Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-04-11
THE E0ss OF THE .arz.svrrc.
FURTHER DETAILS AND INCIDENTS OF THE
DISASTER. t


ing theme of conversation and comment a.
mong the people of both the United States
and England. Tho latest accounts place
the number of persons rescued from the
wreck at 432, and the number of the lost at
$40, reduction OF two hundred from the
statements of tho earlier dispatches. Among
the lost were Mr.. Albert I. Sumner, young
est son of the late Increase Sumner of Great
Darlington, Henry M. Wellington of Bos-
ton, and Mr.. and Mrs Cyrus M. Fisher,
formerly of Vergennes, VT. Mr.. Sumner
had been spending the last two years in
study at Dresden, and was on his way
home to take the position of organist of St.
Johns church at Bridgeport, Ct, where
his brother, s. b. Sumner, resides. Mr..
Fisher was formerly law partner of Ex-
Congressman Woodbridge of Vermont and
during his residence in that state was
county attorney, and for two years men,
Der of the Legislature. His wife was a
daughter of William Y. Ripley of Rutland,
VT, and sister Of Gen. William Y. w.
and Edward II. Ripley of that place. They
had resided In London for several years
past.
AS last as the bodies are recovered they
are forwarded to friends or given burial. The
bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher have not vet
been recovered.
The passengers and crew of the Atlantic,
as she sailed from Liverpool, were CLASH
fed as Sollews: EnSlish-19S men, "A
women, % male children, 81 female chill
dren; Scotch--seven men, four women ;
lrish-43 men, 1S women, three children |;
other nationalities-150 adult males, 80 wo-
men, 10 male children, and Is female chill
dren. A large number of onigrants en-
parked at Queenstown, making the total
number of souls upon the steamer when
sho sailed from that port, 952. Two hundred
were booked from Cork, Ireland, and five
from Plymouth, England.
Some of the incidents of the disaster as
related by the survivors are narrowing In
the last degree. At one time during tho
weary watch before dawn the foreboom
broke loose from its fastenings, and swing
ing round instantly crushed to death about
twenty persons who were gathered on the
house on deck. Several passengers are re.
ported TO have been drowned by lfe-buoys,
which not being properly managed over
turned and drowned the unfortunates be-
fore assistance could be rendered. Some
of them who endeavored to reach the rocks
by means of the line from the vessel were
foated with their heads down, the buoys
slipping to the lower parts of their bodies.
Among those who tried TO escape was a
| young man who, with no clothing on save
shirt and vest, with two lfe-buoys fasten-
ed around his body, leaped into the water
and endeavored TO reach the rock. The
| passengers endeavored to dissuade him
from the attempt, but he persisted. When
they were at last rescued and landed on
the shore, the body of this person, who per-
ished in the attempt to swim ashore, was
the first they saw, and the life buoys were
still around him.
| Among those who persisted was man
who had lived in this country several years
and who lately returned to England for his
family. He and his wife and five children
found watery grave in the very sight o.
the new world, where they had hoped tc
find peaceful home.
| One man had just secured flour barrel
on deck when he was washed overheard
but not before he had obtained hold grasp
| ing either end, the bottom being out. The
barrel, from its build, would be precipita.
ted by the sea some distance above the
waves and then fall back. One more thar
usually heavy sea sent barrel and man a
least six feet high. He had lost his holt
before he came down., falling in the trough
of the sea but though on top of wave
which rose little further on, tho barre
rode buoyantly, the man did not come L
light.
The only boy saved from the wreck wa.
a lad of II years, named John Hinley. II,
got on board the Atlantic at Liverpool will
his mother, father and young brother. AL
belonged to Ashton, Lancashire. He wal
asleep In his berth when a great noise a
wakened him. Although he did not hea
any voices there seemed to be great rusl
and he stumbled out of bed and into tn,
crowd. The greater portion passed him
but he saw six men cfowding into a toI
berth in the upper Storage, and he follow
a window and got out and the boy did tn,
same, one kind hearted individual pushin,
him through before he had made the egres
himself. Onco outside he held on by tn,
ropes until himself and his companion
were rescued by the life-boat. What be
came of his parents and brother he did no
know, but it is certain that they wer
drowned. TIE family were on their wa,
10 New York at the invitation of two mar
ried daughters who had settled there.
Many were lost ailer getting on i'm
promptu RATS or placing themselves IL
what was supposed to be a safe place oil
the wreck. The waves ran high, and man,
were killed by being dashed against tn
rocks.
One woman was seen in the water will
her three children, two in her arms an,
the other with its arms around her neck
They sank almost Instantly.
The crew was one of the hardest that wa
ever gathered in any vessel. They wer
picked up about Liverpool wharves ant
docks, and 1t was with the greatest Difficult
ty that they were kept under control dur
ing the voyage. The store keeper state
that one of them made an attempt to snatcl
his watch and chain, one night, but wa
foiled. On another occasion, during tn
storm Of the 25th, he states that some OF tn
crew attempted to break into the spirit