The New York herald., 1874-12-15
YORK HERALD TUESDAY DECEMBER B 1S74-TRIPLE SHEET

piled WITT stimulants ana dry. warm clothing.
After an hour on board we were transnipped to
tue steamer Antenor, for London, and landed at
Gravesend. The survivors beg publicly to return
s their L most sincere thanks to the commander ana
NAMES OF THE SURVIVORS.
The following Is list OF survlvors:-James lr-
bert Hoag. third engineer, London; Edward
George. fourth engineer. south Woolwch; Isaac
don; Thomas Clarkson, seaman table bodied) Lon
don; Edmund carter. seaman labe- oodledl, Ports
Shetiandi Hugh Hards, lamp-trmmer, brighton:
M Wliham Jones: seaman, London; Joshua Alexan-
man, Green wien; John Ferera. seaman, London;
one boy, name unknown, left on board the Care
Loeb under medical care.
are Captain Dudden, Mr.. Hughes tthe surgeon,,
OF the ten stewards and cooks Doth the boat
ewalns, the carpenter, all the eleven stokers,
Of the cable stan. numbering sixteen. With Mr..
Mckets and the SIX electricians accompanying
MENTAL CONDITION OF SOME or THE MEN WHO
WERE RESCUED.
Analyzing the list above given OF those who were
three stewards or cooks, seven sailors aud one
lampiighter, besides the boy, name unkn own, who
diuen is described as bordering on insanity.
mental disorder, indeed. seems TO have been
persons. The description given of them by pas
sengers on board the Antenor vlytdly recalls some
O Tue most 6trlklnR passages IN C0serldKe's poem,
and not for the nrst time In the Annals OF ship
wreck sets PLAIN fact side by side with the
hgmenta OF Imagination. There is doubt that
compressed within those few days was q lifetime
OF horror, ana the strange, or at least uncertain
nature OF the freight board the La Plata not i'm
probably added to the terr0rs OF the time, not TO
the actual calamity. All who know anything OF
telegraph ship are cogDizant OF the TACT that the
smoothly c0lled CABLE which looks SO compact
cargo as 1T lies In the hold before the vessel has
left her moorlngs, is Q source or anxiety as soon
as she Is in troubled waters. Whether or not there
De truth In tine assertions made by some OF the
survivors that the engine designed Tor picking up
the lost cable from the Gomez was source of e. vii
and that the safety Of o bulkhead had been
sacrificed TO certain mechanical exiQencies
In the process Of cable-laying, remains to
be seen. An investigation viii in due
course be made into the calamitOus
loss OF the vessel chartered by Messrs. Siemens
for the service she has performed on other Occa-
sions with safety and success and 1t wolld be un-
fair to anticipate tile result OF that inquiry, the
more so as the accounts, which not yet In evi-
dence, diner considerably. We have selected the
one narrative which seems to be the most self
consistent; but 1t Is well to point out that the
story OF the steward Is not that either or an en-
glneer sailor, or an electrician-the three classes
OF persons on board the La Plata from either OF
whom succinct narrative would have It's pecu-
liar weight and value. Still, what we have ascer-
tanned by sitting the various and alter all not se-
riously conflicting accounts given by the rescued
persons. does not clash with that statement which
IS authOrirativey furnished us on the part Of
Messrs. Siemens concerning the ship po7ed by
them ior the purpose already described.