The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-11
Additional Particulars 49, Statements OF
Suryiyors-ThrilIin Scene.

The New York Stn furnishes the following
additional details of the loss of the Atlantic !:
Storage passenger says nearly all the pas
sengers in his part of the steerage, to the num-
Der of 1913, If not more, rushed on deck at the
same time. Some of the passengers who first
succeeded in getting on deck were told by
some of the officers in command that nothing
was wrong; that they had only lowered the
anchor. The passengers then went down
again, and tried to persuade the rest to that
effect. think this was done to prevent con-
fusion on deck. | came up again and had just
time to go on saloon deck about 10 minutes
after the ship first struck, when she turned
over toward land and sank. A number of per-
SONS chung to the bulwarks but the sea being
high they were washed Off and many drowned
Others, along with myself who got into the
rigging. swung themselves of by ropes into
the water, and swan to the rock. q distance of
about so yards. About $50, who were pas
sengers, principally belonging to the steerage
that | was in, saved themselves in this way
The Captain, who was clnging to the ships
side, passed off about 100 passengers into the
boat, and advised them to Jump into the water
and swim ashore.
VIM. Hogan, of Waterford, tells the follow
ing l was on deck at 3 o'clock. | heard
sailor on duty call out "All's wells o'clock"
After hearing the sailor saying "All's well,
went forward to the storage and got into bed
About five or ten minutes afterwards heard
a watchmvn cry out, Breakers ahead!' and
almost instantly heard tremendous crash
and the air rushed in and blew out the lights
Ii was my impression a boiler had bursted.
called up some Of the boys that were sleeping
near me, and told them to rush on deck that
u boiler had exploded. Some of them refused
TO go, and said that Il mattered little, thinking
the steamer was OFT at sea, that it was Just al
well to meet death below AZ OH deck The
orders were given, as is common thing in
steamships, with sailors, that the matches
should be closed, and no one be permitted to
ascend to the deck. Thinking that our lives
were in imminent danger we forced the matches
up. As soon az we were on deck we ran to the
side of the vessel, and saw rock, az / sup
posed, about 800 yards distant. l thought at
first it was an iceberg we had struck but i'm
mediately afterward the ship began to heave
or plunge, and after three or four plunges set
tied, and the water seemed to be rushing in.
Believing that our safety depended on our
being on the side of the vessel nearest to
land, rushed to that side and caught hold of
the rigging. Then the ship began to turn over
gradually on her side. got on the side of the
ship and caught hold OF a rope. / then heard
a dismal wall, which was fearful to listen too IL
proceeded from the steerage passengers below,
who were then smothering. 1t did not last
more than two minues, when all was as still as
death.
John Farley, chief engineer, says: A great
number of the passengers were drowned while
going from the vessel by a rope to the rock.
The cold was 80 intense that some of them,
being benumbed, we're unable to hold on to the