The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-04-10
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SteamertA Atlasties Goes Down
Over 1000 People ON Board
81 Nearly Half of them Perish.

! Ste a tlaatiey Goes Down
Over 1000 People ON Board
Pc Nearly Half of them Perish
r. HAfaInFsaax,, IT. fansax April The WHITE Sta
Steamer Atlantic, Capt. Williams
from nJivefpoolyi 10 New York, while
scoiniRg ihtoitlielport forfcoaissstrnel
on ,Meagher's Rpck near Prospect
tWenty-tWp miles west of Halifax
ana Became a. total wreck. OF abol
teAe thousand sodIsloa araeoVeroh.
half lfWere drownedsnm9bna9 5 4si JlDs
HsilidorHEiTHIkB oFFIcER's STONY. bna
The third officer, Brady, arrived II
sthi city this evening. q He saysitht
Atlantic left Liverpool on the 20tf
Of March, with apWards of nine hun
-dred steerage passengers and about
fifty cabin fpassengers-tI The steamer
experiencedi boistreus, weather during
the passage but tall went well unit
noon ON Monday, the 3lss when thf
supply OF coal BECAME nearly.exhapsf'
ed The captain. detecmineds 70 Ipul
into aIifax-raT The captain and thirl
officer were on deck until midnight
The aosition was then jndged TO be-
Sambro light bearing N, N. fW,,, 3s
miles. The captain then went into
his chart room, leaving orders to bf
called it there was any change in the
vessels position He, went 10 bed
about the same time as the, captain
ss The next, Thing he remembers, Il
! that he was thrown out of his bunk
and he heard the, strike several times.
| lie. then rushed on deck and found
the captain and officers there, and the
deck full of passengers. lie got an
AK and commenced to clear away a
Boat. The captain ahdtothef officers
were reibusyEdoingsthes same thing.l Brai
fiy got his boat out and put two yw0-
men ja it. A mob of men attempted
10 get into it, and about q. dozen sue
ceeded, just at that moment the
steamergfsiig over ON her ibeanl's ehd
and
;, Only, one boat had been gotten out,
and that was carried down by the
steamer, and all OH il were lost. Bra
dy scrambled into the mizzen rigging,
Whichn was above wafers and seeing
that hegcould do nothing there he then
went forward and nnrove halyards,
being assisted by quartermastefs
Speaman and Owen. Brady then
took the halyafds and all three swan
teithe roeke and then y line was haul
ed ashore and, afnumber of passen-
gers landed by it.
"A nun Bsra had got on the rock, but
as the side was resting, their position
was no better, Than on Il he vessel Just
then the 6shermen on shore came out
in boats and took off those on the rock
and a large number from the rigging.
BraiyDfemained at the scene until
noen,Fsw hem ALI who were alive on
board had been, taken from the wreck,
except the chief officer, Mr.. Firth,
who was in the rigging shouting for
heIp9 Brad " says he tried to get a
crew .toagotto the rescuepfsFrith, but
the sea- WAS, 30 heavy nobody would
volunteer. :; .r,.,e,s.,.. al gyes ,fe,o
Not a single woman or chilli was
saved. Most of them, as we'll as hum
dreds of men, were drowned in their
berths. The steamer struck about
two clock, this morning. The
weather at the time was dark, but not
thiek,s 8ndoihe sea nrOugh.d iSteamefs
are going down, Tonight to- reader
what assistance, they can. All the
people saved from the wreck, with
The exception Aof Brady, are still at
Prospect, where the fishermen are
giving Jhem laA the IatteRtiono they
possibly canD .YlmnO8 fssEdfruIT ri
-,sTher Atlantic w.as.abnilt at Belfast,
Ireland, in ISL; was 40 feet long,
40, feet beam AMI i23 depth of hold,
and Registered 1929 tons She was
constructed of siron, had iour .masts
and six, water-tightsl bulk -heads ;owas
fitted with eleven boilers and four
cylinders on the compound principle
under which the average .cOnsump-
ton ofcoal isionly 40 tons eYs ou 10
vsTile disaster is believed TO. be trace
able to she carrying of an..insuffieient
supplysefq coal for :aiyoyage of more
than ten or eleven days. H3t.fsss4a asse}
OF sRATEafnN9aoF CAPT. WILLIAMS. 9di
ave sailed from Liverpool March
Goth. During the first part of the
passage we had favorable weather and
eastef1y Winds. On the 24th, 18th
andi26th we.experienced heavy south
west gales, which brought the ship
down 10 LIS miles q day. D On the 3lst
of March the eugineerls report show
ed but about ,127 tons of coal on
board. We were then AGO. miles east
of Sandy Hook, with the wind sonth-
west and high, westerly swells aud a
falling barometer, the ship sieaining
only eight Knots per hour. We con-
sidered the risk too great to push on,
as we might find ourselves. in the
event, of q gale, shut ont from any
port Of supply, and SO /. decided to
bear up for Halifax. At4 p. m. on
the 3lst, Sambfo Island was distant
ITO miles, the ships speed varying
from eight. to twelve knots per hour,
wind south with rain, which veered
to the westward at eight in the even
ing, with clear weather. At mid
night I.judged the ship to have made
I22 miles, which would place her 4S !
miles south of Sam bro, and I then left |
the deck and went into the chart
room, leaving orders about the look.
out, and to fet me know ff they saw |
and to call me at three in
the III orniiig, intending then to put |
the ships head toFthe southw ard, and
await day Hight. a sn''e -sIi' .bai'tAs'
= My first fntimationi Of the eatatas-
trophe was the striking OF the ship on
Marf's siand,, and fenlaining there
fast. 1.-THE sea Immediately. swept
away all the port, boats. The officers
went to their stations, and coinmenc-
ed clearing away. the weather boats.
were fired by the second off,
GER. Before the boats could be clear
I'd, only ten minutes having elapsed,
he ship keeied heavily to port, rem
ierfng 4he starboafd boats useless.
Seeing thatDo help could be got from
he boats. ! got the passengers into
he rigging and outside rails, and en-
outraged them to go forward, where
he ship was highest aud less exposed
o the water. u t'ie iosiiisl
The third officer. Mr.. Brady. Quar-
ermasters Owens and Speakman, by
his time having established eommn-
witt. the outlying rock, about
Ofty yards distant by means ofa line,
rot four other lines TO the rock, along
which about two hundred people pass
ID. Between rock aud the shore
vas q passage one hundred yards
vide. IA rope. was successfully pass
ID across this, by which means about |
ifty got to the land, though many
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