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Important Statement From Captain
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ts4 HALIFAX, April 4, 1878.
As usual after the FIRST fever Of excitement
Occasioned by great calamiHes or events that
appeal to popular sympathy has subsidized,
Halifax is to-day wrapped in gloom, specu-
lation as to the cause of the disaster, the
exact number of the drowned and o thousand
other minor points have been superseded by q
feeling Of general sadness, and the sentiment
Of the public is almost entirely in behalf Of the
friends Of the dead passengers. To some few
men, however, there is nothing that can
occur to disturb their business calculations
unless it directly touches their pockets; NO
calamity induces words Of sympathy or re-
gard unless it affects immediate relation
ships. To such the misfortunes of their
fellow men come as items Of good fortune.
Halifax has some of these sordid characters
among her population. To these the sun rises
and sets; the days, months and years roll on;
the noise and tumult Of business continues
from years end to years end-all for them.
Ha city is burned, or thousand persons
wallowed by an earthquake, are these reasons
Why they should not turn an honest penny on
the same account9 If o shipload Of passen-
gers find watery grave almost within sight
Of their dwellings and Offices, is that reason
why they should behold the spectre of death
on the rocks and hear ought but pleasant
music in the ceaseless roar of the wild waves?
Why should they not seek to purchase from
the ghouls, who infest our harbors, jewelry
and raiment torn from the bodies of the dead,
or cargo stolen from the wreck? Yes, scores
now await harvest from the plunderers and
eufRans who will return from Prospect. Let
me now turn to other matter of importance
INTERVIEW WITH CAPTAIN WILLIAMS.
Captain Williams returned from the wreck
Of the ill-fated Atlantic this morning in
steam tug, and as the all-important question
of the miscalculations that led to the terrible
holocaust had not been satisfactorily cleared
up / thought could do no better than obtain
. more explicit account from his own lips than
has been previously published. Accordingly
sought an interview with the Captain, which
give about as it transpired.
REPORTER Williams, how do you
End yourself after your terrible experience?
Captain WILLIAMS Improving, bodily;
though my limbs are still very stiff and pain
ful, but in mind stunned--the whole disaster
seems like DREADFUL nightmare.
REpoRTER-You spent last night at Marrs
Island, with the bodies and looking after the
wreck.
Captain WILLIAMS Most Of the night, and
nntil ! had personally examined and identi-
6ed ell that lay upon the hillsides, and, God
Knows, would willingly have exchanged places
with them could the lost have stood where
did.
REPoRrER- Were the bodies much dis
Ggnredf
Captain WILLIAMS Many were, though
about forty presented the appearance of quiet
seep, especially SO in the cases of the little
children.
WERE THE BODIES MuTnATTD?
REPoRTEn- Was there any truth in regard to
The mutilation Of the bodies?
captain WnLLAMs-None whatever I
specially examined the fingers, to dis
prove, If necessary, such sensational re-
ports. believe that many Of the bodies we're
rifed hu ofhcrs 4ha,, .A.~a e.. ~.