Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-04

narrowing details of the awful scenes
attending the loss of the steamship Allan
tic continue to be received. All the women
were asleep at the. time the ship struck,
and were drowned in their hunks. The
heavy sea which constantly poured over
from reaching deck. Some of them, who
showed a remarkable presence of mind
and an appreciation of the awful situation,
only reached the deck to be washed into
the sea and drowned. Soon after, the six
men on shore wrote on blackboard,
"Cheer up-boats are coming to your as
sistance, (" and the announcement was re-
sponded to by hearty cheers from the ship.
The Third Officer Alone Competent.
After haitian hour of awful suspense the
menwere seen on the island carrying a
boat over the rocks and soon it was launch
ed and took off three boat loads from the
outlying zzrock-s While rescuing these
men, Capt. Williams and passengers called
loudly to the crew of the boat to come to
the ship and take them off first as they
were in the most imminent danger, the
captain saying: 81 will give five hundre d
dollars for every boat load rescued" The
The boat afterwards made for the vessel
and took off two boat loads, half an hour
later another boat came and rescued many
of those clinging to the rigging. The third
officer, Brady VINO had succeeded in reach
ing the shore over the line carried from
the vessel himself and organized the crew
that materially aided in the work of the
rescue. sBES EBE eEE EFl&b
Securing the Bodies of the Drowned.
New YORK, April 3.-Mr. Freeman ID.
McWool, cabin passenger OH the Atlantic
send the following dispatch to the associ-
HALIFAX, April3.
= L say to the friends of the cabin passen-
gers of the Atlantic that I viii remain with
the wreck until have secured all the lost
cabin passengers. / have boxes going to
the wreck this morning to receive the
bodies of Mrs. Fisher and Miss Merritt.
We have the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Mer-
rift, Miss Scuymser and John HI. Brice, of
New York. have great hopes of securing
Number Of Passengers on Board.
- LONDON, April 3.-The steamship At
lantic was insured in London companies
for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
There were seven hundred and sixty steer
age passengers on the Inflated vessel. The
passengers and crew of the Atlantic, as
she sailed from Liverpool, were classified
as follows: English, one hundred and
ninety-eight men and seventy-fOur women,
twenty-eight male and twenty-one female
children; Scotch, seven men and four
women; Irish, forty-three men, eighteen
women and three children; other nation
alities, one hundred and fifty adult males,
thirty-two women, nineteen male and
nineteen female children. A large num-
Der Of emigrants embarked at Queenstown,
making the total number of souls upon
the steamer, when she sailed from that
port, 952. ..-.---,-.v
LIVERPOOL, April 5.
To j. III. Sparks:
The eAtlantic's deviation to Halifax is
incomprehensible. The quantity of coal
ON board was 967 tons, against an average
consumption during eighteen voyages of
ia tons. e KIT gF5r e - ~ 2
p Signed, RAAs. 80 IsMAY, IMYER & Co.
The papers received from Europe by the
White Star Line here, state that the At
lantic had 1886 tons of assorted cargo on
board. Large numbers of poor people, re-
latiyes of the steerage passengers continue
to throng the passenger agency rooms here
in hopes of further tidings of their friends.
Mrs. Graf, who lost her husband and
two children in the Atlantic is a raving
maniac here, consequent upon her affiic-
ton.