Monday night. The night was
dark but starlight and the weather fine.
/ knew the ship was going into Halifax
for coal. The last / remembered was
thqt, tEns hellsotp ,R'flRGkl StTJieko.. ]
shock. and remarked TO my mate,
Fphere goes the anchor l thought
of course We were safe in Halifax
harbor. but as soon as she made a second
plunge, j said, Good God, she is
ashore With that, we got up and
dressed. The companiOn-way was
thrOnged with lower steerage passengers,
and seeing that the sea was commencing
10 break over the ship and lower down
companion way, i got as many as possi-
bic TO take to hunks and hold on by the
iron stanchions. There we remained
until after daylight. The ship had
plunged over and the steerage was full
OF water, one side only being out of it.
Our only chance of escape was the ports.
A number of men, probably twenty,
cot out through the ports TO the
side of the vessel. / remained un-
I'll all who were alive We're out.
Il a
in their hunks, and Others were drowned
while trying to reach the ports. got
out through the port, and held fast to
the side of the ship for about two hours,
and then went to shore by the life line.
When l left the ship there were still
great many in the rigging. The names
of the cabin passengers lost are as fol-
lows. CYRUS NJ. Fisher, counsellor at
Law. Of Vermont, and his wife; Miss
Brodie and Miss Barker, both Of Chica-
90; ]. II. Pruce, Isl Broadway, New
York: Mr.. Krugan, 81. Exchange
street. New York; Albert SumeT,
San Francisco; Henry T. Hewitt, of
w !. Best & Co, AS Broom street,
New York; Mr.. Merritt and wife, New
York: Miss ScryseT and Miss Merritt,
New York; Mrs. Davidson and daughter,
London; w. ID. Wellington, Boston;
Mr. Street, wife, sou and daughter, Ne
vada.
The following cabin passengers were
saved. w. Freeman, ID. Marchwauld, of
Thompson, Langdon & Co., 39l Broad
way, New York; 5. w. Wick, of Wick
& Malone Wilmington, North Caro-
lima; j. Spencer Jones, New Ross, Ire
land; Lewis SeversOn, w. Gardner,
Charles w. Allen, London; Henry Hir-
sal, Switzerland; Simeon CamacheO,
of New York; b. B. Richmond, De-
trOit; AdOlphus Jugla glass dealer, 787,
RroadWay, New York; William John
Bmndley Of Brurslem, England; Dan
tel Kinane. Springfield, Ohio; James
Brown. of Manchester: Nicholas Bran.
ale. of New York. The following are
the officers saved. James A. Williams,
Captain J. w. Ferth, chief officer; Cor
nelius Braley, third officer; John
Broun, fourth officer; Cuppaize, sur
ge0n: second officer, Henry Metcalf, is
among the last; also Ambrose Worth
ington, puTser, and Hugh Christie,
chief steward. About seventy of the
crew were lost, aud the same number
saved. -Four hundred and thirteen
steeraCe passengers We're saved, which
Is about One-half Of the number on
board.
The following is the captains state
ment: "We sailed from Liverpool on
March 10Th. During the first part Of
ile passage we had favorable weather
and easterly winds. On the twenty
fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-siXth
we experienced heavy southwest and
westerly gales, which brought the ship
down To one hundred and eighteen miles
a day. On the thiTty-lirst of March the
engineers report showed but about one
hundred end twenty tons of coal
on board. We were then four hundred
and sixty miles east of Sandy Hook,
with the wind southwest and high west
erlv swell and falling barometer, and the
shin steaming only eight knots per hour.
We considered it a risk too great tG push
c,r as We might find ourselves,
in the event Of gale, shut Out from
anv mort Of supply, aud so decided to
hear np for HalifaX at half-past three in
the evening df the thirty-frst Sombre
island was distant one hundred and
seventy miles, the ships speed ranging
from eight TO twelve knots per hour;
wind south, with rain, which yeered 70
westward al eight o'clock In the even
ing, with clear weather at midnight.
judged the ship TO have made one hun
dred and twenty-five miles, which
would place her forty-eight miles south
of SOmbre, and / then left the deck and
went into the chart-rO0m, leaving Or
ders about the lookout, and to let me
know If they saw anything, and call me
at three in the morning, intending then
20 nut the ships head to southwark and
await daylight. My first intimation of
a catastrophe was the striking of the
shin on MarT's island. On remaining
there fast the sea Immediately swept
away all the port boats. The Officers
Weut 10 their stations and commenced